Coming to Request for Ginseng

Qiao Mei pushed hard on the door of Xia Mao's house and realized that the Xia family's main door was double-layered. The outer door was locked once it was closed. One needed a password even to open it from the inside. Unless she had a key or a password, she was unable to open this door.

"Forget it, we can talk about it tonight," Qiao Mei said with a sigh.

From what she could hear from the phone conversation just now, it seemed that everyone would get together that night to see how much money they had managed to pool together. The Xia family members were either political officials or soldiers, and their salaries were not high. They were not able to save much from their salaries and depended on subsidies to help out with their expenses.