After all the commotion, they gained nothing and even lost twenty work points each.

On the way back, Lin Baozhu unleashed her anger on the Old Bachelor, cursing, "If it wasn’t for you lying around watching the show and not helping us, we wouldn’t have gotten beaten."

"I’m your wife, and you don’t even care about me. No wonder no woman wants you—dirty, smelly, old, and don’t know how to love your wife. Puh, you deserve to be a bachelor for life."

"I’m telling you, tomorrow we’ll get a divorce, or I’ll burn down your damn doghouse."

Lin Baozhu threatened him viciously.

The Old Bachelor chuckled disdainfully, "You complain that I’m dirty, smelly, and old, yet didn’t you climb into my bed yourself and let me seduce you? If you think my doghouse is dirty, then don’t stay here. If you’re capable, move into Genzi’s wife’s place instead of my poor doghouse that only fits me, the poor wretch, and can’t accommodate you two precious people."

Back home, the Old Bachelor walked into the yard first, then nailed the gate shut with a loud bang, locking the siblings outside, "You two fancy yourselves too highly for me to associate with. Don’t stay at my place today."

Just as Lin Baozhu was about to lose her temper, the Old Bachelor’s voice emerged from inside, "Lin Baozhu, first thing tomorrow, I’ll go with you to divorce. Do you think I care for you? Puh... I don’t care for worn-out shoes I’ve worn."

Fuming, Lin Baozhu screamed outside the gate, "Mongrel, beggar, we’ll get divorced! Do you think I’m scared? Whoever doesn’t show up tomorrow won’t die a good death."

Then she turned and stormed off, pulling Lin Baotian along.

The siblings had nowhere to go other than the Old Bachelor’s place. The villagers avoided them; the friends they used to play with distanced themselves.

They wandered around the village but couldn’t find a place to stay.

Finally, they went to Lin Baoshui, knelt before the large brick-and-tile house where Lin Baoshui and Old Man Lin had just moved in, pleading for shelter.

However, Lin Baoshui didn’t even show his face, staying inside while the siblings cried and wailed at the door.

Only after dark, the team leader intervened, lending them the empty house previously borrowed by Genzi’s wife and her sister-in-law for them to stay.

...

Yuan Chun worked leisurely, with not much to do, occasionally having 007 broadcast the Lin family’s drama in her mind.

Initially, after seeing Lin Baozhu and Lin Baotian taken to the empty house by the team leader, and seeing the house empty, Yuan Chun cursed "Serves you right" and thought of leaving.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the team leader left, she heard Lin Baozhu say, "Baotian, we can’t go on like this. We’re not cut out for labor. Staying in Lin Family Village, we’ll either starve or die from exhaustion. I’ve thought it over; tomorrow we should go to the brigade office, borrow some travel fare, and find Sun Yuanchun, that little wench. No matter what, we’re the child’s real uncle and aunt; if others don’t care, she must. If it weren’t for her, our Lin family wouldn’t have fallen apart."

Good, even now, they still want to bother her.

Yuan Chun’s face turned sinister, a cold smile playing on her lips.

At night, Yuan Chun applied an Invisibility Talisman to herself and her Flying Device, then went to Lin Family Village, directly dumping Lin Baozhu and Lin Baotian into the deep mountain forest behind the village.

Where predators lurked.

Whether they survive depends on their luck.