After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Prince and Princess of Huaiyin and their entourage left Yuzhou for the Capital. This time, they were escorted by Deng Qiyue.
Before setting off, they made a deliberate detour to Xuyang. A month earlier, Su Shi'an had written to Deng E, asking her to help procure some local specialties. Su Shi'an had prepared these items to take to the Capital as gifts for relatives and friends.
Upon receiving the letter, Deng E immediately set to work. She had various specialties loaded onto carriages and, as Su Shi'an requested, prepared several hundred boxes of Shuxin Bao in different specifications. In addition, there were several boxes of rouge and powder, as well as facial cream, lip balm, eyebrow ink, red jade ointment, motherwort complexion-retaining formula, jade-girl peach blossom powder, eight-white powder, hair-washing cream, and bath bean formulas.
Chapter 204