Pride

"Yunduan is excellent. This is what a learned man should be like. Since you are all good friends, we should prepare some presents for them too!"

Qiao Xuan nodded and smiled. "You are right, Mom!"

They had a lot of space in the new house. They had a place to park the wagon and hold the horse. So, Qu Shan and the coachman spent the night at their house and left the following day.

Qiao Xuan and Ms. Fang shared the presents with Ms. Xu, Yang Xiaoni and Taotao, and they were all smiling and thanking Shao Yunduan and Qiao Xuan when they heard how they got the presents.

Ms. Xu was again feeling lucky not to have split hairs with Fifth Sister-in-law when she was first married. Otherwise she would never have enjoyed any of this.

Fresh mutton was the most delicious. For dinner, Qiao Xuan made pan-fried lamb chops, roasted lamb spine in sauce, and stewed mutton soup with yam.