I cannot tell if it is because someone is secretly promoting it or if the nobles of the capital are just too bored. Two days later, everyone with some reputation in the capital almost knew that the Duke An's Mansion's Old Master's concubine-born daughter, now Fourth Grandma Ji, had opened a construction firm and suffered devastating losses; it's been a long time since workers and craftsmen have been paid.
This is not the main issue; the critical part is that this Fourth Grandma Ji has a generous dowry but is unwilling to take out any silver to pay the workers. Instead, she instigates the workers at the construction firm to pester her father, Ye Hongyang, causing him to helplessly instruct his servants to steal items from the mansion to pawn.
There are even rumors that the construction firm under Fourth Grandma Ji's name was also deceived out of her father, by selling off the family estate of the Duke An's Mansion, to obtain the silver to start it.
