After dinner, Catherine Ford took Alice back to her place, and Reed moved the six boxes from the Ford family to Benjamin Jones into the house. The additional two boxes were from Mr. Ford to Catherine, which Benjamin instructed Reed to deliver directly to her.
Once Reed left, Mrs. Jones curiously opened the boxes and then gave her son a weird look. Benjamin, puzzled, asked, "Is there a problem?"
"Nothing, just share some with Mom. You keeping them won't be of much use anyway." Mrs. Jones said and even winked at her son.
Benjamin, "..."
He walked over, opened the boxes, and found they were all filled with food items: one box of cured meat, one box of cinnamon, chili, Sichuan peppercorns, star anise, aniseed, pepper, and other spices, one box of dried vegetables that included black fungus, white fungus, longans, dates, goji berries, and the last box was dried seafood, including scallops, sea cucumbers, shark fins, sea cucumber guts, abalones...
