Sanya pointed to a small box on the ground beside her, "Mother, is it this one? I saw two people carrying it in earlier."
Mrs. Chen slapped her forehead, "Look at me, getting more forgetful as I age. It must be this one, a thousand taels of gold aren't light."
Then she opened the box and looked inside, the golden light was so dazzling that it nearly blinded her.
Sanya stood nearby curiously, "Is this gold? There's so much of it." She wanted to touch it but didn't dare.
Li Shi didn't look at the gold; her eyes were fixed on the shimmering silk. If these were worn, wouldn't it be marvellous?
She then heard Ah Tie reading, "A set of red-gold inlaid pearl hairpins."
Mrs. Chen looked around and finally found a black lacquer box inlaid with mother-of-pearl.
Once opened, the eyes of the women in the room stopped moving.
Even the young Sanya and Yingzi's eyes were shining.
Mrs. Chen patted her heart, uttered a Buddhist chant, closed the box, and set it aside.
