After finishing, he waved his hand towards the door, and a stern-faced martial master with a broad back and thick waist walked in, carrying a black lacquered wooden box in his hand. Yang Xiao recognized it at first glance—it looked very much like an urn.
Setting the box on the table and opening it, everyone gathered close and discovered several paper-wrapped packages inside. They sniffed lightly and could smell the scent of burning incense.
Steward Wu took out the packages one by one and handed them to each person with great solemnity, stating that once the ancestor was found, the Earl Mansion would reward them handsomely.
Yang Xiao had grown sick of these kinds of phrases, always mentioning hefty rewards or treating them like benefactors, but in the end, what awaited them was almost always murder and the scattering of their ashes.