The crowd was silent.

Fifth Aunt held Jiang Tian's little hand as if she was holding a golden doll tightly, and the more she looked at it, the happier she became.

She had already inquired about it!

People outside talked about how powerful Hu Qiongfang was and how good she was at making money. These people had no idea that behind Hu Qiongfang's money-making methods in opening a restaurant and her grandma Hu's particularly big rice dumpling factory, there was the little girl Jiang Tian.

Although Jiang Tian has a younger brother, this is quite frustrating.

Having a younger brother means that Jiang Tian won't get much of the family property in the future.

But Fifth Auntie felt that she had to take a long-term view:

Having money in your parents' home is not a skill. It is a real skill for your granddaughter-in-law to be able to make money on her own.

Jiang Tian blinked her eyes, and before she could decide how to respond, Grandma He, with a gloomy face, grabbed her arm and snatched her granddaughter back from the fifth aunt.

With a fake smile, he said, "Our Tiantian is still young. Her grandfather and I want to keep her for a few more years. There's no rush for her to go on blind dates!"

The fifth aunt joked in a shrill voice:

"Why not? I heard that your Tiantian couldn't concentrate on her studies, so she dropped out of school last year and came back to help the family."

"If you ask me, since this girl's academic performance is not good, she should plan earlier and find a grandson-in-law with good academic performance, so that he can bring honor to your family in the future."

"Besides, why don't you learn your lesson, second sister-in-law? Didn't your Xiang Jun keep dragging it out and insisting on finding someone he liked, but what happened? He died before he even found a wife..."

Oh shit!

Jiang Tian really regretted not taking direct action and tearing the old woman's stinky mouth!

Grandma He never imagined that on such a happy day, her relatives would say such hurtful words.

Grandpa He was so angry that he was shaking all over. If the person in front of him wasn't his cousin, he would have slapped her in the face if it was his cousin.

In the eyes of Fifth Aunt, Mr. He's good qualities were seen as a sign of being easy to bully.

Seeing that her cousin and his wife were speechless, the fifth aunt was very proud and her words gradually became more and more arrogant:

"Second brother and second sister-in-law, you have to think it through. Tiantian is a fatherless child. Both her biological father and stepfather are gone. It's not that I'm picky, but this life is a bit tough."

"Only our family members would not despise this girl. If it were someone else, they might even despise her for bringing bad luck to their husbands."

"Besides, if this fatherless child doesn't find a husband from a powerful family, who knows how he will be bullied in the future..."

Grandpa Hu couldn't sit still anymore.

"Brother He, this is a relative of your He family, and our Hu family has no right to interfere."

"But Tiantian is my daughter's biological daughter, and she is also my most beloved granddaughter."

"This old woman has no way of keeping her mouth shut. She actually dared to say that my daughter Tiantian is unlucky and will bring bad luck to her husband. Brother He, I just want to ask you, can you take care of this matter? No, our Hu family cannot tolerate this!"

The brothers Hu Jianguo and Hu Jianjun stood up silently, staring at the old woman of the He family fiercely, just waiting for the order from Grandpa Hu to pick up the old woman with a fork and throw her out!

The fifth aunt looked indifferent, squinted at Grandpa Hu, and said arrogantly:

"Don't even mention that you are Tiantian's grandpa. You are her real grandfather. Now that Tiantian has been adopted by my second brother, she is a daughter of my He family. I am here to discuss Tiantian's lifelong affairs with Tiantian's grandfather. What does this have to do with your Hu family?"

These words choked Hu Fengnian.

"What the old aunt said is not wrong, but I don't know if I, a girl from the old He family and Tiantian's aunt, have the right to intervene in Tiantian's affairs, since the old Hu family can't intervene in her affairs."

As soon as he finished speaking, a dusty figure appeared in the yard.

"Second Aunt!" Jiang Tian shouted in surprise.

"Xiaoqing? Why are you back?" Grandma He's gloomy face suddenly turned from dark to cloudy.

The visitor was He Aiqing, the second daughter of the He family.

Moving is a big deal for the old couple. Jiang Tian wrote a letter to her two aunts half a month ago and attached the detailed address of the new house.

She had never thought that her two aunts would be able to come back, mainly because their units were both too busy and they were both the backbone of the unit. They had no time to come back during the Chinese New Year, let alone during other days.

I wrote this letter mainly to tell my two aunts: Grandpa and grandma have moved to a new house next to the provincial road. Next time you have time to go back to visit our hometown, please don't go to the wrong place, or go to the village.

Unexpectedly, the second aunt came back?

He Aiqing pointed to the back with a smile: "This time not only I am back, but your second uncle is back too."

Putting down her luggage and rolling up her sleeves, He Aiqing stood beside Jiang Tian with her hands on her hips and retorted to the Fifth Aunt without any hesitation.

"We appreciate Fifth Aunt's kindness, but I have already found a very good in-law for our Tiantian, so you don't need to worry about it."

Bah! Do you really think they are all working in other places and have no idea about the situation in their hometown?

It would be fine for others, but how could Fifth Aunt have the nerve to praise her eldest grandson for his good academic performance in front of their family?

If she had really good grades, she wouldn't have gone back to her parents' house crying and asking her father to call them and use his connections to get her into a regular high school just because she failed to get into a technical secondary school and was several tens of points short of the high school entrance score.

Top ten in the class?

I'm afraid he's in the top ten of the worst class in the school?

He Aiqing does not discriminate against poor students, but her own grades are terrible. How dare she use her academic performance to make fun of her niece?

I gave you face, right?

He Aiqing didn't give this cousin from her natal side any face at all. She started to yell about how her fifth aunt's grandson didn't meet the high school admission line, and had to ask someone to pay for his admission to a regular high school.

The fifth aunt's old face was peeled off and crushed on the ground, and her breathing suddenly became rapid.

As if she was worried about not pissing the old lady off to death, He Aiqing started boasting loudly again -

"Who said that my Tiantian won't be able to find a good partner in the future? Tiantian lost her father, but her two aunts and uncles are still alive!"

"I won't talk about my elder sister and I. My elder brother-in-law is in the army. He is a leader. In the future, won't my Tiantian be able to choose the handsome guy in the army?"

"Even if Tiantian doesn't want to find a soldier, her second uncle is now the head of our textile factory. He has many college graduates and even those who have studied abroad."

"Fifth Aunt, please stop talking. Your grandson will be able to get into college sooner or later. Even if he does, without some connections, how can he get into our textile factory? Can he be awarded a senior professional title?"

"I'm not bragging here, but any one of the college students under my man's command is more promising than your grandson!"

Fifth Aunt's face turned purple.

Hearing He Aiqing say that her family had no connections, and that even if her eldest grandson was admitted to university, he would not be able to get into a good unit, she immediately became anxious.

"Why doesn't our family have any connections? Aiqing, isn't your husband the factory director? Don't you even give a hand to your nephew from your mother's side?"

He Aiqing raised her head arrogantly: "Fifth aunt, my last name is He, and your husband's last name is Wang. Your eldest grandson should be the nephew of the Wang family aunts. How can he be considered my nephew?"

"Besides," He Aiqing looked at Fifth Aunt with a gloomy face, and couldn't help but raise a sneer, "Today is our family's housewarming celebration, and you dare to use my brother's affairs to hurt my parents' feelings. Fifth Aunt, you took advantage of my eldest sister and I being away to bully my parents like this, and you still expect to use our family as a way out in the future?"

He Aiqing's words were like a huge basin of ice water poured onto Fifth Aunt's face.

"How can relatives not help relatives? How can you have the face to go back to your mother's family in the future if you treat them like this?" Fifth Aunt was still struggling to survive.

Jiang Tian held He Aiqing's hand and smiled as she helped her second aunt to fight back:

"If you don't want to go back, then don't go back. Anyway, grandpa and grandma have moved to the provincial road. Look, it's such a big new house. When the two aunts come back to their parents' home in the future, will they still worry about not having enough space to stay?"

"If the villagers don't welcome my aunt and second aunt back to their parents' home, then we won't go back. We live on the provincial road, and the New Year celebrations there are much more lively than in the village."