Su Ning was astonished to hear that her first brother had come to see her. She left the calligraphy in the middle and stood up. The servant started to put the brushes inside a box and another one took the inkstone away.
"Greetings to the First Brother," Su Ning said.
"I brought these for you," Licheng handed her a bouquet of peonies. Su Ning thanked her brother and inhaled the fresh scent of the flowers.
"Thank you, First Brother," Su Ning said and asked her brother to take a seat.
"Here? Shall we go to the place where we used to play together?" Licheng suggested to her.
"I thought the First Brother forgot about it," Su Ning said.
"No," Licheng said. Su Ning told him to wait and placed the peonies in the flower vase, thus she replaced the old ones and asked the servants to send the used flowers for incense manufacturing.
