Feng Lingbo wore her hair in a married woman's high bun. Her complexion was fair and clear, her eyes bright, and her figure had filled out somewhat since her marriage. She and her husband Xu Miao were deeply devoted to one another. If her feelings for Chen Caozhi had once been the hazy admiration of a maiden awakening to love, they had now mellowed into a warm, enduring familial affection. Feng Lingbo had no siblings and regarded Chen Caozhi as her own flesh-and-blood elder brother. She was especially concerned about her sworn brother's marriage-
Liu Shangzhi, Chen Caozhi, Gu Kaizhi, Xu Miao, Chen Shang, and the others attended the banquet in the main hall, while Feng Lingbo talked with Xiao Chan in the small hall, listening through the curtain to her husband Xu Miao drinking and laughing with her sworn brother Chen Caozhi.
Xiao Chan told her everything she knew about Young Master Caozhi and Young Lady Lu. Feng Lingbo was both delighted and worried, and very much wanted to meet Lu Weiwei. Xiao Chan said, "Young Lady Lu often goes to Waguansi to watch the young master paint. Lady Lingbo could go there to meet her."
Just then, they heard that visitors had arrived: Yuan Tong of Chen Commandery and Zhuge Zeng of Langya. They had come to invite Chen Caozhi to engage Zhu Yingtai in a Dialectical Debate. If Chen Caozhi won, they would give him six hundred thousand cash, while Zhu Yingtai would have to remain unmarried for life and leave Jiankang to return to Kuaiji-
Xiao Chan said, "The young master won't gamble. When the old mistress was alive, she said he mustn't gamble with others."
Feng Lingbo smiled. "Surely a Dialectical Debate doesn't count as gambling."
Xiao Chan said, "Master Zhu and our young master