"These are Mermaid's Tears, stained with blood."
"And this one, Heavenly Mountain Jade! The Western Regions Xiongnu Kingdom offered it to me three hundred years ago. It's not bad, either."
"This... is rather ordinary. It's a line of blessing Zheng Xuan wrote himself two hundred years ago."
Verdant Green Maiden introduced the three little treasures in her hands.
She called them little treasures, but every one of them sounded extraordinary to Xie Daoyun! Never mind the bloodstained Mermaid's Tear Pearl and the Heavenly Mountain Jade—even that blessing written in Zheng Xuan's own hand would be enough to drive the Jiang Zuo Aristocrats wild!
The Confucian System now championed by all the Jiangnan Aristocrats originated with the Zheng School founded by Zheng Xuan.
"Immortal...?"
Xie Daoyun stared blankly at Verdant Green Maiden.
Verdant Green Maiden wagged a finger and corrected her. "It's 'big sister'! Call me an immortal again, and I won't give you anything."
Xie Daoyun came to her senses and hurried to rise and bow. "Immortal big sister!"
Verdant Green Maiden: "..."
Never mind. The young couple had only just wed; she wouldn't nitpick.
After learning that Verdant Green Maiden was an immortal, Xie Daoyun often came to the garden to visit her, asking all sorts of questions about Ancient Literature and Confucianism.
But Verdant Green Maiden didn't study Confucianism. She could share a few tales about ancient texts, but when it came to Confucian scholarship, sorry, she didn't know.
She studied the Dao!
Even so, Xie Daoyun was astonished by Verdant Green Maiden's breadth of knowledge.
"I wonder when I'll ever have learning like yours, immortal big sister!"
Xie Daoyun sighed.
Verdant Green Maiden laughed. "It won't take long. Just work hard and live another two or three thousand years."
Two or three thousand years?
That was an