After the issue of Laishou's schooling was settled, the feud between the Zheng and Sun families deepened. The two families wouldn't even exchange greetings when they passed each other on the road.
It was a good thing Madam Yang was pregnant. Otherwise, if she had been wandering the fields and run into Liu'er's mother, the two of them would have surely gotten into a nasty brawl.
While the women didn't cross paths, when Zheng Changhe occasionally encountered Sun Jinshan on the field ridges, he would snort, twist his neck away, and refuse to even look at him—a classic, somewhat foolish display of a straightforward man's anger. When Qingmu encountered the Sun father and son, he would simply put on a cold face. He'd say nothing, neither avoiding them nor making way, and just treat them like thin air. After all, he was a man of few words to begin with.
