Honest Shi, Xiang Mingying's father-in-law, was right beside them, puffing away at a rolled cigarette. Seeing them go in and Ho Laidi even slamming the door shut with a snap, he couldn't help but say to Xiang Mingying, "Should we tell Chiang Laoer about this? I ran into them in town yesterday; they should be there right now."
Chiang Songhai and his family had indeed returned, just not to the village itself.
Now there were visitors at his home, well, they weren't exactly visitors—wasn't Deng Qingjiang's wife, Chiang Songhai's daughter-in-law?
Most people in the village didn't know that Deng Qingjiang had changed her surname and simply refused to take on Chiang Songhai's.
This was the first time Chiang Songhai's daughter-in-law had come to the village. Could it be that something major was going on?
It was unlikely that Chiang Songtao and Ho Laidi could reach out to Chiang Songhai themselves, so Honest Shi asked if he should go inform Chiang Songhai.