The village head's wife rolled her eyes and handed her youngest son a bowl of hot water. "Can you eat a little slower? You're embarrassing yourself in front of the child. I don't even want to sit with you anymore."
"No. COUGH COUGH! Mom, look over at Comrade Deng Yuyuan."
The village head's wife glanced over and immediately felt something was off. If Deng Yuyuan was truly having a fit of goodwill, it wouldn't be good if she got entangled with *her*.
Gou Ya's uncle and aunt hadn't been willing to take her in at first. It was Gou Ya's grandmother who had forced their hand by threatening suicide—after losing her intellectually disabled daughter, she finally had an awakening and decided to treat her daughter's daughter a little better.
