A gentle breeze blows, and the peonies in the garden dance lightly in the wind. The sisters watched Zhixin walk through the bewitching Mu Dan bush, and exclaimed: "Wow, where is this a girl in the world, it is clearly a peony fairy descending to earth, if we are men, we will definitely bow down under the Yi skirt on the spot, but unfortunately we are only women, only envy, jealousy and hatred." ”

Everyone was playing happily when I heard someone asking, "Where is the peony fairy?" ”

When the sisters heard this familiar voice and knew that it was Shi Chong coming, they were all busy holding their breath and did not dare to make a sound, and the scene immediately fell silent.

Zhixin also hurriedly stepped forward and said, "My daughter has seen her father. ”

Shi Chong laughed and said, "My daughter is exempt." ”

Shi Mu complained: "Today is the day of your daughter's life, what is important for you, why did you come so late?" ”

"Well, ma'am, you don't know anything. Our daughter's etiquette, you don't let outsiders tell it, inside and outside the court, most people don't know. No, Pan Anren came to visit this morning, and I didn't know what to say to him, so I had to wait for him to leave before I hurried over. ”

"It's Pan Anren, a beautiful man who is known as a once-in-a-millennium encounter, right? His visit is nothing more than for the sake of your Jingu Yaji, what other big thing can it be? ”

"It's not just for Yaji, but also for the prince's affairs, and now the people of the Qi Wang Party in the court are doing the same trick again, saying that the prince's qualifications are reckless, and he is really unbearable to inherit the unification, and he proposed to the emperor to abolish the prince and set up the emperor's younger brother King Qi as the prince. You also know that the crown prince and the Jia family are our supporters, and we must protect the prince......

"No matter what it's for, anyway, you're late, how are you going to compensate your daughter?" Shi Mu didn't want to hear about the government.

"It's a little late, but you just added it twice, and you haven't added it for the third time, so it's not too late, but the compensation is still needed." After Shi Chong finished speaking, he waved his hand behind him, and immediately someone came over with a purple wooden box, which was covered with a piece of red silk.

Shi Chong lifted the red silk, and suddenly a ray of light scorched and shone in the sun, almost blinding the eyes of everyone present, and everyone stared wide-eyed and stunned.

"The gift of my daughter and Lu, this box of pearls is exactly twenty counts, so it should be regarded as my compensation to my daughter."

"That's pretty much it." Shi Mu nodded, she knew her husband's extravagance, she was not overly surprised, she only smiled, "How can you do the light compensation, since you are here, you will come to this third addition, I am struggling for the congratulations of the "three pluses". ”

"It's nature."

Although Zhixin is the goddaughter of Shi Chong and his wife, she and Shi Chong rarely intersect on weekdays. Because Shi Chong rarely cares about family affairs on weekdays, he thinks that Zhixin, the goddaughter, is just the will of his wife, Shi Chong does not approve, but he doesn't want to disobey his wife, so he simply lets it go.

Zhixin was a little unnatural in front of Shi Chong, she knelt on the mat with a restrained expression, the old lady took off the hibiscus jade hairpin for her, and said softly: "Don't be restrained, just like just now." ”

Zhixin thought: Where can it be like just now? These sisters all bowed their heads, and they didn't dare to come out. When my father came, although I had a face, the atmosphere was not happy at all......

Shi Chong is not only a famous rich man, but also quite literate. He held a hundred birds in his hand and shook Fengjin, and recited the greetings of Sanjia, and his voice was loud, and it was word-for-word. After reading the greetings, he shook the golden step to Zhixin and put it on. In the middle of this golden step is a big golden phoenix, and all kinds of golden birds of all sizes around it will embrace it, shining with golden light, and ingenious workmanship. Zhixin wore this golden step, went back to the clean room and changed into the last set of dresses, the red silk deep coat, and came out to worship Shi Chong and his wife and everyone. Although everyone wanted to praise at this moment, but because of Shi Chong's presence, no one dared to speak rashly.

"Don't joke about the husband, although it is a daughter's ceremony, but there are no outsiders today, it should be our old and young people's self-entertainment, not only the congratulatory speech is made up by me, but also this dress is not according to the formal etiquette system, I do it myself."

Shi Chong smiled: "This is very good, the current scholar clan pays attention to the number of informalities, how to come at will." The daughter's appearance and demeanor, and then wearing this red deep coat, with this golden step, is truly graceful and luxurious, high-end and atmospheric. Although the world uses peonies to refer to wealth and beauty, this garden of peonies is also eclipsed in front of our daughters. ”

Shi Chong boasted for a long time, and saw that although there were many concubines and maidservants next to him, they all lowered their heads, and there was not even a single person who agreed, so he shouted angrily: "Are you all fools and blind? My daughter is so beautiful, you can't even see it, you can't even praise a few words? ”

Everyone was so frightened that they didn't know what to do, and they wanted to boast about it, but they were afraid that they would say the wrong thing and be punished by Shi Chong.

"Husband, don't blame, when you didn't come, we all had a good time, they all circled around their daughters, boasting for a long time, but as soon as you came, they didn't dare to be casual."

"So, isn't it mine?"

"I don't dare." Mrs. smiled and said, "My daughter's ceremony is over, how many glasses of wine do we want to drink, celebrate, I don't know if we can appreciate our face?" ”

Before Shi Chong could answer, his wife immediately said, "If the husband has something, you don't have to accompany us." ”

"Hahaha, this is an eviction order. I know you don't want me to stay here, but I really have something to do, so I won't be with you. ”

In a wealthy family, you can not be spoiled by your wife, but your wife has an absolute status. Although Shi Chong kills the concubines below at will, he must respect his main wife.

After Shi Chong left, everyone returned to a relaxed atmosphere, talking and laughing. Shi Mu ordered to put on the food table, wine cups, and food, and everyone drank freely.

Seeing Shi Chong, Zhixin's heart fluctuated: Is it all fate? Back then, my father was swept away by the flood and must have died, but my mother kept saying that my father was in Luoyang and asked me to come to Luoyang to find relatives. Sure enough, I found a father, this Shi Chong. It's really fateful, by mistake, I'm a girl from a poor family, but I became the daughter of a rich man. Although he didn't care much about me, the old lady of the Shi family was very good to me. I can also say that the carp jumped over the dragon gate now, and then take a step back and say, even if I am currently under the fence, but with my current identity, I don't have to worry about finding a good husband's family, it must be glorious and rich, Zhong Ming Ding eats, who will know that I am from a poor family at that time? But—if I could do it all over again, on the shore of Shujiazhuang, I would rather not board that boat.

……

"What do you want?" Xiao Mo looked at Shu Yan who was traveling far away for a long time.

"Oh, nothing." Shu Yan was pulled back from his memories by Xiao Mo, "Let's start crowning." ”

There was a mat in the open space in front of the window, and the two people knelt on the mat facing each other, Xiao Mo held a peach wood comb and slowly combed Shu Yan's hair. Although the two have known each other for a long time, they have rarely been in close contact so closely. Xiao Mo is always smug when he doesn't look at it, but his movements always have a sense of softness, which makes Shu Yan feel extremely useful.

"Snort." Shu Yan suddenly laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" Xiao Mo asked.

"I laugh at you for always being in a hurry, a complete wild man, but the movements of your hands are very light, like a weak woman."

Xiao Mo blushed: "You are really uninteresting, I am afraid that you will hurt, so I deliberately lightened it, you still want me to expose my rough side, it is easy to ......" As he spoke, Xiao Mo quickly swiped the comb from the scalp downward.

"Oops." Shu Yan screamed, and the curly hair blocked the two wooden comb teeth, "It's just a joke, how can you take it seriously?" ”

"Hmph, of course I mean it. I'm not just punishing you for making a joke about me, but more importantly, I'm punishing you, on such a formal occasion, you are distracted, your mind wanders for a long time, you don't know where you went, and you don't take today's crown ceremony to heart. ”

Shu Yan touched his scalp, "Where, I'm just coming to my senses, what's wrong with this?" ”

Xiao Mo knew that he was reckless, and his next movements became softer and gentler. I don't know if it's because I'm angry or because I regret that Shu Yan hurt, it's obvious that Shu Yan was wronged, but he seems to be more aggrieved than Shu Yan, and his eyes are a little moist. He took advantage of the situation to press Shu Yan's head, didn't let Shu Yan see it, and pulled his hair up, put a towel on it, and plugged it in.

Shu Yan thanked him and took the peach comb in Xiao Mo's hand, "Brother Xiao Mo, come, spread your hair, and I'll help you comb your hair." ”

"Oh, I don't have to." Xiao Mo blocked Shu Yan's hand, "I don't want to change my hairstyle." ”

"How's that going to work? How do you crown this hairstyle? ”

"I didn't want to add any crowns, mainly because I wanted to accompany you to crown."

"Since it's to accompany me to the crown, you have to add it together, otherwise it's insincere." Xiao Mo wanted to refuse, but when Shu Yan put his hand on his scalp with the temperature, he suddenly felt an inexplicable warm current and a sense of security, which he had never felt before, so that he didn't have the strength to resist.

"Hey, don't you have two small holes in the middle of the jade tube that binds your hair? It can be used to plug in the pipe. Shu Yan put down the peach comb, pulled up Xiao Mo's hair, put a towel on it, and inserted it horizontally in the middle of the jade tube with a hairpipe.

"Brother Shu, what's the use of you inserting a hairpin for me? We don't have a crown dress for the crown ceremony, even if it is an ordinary crown hat, it is only enough for you to use alone, not enough for two people. ”

"The way is always come up, since we can replace the formal crown clothes with the clothes we wear every day, this Confucian scarf, and this curly beam crown, we can change the three plus to two plus, why can't we wear these two hats alternately?"

"Alternately? How is the alternating method? ”

"It's when one plus, we each wear one, and when we get to two, we exchange it, and wear each other's one, isn't it?"

"How can that work?"