Yu Suqin refused to believe that a fifteen-year-old girl, who had only learned some martial arts, could so easily shoot and kill three refugees.
"Mother, would your daughter lie to you?" Lin Qiutao said angrily, remembering the dagger pressed against her chest.
Seeing her daughter's extreme anger, and noticing her second daughter standing there in a daze, Yu Suqin angrily stepped forward and pinched her arm hard.
"What are you standing there for? Hurry up and go dig up some more wild vegetables."
Thirteen-year-old Lin Dongmei shrank back, her voice trembling with tears, "I just dug up a whole basketful, and now I have to dig again?"
“If we don’t dig, what will we eat? How long will that basket last? You brat, I think you’re just making excuses to be lazy.”
As Yu Suqin spoke, she reached out to pinch Lin Dongmei's arm again.
Lin Dongmei quickly dodged, grabbed an empty basket, and darted into the bushes. "Mom, I'm going right now."
Nine-year-old Lin Chunfang, who was in charge of tending the fire, secretly stuffed a wild vegetable dumpling from her bundle into her mouth while her mother and sisters were talking. Then she pretended to be nonchalant and continued tending the fire.
With only half an hour to rest, Lin Yinan ate the two wild vegetable dumplings the old lady had given her, lay down under the shade of a tree, closed her eyes, and fell asleep.
Her ability to fall asleep instantly was something she developed during the apocalypse. Back then, as long as she found a safe place, she could fall asleep standing up without having to lie down.
Looking at her exhausted daughter, Li Shulan felt heartbroken. She had relied on her daughter to get to where she was today.
The intense midday sun shone through the gaps in the leaves, illuminating her fair and round face. Beside her, Lin Yi'an and Lu Changqing slept soundly.
Cicadas were chirping noisily in the trees, and Li Shulan used a palm-sized leaf to fan them and drive away the mosquitoes.
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