"Mm. We drew up a family tree before. From what you've told us, it needs some revisions."
Rustling...
"Right, that's how it went. After he was acknowledged by his birth family, they arranged a wedding, and they got married. Shen Changshou lived for quite a long time. He and his wife had a son and a daughter. After the son was born, my great-great-grandfather was already in poor health. When the old man died, the family split up. The two families divided all the fields equally. They didn't live together or share a house, but they visited each other often and celebrated the New Year together. It was the same after my grandfather was born. Things stayed that way until Shen Mingxiu died, and the relationship between our families became less close."
"Mm. Tell me about the next generation. Shen Changshou had a son and a daughter. What were the two siblings like?"
"About the same as anyone else. Nothing special. They didn't achieve much, but you couldn't exactly call them wastrels. There was just one thing: Shen Changshou's son, whom my grandfather and the others called A Gou, had a nose like a dog's. His sense of smell was exceptionally keen, so they called him A Gou. He married several times—three, maybe four. People married young back then, and he married especially young. He must have been fourteen when he married for the first time. They didn't have any children for two years. Shen Changshou was getting anxious. A Gou's wife didn't seem very nice either—maybe she had a bad temper or something. Eventually they split up. They didn't call it divorce back then. She just ran off, went back to her parents' home, and later married someone from another place. A few years later, war broke out. A