My best friend is living a famine-stricken life; you're going crazy, I'm farming.

Xu Yingying stared expressionlessly at Old Mrs. Xu, who was sitting on the ground slapping her thighs and acting as if she were dying.

Suddenly, I heard the whistling of "Counting Ducks" carried on the wind. Following the sound, I immediately saw Yang Fenglan hanging in the tree.

Alone in a foreign land, I am a stranger; my sisters hang themselves from the southeast branches.

"Pfft~"

"You shameless hussy, how dare you laugh! Ouch!" Old Mrs. Xu clutched her heart. "If I had known you were a treacherous scoundrel who betrayed her own people, I shouldn't have brought you back."

It's a pity she even gave away an egg yesterday, but got nothing in return.

"Shut up!" Xu Yingying glared at her.

Grandma Xu instinctively shut her mouth.

"If it weren't for your selfishness back then, switching your child with the Xiao family's child, why would I have been forced to learn music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, and songs in the Xiao family? It's all your fault, all of you! I hate you all so much!"

Xu Yingying excitedly pointed to everyone in the family, then, overwhelmed with grief, she turned and ran away.

They ran out the gate, winked at Yang Fenglan in the tree, and the two sisters, without saying a word, headed towards the grove.

"Hahahaha!" Xu Yingying burst into laughter. "At first glance, I thought you were hanging yourself. It scared me to death."

Yang Fenglan: ...

I wanted to ask her if she had been bullied, but the words just wouldn't come out.

"At first glance, I also thought you had been beaten to death, and I was even ready to collect your body."

"I'm sorry to disappoint you." Xu Yingying found a clean rock and sat down.

Sunlight filtered through the treetops, casting dappled shadows on her face.

Girls raised in wealthy families don't have to endure the elements; they are naturally fair-skinned and beautiful.

"What's wrong with your old lady?" Yang Fenglan asked, sitting down next to Xu Yingying.

"Don't even mention it. I thought he was just a bad old man, but later I found out that it wasn't that the old man had become bad, but that the bad man had grown old."

Fifteen years ago, Old Lady Xu worked for the Xiao family in the county. Because she did not do a good job, she was beaten and scolded by her master, and she held a grudge.

Coincidentally, Xu Yingying was born on the same day that the young mistress of the Xiao family gave birth.

Old Mrs. Xu secretly switched the two families' children, sending the Xu family's children to the Xiao family to live a better life, while the Xiao family's children stayed at home to be tormented by her.

This would help relieve her resentment at being beaten and scolded.

What Old Mrs. Xu didn't expect was that Xu Yingying was just like her, naturally tall.

The Xiao family noticed that she was growing taller and taller and didn't look like a child of the Xiao family at all, so they found it suspicious. Upon investigation, they discovered the truth about the baby swap.

Then, in a fit of anger, he went to the Xu family and took the Xiao family's child back.

Even though they had feelings for Xu Yingying, whom they had raised for fifteen years, the Xiao family disliked her because of the suffering that Old Madam Xu had caused to the Xiao family bloodline. After discussing it, the Xiao family kicked Xu Yingying out.

Therefore, the people of Qingshui Village only knew that Xu's granddaughter was a rich girl from a wealthy family who had been taken away by her biological parents. They were unaware that Xu's real granddaughter had returned.

Yesterday, when Grandma Xu heard that Zhou Jingyi's leg had been broken, she inquired and found that the girl who saved Zhou Jingyi, as described by the villagers, looked a lot like her newly recognized granddaughter.

She wanted to use the excuse that "the Xu family saved Zhou Jingyi" to come to the Zhou family and ask for a favor in return.

After Xu Yingying coaxed her home, Old Mrs. Xu belatedly realized that Xu Yingying had been speaking up for the Zhou family all along, and wondered if she was siding with outsiders.

Then he remembered that someone had said behind his back that Zhou Jingyi had an improper relationship with the girl who brought him back, which was why Shen Yu wanted a divorce.

Grandma Xu felt that Xu Yingying must have done something shameful to be siding with outsiders.

Early in the morning, Old Mrs. Xu angrily questioned Xu Yingying about whether what Shen Yu said was true.

Before Xu Yingying could even speak, she was immediately berated and scolded.

How could the young lady tolerate such humiliation? She immediately started fighting with Old Madam Xu.

As it happened, Yang Fenglan saw it.

"What's your mother's stance?" Yang Fenglan asked.

Xu Yingying's mother was the woman who had just tried to break up the fight in the courtyard.

"Don't worry, my stepmother is on my side. That old woman switched her child, and she hates her to death now," Xu Yingying said nonchalantly.

"I'm relieved that you have help." Yang Fenglan breathed a sigh of relief.

"How's things going on your end? Has the female lead caused any trouble?"