Cai Xiaolian took a Jade bead from Gu Xin and put it into the ointment given by grandma Xiao. The ointment was quite big, so it wouldn't be too diluted.
She called Zhang Shi and yang xiaohuan to help her clean her face. Because of her face injury, yang xiaohuan had not been to the store in town for the past two days. She had been learning how to draw from Cai Xiaolian in the second branch of the family. She had also become interested in design.
Gu Nian's coming-of-age ceremony was to be held on the seventh day of the seventh month. Not many people came, and most of them were familiar faces.
Madam Yan, the wife of the Qing Prefecture magistrate, had brought Su Yan over. She had come because the magistrate knew that Xue Qianyu had a good relationship with the Gu family in the village of the three Forks.
