The following day, after eating breakfast, Mrs. Yao put on the silver hairpin she had just bought a few days ago and went out to find Mrs. Liu, who was drying the blankets in the courtyard. She bobbed her head and said, "Sister-in-law, do you think my silver hairpin looks good?"
Mrs. Liu glanced at it and said, "I was the one who picked it for you. Why are you still asking me that?"
Then, she patted the blanket.
"Look at my memory. How could I have forgotten about this?" Mrs. Yao said annoyedly, but it quickly turned into a face of showing off.
After Mrs. Liu noticed something was wrong, she turned her head to look at her and just happened to see her showing off. Her face suddenly sank, but she no longer paid attention to her and pretended not to see it, busy with the work in her hands.
She thought, "Isn't it just a silver hairpin? What's there to show off? In the past, it was something that I bestowed on my servants."
But...