Ye Qianning suddenly recalled what Concubine Sansan and Concubine Huaihua had said: have Concubine Peony go and give the teacher a gift—
'So *this* is what "giving a gift" meant!'
"What are you all doing?" Xiang Minghou asked slowly after taking a deep breath. 'Don't get angry, don't get angry.'
"Ahem… What could we possibly be doing? We just haven't seen the teacher in years and came to pay him a visit," Hua Qiao said with a cough, struggling to appear calm.
"A visit? Is *this* how you pay a visit? If word of this got out, wouldn't everyone say our General's Estate is barbaric and unruly?"
"Well, Peony and I were visiting perfectly politely at first. We even brought gifts! General, look, these are the gifts we brought." As she spoke, Hua Qiao hurriedly opened a pile of colorful boxes at her feet, which were filled with gold and silver jewelry.
