Mrs. Li was finally assuaged by these words.
After settling them down, Gu Fangzi went to see Mrs. Wang. She only told Mrs. Wang that Sang Wan's maternal uncles and aunts had come looking for jobs, and since there happened to be a shortage of people guarding the warehouse, she planned to arrange for them to go there, asking if Mrs. Wang found it appropriate. At the moment, Mrs. Wang's heart was preoccupied with worries about her injured son, so where could she have the mind for anything else? Hearing this, she nodded her head and did not discuss it further. Gu Fangzi then went to make arrangements on her own.
Subsequently, everything developed exactly as Gu Fangzi had anticipated. Sang Pingliang and his spouse were greedy by nature, and with the convenience of guarding the warehouse, plus some deliberate instigation from others both overtly and covertly, how could Sang Pingliang contain himself?
