The whole village was in an uproar.
Outside Zhang Tiezhu's shack, there were splattered blood and broken pieces of rotten flesh everywhere.
The remains of a man lay at the entrance of the shack. Lan Miao sat on the ground in a daze. In front of her was the body of a woman, also covered in blood. One of her arms was hanging in the opposite direction, broken.
Lan Miao's body was also covered in blood, dripping, sticky and bright red. Some of the blood had begun to scar over time. She didn't seem to be injured, but she hugged her mother's body as if she was scared silly.
Lan Miao was fifteen years old this year, and had lost her appearance due to her weight, but she was still strikingly pretty. Zhang Tiezhu had been trying to find a matchmaker for her since last year, but the betrothal gifts he received were too little, so he kept her at home, intending to sell her to a high-ranking official in the city as a concubine.
It has been delayed until now because of Lan Miao's mother's refusal.
Lan Miao Niang said she was missing a few days ago, but she didn't look like she was missing, it seemed like she was kidnapped.
Wang Yi couldn't tell what exactly happened. She just looked at Lan Miao Niang's healthy arm holding a huge axe, which was covered in blood and flesh.
When Wang Yi appeared in the crowd, Lan Miao's eyes suddenly focused. She kept staring at Wang Yi with pleading and helplessness in her eyes.
Wang Yi walked through the crowd without hesitation and went straight to Lan Miao, took her hand and pulled her away from her mother's body.
"Lan Miao'er, what's wrong, Lan Miao, are you okay?"
Her family and Lan Miao's family didn't have much contact in normal times. They were just women from the village who worked together in the mountains and fields.
The most contact we had was yesterday when I dug her out of the pit and gave her three roasted sweet potatoes.
But when Lan Miao saw her, she immediately knelt down and started crying loudly.
Wang Yi completely ignored everything and quickly picked up the child to comfort him.
Lan Miao began to cry and wail, "Auntie, Auntie, my father scolded my mother as soon as she came home last night. After she fell asleep, she said a few words to me and told me to find you. Then she took an axe and killed my father, and then she died herself."
"Auntie, I don't have a mother anymore. My mother is dead..."
"Okay, okay, don't cry. Auntie will take care of you from now on. Auntie will take care of you!" Wang Yi had never seen such a scene before, so she could only keep shouting this sentence to comfort her.
Li Shoucheng, who came up behind, stared at Lan Miao, not knowing what he was thinking. He clenched his fists tightly and looked at his mother again.
"Filial piety +1."
Wang Yi: Who?
When she turned her head, she saw Li Shoucheng staring at Lan Miao, and she couldn't help but sigh in her heart. They are the same age, is he feeling sorry for her?
Soon the village chief arrived.
After understanding the situation, he asked Lan Miao what she planned to do next. Lan Miao secretly glanced at Wang Yi and rubbed the corner of her clothes vigorously.
"My family is large, but we don't have many female companions. If Lan Miao is willing, come with me. I won't let you go hungry even if I starve myself."
Lan Miao immediately nodded and ran behind Wang Yi, hiding timidly.
At this time, there was no government office or county government, and everyone avoided Lan Miao when encountering such things. Seeing Wang Yi rushing to take the job, no one objected.
Lan Miao moved into Wang Yi's shack, and then the two young men were driven out and slept with Lao Wu.
Anyway, they would have to flee the famine in just two days, so no one said anything.
After returning, Wang Yi boiled water for Lan Miao, changed her clothes, and searched the house for a white cloth to tie around her head as a sign of mourning. By evening, all her sons and daughters-in-law had returned.
The first time the daughters-in-law saw Wang Yi, they kept expressing their filial piety, and the same was true for the sons.
"Filial piety +8."
It seems that they are very proud to bring the meat back to their parents' home this time.
Looking at Lan Miao again, he saw that his mother had rescued the person. Cheng Gen stared at Lan Miao and had no choice but to accept it.
The daughters-in-law also tolerated the old woman's kindness. Besides, they were all kind-hearted people. After hearing about Lan Miao's family situation, they could only sigh with regret.
Before dark, he took Lan Miao and burned her shack and the body. Lan Miao cried heartbrokenly and knelt on the ground outside for a long time, unable to get up.
When Wang Yi brought Lan Miao back again, he suddenly saw an extra reward on his system panel.
"Add +1 to your family population and reward you with a 10-square-meter permanent plot of land, which shortens the growing time of crops."
There's even a passive reward? Ten square meters of permanent land is quite a bit.
Wang Yi looked at Lan Miao and sighed in his heart. It was no big deal whether to reward her or not. As long as he could rescue this girl, it would be considered a success.
At night, Lan Miao was also frightened and sobbed even in her sleep.
Wang Yi patted her back gently to comfort her, but he couldn't sleep at all. He had a deeper understanding of the cannibalistic old times.
Only after Lan Miao fell asleep soundly did she let her consciousness enter the space.
The small piece of land of ten square meters was suspended in the air, and the soil collected during the day was piled everywhere.
Wang Yi mobilized them with her mind, quickly paving over thirty square meters of open space within the space, reaching a thickness of one meter. However, she left the permanent land suspended in the air.
Collecting this dirt was killing her.
The collected river water was piled in the middle, lotus roots were planted, and then sweet potato vines were inserted into the soil. Some potatoes and sweet potatoes were planted on permanent land.
Soon buds grew out, and then they were planted. Ten square meters of land was fully planted.
For the time being, she did not use the fertilizer. Anyway, that pile of potatoes and sweet potatoes would be enough to eat for a while. She would decide when to take out the food. Fertilizer could harvest crops in seconds and could be used at any time.
Nothing happened that night. The next day, Lan Miao seemed to have recovered a little and came outside to help Wang Juanhua cook.
Wang Yi did not stop her. This child could only do something to comfort herself, so let her do it.
The eldest brother came to the shack and asked, "Mom, how are you going to take care of Lan Miao?"
"Let's keep her like this for now. I saved her mother the afternoon before yesterday. When she was dying, her mother asked Lan Miao to find me. I guess she saw that I was kind-hearted."
Are you kind-hearted?
Li Chenggen was about to retort subconsciously, but when he thought about the changes in his mother in the past few days, he didn't say anything.
Mother is indeed getting better and better.
"Filial piety +1."
Huh? What's the unexpected bonus?
"I see Lao Wu is always staring at Lan Miao. If Lan Miao is willing, she can marry Lao Wu. It wouldn't be bad to be his adopted daughter-in-law."
"You have made good arrangements for the girl, but she may not be happy with it."
"Mom, please don't say that. Apart from our family, who else would want Lan Miao? Who are you to arrange her affairs? Without her parents, how good will Lan Miao's life be even if she marries someone else? I'm doing this for Lan Miao's own good."
"Also, Mom, you should pack up. We'll be on the road tomorrow morning. We don't have a car, so you'll have to carry your own luggage."
Cheng Gen left after he finished speaking. If he hadn't left quickly, Wang Yi would have almost cursed him.
She brought Lan Miao home not to find a wife for Shoucheng.
When Lan Miao grows up a little, I will give her to whoever she wants to marry and give her as her daughter!
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