Concubine Shen and Madam Lu chatted about women's affairs for a while before turning the topic to Song Zhiqing.
"Just now, someone from Youyuan Courtyard came to say that Concubine Bai had fainted and asked the Master to go over."
Madam Lu paused her drinking motion, sneered slightly, and said, "They asked the Master to go; is he a doctor or an elixir? But for Bai, it should indeed be an elixir."
Concubine Shen took a shallow sip from her teacup without responding to the comment, only saying, "I suppose Madam knows that the Master has been visiting my place often lately and seems to have quarreled with Concubine Bai."
Indeed, Madam Lu knew and she was quite pleased with it.
Women are such that they hate the first woman who comes between a husband and wife to the extreme, but with the second and third, they become numb and indifferent.
