The vast majority of the residents of Qili Village bear the last name Zhou, with a small minority having different surnames. Yet, over the course of a hundred plus years, as daughters from one family married into another, essentially every household has become interconnected through marriage and kinship.
And nearly all the Zhous share one common ancestor.
Although Zhou Hu didn't have blood brothers, he had paternal cousins. His father's situation was slightly better than that of Zhou Jin's, so naturally, it was up to close relatives to lend a hand in such matters.
Unfortunately, the relations among the three families were not very good. The elders had a rather disagreeable separation, which is why the neighbors who got along relatively well with Zhou Hu's family, Junior Ms. Qian and the wife of Dazhu, the village head's son, followed them last night.
Of course, they had also summoned the midwife from Dali Village.
