A maid walked forward and explained with a smile, "Because there were so many guests here today, His Highness said that we would take a few more pots of wine over. Maybe the pots were buried so deeply, so His Highness was afraid that the servants would break them up when digging. So he asked them to dig slowly. Thus, he is somewhat late now."

Huan Yehe, Cao Zhu, and some others mediated, "It’s not time for dinner. Let’s drink some rose syrup and mint syrup and eat ...