People who came to watch today's ceremony had gathered inside and outside the front hall. In addition to the Su family and the eldest wife's natal family, there were also the ladies from various Jiangning prefectures and the well-known gentleman in Jiangzhou.
When Su Rong stepped into the front yard, she was blinded by the crowd of people. She paused and turned to look at Wang Ma.
Wang Ma whispered cheerfully: "The master, his wife, the young master, and the aunts and ladies in the mansion have all posted messages to the people they are friends with. There are a lot of people here, but the master and his wife say it is crowded. " Seeing Su Rong's face stiff, Wang Ma quickly added, "You are the youngest lady in our house, and this is the last hairpin ceremony left in our house. Everyone said that we can make it more lively. Madam said, today You don’t need to do anything. After the hairpin ceremony, you just need to follow her to meet a circle of people, and then go back and rest."
Su Rong breathed a sigh of relief and thought it was okay. She almost couldn't hold it in anymore and turned around to go back.
The people gathered outside the hall were all juniors. When they saw Su Rong coming, they all looked at her, and many of them looked surprised.
Su Rong actually saw Chen Zhou among the group of people. She wanted to glare at Chen Zhou, but so many people were looking at her, so she could only turn her eyes aside and enter the front hall as if nothing had happened.
In the hall, all the people gathered were close relatives, highly respected people, and people with high status. For example, Xie Lin, who happened to come to Jiangning County, also had a place.
Su Rong caught sight of Zhou Gu at a glance. He was wearing a new suit made by Jinxiu Pavilion yesterday. He was wearing a lake blue Zhuhuayunjin brocade. The color was magnificent and as bright as clouds. When he wore it, he was particularly stunning. It was the same as Su Rong's. Xingze and Xie Lin were sitting together, looking very handsome among the guests in the hall.
Su Rong's eyes were so shaken that he almost couldn't move his eyes away. Thinking about it, he knew that colored clothes would look great as long as he wore them.
She struggled to move her eyes away and glanced around again, and saw Jiang Sheng, the governor of Jiangzhou, and Mrs. Jiang. The imperial edict to punish Jiang Sheng had not yet arrived in Jiangzhou, and Jiang Sheng was sitting here steadily without knowing that he was about to be in disaster.
Su Rong thought to herself, he must have brought generous gifts when he came to watch the ceremony. Zhou Gu confiscated his gifts last time, but now with her hairpin gift, he could naturally accept all the generous gifts. No one could make a mistake. .
Everyone was talking. When Su Rong came and saw her, the whole hall fell silent.
In Jiangning, everyone knows that Miss Su Qi of Su Prefecture's Mansion is good-looking, but since she was a child, Su Rong has never been particular about dressing up, and she likes to get into trouble and get into fights with others. She often gets hurt here or there. Got there. Therefore, even though she has a good-colored face, she still does not make people think that she is unparalleled in beauty. But today, she slowly walked into the hall, with a slim waist, a graceful face, a clear face, and her whole body was like the sun and the moon. Together, people's eyes suddenly light up, and there is a kind of thrilling beauty.
Xie Lin's breath was suffocated, and he stretched out his hand to push Zhou Gu slightly.
Zhou Gu's eyes narrowed and he turned to look at Xie Lin.
Xie Lin leaned close to his ear and whispered to him, "Is this Miss Su Qi? Your fiancée? That's right?"
Zhou Gu rolled his eyes at Xie Lin, then turned back. His eyes fell on Su Rong, and he frowned slightly, thinking that she was too gorgeous. When the hairpin ceremony was completed, he asked her to change out of her clothes and the facial expressions on her face. Makeup also needs to be washed off. A little girl should be clean and fresh. What kind of makeup should she put on?
"What? Look at your expression, you don't recognize me either?" Xie Lin lowered his voice and said.
Zhou Gu finally spoke and whispered back to him, "Shut up."
Xie Lin shut up, thinking that Zhou Gu was really lucky. If he had such a fiancée, he would... no, he still likes Qin Luan.
The eldest lady was also stunned for a while before she came back to her senses. She approached Su Rong with a smile and introduced her to everyone. Su Taishou was standing aside with a look of relief on his face that a daughter in our family had grown up. Xie Yuan looked through Su Rong. I seem to have seen Yan Ruzhen. There was also a girl back then who was charming with every frown and smile. Unfortunately, her beauty had faded and her soul had disappeared. Her daughter has now grown up. He had lived up to her trust.
The eldest lady invited an old lady who was highly respected in the family to give Su Rong a hairpin. Su Rong quietly let him play with it and listened to the congratulations.
When the hairpin ceremony was about to be completed, Zhou Gu suddenly stood up, took a peach wood hairpin in his hand, walked towards Su Rong, and said to the eldest lady: "Auntie, can I give this to Xiao Qi?"
The eldest lady looked at the peach wood hairpin in Zhou Gu's hand. It was not gold, silver, jade, pearls, agate, or jade, but a rough wooden hairpin with poor carving. She was stunned for a moment, then Thinking that this was probably carved by Zhou Gu himself, otherwise he would not have taken it out to give Su Rong a hairpin on such a day. This is really more valuable than all the hairpins. He immediately smiled happily and said, "Of course."
Zhou Gu held the peach wood hairpin, bent over Su Rong, looked at her bun for a long time, then slowly inserted the peach wood hairpin into her hair, and said softly, "I wish Miss Su Qi a happy life." May everything go smoothly, all your wishes will be fulfilled, all your thoughts will come true, your blessings will last, and you will be safe every year.”
Su Rong tilted her head and looked at Zhou Gu. She was extremely surprised, but at the same time she was filled with joy.
She pursed her lips and said softly, "Okay! I also want myself to be as you wish."
When the hairdo ceremony was completed, some of the guests shouted "Hello", and the hall and hall suddenly became lively and the atmosphere was festive.
Su Rong was pulled by the eldest lady to socialize for a while. After everyone was arranged and waiting for the banquet to begin, the eldest lady let Su Rong go.
Su Rong immediately left the hall and returned to his yard.
Just as she was not far away, Zhou Gu caught up with her. Su Rong looked back and saw that it was Zhou Gu. Before she could speak, Zhou Gu said, "I'll take you back."
Su Rong nodded, reached out to touch the hairpin, smiled at Zhou Gu and asked, "This hairpin..."
Zhou Gu looked unnatural for a moment, but still answered, "Peach wood wards off evil spirits."
Su Rong laughed, "I'm not asking you this. What I want to say is, did you carve this hairpin yourself?"
Zhou Gu nodded, "This is my first time carving something like this. I'm not good at carving, so I'll just make do with it."
Su Rong blinked, "Do you mean you will carve better ones for me in the future?"
Zhou Gu paused for a moment, "Well, I'll trade it with you when there's a better one."
Su Rong wanted to say, "Even if you get a better carving, I won't trade it with you." But she was afraid that if she said it, she wouldn't be able to see a better one in the future, so she nodded, "Okay, then I'll Waiting for you to exchange it for something better."
Zhou Gu nodded.
Su Rong looked back at the busy front yard behind her, "You don't need to send me off. The banquet is about to start in front. You are a guest, so you should stay in the front yard to eat."
Zhou Gu shook his head and said, "Send you back."
"Even if you send me back, my father will send someone to invite you over later." Su Rong thought that at least half of the people today came for Zhou Gu and Xie Lin, especially many officials in Jiangzhou. This is rare. An opportunity to curry favor with the Duke Protector's Palace and Prince Ruian's Palace.
"A moment is a moment if it can be delayed." Zhou Gu had already been surrounded several times before the hairpin ceremony. Now that Su Rong could escape, he thought it would be good to hide for a while. Although he didn't dislike dealing with people, he still Impatient to deal with so many people.
Su Ronxiao said, "Then Xie Xiaowang will have a hard time."
"He deserves it!"
Zhou Gu sent Su Rong back to Dongkua Courtyard. The moment he sat in the main room, away from the hustle and bustle, Zhou Gu felt extremely comfortable.
When he saw Su Rong making tea for him, he stretched out his hand to stop her, "I'll do it myself. You go change your clothes and wash off the makeup on your face."
Su Rong was stunned, "Why?"
These clothes and makeup were put together after she worked hard for an hour and a half in the morning.
Zhou Gu naturally wouldn't say, "It's too gorgeous. I don't like how many people are staring at your body and face." He only asked her in a normal tone, "I see you are tired, your clothes are dragging the floor, and there are layers of clothes." , the makeup on your face can’t be touched easily, stay comfortable?”
Su Rong immediately waved her hand and pushed all the teapots, cups, and tea leaves to him, "I feel uncomfortable, I'm going to change."
After she finished speaking, she turned around decisively and entered the back room.
Zhou Gu was satisfied and slowly made tea by himself.
Yue Wan chased back to the east cross courtyard, entered the main room, and saw Zhou Gu, "Young Master Zhou, where is my young lady?"
"Go inside and change."
Yuewan was startled, rushed into the back room, and exclaimed to Su Rong who was washing her face, "Oh, miss, why did you wash it off so quickly? It's so beautiful, I haven't seen enough."
Su Rong kept washing her face, dirtying up a basin of water. She closed her eyes and told Yue Wan, "Go and get a basin of water."
Yue Wan pouted, her face full of displeasure, "Why did you wash it off? This is the makeup that Aunt Zhao spent a long time on you, and you only stayed on your face for half an hour. , what a loss.”
"Go quickly!" Su Rong urged her.
Yuewan was angry, "I don't want to go."
Su Rong pinched her face with her wet hands, "It's already washed anyway, who told you not to come back early?"
Yue Wan hurriedly avoided Su Rong's wet hands, pouted and snorted, took the basin and turned around to go out. When she saw Zhou Gu, she couldn't help but complain, "Young Master Zhou, you didn't stop Miss Zhou, you are so beautiful." Makeup, just wash it off."
Zhou Gu looked calm and didn't feel guilty at all, "It's very beautiful."
Never mentioning that he ordered it to be washed away.
