Jiao Yong, standing to the side, also fell silent, staring at Manbao, then at Bai Shan, and finally turned his head back to look at Ji Hao.
After a while, Wei Ting finally clamped his mouth shut. Swallowing once, he said, "The moutan peonies full of surprises are all supposed to be covered with gauze. At the time, Second Madam Ji found it troublesome to cover each one individually, so she had two silk ribbons pulled over to cover all the peonies on display."
He continued, "The Princess Consort of Yizhou brought only one pot of peony, covered with silk. As soon as it was brought to the stage and the silk was unveiled, the princess consort's face fell immediately, and she didn't utter a word for most of the day."
Because white peonies were cheap, and Manbao had already mentioned that she had many pots of them,
