Everyone nodded and just ate silently.

After eating, Liu Daling took his two sons to the village chief's house to discuss the matters to be done tomorrow. He also revealed Liu Yuhan's ideas to them, saying that they were his own ideas.

When they were almost done talking, they saw Old Xu stumbling over, with one of his straw sandals missing.

When he came up to them, he wanted to kneel down in front of the village chief and his gang, but the quick-witted Liu Shihu brothers hurriedly helped him up.

"Mang Ge'er, please help your uncle Xu. Fugui is dying and can't be called out. Please save my son, wuwuwu..."

Old Xu's son Xu Fugui suddenly stopped responding.

Old Xu wanted to cook some millet porridge for him, but he had no rice. He had no choice but to borrow some from a neighbor with whom he had a good relationship. After the porridge was ready, he found that he couldn't wake up no matter how hard he tried.

Old Xu felt like the sky was falling. He had raised Xu Fugui for 18 years!

Even if he knew that he was not of his own blood.

The widow stayed with him for more than a year before she got pregnant. Old Xu had injured his body due to overwork in his early years. When he married the widow and saw that she had not gotten pregnant yet, he thought that he was too old and needed to be recuperated. He secretly went to see a doctor and found out that his wife's inability to get pregnant might be due to his own problem.

But not long after that, the widow became pregnant.

He was a man, how could he not feel the changes in the woman beside him? The widow often went to town and would be gone all day. She also said she was not feeling well and did not want him to touch her.

Later, life became too difficult, and she divorced him. He used the divorce to reveal a secret he had already guessed: Xu Fugui was not his biological son.

The widow left, and Xu Fugui stayed...