Aunt Xiuying is a dark-skinned woman with drooping eyelids from a neighboring village. She once wanted to marry her sister off to Dad Zong, but he chose Cao Qiuhua instead. After Xiuying's sister married a bad man, she has held a grudge against Cao Qiuhua ever since. She made subtle critical remarks about Chen Nongmo being pampered by her brothers at the communal house.
