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Xie Jingchen left on the third morning, and Xu Xiaofen's family sent word of a death at dawn the very same day. According to customs, Xie Family had just held a wedding feast, and not even half a month had passed. Families that were not very close would not send news of a death to the door.
But Xu Family's relationship with Xie Family was a bit special.
Xu Xiaofen's family was from the same village, considered one of the three major surnames of Qingfeng Village. Xiaofen's father had died early, and the primary reason was that he saved Xie Tiesheng's father, although in the end both men died. Nonetheless, Mr. Xu's actions were indeed righteous.
And unlike Old Xie, who was closing in on sixty, Xu Xiaofen's father was not yet forty at the time. As the eldest daughter of Xu Family, Xiaofen was only thirteen years old then, with two older brothers above and two younger siblings below.
