At the same time, there were not many people gathered in the hall, but there were more than 20 people.

However, these people are not young, at least they are also colleagues of Prime Minister Gu, and more should be the people who worked together with the old man back then.

These people must be high-ranking people, so juniors or officials from outside can't come in. No wonder it's clean here.

As soon as Su Jinyao came to the door, Mrs. Gu greeted her with Gu Xueqi and Gu Yuxuan.

Mrs. Gu actually changed into a court dress today, her hair was also coiled high, and she also wore a crown of gold and pearls.

Gu Xueqi and Gu Yuxuan are also new clothes, and their simple makeup makes the two sisters more and more gentle, beautiful, delicate and generous.

Gu Xueqi helped Su Jinyao from Mingjuan's hand and said, "Jinyao, I will accompany you for a while." Although the etiquette is complicated, you are so smart, you must remember it, right? It's okay to hesitate, I'll warn you. ”

Gu Yuxuan said: "Second sister, you are so beautiful today." Dressed in white, he is as light as a fairy, and he is the most elegant one, but he has given down all the warblers and swallows in this garden. ”

Su Jinyao was originally born beautiful, her temperament and demeanor were different, and her white clothes were also flattering.

Among these female guests who came today, a few of them are really beautiful women, but everyone is interested in beauty, and most of them are dressed up gorgeously and luxuriously.

On the contrary, it is Su Jinyao's white clothes that highlight the simplicity and elegance, and she is the protagonist, which naturally attracts everyone's attention more, so as Gu Yuxuan said, it is not too much to be the most beautiful one.

Su Jinyao smiled, stretched out her hand and smoothed the wind-blown hair of Shungu Yuxuan, and said with a smile: "Yuxuan is also beautiful." By the time you get in, you're the prettiest one. ”

"I'm not a bride, I'm not in a hurry to be the most beautiful one." Gu Yuxuan is playful and lively by nature, and her words are also interesting.

At this time, the voice of the ancient prime minister came from the hall, saying, "Jin Yao, the auspicious time is coming, come in." ”

Su Jinyao's expression tightened when she heard this. It's not that there is anything wrong with Prime Minister Gu's voice, but she suddenly feels that this is the first important moment in her life after she crossed here. It seems like...... Wedding rehearsal?

Mingjuan walked over, stood in front of Su Jinyao, and helped her tidy up her clothes and hair again. The long black hair ran down the back of his head, and with the wind gently flying, the beauty was stunning.

Mrs. Gu was also full of smiles, looked at Su Jinyao and said, "Go in." Jinyao doesn't need to be nervous, Xueqi is with you. ”

Su Jinyao nodded and took a deep breath. Gu Xueqi helped her and walked into the main hall step by step.

The main hall of this ancient house was very large, not the same as the front hall where they usually ate, and it was the first and brightest room to enter through the door. This place is usually only used to entertain guests, and usually the family does not come here.

At this time, the people in the main hall were also smiling and looked at Su Jinyao together. A few very old people were still twisting their beards, and their faces were kind.

Su Jinyao slowly walked over the red carpet in the room, and the white skirt floated out of a beautiful arc like a lotus flower at her feet.

On the chair directly opposite, sitting was the old man of the Gu family. The old man also had a loving smile on his face, and nodded slightly towards Su Jinyao.

Today's Gua Jin ceremony was presided over by Prime Minister Gu himself, and those guests should be the ones who came to watch the ceremony. It is estimated that the protocol for watching the ceremony is also exquisite, and the greater the official rank, the more noble the girl who enters the ceremony that day.

Although Su Jinyao didn't know these people, thinking about her future identity, she could also think that these people's identities were not bad. She lowered her head slightly, waiting for Prime Minister Gu to preside over the ceremony.

At the beginning, of course, the greetings were read first, and when the ancient prime minister read: "The Gu clan, Ya, is sixteen years old......"

Su Jinyao's heart also beat twice with a "bang", and she almost couldn't hear the rest of the words.

Because I'm still nervous, nervous for no reason. I could only see Prime Minister Gu's mouth moving, and her brain was buzzing. All that remains is to bow and bow according to the previous rehearsal and the plot in mind.

Gu Xueqi occasionally reminded her by her side, but Su Jinyao couldn't hear it clearly, and the whole person was like a puppet, stiff.

Su Jinyao originally thought that she learned quickly and well yesterday, and there would be no mistake today.

It's just that I didn't expect it, and what I thought about in my heart was one thing, but when I really used it, it was another thing. She still made herself too nervous.

This feels very good, people who don't kill people are more and more like normal people now. Although Su Jinyao knew that she might make a fool of herself, she was ecstatic for a while.

Because she was a little distracted, Su Jinyao's movements were not so stiff. Slowly came back to her senses and found that she was already kneeling on a futon, and Mrs. Gu was picking up a silver comb from the tray held by Gu Yuxuan and curling her hair.

Madame Gu's hands were very soft and dexterous, and the silver comb fell on her scalp, which was slightly cold, but she did not feel uncomfortable.

After a while, Mrs. Gu curled up Su Jinyao's hair, and then took the antique silver hairpin that Su Jinyao had selected yesterday and inserted it into Su Jinyao's hair.

In the end, the silver comb combed the hair hanging down on the back of Su Jinyao's head three times, each time straight to the end, and the entire ceremony of the Gua Jin Ceremony was completed.

Mrs. Gu personally helped Su Jinyao up, and said with a smile: "Jinyao, you are a big girl." Aunt is happy for you. ”

Su Jinyao was in a daze for a long time, and her nervous body stiffened. Now that it's over, the end of that excitement has suddenly relaxed, and I feel a little tired.

Gifts from the Queen Mother and Empress

But Su Jinyao felt tired, but she couldn't go back to rest. As Mrs. Hakugu said, she was still tired.

First of all, Prime Minister Gu personally led Su Jinyao and introduced all the VIPs present. There are today's Taifu Prince teachings, and there are also six books.

There are also a few veterans who are officials in the same dynasty as the old man, and it is for the sake of the old man's face that he can come today. No matter what Su Jinyao's identity is in the future, they must not be neglected.

Every time she introduces a person, Su Jinyao has to formally salute, and she doesn't need to kowtow, but the ancients are still tired of bowing with a squatting blessing bow.

However, this gift was not in vain, everyone prepared a gift for Su Jinyao. Although the gifts are all in boxes, just looking at the delicate little wooden box, you know that the price is very high.

Gu Yuxuan was originally holding a tray with a comb and hairpin. Now she is holding the tray behind Su Jinyao again, responsible for helping her collect things.

After taking the gift and thanking her, Su Jinyao returned her hand and put the gift on the tray. Walking down this circle, more than 20 people gave more than 20 gifts, and the red lacquer tray was already stacked.

Su Jinyao suddenly had an idea, what does it mean to lose at the starting line?

After becoming the daughter of the ancient family, she turned around like this, and the connections she accumulated and the treasures she caught were also a lot of money.

Thinking about it again, she and Xiaocheng'er built a small water shop, and the income of dozens of copper plates a day would be happy for a long time.

Later, he pondered selling bowls, mirrors, baskets, roast duck, books, and firewood, and finally became the richest man in the village.

But if you get up with the eldest ladies in the capital, it is estimated that it is not as much money as people to buy a pendant and wear a bracelet.

Thinking of this, Su Jinyao glanced back at those things, and suddenly remembered that Xiaocheng'er was in a hurry to go home, when will there be news?

Su Xiangui and Su Fei'er don't know how their lives are going in Anji City, have the slums been renovated?

What happened to Sophie, so that Ma Liu made people hurry to find Xiaocheng'er to go back?

was distracted thinking about the country home, when he suddenly saw the housekeeper Qin Siwu walk in, came straight to the old man's side, bowed down and said, "Old lady, the congratulatory gifts of the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother have arrived." ”

Congratulatory gifts from the Queen Mother and the Empress? The people present and Su Jinyao heard it clearly, and they couldn't help but be stunned.

Although Su Jinyao is the princess who is in preparation, this is also everyone's private words, without the emperor to announce it to the world, no one can say this matter to death.

But now that Su Jinyao's Gua Jin Ceremony, the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother have sent gifts, then this matter is of great significance.

Everyone did not dare to slack off, and all stood up respectfully.

Old Man Gu even stepped down from his seat, taking Prime Minister Gu, Mrs. Gu, and Su Jinyao and them all the way out.

As soon as he walked out of the main hall, Gu Shangqing didn't know where he came from, so he walked directly to the other side of the old man Gu, and followed the old man outside with Prime Minister Gu.

At the gate, two horses had already stopped. The canopy of the carriage was made of sandalwood, wrapped in red tweed, and the corners were hung with golden bells and tassels. This should be the style of the palace carriage.

The old man led the people to stand at the door when the curtains of the two carriages were lifted.

The first carriage to come down was Aunt Ma, who was followed by Xi Zhu'er and another little palace maid. The two little palace maids each held a red lacquer color box and followed Aunt Ma out of the carriage.

The second carriage came down with a woman in her thirties, slightly chubby, and taller than a woman, so she looked tall and a little strong. This grandmother was followed by a palace maid about twenty years old, also holding a box, but the box was very small and looked very exquisite.

The two grandmothers met and walked forward side by side. When he came to the old man, he was all smiling and blessed.

As an old man, he was the queen mother's brother-in-law, so he naturally deserved this ceremony.

However, the old man Gu still said very politely: "Aunt Ma, Aunt Lian, today is our family's Jinyao's gift, and the two of you are the old grandmothers in the palace again, if Jinyao doesn't understand anything in the future, I have to ask the two of you to remind you more." ”

"Well said. Miss Jinyao has always been clever and deeply liked by the Queen Mother, isn't this a gift? Aunt Ma said, and the fate of Xiluo'er and another little palace maid sent the box in their hands.

Then Aunt Ma took out a gold satin fold from her sleeve and said, "This is the gift list, old man, you keep it." ”

It seems that these two boxes must contain a lot of things, otherwise there would be no special gift list.

However, when the gift list was handed over, the old man Gu did not accept it, but said to Su Jinyao: "Jinyao, this is the queen mother's reward, you can take it." ”

Su Jinyao agreed, and before taking a few steps, she took the gift slip from Aunt Ma's hand, blessed her body again, and said, "Thank you for the reward from the Queen Mother." Aunt Ma has worked hard. ”

Aunt Ma nodded and smiled, moved away slightly, and said to the grandmother next to her, "This is the little master of the Gu family, Miss Jinyao." I've met her in the palace, and I have some friendship, so I'm kind of an introducer. ”

The grandmother smiled, and took a step forward to say to Su Jinyao, "Miss Jinyao is fine." I am the grandmother next to the queen's mother, called Aunt Lian. Niangniang also knew that the little master was going to go in today, saying that this was the biggest good day for her daughter's family in addition to getting married, and specially asked me to send a pair of hibiscus bracelets, which was regarded as a congratulatory gift. ”

As he spoke, he nodded to the palace maid behind him, and the palace maid came forward and sent the small box she was holding in her hand to Su Jinyao.

Su Jinyao took it with both hands and thanked her repeatedly. thanked the queen for her reward, and said: "Aunt Lian has worked hard." ”

This gift was also given, and Mrs. Gu opened her mouth to invite the two grandmothers to come in and sit down. said that a banquet was prepared, and no matter what, let the two grandmothers eat a few glasses of wine before leaving.

Lian Gu said: "I don't eat the wine, the queen is slightly ill, I want to go back to serve the mother to rest, don't stay longer." However, the queen mother also explained that she must invite the little master of Jinyao to enter the palace to play, and the queen mother will talk to her. ”

Mrs. Gu said with a smile: "Yes, I originally planned to take Jinyao into the palace early tomorrow morning to greet the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother." ”

Lian Gu said: "Okay, I'll go back and tell the queen mother, and the mother is happy." Maybe you have to prepare the candied fruit early, waiting for the little master to come over and taste it. ”

After speaking, Aunt Lian turned her head to look at Su Jinyao twice, nodded at her with a smile on her face, and then turned back to the carriage and left with the palace maid.

It turned out to be a golden python

Aunt Lian just came to give a gift, and she didn't even enter the door, so it can be seen that she was really in a hurry.

Mrs. Gu turned her head to Aunt Ma and said, "Aunt Ma, don't you also say that your nobles are busy, so you came to the door and stood for a stop and went back." A room full of guests heard that the Queen Mother and the Queen had sent someone, but they didn't see any of them for a long time, and we couldn't explain it. ”

Aunt Ma laughed when she heard this, and said, "This Aunt Lian ran fast, as if she was afraid of giving her wine." Forget it, you can't just get to the door and not go in, it seems that I'm a big mama. The queen mother is also approachable, which of these young ladies from big families has never been to the palace to play? I know all of them, so let's go in and say a few words. ”

This is really said, the queen mother is really good to these juniors, and will summon those young masters who have reached marriageable age into the palace and arrange marriage for them.

Mrs. Gu also smiled and said "yes, yes", and then invited Aunt Ma in.

Su Jinyao's gift was a gathering of the celebrities in the capital and the sons and daughters of various families.

Everyone went to the backyard to chat and talk, and some of the sons asked for a poem, a pair or something. It's time to speed up to the end of the year, and the ladies of each family are still learning from each other to be female celebrities and play with each other, so it's not lively.

As for those high-ranking adults, they went to the front hall to drink tea and chat with the old man and the prime minister Gu.

Su Jinyao was still walking around these people at the beginning, Gu Xueqi and Gu Yuxuan knew a lot of people, and they would pull Su Jinyao to introduce them and say a few words.

Gradually, Su Jinyao lost interest, quietly flashed to the side, and walked farther and farther, and finally took Mingjuan to her room, and she didn't see anyone stopping her from talking, but she was at ease.

When she returned to her room, Su Jinyao let out a long sigh of relief, feeling really tired.

Mingjuan hurriedly turned the fire in the brazier and brought another cup of hot tea to Su Jinyao to drink. He also asked, "Is Miss hungry?" I'll bring some pastries for the young lady to eat. There will be a feast in a while, but I don't think I will be able to eat anything. ”

At the banquet, everyone must be a lot of wind and snow, and the ladies of each family are more in the United States, and no one will eat seriously.

If everyone was really sitting together, Su Jinyao would definitely not be able to sit at the table and munch, so it was right to eat something first.

Su Jinyao nodded, and asked Mingjuan to get something hungry and not smelly to eat. She remembered the rattan cage that Mingluo had sent back in advance.

The cage was placed at the door, and Mingluo seemed to be quite obedient, remembering that Su Jinyao said that this thing was afraid of heat.

Su Jinyao walked over and kicked the cage with her toes, raised her eyebrows, squatted down and uncovered the lid.

At first glance, it was still a lump of golden straw, a large dry mass, almost filling the entire cage.

Su Jinyao's eyes looked around in the dense layers of hay, the corners of her mouth hooked again, and then she reached over and pushed the clumps of hay away.

I had just taken out a layer of hay when I heard footsteps at the door. Mingjuan and Mingluo both came, one of them was carrying a food box in his hand, and he saw that the food box was still a faint white mist coming out of the gap in the lid, it should be hot food.

Mingjuan put the food box on the table and let Mingluo put it out, while she walked over to Su Jinyao and asked, "Miss, what is in this cage?" I think the young lady is very rare. ”

Su Jinyao smiled when she heard this, and didn't say what was inside: "You come and see, you know." Anyway, I think that this Feng Shusheng is really very attentive and knows what I want. ”

"Oh?" Mingjuan is also very good, such an ordinary and very inconspicuous rattan cage, what treasure will it contain?

It's just that Mingjuan walked over, squatted down and took a closer look, and suddenly her face changed, and her body fell back suddenly, almost falling to the ground.

"Little, miss, here...... There's a snake in there!! Mingjuan was so frightened that she stammered. The hand pointing to the cage trembled even more.

When Ming Luo heard this, the hand that was setting the dishes and chopsticks was also trembling, and the porcelain spoon in his hand fell on the table, making a sound of "dang".