"Don't worry, I'll die if I go out in this freezing weather. I'll help you cook. I've never used this earthen stove before, can you teach me?"
Little Guai Guai obediently walked up to the earthen stove.
The girl looked at Xiao Guai suspiciously.
"Don't get any funny ideas, our house is only this big."
You can't escape.
Don't think I'm joking. If you ever leave this yard, I guarantee the whole village will bring you back.
Little Guai tilted her head, revealing a set of tiny tiger teeth.
"Sister, what's your name? My name is Xiao Guai."
"You'd better not know my name; knowing it won't do you any good."
I don't care who you are, or how long you'll live. Anyway, everyone who comes to our family is short-lived.
Let me tell you, if you want to survive in this house and get enough to eat, you have to obediently listen to my dad.
You need to appease my brother.
As long as my brother is happy, you can live well in this family; if my father is unhappy, you're doomed.
Three girls your age have already died in our family. Remember, my father loved my brother the most. If you appease my brother, you'll have a good life ahead of you.
Xiao Guai was stunned to hear an eight-year-old child say such mature words.
You need to know that you have these thoughts and statements because you were replaced by someone else in your previous life.
But the little girl in front of me is indeed only eight years old.
She's practically her father's brainwashing assistant.
No wonder his older sister dared to leave such a young girl in the yard; she was clearly smarter than he had imagined.
Xiao Guai put aside her underestimation of the enemy; to be precise, she only now realized that these three sisters probably still played a very important role in the family.
Not only are they complicit in wrongdoing, but these three sisters may also have become persecutors themselves.
"Actually, you don't need to run away from our village. You can't get out of here, especially in winter."
I'll tell you there's a mountain outside, a mountain behind our village, and a river in front of the village.
We get about a dozen snowfalls here in winter, after which...
There's no way to get out. Here, you'd only leave when it's snowing if you wanted to die.
It started snowing yesterday, you should have seen it. You can't go out from here, especially since you're wearing so little clothing.
My brother is a good person. Although he hits people, he's easy to coax. You just need to appease him.
Not only will you have plenty of good food and drink, but you'll also have a great time here.
My dad loves my brother the most. As long as my brother likes you, he won't care about anything else.
My brother likes you now, so you should try to win him over.
You don't need to worry about the rest. You're still so young. If you go out, bad people will still target you.
We should still live our lives here properly.
I also told you that three little girls, about your age, have been buried on the hill behind the house.
They were all disobedient, and in the end, my father beat them to death.
Actually, my dad didn't want them to die; he just wanted them to have fun with my brother.
You're so young. Even if you leave my house, what if you encounter bad people? You'll suffer even worse consequences.
At least you have food and drink at my house.
"Although my dad hits people, as long as you behave and work hard, he won't do anything to you."
Xiao Guai looked at the eight-year-old girl in front of her who was incessantly trying to brainwash her.
He couldn't help but grit his teeth; an eight-year-old child was actually trying to persuade him.
Whether she did it willingly or not, it was clear from her voice that this girl was beyond saving.
Xiao Guai didn't argue; instead, she obediently added firewood to the fire and sat aside, working the bellows.
She was too short; compared to her eight-year-old brother, she could obviously offer limited help.
Yindi said impatiently.
“Why don’t you do something else? There’s so much work to do around the house. My dad will be back for dinner soon.”
What's the point of you just working the bellows here?
You're quite something, sitting here warming yourself by the fire in this freezing weather while I do all the work by myself.
"Let me tell you, from today onwards, this job is all yours. If you don't do it well, my dad will beat you."
"There are yams in the bag in the corner. Go and peel the yams."
Take this chopstick, peel off the skin, and then wash it clean.
This will be grain in a little while.
Xiao Guai had no choice but to rummage through the sacks by the wall and find the potatoes. When she saw the potatoes, she blinked.
These potatoes must have been left out for too long; they've turned greenish.
And it has already sprouted.
Eating these potatoes carries a risk of poisoning, but poisoning wouldn't happen in just one day.
Right now, he's already thinking about how to escape this house, since this idiot beats him up all the time.
With her tiny body at three and a half years old, she would really die here in less than two days.
Escaping is definitely not a realistic option. If we can't escape, then we can only fight this family head-on.
If the other party wants her dead, then she has no choice but to take their life first.
Although I'm not very good at practical skills, I am still a reborn person and have received some education.
I know some basic common sense.
Okay!
Compared to the current situation, it's somewhat toxic now.
Although it can't kill someone immediately, little by little, there's always hope.
Xiao Guai specifically chose potatoes that were all frighteningly green.
This type of potato has a relatively high toxin content.
Yindi turned around with satisfaction when he saw that short, ugly girl was actually peeling potatoes seriously.
Actually, she didn't want to cook either. Her father was very careful with the family's food supplies, so even if she cooked, she wouldn't be able to fill her stomach beforehand.
She and her sisters were always hungry.
The only ones in the family who could get enough to eat were his older brother and father, but the three of them didn't deserve to be full, nor did they deserve to live.
The only thing their father wouldn't restrict them from doing was the carrots and potatoes in the corner.
These were distributed within the production team.
It would spoil if left out too long, so the father allowed them to eat it.
The main concern was that it might break; otherwise, my father wouldn't have been so generous.
But this one sack of potatoes wouldn't be enough for them to eat until next autumn's harvest. You have to know that all the grain, wheat flour, and coarse grains in the family belonged to their father and brother.
They couldn't even get enough to eat with just this one sack of potatoes.
Now there's another little girl trying to snatch the food from their mouths.
Little Guai looked at Potato and asked obediently,
"Sister, how do we cook these potatoes?"
"Of course we should steam it in a pot, didn't you see?"
These three potatoes are our dinner for the three of us.
Although Xiao Guai didn't ask, she knew that it was obviously impossible for her to get any food.
But the three sisters only steamed potatoes for the three of them, clearly not for themselves.
They're a family with black hearts, so don't blame me for being ruthless.
"Sister, how about I cut some potato shreds and we stir-fry them together?"
Stir-fried potato shreds will yield slightly more than steamed potatoes, but it's still filling.
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