"Mom, are the other rooms leaking too?" Jiang Wanwan asked.

“Yes, the roof of our house is thatched. It’s fine most of the time, but it can’t hold up when it rains,” said Mrs. Lu.

“Let’s go, Wanwan, let’s go to the main room first. It doesn’t leak there.” Madam Lu said, handing her a straw hat.

"good."

Jiang Wanwan took the straw hat, put it on her head, and followed Madam Lu into the main room.

By this time, it was already bright outside, unlike the darkness of the previous night, and Jiang Wanwan could finally see the layout of the Jiang family's courtyard.

The main house, directly opposite the main gate, has three rooms, with three rooms each on the east and west sides. The first room in the east wing closest to the main house is the kitchen. The toilet and bathroom are located behind the main house.

With Lu's introduction, Jiang Wanwan finally gained a general understanding of the Jiang family and how the houses were allocated.

The Jiang family has a total of fourteen members.

Old Man Jiang and Old Woman Jiang had three sons and two daughters, all of whom were already married.

Old Man Jiang is the head of the Jiang family, possessing all the traditional virtues of a farmer. He is frugal and hardworking, a model of diligence and love of labor. Although he is old-fashioned, he is not domineering and is open to listening to others' opinions.

Grandma Jiang was vain, concerned with appearances, and biased. However, she also possessed all the virtues of a traditional woman. She worked tirelessly and without complaint her entire life, managing the affairs of the Jiang family.

Uncle Jiang, named Jiang Jiaming, is an honest and kind man, tall and strong, with natural martial arts skills. In his youth, he worked as a镖局 (security escort agency) delivering goods. He is not only a skilled hunter but also a skilled farmer. Today, he is the mainstay of the Jiang family's farming.

My aunt, Madam Hu, is shrewd and capable, with a forthright and outspoken personality, and is known for her loyalty and generosity. Her father and Uncle Jiang once worked together at the same security escort agency, and because he found Uncle Jiang to be honest and kind, he arranged for Madam Hu to marry him.

The couple had two sons.

The eldest son, Jiang Jiang, is sixteen years old this year. The younger son, Jiang He, is fifteen years old this year. Both of them are tall and strong, just like their father. Among them, Jiang He is even stronger than Jiang Jiang. The fifteen-year-old boy looks like a small mountain, and he is also more quick-witted than his brother Jiang Jiang.

In their spare time, the two would learn some martial arts from their father and practice archery.

Jiang Jiasheng, the second uncle of the Jiang family, was shrewd, capable, quick-witted, and good at accounting. He had worked as an accountant at a restaurant in town. However, he was dismissed from the restaurant after committing a crime and returned to the village to farm.

Second Aunt, née Zhu. Her parents died when she was young, and she had an older brother. Her brother was ten years older than her, and the two siblings depended on each other for survival. Her brother treated her very well. However, after her sister-in-law entered the family, her sister-in-law persuaded her brother to sell her to a wealthy man in town as a maid. She was only eleven years old at the time.

When she was seventeen, she fell in love at first sight with Jiang Jiasheng, who worked as an accountant in the same town. Jiang Jiasheng went home and begged his parents, who, seeing that their second son, this old bachelor, had finally come to his senses in matters of the heart, took out ten taels of silver without hesitation to redeem Zhu from her servitude.

Because of this experience, Zhu developed the ability to read people's expressions and moods. She was selfish and stingy, and had the most scheming mind in the Jiang family. But she was clear-headed when it came to important matters and would not do anything to harm the Jiang family.

When Zhu was a maid in the wealthy man's mansion, she learned a skill—embroidery. She was quite skilled at embroidery, and when she lived in town with her second uncle, Jiang, she often did embroidery to supplement the family income. Later, after her second uncle was laid off from the restaurant and could not find work, she went back to the village with him.