After leaving the General's Mansion, Jiang Wanwan and Jiang Jialin went straight to the market to buy some dry food and water, and then hired a horse-drawn carriage before hurrying to Dashui Village, Longmen Town, Anyang County.
Originally, Jiang Wanwan intended to use the ten taels of silver to pay the bill, but Jiang Jialin shook his head repeatedly and stuffed the silver back into Jiang Wanwan's hand, telling her to keep it for herself and buy some things for young ladies.
Not only that, he also took Jiang Wanwan to a shop in the capital and bought two pieces of cloth, saying that he would take them back and have Jiang Wanwan's mother, Madam Lu, sew two sets of clothes for her.
Jiang Wanwan felt a warm current flow through her heart at Jiang Jialin's actions.
Ten days passed in a flash. After a long and arduous journey, Jiang Wanwan and Jiang Jialin returned to Dashui Village in the evening.
Jiang Wanwan, with her sharp eyes, spotted a large locust tree about ten meters inside the village entrance. The locust tree was so large that it would take at least eight or nine adults holding hands to completely encircle it.
At this moment, a group of elderly people, women, and children sat under the big locust tree. Many of the women and elderly people had something to do, some were picking vegetables, some were sewing clothes, and some were making shoe soles.
Just then, an old woman who was picking vegetables turned her head and asked the people next to her, "Hey, have you heard about what happened to Old Jiang's family?"
"What happened? Could it be that rats ate all of his rice paddies?" someone asked suspiciously.
Upon hearing this, everyone present couldn't help but burst into laughter.
"Haha, it's not impossible. After all, his family is very unlucky; everything they plant dies, everything they raise dies."
Jiang Wanwan instantly understood that the area under the locust tree was the center of Dashui Village's gossip and the gathering place for village intelligence!
She wondered to herself, "Could these gossipy old women be exaggerating?"
Who grows or raises anything that dies?
Could it be that someone is really cursed like her?
Tsk, that's really pathetic.
She should try to get to know him if she gets the chance.
"Oh, I was wrong, I was wrong! You'd never guess!" The old woman sewing shoe soles spat as she spoke, and even slapped her thigh hard.
Everyone's attention was drawn to the old woman, and they all turned their heads and pricked up their ears to listen.
"Oh? What is it? Third Aunt, please tell me quickly."
"Yes, Third Aunt, stop keeping us in suspense. Tell us quickly, we're getting impatient!"
The crowd kept urging them on.
After enjoying the attention of everyone, the old woman smiled smugly, then slapped her thigh and exclaimed excitedly, "Hey, you all don't know, do you? Old Jiang's granddaughter isn't his biological daughter. I heard they were switched at birth. That girl Wan'er is actually a young lady from the General's Mansion!"
"Wow! Third Aunt, you made all of this up, didn't you?"
"That's right, how could Wan'er be a rich young lady? She's lazy and greedy."
"If that girl were a rich heiress, I'd be the Queen Mother of the West descended to earth!"
Hahaha~~
The crowd clearly didn't believe the old woman's words, and the old woman became anxious.
She stared wide-eyed and hurriedly explained, "Hey, I'm telling the truth! Jialin has already gone to Beijing to pick up his biological daughter. Judging by the days, he should be back in a day or two."
You'll see if I'm lying!
At this moment, Jiang Wanwan and Jiang Jialin kept getting closer to the big locust tree, and heard everyone's words clearly.
Jiang Wanwan: ......
So she was the subject of all the gossip!
Also, could that unlucky old man Jiang just now be her grandfather?
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