Ma Cuixia has four older brothers and one younger brother. Together, the five brothers have twenty-three sons. The oldest nephew is over thirty, and the eldest grandnephew is already fifteen. The youngest nephew is sixteen this year and still in school. You could say this is a very large and powerful extended family. As the only paternal aunt in the family, her status in her maiden home was beyond question.
Her brothers and younger brother were all honest, hardworking men. Her nephews respected her greatly, and several of them had only been able to attend school thanks to financial support from her and Hu Ping. Even though occasional tension arose between her and her sisters-in-law, these were never serious matters in her eyes.
Ma Cuixia was calculating how much game and mountain goods she could buy with the cash in her pocket as she walked into her eldest brother's house, but she immediately sensed something unusual.
