Ye Shuzhen did not want to trouble her family, nor did she want her parents and elder brother to quarrel over the inheritance, only for that Aunt Lai to benefit from it.
A few months ago, her mother and Aunt Lai had clashed bitterly, both suffering heavy losses. Had her elder brother and sister-in-law not been there at the time, their unreliable father would have meant the end of their mother.
The sisters despised Aunt Lai, unaware that Hongji was not their biological elder brother.
With such a large group, they did not stop at a restaurant to have lunch along the way. The morning had gone smoothly, and it seemed that the government's suppression of bandits in the area they had heard was troublesome had been successful.
At noon, they sent someone into the city to buy some simple food as the weather was hot. They had brought snacks for the journey, but not enough for lunch.
