Among the four people in the back kitchen, the woman who was making the pastries had married into the Luo family, and since she was a widow, everyone called her Sister-in-law Luo.
The younger one, honest and not very talkative, would become especially shy when she did speak. Her mother had five daughters in a row, all in the hopes of having a son after them, so they named her Fifth Sister Bai, wishing for a younger brother to call her sister. However, after her birth, her mother never conceived again, and slowly the hope for having a son faded away.
There was also an older woman surnamed Chen, whom everyone called Aunt Chen. Although her work wasn't very good, she was obviously strong from living in the village, so Lin Yuan planned to assign her the physically demanding task of preparing fillings. Moreover, this woman spoke in a loud and clear manner, with not a hint of scheming, quite forthright indeed.
