She simply didn't want to bother with someone who would have no association with them in the future, that's all; there really was no need to pay too much attention. Caring too much could actually be detrimental.
"However, it is necessary to check, 'know thyself, know thy enemy.'"
"Okay."
Ya Molian responded.
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Zhou family.
For the four members of Elder Mr. Zhou's household, the truly hard times had come at last.
Madam Zhou's daily tasks involved completing all the work at home: cooking, laundry, chopping wood, fetching water, and so on, without missing a single chore.
And Old Master Zhou, along with Zhou Liang, was forced to go to the fields and reclaim the land that had been fallow for many years.
As the land had been untouched for years because it belonged to the Zhou family, and the Zhou family had some silver back in the days, no one in the village dared to cultivate on the Zhou's land. It had become hard and clumpy.