Looking at the densely packed messages scrolling across the screen, Mingmei stood on the rooftop, gazing at the Bai family couple, and murmured, "It's not just the Bai family's daughters; these memorial tablets are for husbands who have no children and who offer sacrifices after their deaths. How could the Bai family not know about the Zhang family's unusual behavior?"
Unlike the "four illiterate men" in the ancestral hall who were forced to turn over their memorial tablets one by one, Mingmei could already see many differences just by looking at the tablets.
“These memorial tablets are erected by husbands who died after marriage if they had no children. Moreover, these Bai ladies had no children, so who was the mother of the later Zhang family? And why is there no memorial tablet for the birth mother after the birth?”
If there were any children, then if the husband wrote the memorial tablet, it would read "The late wife, Zhang Mu, née Bai, given name... the tablet of Xilian."
Mingmei looked again at the servants following behind the Bai couple, carrying everything in their hands: a phoenix coronet and wedding robes, and a wooden box tied with red silk and decorated with the character for "happiness".
A fleeting look of surprise crossed Mingmei's face, quickly turning into mockery as she asked, "The Zhang family's wives have always been from the Bai family. It's quite something that the Bai family can marry their daughters off so easily every time... huh~"
A single "ha!" was filled with sarcasm.
What is the Bai family's motive for this?
Mingmei felt a mocking sneer in her heart. Suddenly, she felt a drop of icy liquid splash on her face. Looking up, she saw large raindrops falling again.
"It's raining..." Mingmei stretched out her hand, looked up at the sky and saw that the rain was falling again, only to see an oil-paper umbrella appear above her head.
"I told you not to go out tonight!"
Hearing the man's soft sigh, Mingmei turned around. He stood before her again, one hand behind his back, the other holding an umbrella, still smiling, his dark eyes reflecting her image...
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