Xu Junjun did not know how she got through that day. From the shock and grief of learning of Old Madam Huo’s passing, she had stumbled and drifted all the way to the Defense-of-the-Nation General Estate.
The men of the Huo Family were draped in hempen mourning robes, and the halls were filled with the wailing of mourning kin. She felt like an outsider, walking stiffly and woodenly into the blindingly white mourning hall. Staring at the pitch-black coffin, she knelt and kowtowed like a marionette, tears streaming down her face. She did not know how long she knelt; she only knew that, eventually, a pair of powerful arms had lifted her up and seated her outside the hall. Someone spoke to her, but the words seemed to drift past, unheard.
Finally, the sound of Mammy Li’s sobbing pulled her back to reality. Mammy Li said that the Old Madam had left something for her and told her to go to the courtyard to take a look.
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