No one expected Hong Sheng's reply to arrive so quickly. Although it was sent by express rider, logically it should have taken nearly three months round trip, yet it had arrived just after the New Year, and the messenger was none other than Nanny Wei from Prince Ke Mansion.
Nanny Wei, as the favored housekeeper with Prince Ke, dressed in such a way that even wealthy matriarchs couldn't compare on ordinary days, but today she was especially outstanding.
She removed her cloak made from the skin of a black fox, revealing a Kesi robe beneath, embroidered with vase flowers on a ginger-yellow background, trimmed with silver mouse fur, showing a small vertical collar of her white inner garment, embroidered with gold cloud patterns, with a jade bamboo-section button at the neckline.
Beneath was a skirt made of gray mouse fur with a dark green hem adorned with two bands of endless swastika patterns.
