Originally, it was almost the New Year, and there was hardly any work available, so many people, having heard about the incident before, began discussing the matters of Fang Laosan's house.
Less than an hour after Fang Meiyun returned home, many in the brigade already knew that Fang Laosan wanted to marry off his niece to collect a bride price to help his son find a wife.
They also said that the tribute grain Fang Laosan offered was always the damaged and the least desirable, and even then, he was reluctant to give it away.
Yet, they said that Fang Meiyun was truly loyal and still believed that Fang Laosan was kind to her and her siblings and filial towards their grandmother.
The reputation that had been tarnished by the slanders of Little Aunt Fang and others had now returned.
Fang Laosan and his wife once spread rumors that Fang Chaoyang and Fang Meiyun were jinxes, correlated to their own parents' deaths.
In any case, they were just smearing the two siblings out there.
