For example, Chinese cabbage with mushrooms and bamboo shoots were called Double Winter and White Snow. Tofu soup was called Cloud and Wall. Vegetables, winter bamboo shoots, mushrooms, tofu, and gluten were carefully cooked together, and the taste was as delicious as that of meat dishes.
Later, Qiao Xuan learned that the vegetarian banquet cost 100 liang for one table, since they were such precious dishes.
In the afternoon, First Madame kept Qiao Xuan company to pay a visit to the plum forest in the back mountains, where the flowers were growing freely. There were many visitors there and they were all chatting, which was a starkly different scene compared to that from the quiet, small, plum garden.
The two of them had a good time and were very happy when they went home.
