Jiang Zhi left the county government office in a hurry. As soon as she returned to the Xiang family home, she immediately woke up Er Rui and Xiao Man: "Quick, let's go back to the village!"

Errui, still half-asleep, mumbled, "Mother, didn't we say we'd go back tomorrow?"

Jiang Zhi urged him to wash his face quickly: "Yang Laosan went to the village today to try to take Tan Shi away, but he was beaten by Qin Shi and the others."

"oh!"

Errui leaned against the headboard, his eyes half-open, his mind still a jumble of confusion: if the Yang family wanted to come to the village to look for someone, his uncle and the others would handle it; why was his mother in such a hurry to go home?

Xiaoman drank the most, and after a hum, she stopped moving.

Jiang Zhi said, "I have already asked someone to hire a carriage. I will leave Yang Laosan's situation to the county magistrate."

Falling into a cesspool while injured in the middle of summer would be half-dead, if not fatal.

However, considering that Yang Laosan had repeatedly claimed in the county government that he had tricked Tan Shi and her two children away, and that he wanted to file a complaint, Jiang Zhi felt that he deserved it.

It's true that he cheated Yang Laosan, but what can he do when he's a villain and doesn't have Gao Weizheng's charisma?

Go ahead and sue me if you want; I'm determined to be this bully!

The sales contract is currently on file at the county government office. As long as Yang Laosan can withstand the punishment for the false accusation and survive the infection, there's no need for me to worry about it.

Jiang Zhi had something more important to do: "Er Rui, Xiao Man, your Grandpa Changqi is dead, we need to go back and help right away!"

Upon hearing that someone in the village had died, Errui and Xiaoman immediately sobered up considerably: "Who? Who died?"

"Xu Changqi! Gensheng's grandfather!"

Although Xu Changqi had almost died several times, everyone was mentally prepared, and they had to hurry back now.

Soon, Errui hired a mule cart, and the three of them hurriedly said goodbye to Dejin's wife and rushed back to Xujia Village under the still scorching evening sun.

By this time, the funeral arrangements had already begun, and the villagers went to town to buy yellow straw paper and send it to Xu Changqi's family.

Xu Changming and Xiaoman sat in the corner, using a semi-circular iron chisel to make money patterns on the thick straw paper.

In the newly renovated main room, a corpse with its face covered by yellow paper lay on a straw mat, with a dim oil lamp flickering at its feet.

Xu Changqi was the first person to die in Jiancun after the chaos of war. He finally saw the new look of Xujia Village before he died, and he could pass on some news to his acquaintances in the underworld.

The villagers fled in panic, and several people died outside, without even bringing their bones back.

This scene inevitably evokes sadness, and someone is sobbing softly.

Xu Changming frowned and looked around, then patiently advised, "If you want to cry, go somewhere else. Don't cry here and disturb the deceased's peace of mind on their journey."

"You all need to smile and be happy so that the second child can leave in peace!"

Perhaps they were worried that the elderly would be concerned about their descendants and would not be able to leave this world peacefully.

At funerals in Bavaria, it is generally considered unpleasant to see children weeping and wailing. Even if one is heartbroken, one must suppress one's grief and can only shed tears away from the coffin.

It is especially taboo to cry near the coffin and get your tears on the deceased, as this would prevent the spirit from leaving home to be reincarnated.

When Jiang Zhi rushed back, the Yin-Yang Master had already found a suitable burial site and written various "path-opening" inscriptions.

Others are preparing offerings.

The semi-reclusive scholar Xia was also helping to write the auspicious paper, and everything was proceeding in an orderly manner.

Upon seeing Jiang Zhi, Xu Changming's first words were: "I asked someone to deliver a message to Lao San's family, saying that his second brother has died."

Whether he can come back or not is up to him, but I'm going to let him know!

The third son's family consists of Xu Changshou, Xu Yaozu, and Xiaobao.

Previously, a family wanted to go up the mountain to stay with Xiaoman's grandfather, but Peiqi thought they were thieves who stole sweet potato chips and blocked their way, scaring them half to death.

Later, when claiming land, he and Wang Xiaoju deliberately falsified information in an attempt to seize Xiaomanye's good land. As a result, Zhang Juntou sent him to the county government and he has been settled elsewhere for two years.

Life is fleeting, like a spring for plants. Brothers and sisters only have this life and no next life, so it's only natural to want to see each other one last time.

It's just that Xu Changshou had been gone for two years without any contact, so Xu Changming's sudden remark suggests that they knew his whereabouts, or that Xu Changshou had secretly contacted him.

This is nothing. No matter how bad Xu Changshou is, as the village chief, he can't stop his own brother from coming to the funeral.

Moreover, Xiaomanye was right next to them, sitting there silently tapping the paper money without saying a word, which was obviously his tacit agreement.

Jiang Zhi nodded: "Lord Changming, you can arrange it however you think is fine. I don't understand these things."

Xu Changming was relieved to see that Jiang Zhi had agreed.

Although he wasn't close to Xu Changshou, he still had to step in and call him back for this kind of thing.

After all, the three are brothers born of the same mother, and no matter how bad their relationship was before, they have to put that aside now.

The third son has already suffered outside, and when he sent a message saying he wanted to come back, I refused.

They're all elderly people. This is the last time we'll meet. They could die any day, or just leave us!

Jiang Zhi understands Xu Changming and Xiaomanye.

The grudges and affections in the world are not static.

All love and hate are ups and downs, sometimes there and sometimes not, all depending on one's own needs at the time.

Resentment from youth can resurface as feelings in old age.

People are most vulnerable, especially when faced with death.

Jiang Zhi didn't understand the complicated funeral procession, and with Xiao Man and the others around, she didn't need to worry about it. Er Rui and Xiao Man quickly got busy with the arrangements.

Jiang Zhi helped Xiaoman tidy up the toilet paper while asking Yang Laosan what had happened.

Master Xiaoman was in a bad mood at the moment. He sighed and said, "You brought the Tan mother and daughter back, but Yang Laosan is not satisfied. He said that he did not receive the silver and wants to take the people away."

How could one simply take away a deal that had already been made? Besides, Tan Shi immediately hid when she saw him coming, and had no intention of leaving at all.

He was fleeing famine, and it wasn't easy for him to survive. Your Uncle Changming and I thought we'd let him go for a while and then send him back.

It turns out that the person seemed smart but was actually stupid; he couldn't see the depth of the water or the trouble.

Ma Guan told him to leave, but he wouldn't budge, insisting on going down a dead-end road. So Genqing's mother led her men to kill him!

Grandpa Xiaoman kept rambling on and on, and Xu Changming would occasionally add a few words, recounting everything.

Jiang Zhi was speechless after hearing this, lamenting that poor information dissemination was harmful.

Xujia Village was built from ruins. Every family lived in a shack and was poor. They were so poor that even thugs looked down on them. There was a medical shed nearby, but no one came to cause trouble.

It wasn't until Wang Xiaoju led a group of people to break into her husband's house and openly robbed them of their grain that those thugs were beaten up and sent to Zhang Juntou, who paid money to redeem them.

Even Wang Xiaoju and her husband got a good beating and slunk back to Xujia Village, which became known as a poor, vicious, and unapproachable place.

Xu Xiaogu was clever, but her sneaky attempts to cause trouble didn't bring her any good. It didn't matter that the man died; the hooligans and scoundrels in Lihua Town were all wiped out several times, and they kept their distance from Xu Family Village.

Li Laoshi once said that when he went to town, the local thugs wouldn't even talk to him, which made him feel very lonely.

Yang Laosan didn't know these things; perhaps he asked, but didn't get the truth.

In his heart, he still regarded Xujia Village as an ordinary village.

Especially with a female village chief pointing fingers, there are bound to be people who disagree with her and make a scene, which leads to misjudgment.