"Our old lady is ordering everyone to visit my mother's house, to bring gifts, but she wouldn't dare tell the Second Master to bring gifts," said Lady Zhang.
"That's because she knows you are respectable people and don't care about a little bit of this. If she tells your Second Master, it'll be for nothing anyway. He won't listen, and she'll end up embarrassing herself," said Lady Wu Wang. "Your Second Master's wife came today, and it seemed like she wasn't aware. She seemed quite surprised when she saw her mother-in-law."
"I saw her pulling her mother-in-law outside to talk, probably telling her to go back and not to join the banquet. Her mother-in-law made a big fuss, and Erlang's wife later hurried to intervene, allowing her mother-in-law to stay," Lady Wu Wang further informed Lady Zhang.
Luo Xiaoyan's gift to Shang Baorong was not lavish, perhaps due to the embarrassment of both sitting at the banquet together.
