The Bai Family's eldest daughter, Bai Jiashi, turned fourteen this year. Today, she was the host for the young ladies who came, and had just had the snacks prepared by the kitchen put out when she turned to see a little girl standing outside the pavilion with a look of curiosity on her face, while one of her family's Little Girls stood behind her.
Seeing this, Bai Jiashi knew she must be a new guest and hence approached Manbao with an appropriately gracious smile, saying, "This little sister is...?"
The Little Girl immediately replied in a low voice, "This is Miss Zhou, who came with Old Madam from the fourth branch of the old residence."
Bai Jiashi was momentarily puzzled—the Old Madam from the fourth branch, that would be her great-aunt, wouldn't it? But wasn't that great-aunt's surname Liu?
The next aunt seemed to be surnamed Zheng; how come this visitor's surname was Zhou?
