Unexpectedly, a few days later, Madam Jiang visited, saying to Xiqiu: "The news has spread out, and there was no reaction at first, but these two days, people have started visiting." She spoke with a bright smile: "I looked carefully, several young ladies have good birth and appearance."
Then she detailed a few families to Xiqiu, who felt that the daughter from Lord Zhou's family, in charge of the Imperial Treasury, seemed the best candidate. Lord Zhou had been chosen as a scholar in the fifteenth year of the late Emperor's reign, aged just over forty, whom Xiqiu had heard the First Master mention. His demeanor was upright and his career clean; while his family wasn't considered noble, they were quite prosperous.
There were two older brothers who held official positions in the court, one as the Magistrate in Shanxi and the other as an Assistant Minister in the Six Ministries, with promising futures.
