"What sort of proper business could a girl observing the mourning period possibly have? So many of us elders are waiting outside. How unfilial must she be to hide inside and refuse to see us?" The fat woman, Mrs. Xu Zhong, spoke with increasing smugness as she noticed the growing crowd of onlookers.
They lived in the neighboring town and had only recently learned that the entire Zhou family had died off, leaving behind only the daughter of Xu Wenhua's late ex-wife. How could they, as her biological father and stepmother, not come to check things out when such a vast estate was left in the hands of a mere girl?
Fearful that Xu Nuo might shut them out, they had deliberately convinced several elders from the clan to accompany them. No matter what, she was a child of the Xu family. They refused to believe she would be so utterly devoid of manners.
