Lady Lu, Zhang Wenwan, watched Wei Rui follow Chen Caozhi down the other side of Guo Pu Pavilion. After a moment's thought, she ordered Duan Chu and Zanhua to follow them.
Xiao Chan bowed to Lady Lu and followed Chen Caozhi and Lu Weiwei with Duan Chu and Zanhua, keeping a hundred feet behind them. Ran Sheng, who had been hidden behind the trees, now emerged leading Baima and greeted the two maids. Duan Chu tilted her head back to look up at the tall, powerfully built Ran Sheng and marveled, "You're so tall! Ran Sheng, what elixir did you take to grow this tall?"
Ran Sheng grinned. "The rice at our Chen Family Cove is fragrant, and the fish in Mingsheng Lake are fat, so I grew this tall. Oh, when Young Lady Lu marries our young master, will you two older sisters, Duan Chu and Zanhua, come along?"
Duan Chu and Zanhua exchanged a glance, both smiling with their lips pressed together. Duan Chu said, "Of course we'll come to serve our Little Lady. And it won't just be the two of us—there'll be dozens, a hundred at least. Speaking of which, can your Chen Family Cove house that many people?"
Ran Sheng declared with great pride, "You two sisters visited Chen Family Cove three years ago, didn't you? If you went again now, I guarantee you wouldn't even recognize the roads. It's changed so much. The Chen Clan's estate is now the largest in Qiantang. A bigger, grander square fortified manor has been built to the left of the old round one. However many people come, there's room for them all. There's a fishery too, and we have boats now, so you can take a boat out on Mingsheng Lake. And the fruit trees planted on the