At the other end.
After Qi Qingyao left Linquan Village, news that she had won both Zhang Tieyuan's farm and the land deeds had quickly spread. Everyone was talking about it. By that evening, almost the entire village knew that the gambler, Zhang Tieyuan, had lost both the deeds to his farm and land.
The old Qi family did not know anything about this since they had not left their house that afternoon. Madam Liang noticed that her grandmother had not said a single word, and thought that it was maybe because she did not know the news. She rushed to Madam Guo's house after dinner.
The moment she arrived, she frantically searched for her sister-in-law, Madam Guo. "Do… do you guys know what's just happened?"
"What happened in the village now?" Madam Guo had been thinking about how she did not receive a share of the rice distribution and was growing more and more gloomy about it. She did not feel like talking at all.