Today, the hall was crowded with people having a meal together, making it exceptionally lively, which delighted the old lady. Usually, the Xiao Mansion wouldn’t gather , as meals are delivered to each room. Today, it was so organized to introduce Lin Wanwan to everyone. During breakfast, Lin Wanwan met the three daughters of her eldest uncle’s family. The eldest daughter, Xiao Xianghua, was from the direct lineage. At just sixteen, she was very dignified and graceful, while her two fifteen-year-old stepsisters were lively and beautiful twins named Xiao Shulian and Xiao Liwei. From the second uncle’s family, there was the legitimate youngest daughter, Xiao Ronghua, and her two stepbrothers, Xiao Guangqin and Xiao Haolin, all in their teens. With the addition of two sisters-in-law from the first branch and one from the second branch, Lin Wanwan’s main social circle in the Xiao Family was basically complete. The three married cousins and two uncles did not appear, each busy with their own affairs. After the meal, they had a basic understanding of each other’s situations—of course, this involved some prior inquiries. Due to the travel fatigue, Lin Wanwan took little Qingyu to the room arranged for her by her eldest aunt, Mrs. Yuan. She was accompanied by Hua Nong, Yun Shang, Kun Lun, and the young girl Rongrong, with an addition of Hong Yan bestowed by Mrs. Xiao. Besides, Mrs. Yuan assigned Lin Wanwan some servants for cleaning the courtyard, maids for running errands, and a few young pages for fetching things. Entering the room, Lin Wanwan was carrying little Qingyu and toured around, while Yun Shang called Hong Yan and Hua Nong to help organize the luggage. Although it was a visit, they were likely to stay for at least a month, so Yun Shang arranged the room according to Lin Wanwan’s usual habits. When Lin Wanwan finished touring the place and returned to her room, she found the appearance had quietly changed. Lin Wanwan praised, "Yun Shang, where did you get this plum blossom? It looks wonderful." Yun Shang replied with a smile, "There’s a flower bed under the veranda, so I cut a few branches. Knowing how much you love to tend to flowers and plants, how could I not be attentive?" "Hmm, not bad, it looks quite nice." Lin Wanwan walked to the vase with plum blossoms and admired it for a while. One must say, someone skilled at embroidery also has excellent aesthetics; the flower arrangement was pleasing to the eye, not just randomly cut and placed. At their own home, the daily floral arrangements were also done by Yun Shang. While admiring the flowers, laughter came from the walkway, and the twins Xiao Shulian and Xiao Liwei, whom she had just met at breakfast, approached with their maid. "Cousin Wanwan, have you finished organizing? We’re here to chat with you." Lin Wanwan replied with a smile, "Almost done, please make yourselves comfortable, cousins." The twins giggled, took off their shoes, and stepped onto the floor, walking to Lin Wanwan’s side. The slightly bigger one, Xiao Shulian, said, "Cousin Wanwan, you smell so nice, what fragrance are you wearing?" "Perhaps it’s soap fragrance." Lin Wanwan responded casually. In fact, for today’s meeting, she specially applied a moisturizing face mask last night and used a dewy skin makeup this morning, topped off with a subtle musk, so how could she not smell good? "Soap fragrance? Is it soapberry?" Xiao Liwei asked curiously. "Something like that, but much better than soapberry." Lin Wanwan had already planned to settle her cousins with cosmetics. After all, what girl doesn’t love these things? She then said to Yun Shang, "Yun Shang, please bring my makeup box!" A moment later, a small solid wood makeup box was taken out from the large chest and placed on the small table in the room. Under the curious gaze of the twin sisters, Lin Wanwan opened the makeup box and took out two small wooden boxes, each containing a HACCI honey beauty soap wrapped in a foaming net with ring holder. Lin Wanwan handed one box to each twin and said with a smile, "You arrived just in time, cousins. These small gifts are meant for each of you. This is called honey facial soap, made from refined floral honey. Lather it up and apply evenly on your face, gently massage in circles, then rinse off. It moisturizes and nourishes the skin, take it back and try it, sisters." Her smooth pitch left the cousins stunned, "Cousin Wanwan, did you say this is made from floral honey?" Lin Wanwan nodded, reaffirming her statement. The twins exchanged a glance, and joy and surprise were evident in their eyes. In the early Zhenguan era, the sugar available on the market was mostly coarse, simply boiled cane juice turned into syrup, then cooled and crystallized into sugar blocks. Some foreign merchants in Chang’an had started offering a bit of imported sugar, but it was minimal. Therefore, before cane sugar became widespread, honey was an extremely precious item in the Great Tang, one of the royal tributes, and cherished by nobility. Now, Lin Wanwan was telling them that this so-called facial soap was made from honey. How could they not be astonished by Lin Wanwan’s extravagance? After Lin Wanwan had Hong Yan bring water and showed them how to use the foaming net and honey soap, the twins felt their smooth faces post-wash and were already joyfully calling out "cousin" repeatedly. It’s truly easy to deal with young girls; Lin Wanwan smiled as she happily saw the two off, and then said to Hong Yan, "Hong Yan, since you know the way, please bring the box and take me to greet all the sisters and sisters-in-law." Hong Yan curtsied and said, "Understood." Little Qingyu, seeing Lin Wanwan about to leave, hurriedly dropped her toy and ran over, "Mommy, where are you going? I want to go too." Lin Wanwan said, "Sure, you can come along." Mother and daughter held hands, wearing cloaks, followed by Yun Shang, guided by Hong Yan, to visit everyone in the first and second branches. She prepared a jar of unpackaged honey as gifts for the elders, HACCI honey beauty soaps for the sisters-in-law and cousins, and a horn and wolf hair brush in elegant packaging for the cousins. These items cost only a few hundred yuan each in modern times, but in the Great Tang, they were truly generous gifts. Everyone had a new impression of this lady from the countryside. It seemed that despite living in the countryside, Lin Wanwan lived a very comfortable life; even her casual meeting gifts were so extravagant. After making the rounds, Lin Wanwan had almost gotten to know every man and woman in the family. One elder cousin was not met as he was away, but it didn’t matter, since her main social interactions were with the famous Tang dynasty ladies—her cousins and sisters-in-law. On the way back, Hong Yan seemed hesitant to speak, and Lin Wanwan asked her, "What is it, if you have something to say, just speak." This update ıs available on 𝕟𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕝⟡𝕗𝕚𝕣𝕥⟡𝕟𝕖𝕥 Hong Yan glanced toward the depths of the bamboo forest on the west side, "There is still a young lady living in the mansion, a descendant from the direct line of the Xiao Clan’s Imperial Uncle’s House. However, she looks a bit different and has a rather reclusive personality. Does my lady wish to visit her?"