"May I ask what the specific reason was?"
"I think it was still suspicion. They suspected the ancestors had left something valuable for Shen Mingyi and Shen Changshou. Otherwise, it didn't make much sense... Shen Ankang's sister had been married off in exchange for a bride for him. She had only one daughter, and they wanted a live-in son-in-law, so any children they had would take her husband's surname. I remember it was Xiao. The son-in-law they found was the son of Shen Changshou's godfather. That godfather's surname was probably Guan or something like that. When all this happened, everyone in our family was baffled. Their generations didn't really match up; it was very inappropriate. Although that godfather had more than one son, it was still strange to have one marry into another family. Later, they said they were adopting a child into the family, and they adopted their first son, as soon as he was born. Our family was invited to the banquet, and we thought about asking what was going on, but they wouldn't explain it clearly. They just brought up fortune-telling and things like that... My grandmother thought they'd only made up an excuse because they were tired of being questioned. Maybe there really had been a fortune-teller, but since both the Xiao and Guan families agreed, Shen Ankang must have given them something. Whatever the ancestors left for Shen Mingyi and Shen Changshou must have ended up in Shen Ankang's hands."
"That was just speculation?"
"They were convinced of it. My grandfather and the others didn't talk much about it. Whether it was just women chatting among themselves, an outsider's... I mean, a daughter-in-law's point of view, or the truth, I can't say. Back then, if there was any power or inheritance involved, daughters-in-law and daughters