Returning home in a shabby state is actually to "ask for one's life"
Mu Sisi returned to Mu's house wearing a white washed sweater and carrying a shabby snakeskin bag in her hand. Everyone in the Mu family was so disgusted that Mu's mother, Shen Shulan, even refused to let her enter the front door: "Come in after changing your clothes. Don't bring in the poverty and sourness of the countryside."
The snakeskin bag contained not souvenirs, but global limited edition medical equipment and overseas mining contracts that could buy half of the Mu family.