But Ji Liantang didn't see it that way.
"I don't think it's the Hu Family helping her out. It looks more like Wuan is the one helping the Hu Family. Think about it. If selling vegetables was really the Hu Family's business, why has Wuan already built a new house while the Hu Family hasn't? Besides, why didn't the Hu Family set up a stall years ago? It makes no sense for them to have been poor all these years while sitting on the recipes for hot and spicy soup and fried dough sticks."
Mrs. Zhu was the first to agree with him.
Back when Ji Huan moved out of the Hu Family's home and back into her dilapidated shack, she had acquired so many nice things and was dressed in new clothes from head to toe. Yet, Widow Xie's family hadn't changed at all. Mrs. Zhu had sensed something was off even then.
But she hadn't given it much thought at the time. Plus, after the incident where Mingmao got beaten at the village entrance, she was even more afraid to bring it up at home.
