"I want to gift it to Sister Jiuyue to repay her for saving my life. Sister Xue Ling, what do you think?"
Xue Ling was about to speak, but she found her words caught in her throat when she heard Qian Yiyun's reply, nearly choking her.
She's giving it to someone else instead of me? To An Jiuyue, that uncultured woman living on the mountain, no less! How am I supposed to be happy about this? 'What do you think"? What am I supposed to say to that?
"You can just give her a few taels of silver if you want to repay the favor. She may not know how to appreciate such a good piece of jade and may even blame you for giving her a useless thing."
She replied to Qian Yiyun with an unhappy expression.
"All she did was save your life. What's so great about that? Besides, she was rowing a bamboo raft and saving everyone she came across. We weren't the only ones she saved.