Feng Qingxue had noticed this situation a long time ago, secretly relieved that Lu's father hadn't faced the criticism from the masses as she had imagined, and was also grateful that the children had successfully registered under her name. When the grain was distributed, everyone seemed to know and no one objected. "I thought it was because Uncle Lu handled it well." She naively thought that Lu Jiang's military service on the front lines and her medical practice had accumulated virtue for them.
Wang Zhengguo laughed once, "If it weren't for the foundation laid in the past, do you think it would be that easy?"
Feng Qingxue recalled those words of Hongling's mother from the year they dug wild vegetables - even she, who married out of the family, said that the Lu family was an upright one, which indicated that the Lu's good deeds had impacted the people's hearts deeply over time.