Shu Yu listened with a sigh, and when she returned home for dinner with the family in the evening, she mentioned this matter to Lu Erbai, who immediately furrowed his eyebrows tightly.
"I really hadn't heard about this." He had only been back to Shangshi Village once after returning from the southwest, mainly occupied with the affairs of the mansion in the county town.
He had been bustling about in Shangshi Village as well, mostly just stopping by the village chief's house for a visit.
Since the village chief only spoke of happy events, he naturally wouldn't discuss these unpleasant matters with him, and apart from knowing his own brothers' situation, Lu Erbai was quite unaware of other villagers.
"I've actually seen his son-in-law, timid and shrinking at first, frightfully cowardly. Who would have thought, as days improved, he became recklessly bold, even gambling and then running off with someone, abandoning his wife and child?"
