The two daughters of the Guan family are already married. The eldest daughter, Guan Xiao'e, is 30 years old this year. She was born half a year after returning to the village. It is said that she was born prematurely, so the family loved her very much and was reluctant to let her work. She kept her at home. When she was 17, she fell in love with Yu Guang, a poor young man from Yujiawan, two miles away. The in-laws were very poor, and there were two underage brothers. The old couple Guan Ping'an did not agree to the marriage, but who could have made Guan Xiao'e fall in love with Yu Guang? After half a year of tossing and turning, she finally got married with a generous dowry and gave birth to two sons and two daughters.

The second daughter, Guan Xiaoli, is now 25 years old and married into a family surnamed Liu in the same village. Liu Tao is an only child, so their family is well off. They have a son and a daughter. Because Guan Xiaoli is an older maid and her marriage makes it easy for her to visit her parents' home, she sometimes visits two or three times a day, eating and bringing gifts each time. Whenever there's heavy work to do at home, she sends a child to call Guan Laoer to do it.

If the Guan family wanted to eat something delicious, with so many people watching eagerly, it would never be the second family's turn. In the past, the second family's children were young and ignorant. When they saw other children eating, they wanted to eat too. But Mrs. Guan would say, "What are you eating, little girls? Do you think you deserve it?" After a long time, the children were afraid to ask for it.

Well, in a nutshell, in Lao Guan's family, the second son and his wife are just animals, their children don't deserve to eat, and the whole family is only fit to work hard.

Guan Ping'an's family lived in the center of the village. Their five large tiled houses were very impressive. There were only three families in the village with large tiled houses: the village chief's family, the fifth grandfather's family, and Guan Ping'an's family.

Village Chief Guan is fifty-five years old and has three sons and one daughter. Two of his sons work in the commune and are married, while the youngest is still in school. The daughter is still waiting to be married, and she is overwhelmed by the choices she has to make.

Village Chief Guan is neither greedy nor corrupt. He is bold and careful in his work, never procrastinates, is forceful, and compassionate. He is very caring towards the poor and elderly in the village, making him a very qualified village chief and team leader.

Originally, the village chief could not serve as the team leader concurrently. The original team leader was transferred to the township a few days ago. There was not much work in the production team in winter, so the township leaders were not in a hurry to select a team leader. Village Chief Guan has been serving as the team leader concurrently for the past few days.

Grandpa Wu is 59 years old this year. He is an old Eighth Route Army soldier. He went to the battlefield in his twenties and has been on the front line of the War of Resistance Against Japan. He has countless scars all over his body and there is still a bullet in his body that has not been removed. He was a real hero of the War of Resistance Against Japan who fought with his life. Later, he was injured and could not go to the battlefield, so he retired.

The old man, childless throughout his life, used his pension to return to his hometown after retiring and built three houses for his retirement. Every year during the holidays, many of his former comrades and their families would visit him. This old man was Guan Ping'an's cousin, and he had a good relationship with Guan Laoer. He had helped Guan Laoer a lot in his time, and whenever he was starving, he would come to Uncle Wu for food. Uncle Wu would always try to help anyone with a problem, big or small. His vast knowledge and broad perspective always convinced people, so Uncle Wu held a high reputation in the village. Whenever a family split up or faced a major event, Uncle Wu would be invited to take charge, in addition to the village chief.

Guan Ping'an was sold by his parents when he was young. When the human traffickers took him away, they only told him that his parents' family was a wealthy business family in the south. When he came back, he had grown up and was married, with his wife, 7-year-old eldest son and infant second son.

At that time, because she was in a hurry to return, Grandma Guan had no milk, and the second child was just one month old and was crying loudly because of hunger. Several people in the village who had just given birth had fed Guan the second child, so over the years, whenever those families had problems, Guan the second child and his wife were particularly active in helping, and they were always grateful to each other.