Chapter 25: A pile of ruins

Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation

Jiang Chuan’s family was greeted by many of their neighbors as soon as they opened the door.

“You only have this much?” Someone could not help but ask.

Jiang Chuan nodded and led Zhou Lan, Jiang Xia, and Jiang Gu to the west part of the village.

“Is that really all they have!” The person who asked the question sighed.

“They’re not even going to take the rice?” Another person chimed in.

“I think it is not a matter of whether they want to take it but whether they can take it!”

A man carrying a hoe gestured to the Jiang family’s courtyard with his eyes.

The crowd saw Jiang Gui’s wife standing at the door, and Jiang Gui standing in the middle of the courtyard. No one dared to crowd around anymore and slowly they started to disperse.

“Tsk, what family? I didn’t believe that Jiang Fu’s family could be so evil before, but it seems like Jiang Xia was right.”

Hearing that, Jiang Gui’s wife looked over with her eyes wide open.

“I was wondering who it was! So it’s you, this blind woman. I think you’re not only blind in the eyes but also blind in the heart. You only see the worse in everyone.” Jiang Gui’s wife said.

The blind woman’s name was Li Xia. She became blind a few years back because she had to save her husband when her house caught fire. Li Xia and Jiang Gui’s wife had never gotten along even though they were about the same age.

“Ha! To sell her granddaughter and let her son leave with nothing is not considered bad?” The blind woman said with a smile.

“How can that he considered selling! My mother-in-law has obviously found a good marriage for Jiang Xia.”

The blind woman laughed even louder this time, “A good marriage? Your Jiang Hong is even older than Jiang Xia! Why don’t you marry Jiang Hong to Qian Li?”

“Who wants to marry him! My Jiang Hong is going to marry someone in the city.”

“Your Jiang Hong is marrying into the city?” The blind woman’s words were full of sarcasm.

The blind woman couldn’t be blamed for looking down on her. Jiang Hong, who had inherited her parent’s characteristics, couldn’t be described as pretty.

“What’s wrong? My girl is in good health. One look and I can tell she’ll give birth to a boy.”

“Even if she really gave birth to a boy, imagine if he has Jiang Hong’s looks… Tsk.”

As soon as the blind woman finished speaking, she heard crying in the yard. The Jiang family’s children were playing in the yard, and most of them didn’t dare to come forward, but after the Jiang Chuan family left, they began to go around. Jiang Hong happened to be hiding behind the gate, eavesdropping.

There was no girl who didn’t want to be beautiful. Hearing someone criticize her looks like that, she couldn’t help but cry.

When Jiang Gui’s wife heard her daughter cry, she quickly comforted her. Before closing the door, she didn’t forget to say a harsh sentence to Li Xia, “Just you wait, don’t let me see you again!”

“Alright, I’ll be waiting.” The blind woman said, feeling really good after that fight with Jiang Gui’s wife.

As the saying goes, ‘Don’t bring grudges to the next generation,’ but that was only if they were good people.

Since the smoke blinded Li Xia’s eyes, Jiang Gui’s wife started calling her a blind woman and even urged her daughter to call her that.

Not only that, but Jiang Hong and her classmates also isolated Li Xia’s son at school, telling him that his mother was blind and disabled. This caused Li Xia’s son to fall into depression for a while. In the end, it was only with the help of Jiang Qing and Jiang Xia that Li Xia’s son slowly recovered from the trauma.

It was a pity Jiang Chuan and his family missed out on this fight.

“Dad, are you sure this is the place?” Jiang Xia asked with a suspicious look as they stood in front of a pile of ruins.

Jiang Chuan was also a little uncertain. He looked around and found that there were still people living in other houses. It couldn’t be wrong, this had to be the place!

At this moment, the neighbor from the next-door shop opened their door as if they were about to go out.

“Hi, do you know where the house of Dan Bin’s relative is?” Jiang Chuan stopped him and asked.

The neighbor raised his hand and pointed at the ruins. “This is the place! This house collapsed last year. I’ve already told the village chief.” Then, he looked at Jiang Chuan suspiciously and said, “What’s wrong? You’re going to stay there?”

“Yeah!” Jiang Chuan laughed dryly, “We haven’t had a place to go yet, so he told us to stay here. ”

Although the matter with the Jiang family had caused quite a stir, not everyone in the village liked to gossip, so naturally, some of them still didn’t know what had happened.

“How can people live in this state? You should go and talk to the village chief again!”

Without waiting for Jiang Chuan to ask any more questions, the man left with his hoe.