Luo Susu claimed, "We're not speaking nonsense. It's clearly what everyone's been gossiping about..."
Suddenly, a burst of raucous laughter like a drake's call erupted, followed by the voice saying, "Aunt Jingchang, you should at least have the decency to gossip behind people's backs. Walls have ears, and someone has overheard all that you've been discussing."
Qian Yixiu turned in fright to see four young lords in brocade clothing, about fifteen, sixteen, or seventeen years old, emerge from behind the plum trees. The one who had spoken was tall and handsome, with red lips and white teeth, dressed in a red brocade flower cotton satin robe, with a jade belt around his waist and a purple gold pearl hair crown adorning his head.
