The meeting hall was a sea of silence.
Only the voice of Uncle Wen, the second elder, reverberated in the room, "Today, I want to talk about a family that I believe many of you have heard of. Their experience could be described as tumultuous and fraught with hardships. He's worked as a porter, hauled coal, started from setting up a street stall, to owning his own grocery store."
Upon hearing the word "grocery store," it seemed that many of the Wen Family members in the audience held a high impression of the legendary Wen Shixuan.
Manman had reason to deduce that this was the result of her father's two sisters frequently gossiping among the elders.
She only heard the whispers rising from below, all targeting her father's well-known "incompetence":
