The Ye Family members moved into an unoccupied courtyard.
The warm and welcoming middle-aged man from earlier was none other than Xie Liancheng, the current head of the Xie Family and Ye Kang's maternal uncle.
This uncle was nothing like the distant figure Ye Kang had expected. On the contrary, he treated the Ye Family members very well. Not only had he prepared a banquet featuring Jinling's local specialties, he had also enthusiastically introduced the other members of the Xie Family during the meal.
As befitted one of Jinling's four great Aristocratic Clans, the Xie Family's foundations were beyond imagination.
Beneath the Old Ancestor were four sons and six daughters.
Each of the four sons occupied a large courtyard of his own. Three of the six daughters had married out, while the other three had taken husbands into the family; naturally, each of those three aunts also had her own large courtyard.
That made seven large courtyards. The Old Ancestor also had two blood brothers, known as the Second Ancestor and Third Ancestor. They had descendants, who in turn had descendants. Though they weren't direct descendants of the Old Ancestor, they all lived in the Xie Family and held the same status.
Including the maids and servants, the entire Xie Family numbered a thousand people. It was enormous.
The return of the former Third Miss to her Bride's Family naturally stirred up a commotion, too. Many people came to pay their respects during the meal. Faced with all sorts of names, Ye Kang's head began to spin, and in the end, he barely remembered any of them.
Only after the pleasantries had finally ended and they had settled into the courtyard did Ye Kang get half a moment of peace.
At dusk, he sat in his room and checked his