This sort of thing happens everywhere, didn't the Lu Family also suffer looting and forced taking when they were raided?
However, Feng Qingxue, even when buying artifacts through official channels, felt the money was insufficient. Where would she have the extra money and energy to seek out servants of wealthy families from the past to acquire old objects? No matter how careful ordinary people are, they might not preserve them as well as artifact stores do, and it could easily attract trouble. Surely, anyone who can take a large number of old objects from their former employers isn't simple.
Even if Zhou Mingyu didn't say, Feng Qingxue could guess that this couple might be her servants and the items in their hands were likely once her family's possessions.
