With Aunt Rong's help, Xiao'er and her family properly paid their respects to the ladies present, according to the given conventions and social hierarchy.
They also accepted the respects from ladies and young misses of lower social statuses.
If anyone in the room claimed they were not curious about what Marquis Shengping's family was offering as gifts, they would be lying. Everyone was waiting to see what kind of gifts Marquis Shengping's family would present.
It was rumored that Marquis Shengping's mother-in-law and the second wife had recently spent several thousand taels at the cloth shops and Silver Building, and had sent the goods back to Marquis Shengping's Mansion to settle the bill, which had forced Marquis Shengping to mortgage his imperial gifted mansion. The audacity to mortgage a gift from the Emperor, which should have been treasured, showed a lack of decency; it was extremely disgraceful.
