Late in the day, Third Aunt Mu had to leave to prepare dinner. Despite her repeated invitations to Sister Wei and her siblings to visit her home, she was refused. Reluctantly, she bid them farewell, full of anticipation, and took her daughter home.
Sitting on the warm kang in her own home, Cai Wei wasted some more time. It was already mealtime, but she truly did not want to go to the main room to meet with those people. Just thinking about their greedy and hypocritical faces made her feel like throwing up, so where could she possibly have an appetite for food?
She procrastinated until Shenshi. By this time, the majority of people had already started their second meal of the New Year. It was getting hard for Cai Wei to hide any longer, so she had to bite the bullet and, with Wu'er and Cai Fei, left home and headed towards the old mansion.