The second convoy was even more impressive than the first one. Nearly a hundred tall carriages loaded with goods were covered with oilcloth and tied securely with hemp rope, so tightly that not a wisp of the contents could be seen. The people of Dadu City gossiped incessantly, speculating that the Bai family of Dadu City might be sending back the dowries of all the ladies to Shuoyang and were not planning to return.
When the ladies entered the Bai family back then, whose dowry was not a grand procession of red makeup stretching for ten miles, carried for an entire day nonstop?