Just as Fan Xian often said, no matter what happens, life will always continue.
When time slowly crept into the fourth month of the sixth year of the Qing calendar, there was not much change in Jiangnan compared to previous years. The Ming family property case, which had caused such a momentary sensation, was still ongoing. After the palace treasury opening, the various royal merchants began the work of collecting the goods and selling. The officials were still secretly collecting silver, and the people of Suzhou were still discussing matters of country, home, and love.