The Hosokawa Family's messenger came to visit, and besides freeing Harano from his "imprisonment," he just exchanged a few pleasantries before leaving, only leaving behind a letter for Harano, along with a pretty decent set of lacquered tableware, a delicate ceramic teacup in a wooden box, and a bolt of fine-woven linen.
"Who wrote the letter? What does it say?" Ah Man was a born busybody—seeing the messenger come and go, she couldn't help but nose in again, throwing out casual questions while checking Ah Qing carefully to see if Harano had done anything funny while she wasn't around.
