Steward Wong and his family all lived in the front courtyard, while the master's rooms were in the back. Although the masters had not visited this place for more than a decade, they still cleaned the houses every day without a speck of dust.
Steward Wong's eldest son, Wong Liang, already had a son and a daughter, the daughter being three years old, and the son just over one year old. His second son, Wong Ping, had just married not long ago, with his wife newly pregnant. They also had a daughter working as a second-grade maid in the yard of the Second Madam at the Song Mansion in Sheng City.
While the family was having a good time, a little maid came to report that villagers from Huaxi Village of the Qian family had come.
Steward Wong thought it was a tenant farmer from Huaxi Village and gave a grunt through his nose, which meant for them to be let in.
Villagers, especially tenant farmers, were unceremonious, and the family did not move, still sitting in the courtyard.
