It's really hard to just farm peacefully.

Chapter 281

Jiang Ying, who was sitting in the yard eating steamed bun, was startled by Jiang Yan who suddenly appeared from the top of the wall.

She looked at the unclear figure in the night, and after a long while of careful recollection, she said, "I don't think I've ever heard of an elder named Bai Xiang."

Li Hao carried a small stool to the courtyard and sat down, waving a palm-leaf fan and saying slowly, "I met Yingzi once, but she probably doesn't remember it. She used to be your grandfather Liao's wife."

"Grandpa Liao?" Jiang Ying and Jiang Yan had no impression of this elder.

"Your grandfather Jiang Da's brother died of illness very early. Your parents were barely grown up then," Li Hao recalled. "Not long after, she abandoned our daughter and remarried with our son."

"Grandma, which aunt from the village is this?" Jiang Ying came over curiously.

Li Hao gently pushed Jiang Ying's head away: "Don't interrupt, let me start from the beginning."

But she still answered: "Chun Ping, the aunt you went to see a few years ago was unfortunately not in good health. Like her father, she passed away at a young age. She also had an uncle named Chun Jiang, but he later changed his surname."

"Bai Xiang didn't want to raise Chun Ping, so your grandmother Sun Yun had to take over. But an aunt is different from a biological mother after all. No matter how well-behaved Chun Ping was, she was less than six years old at the time and would still miss her biological mother."

"Your grandmother Sun Yun was distressed. Thinking that the two villages were not far apart, she asked someone to tell Bai Xiang to come visit her every month, or to take her there to see her. But Bai Xiang refused to do so."

"During the New Year, your grandfather Jiangda didn't give up and brought Chunping over to see how his nephew was doing. But he didn't see him, so I knew that the two families didn't want to continue their relationship and wanted to completely cut off the relationship."

"After three or four years, Bai Xiang suddenly ran back to the village and said that she had been badly bullied by the family she married into later, and she wanted the villagers to help."

"Originally, the relationship was severed, and she had her own family, so we didn't think of helping her. As a result, she ran away alone, leaving Chunjiang, who was less than six years old, there. Jiang Da and Sun Yun were worried, so we had to ask everyone to help."

"Your uncle Chunjiang's brain was blunted by that family back then. The people in our village gave them a good beating, snatched little Chunjiang back, sent him to the doctor for treatment, and then brought him back to the village to take care of him."

"But within a few days, Bai Xiang reconciled with that family and even went to the village head to complain and demand compensation, which made everyone very angry. Later, they secretly tricked your Uncle Chunjiang away from the village and sent him away to an unknown place."

Jiang Yan sighed, "It's a good thing she's not in our village anymore." Otherwise, how could Dongshan Village have the harmony it has today!? Then she started complaining again, "It's over. Now Grandpa Jiang Wang has brought her into the village."

Li Hao laughed: "You younger ones might be afraid that she's difficult to deal with, but this person only picks on the weak and fears the strong. Just your Grandma Sun Yun and Grandma Gao Hua can handle her."

"Then how does it relate to me?" Jiang Yan listened for a long time, but still didn't understand how it related to him.

Li Hao's smile faded. "Two years after Chunping got married, she ran headfirst into soldiers who were conscripting people from our home. She had a miscarriage and was bedridden for a year."

"Bai Xiang somehow got wind of the news, and every once in a while she'd go find Chun Ping and urge her to remarry to bring good luck. After Chun Ping's in-laws kicked her out, she came to our village for the first time ever, hoping to get Sun Yun and Jiang Quan to give her some good advice."

Jiang Ying suddenly spoke up, as if she had thought of something. "She's the old woman who heard Yan Zi was sick and hadn't woken up, and told the villagers that it wasn't worth hiring a doctor and that it would be better to marry her off in exchange for food. And then she was beaten out with a broom by Grandma Gao Hua, Grandma Sun Yun, and Aunt Gao Ni?"

Jiang Ying was deeply impressed by this incident. She had just returned from the mountains with a group of friends after picking wild vegetables when she saw several elders chasing and beating people with swift steps.

Li Hao hummed, "It's a pity that Chunping listened to all that nonsense and became weak-willed. She couldn't get through it like Jiang Yan did."