Xu Changqing opened box after box. The first cardboard box contained fruit, and the next one was also fruit. Fortunately, since it wasn't the height of summer, the fruit hadn't spoiled.
The next cardboard box she opened finally wasn't fruit, but it was filled with bags of dried lychees and longans, as well as lily bulbs and lotus seeds for making soup. There was quite a variety.
Opening the next box, Xu Changqing had a feeling it would likely be local medicinal herbs. Shen Hui had mentioned herbal tea in a previous letter.
And sure enough.
The last cardboard box of a similar size was filled almost entirely with common soup-making medicinal herbs like angelica root, astragalus, glehnia, Solomon's seal, and even goji berries.
Needless to say.
The contents of these four cardboard boxes must have all been return gifts from Shen Hui—some for her and Shen Weimin, and others for them to pass on to Uncle He and the rest.
