Era: The naive beauty charmed the villain!

Gu Qingsong's hometown has a long-standing tradition of ancestor worship before the Lunar New Year.

This custom has been going on for a long time.

However, in previous years the general environment did not allow it, and people's living conditions were also poor.

Most families in rural areas live in difficult conditions, and many people struggle to even meet their most basic needs for food and clothing.

When you can't even make a living, you naturally won't care about your ancestors.

For various reasons, this tradition was forced to be forgotten.

However, as time went on, the situation gradually changed.

In recent years, the social environment has become more relaxed and people's living standards have improved, so they have gradually begun to pay more attention to this activity again.

Nowadays, as the New Year approaches each year, families are once again holding grand ancestral worship ceremonies openly and legitimately, just as they did many years ago.

In previous years, Gu Qingsong would make a point of setting aside time to travel alone back to his hometown and pay respects at his grandfather's grave.

But this year is different from usual; Gu Qingsong no longer needs to go back to his hometown to pay respects to his ancestors.

Back in the first half of the year, Gu Qingsong chose an auspicious day and led a group of people back to his hometown to collect the remains of his grandparents and father and move them to Haishi.

This was an idea Gu Qingsong had long ago, but he hadn't put it into action yet due to the overall environment and his own lack of a foothold in Shanghai.

Now that I've decided to settle down in Haishi, and there's no one else in my hometown, it's natural to bring my roots here with me.

Putting aside everything else, just take the twice-yearly sacrificial ceremonies for example. When things get busy, you have to take a few days off to go back to your hometown, which is indeed quite inconvenient.

Now that we've moved our ancestral graves to Haishi, everything is much more convenient.

Apart from Grandpa Gu and his two brothers, the ancestral graves of the other Gu family ancestors were so badly damaged back then that they were later dug up by the villagers, and the cleared space was used to store miscellaneous items.

After so many years, it can no longer be restored.

Left with no other choice, Gu Qingsong had to thoroughly clean up his family's ancestral graves and move them to Haishi.

They found a beautiful and pleasant place, bought a piece of land, and specially settled the Gu family's ancestors there.

Gu Qingsong believed that due to that dark past experience, the ancestors of the Gu family probably did not like the people and things in that ancestral land.

He was able to survive that catastrophe, and it's possible that the ancestors of the Gu family played a significant role in his survival.

After all, no matter how clever and resourceful Gu Qingsong was, he was still a child at the time, and his survival was largely due to luck.

Gu Qingsong thought to himself, "They should be satisfied with moving our ancestors to Haishi this time."

There was a little incident during the relocation of the grave.

After her stepdaughter died, Gu Qingsong's mother, Xu Fengjuan, felt that her old age was hopeless.

Xu Fengjuan's second husband, Li Yongfa, did not receive proper treatment after his leg was broken by debt collectors.

Even though he managed to recover from his injury at home, he became a disabled person.

Not only was he unable to work in the fields, but his temper also became increasingly irritable.

Now he has completely lost the honest person he used to pretend to be.

He wanders around the house every day with his cane, constantly cursing and throwing things.

If it weren't for his severe limp, he wouldn't have been able to catch up with Xu Fengjuan.

I reckon Xu Fengjuan will definitely get a beating every day after she comes home from work.

In addition, there was his previous act of pretending to arrange jobs for relatives and friends, but actually swindling money from them.

The financial conflict between Xu Fengjuan and her relatives and friends has remained unresolved.

With no money, no support, and severed ties with her family, Xu Fengjuan's life has become increasingly difficult as she gets older.

What made Xu Fengjuan feel even more desperate and helpless was that she simply couldn't imagine how she would face an even worse life in the many years of her old age to come.

A few years ago, when Gu Qingsong returned to his hometown, Xu Fengjuan thought about going to find this adopted son.

However, because Gu Qingsong had mentioned owing a large sum of money in the big city, Xu Fengjuan was worried about being implicated, so she didn't dare to approach him.

However, as time went on, Xu Fengjuan eventually began to doubt the truth of Gu Qingsong's debts.

Especially when they learned that he planned to move his ancestral graves.

You should know that moving graves is not easy; it costs a lot of money.

If Gu Qingsong really didn't have money, how could he suddenly come up with so much money?

Xu Fengjuan thought about it for a long time at home, but still felt that Gu Qingsong was rich.

As long as he has money, he's her good son and her guarantee for the rest of her life!

So, during the time when Gu Qingsong returned to his hometown to relocate the graves, Xu Fengjuan tried every means to get close to him again, wanting to cling to him.

But Gu Qingsong still ignored her. After finishing his business, he didn't even say goodbye and took his men straight back to Haishi.

Xu Fengjuan, a country woman who had never left the county, even knew that Gu Qingsong was in Haishi.

But the city is so far away and so big.

Even if she did know the exact address, she wouldn't dare to travel alone to Haishi to look for someone.

After Gu Qingsong ran away, Xu Fengjuan had no choice but to give up.

It is said that he had been cursing and swearing in the village for a long time, and was so angry that he would often cover his chest and sigh when he went to work in the fields every day.

After Lin An'an found out, she specifically asked Gu Qingsong about it.

After careful consideration, Gu Qingsong decided that he couldn't just abandon Xu Fengjuan like that.

Lin An'an also agreed with his idea.

After all, no matter how many mistakes Xu Fengjuan made, she was still the one who brought Gu Qingsong into this world.

If Xu Fengjuan's later years were truly very difficult, to the point where she could not survive.

Even after Gu Qingsong found out, he still sent her money for her old age according to the local average social standard.

But that's all there is; there's nothing more.