When Su Qingci returned, only Chen Xiuxiang was at the educated youth settlement.
"Qingci, why are you alone? Where are the others?"
"These things are yours, aren't they?"
“Song Jingzhou just delivered it. He left right after unloading it and didn’t say a word to me.”
"He's not a easy person to get along with, yet you two seem to know each other quite well?"
Su Qingci plopped down on the ground, taking off her shoes as she spoke.
"It's just me; they're all behind me."
"So his name is Song Jingzhou?"
"The name is quite good."
A glint flashed in Chen Xiuxiang's eyes as she tentatively asked, "You don't know him?"
“I don’t know him. I’ve never asked him, and he’s never said anything. All I know is that he’s a cowherd.”
"And they're even raising scalpers."
Thinking of the bicycle the other person had, Su Qingci asked curiously, "What's his family situation? Does he own a mine?"
Chen Xiuxiang nodded. "Yes, there's a mine."
"What? There really is a mine?"
"What kind of mine, a gold mine or a silver mine?"
"Pfft~"
"You're overthinking it. Gold mines and silver mines, you think!"
“I’m not very familiar with him. He wasn’t in the village before; I think he went to the army or somewhere else.”
"I only came back to the village at the end of last year."
"I heard about these things from the women in the village when I was at work."
"His family has had only one son for generations!"
"His father had five sisters, and he was the only male heir."
"By his generation, do you know how many older sisters he had?"
Chen Xiuxiang stretched out her index finger and hooked it up, "Nine, a full nine."
"And do you know what his name used to be?"
"Song Yaozu, hahaha, do you think he's tacky or not?"
"Song Yaozu?"
"Hahaha, Song Yaozu? That's definitely a name a family with nine daughters could come up with."
Seeing Su Qingci laughing so hard she couldn't stand up straight, Chen Xiuxiang continued, "What's even more outrageous are the names of his nine older sisters."
"Song Pandi, Song Sidi, Song Laidi, Song Xiangdi, and then, Niandi, Zhaodi, Zhaodi again, Zhaodi once more, the ultimate move!!!"
"Then Song Yaozu was brought in."
Hahahahahaha~
"Oh my god, I'm dying of laughter."
"You're right, they really do own a mine."
If this were in later generations, with nine daughters of marriageable age in your family, you would be the envy of the entire surrounding area.
That's like having a gold mine at home!
"There's something even more terrifying."
"What else? What else? Tell me quickly!"
Su Qingci had a gossipy look on her face.
"And another thing is that the girls from his family all have one hobby: sticking close to their parents' home."
"His aunts all married into the same village and the next village in order to take care of his father."
"By his generation, his parents had already made it clear that their family was small and they had no uncles or elders."
"So I gave my daughter an order early on: she must marry someone nearby so that they can keep their only son alive."
Su Qingci became more and more engrossed in listening, "And then? And then?"
"Then all six of their daughters actually married into the same village and the neighboring village."
"Six? Isn't it nine?"
"Three of them didn't grow up."
"Oh, his parents must have been quite capable, considering how much harder life was back then than it is now."
"In the 1950s and 60s, it was no ordinary family to be able to raise so many children."
"That's right. I heard that his parents worked as maids for wealthy families in big cities when they were young."
“Those wealthy people were generous, and they didn’t return to Gaotang Village until more than ten years ago.”
"I also heard that the Song family elders brought back a lot of money and built the biggest brick house in the village."
"No wonder, I was wondering why he, a grown man, was lying down like that?"
"And now?"
"What's the current situation with his family?"
"Now."
"Sigh~"
Chen Xiuxiang sighed.
"What's wrong?" Su Qingci asked, puzzled.
“His parents were in poor health and passed away during the famine a few years ago, plus rumors that came from who knows where.”
"They said that when the two elders of the Song family returned after five years of absence, he didn't look five years old at all."
"They look at least six or seven years old."
Chen Xiuxiang lowered her voice.
"We suspect he wasn't a child of the Song family, but was stolen from the city by the elderly Song couple."
"Although there is no evidence, the rumors are quite detailed and convincing."
"The year the old couple from the Song family passed away, Song Jingzhou was only fourteen or fifteen years old."
"Their family had a lot of trouble back then, and then for some reason, all the aunts who were so protective of their children cut off all contact with them."
"Even his older sisters from his generation don't keep in touch much anymore."
“A few years ago, Song Jingzhou even disappeared for three years.”
"Everyone suspects he has a memory and went to the city to find his biological parents."
"I didn't expect him to come back at the end of last year."
Su Qingci asked with a gossipy look on her face, "So, is this Song Yaozu, no, Song Jingzhou, actually a child of the Song family?"
Chen Xiuxiang shook her head. "Who knows?"
"I guess only the deceased elderly couple of the Song family would know the truth."
"I heard from the older villagers that before the old man and woman Song died, they kept calling out 'Yaozu, Yaozu, my son!'"
"His behavior doesn't seem like that of a foster son."
"If it weren't for their own flesh and blood, it would be impossible for someone so confused to still be thinking about it all the time."
"So some people in the village say that maybe Song Jingzhou isn't the Song family's biological son. These rumors are just from the families of the brothers-in-law in the village."
"It's all so that we can drive Song Jingzhou out and take over their big brick and tile house."
"Clap clap clap~", Su Qingci immediately started clapping.
"That's amazing! That's amazing!"
"So, did Song Jingzhou take on ten of those brothers-in-law single-handedly and take them all down to save his brick house?"
Su Qingci imagined Song Jingzhou with a roguish grin, beckoning to his brothers-in-law, and then unleashing a powerful attack.
The magnificent scene of taking down all of his brothers-in-law.
"Pfft~"
What are you thinking about?
"The captain and the secretary would never allow such a thing to happen."
"Although there are rumors that he is not a child of the Song family, who has any evidence to prove it?"
"Besides, he doesn't have any brothers or uncles, just a few married sisters and aunts."
Have you ever heard of a married daughter being able to return to her parents' home to fight for the family property?
"Even if he's not from the Song family, he still has the surname Song. The old man and his wife kept talking about him until their deaths. Who would dare to do anything to him openly?"
"At most, they'll just secretly spread some baseless rumors."
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