Lin Ye felt a slight unease, but didn't truly resent anyone.
His mother-in-law had said, "How terrible would it be if people in this world lost all sense of closeness and distance?"
His mother-in-law also asked him, "If I got into an argument with someone, and I was the one in the wrong, whose side would you take?"
Grandma also said that in this world, there are truly people who side with reason and not with their relatives; they should reside in temples. But since we, the working class, also know how to side with relatives and not with reason, we can't be too bad, even if they interfere in our rural lives.
One is "simplicity," one is "naivety," plus one is "side with relatives and not with reason," hence "rural."
Lin Ye understood the reasoning his grandmother was making, but in his
