Leisure in the Small Courtyard, White-Robed Chancellor, the Great Sui Crown Prince's Invitation

[You brewed tea for everyone.]

[The small courtyard did not have so many tea sets, so some had to be borrowed.]

[The beds inside the house were too narrow to accommodate everyone. Hu Yunniang and the others did not enter, instead finding stone chairs in the courtyard and taking their seats.]

[In the small courtyard, a parasol tree stood tall and straight, while wisps of cooking smoke rose from the roof behind it.]

[Su Yun found it rather amusing and recited with a swaying head, "Though this humble room be plain, my virtue lends it fragrance."]

["Eminent scholars fill my home; no ignorant commoners come and go."]

[Yun Wan and the others were all courtesans of West Wing Tower and had long grown accustomed to handling every situation with ease. Faced with this scene, they did not let the conversation fall flat.]

[Yun Wan smiled. "This small courtyard is alive with color and fragrance, a world of its own."]

[Xie Xuan stood to one side with his hands clasped behind his back, his expression indifferent. At last night's banquet, the date for Xie Guan to marry into another family had already been set, and the clan would notify them soon. Marrying into another family was always looked down upon!]

[What a pity for this Ninth Brother Xie Guan!]

[Seeing you busily brewing tea and occasionally adding firewood to the stove, Hu Yunniang was momentarily dazed. She found it difficult to connect the "young man who could enter the kitchen" before her with the gifted scholar from yesterday's Gathering of Beauties Banquet, so romantic in poetry and praised by old Master Jin Zitan as the "White-Robed Chancellor."]

[Zhou Yun'er hurried over to help, bringing the tea.]

["Young Master Guan, let Yun'er do it."]

[Chenxiang had apparently not expected that coming to