Every so often, someone glanced over.
No one else had an appetite, yet this woman was eating with gusto.
The one busy eating paid them no mind.
"Master Lin, this woman beside you looks unfamiliar. May I ask which niece she is?" One of the heads of household had once studied under the old man, and their families' seats were close, so he came over to make conversation. From what he knew of the old man, he wouldn't bring a female member of his family to an occasion like this. But given Shen Tang's unusual status, he couldn't help suspecting that this woman was a gift the old man had brought to curry favor with Shen Tang.
A way to show the Lin Clan's loyalty.
The old man glanced at Lin Feng beside him. "When this child was born, you attended her first-month celebration and her first birthday banquet. She is Guansheng's daughter, my great-granddaughter."
The "Guansheng" he referred to was Lin Feng's biological father's courtesy name.
He was the same age as this head of household, and Lin Feng's first-month and first-birthday celebrations had been attended by many of their family friends.
The head of household was astonished. "Guansheng's daughter?"
If he remembered correctly, the Lin Clan had migrated in several groups. Guansheng, as the head of the household, had led the first group to their destination to establish ties with local powers and arrange residences and farmland. Once everything was in order, the rest of the clan would follow in stages. To calm everyone's fears, the Lin Clan's current matriarch had stayed behind with the bulk of the womenfolk until the last group. But that was precisely the group that had met with disaster.
The woman before him must have been among them.
Lin Feng put down her