Speaking of it, Second Uncle Zheng's good wife was actually the daughter of an old colleague of Old Aunt Zheng. So later, Zheng Yuanjie finally understood why, though they were both daughters-in-law, her grandmother hated her mother so much, to the point of utter disgust, yet doted on her second aunt and cousin to the extreme. Turns out, everything had its root.
Back then, when her mom married Oldest Zheng, the two had met as educated youth sent down to the countryside; it was a product of young people's free love, and they got married without ever getting Old Aunt Zheng's approval. So Old Aunt Zheng had never thought much of her mom. She looked down on her mom's poor natal family, and she also despised her mom's plain looks.
