"I'm afraid he really doesn't have much time left. Generally, with such an illness, there's no cure, right? Not only has the coffin been prepared, but his two daughters-in-law are already planning to divide his land, that plot by the river. Wasn't it always managed by the village chief alone? After the last batch of vegetables was harvested, nothing has been planted, and both daughters-in-law want it."
The village chief's surname is Wu, and funnily enough, his eldest daughter-in-law is surnamed Niu, and the second one is Ma. These two daughters-in-law are always bickering, and the villagers joke that this is like 'a cow head butting against a horse's mouth'."
After Auntie Zhao finished speaking, her mother-in-law quickly asked, "What about the gentry and the Lizheng in town? What do they say now? Who's going to be the village chief? No one has come forward to express their intentions."