Nanny Wei is dead, yet Madam Wang is still uneasy. According to the arrangement, she returned Xiao Shan's servant status. Not only that, she freed the rest and gave them five hundred taels of severance silver, allowing them to return home with the deceased.
This action by Madam Wang seemed generous and compassionate to outsiders, but it only made Wei Da and the others more vigilant. They knew in their hearts how their mother died, so why would Madam Wang be so magnanimous as to let them go without fearing that they might also know some secrets?
Sure enough, on the road, their family encountered so-called bandits. If it were not for a passing chivalrous hero who saved them and offered a warning, they might have already reunited with their mother.
Unable to swallow the anger, Wei Da had his younger brother take his wife and child back along another route to their hometown, while he turned his horse around and headed back to Changan.
