A motorcade drew up slowly before the Li family gates amid a chorus of gasps.
The luxurious street was packed with onlookers. White funeral banners hung high from the Li manor; had the crowd not known this was the funeral for Old Madam Li, they would have assumed some high-powered magnate was hosting a banquet for an endless stream of VIPs.
Inside the gates, Patriarch Li, who had been kneeling before Old Madam Li’s spirit tablet, heard the butler’s report. After confirming repeatedly that not only had the Fu family already offered their incense, but Shen Wang—the head of the Shen family from Beicheng—had also arrived, he scrambled out, half-stumbling, leaning on the butler for support.
Chapter 70