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Even the astute Sifu, who was as cunning as a fox, when he saw it, became suspicious, but like always, he wouldn't ask anything, nor would he show it, so nobody else would start to doubt as well.
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In the year that Xue Yang turned nineteen, Jiang Yue was thirty-eight, and Xue Yan was forty-one, but time had not left any marks on the faces of Jiang Yue and Xue Yan.
Over the years, Xue Shi, Xue Dangdang, Emperor Hao, Xue Ningzhi, Xue Ningyuan, Xue Tianji, Xue Tianyi, Xue Tiancheng, Xue Wuze, Wuchuan, Xue Qiansheng, and Xingran had all married and had children. Even though Dafu and Liu Guixia were in their seventies, they were still hale and hearty, so the family had grown even larger, and one large table was no longer enough. They now needed several large tables whenever they ate together.
