After the distribution of the pastries, apart from Qingtao, who didn't show much emotion, the other three maids all had faces filled with joy.
For them, such exquisite pastries were not something they were often able to consume, especially those shaped like lotus flowers, with their delicate lotus-petal pink and soft yellow cores, which resembled heavenly fruits.
For a moment, they couldn't bring themselves to eat them.
"Seeing that the weather is getting cold, Her Highness feels compassion for us and how hard we work, so she has decided to give each of us four taels of silver." Xuemei then took out the silver money box, and with four people in the room, that amounted to sixteen taels of silver.
The girls quickly lined up in an orderly manner, waiting for their reward money.
Qingtao was first in line, and Xuemei carefully weighed out four taels of silver for her, putting them in a plain lotus-patterned pouch and handing it to her cautiously.
