Sir, can you marry me?

Chapter 103

"Crackling" bang——" Xiao Wenqing, who stayed up until the early hours of the morning, was awakened by the sound of firecrackers outside, and got up and got out of bed. The copper charcoal basin inside the second curtain of the jogging bed was still burning. Wearing silver silk charcoal, it was very warm inside. Xiao Wenqing put on a thick coat and walked out of the Babu bed. When he walked out of the inner room, he saw that the servant girls, crystal and agate, were already waiting for him in the outer room, and there were toilet utensils on the square table next to him.

"Miss Xiao, the New Year is auspicious and happy." Crystal Agate saw Xiao Wenqing coming out, and was very happy to greet her.

"Crystal Agate, Happy New Year to you too. Everything goes well." Xiao Wenqing smiled and said, "I'll give out red envelopes later." Even servants who signed the death contract will get rewards from their masters during the New Year.She was able to save more than a dozen taels of silver as a maid, and it was all rewards from her master during the Chinese New Year.

"Thank you Miss Xiao." Crystal and Agate said happily, and began to serve Xiao Wenqing to wash up, and then followed her to the dressing table to help her comb her hair.

"Girl, today is the first day of the Lunar New Year. You should dress luxuriously and festively." Crystal neatly combed Xiao Wenqing's waterfall-like long black silk hair into a bun, and took out a few delicate and gorgeous hair from the dressing box. Xiao Wenqing's hairpin step-shaking gestures on Xiao Wenqing's head, to match the youthful and gorgeous demeanor.

"Crystal, with double butterfly red orb tassel gold step swing, with two butterfly gold hairpins." Xiao Wenqing ordered.This set of jewelry was given to Mrs. Minister of the Ministry of War by Ling Yuxuan after her [-]th birthday, saying that she had too little jewelry and would be looked down upon when she was in contact with other daughters.The butterfly made of gold is inlaid with pure gemstones that flow red light, and the two strings of beads hanging below the step are also polished by ruby, which is very suitable for wearing during the festive New Year.

After hearing this, Jing Jing immediately said happily: "Why did I forget, this set of jewelry is the most suitable for the New Year." As she spoke, she put all the hairpins in her hand into the dressing box, and opened the bottom layer of the dressing box , took out the complete set of butterfly heads inside, and put them on for Xiao Wenqing one by one.

A pair of butterflies with red orbs and tassels and golden steps, two butterfly gold hairpins, a pair of butterfly chain bead earrings, a string of gold necklaces hanging with thumb-sized rubies, two gold bracelets with hollowed-out butterflies inlaid with rubies, and a complete set of exquisite and luxurious jewelry The beautiful and graceful Xiao Wenqing is set off noble and gorgeous.

"Miss Xiao, you look like today, even the daughter of a noble family may not be more beautiful and elegant than you." Crystal praised.In the past, Xiao Wenqing would only wear one or two of them, not all of them.

"This..." Xiao Wenqing hesitated, "It's better not to wear necklaces and bracelets, but two more simple ones." This is too gorgeous and shows off, and it doesn't suit her personality.In other people's houses, it's better for her to be cautious in her words and deeds.

"Miss Xiao, this is a complete set. When will you wear it if you don't wear it for the New Year?" Crystal said immediately.Although Miss Xiao has some jewellery, this is the only one that is expensive in the whole set.

He walked over to look at Xiao Wenqing after tidying up the agates in the Babu bed, and persuaded enthusiastically, "Miss Xiao, these are given to you by the fourth uncle, you must wear them all for him to see."

"That's right, that's right, fourth uncle specially gave it to you, you must wear it all today, let him see it." Jing Jing hurriedly persuaded.Last night when she accompanied Miss Xiao to send off fourth uncle, although she stood a little farther away, she still heard fourth uncle say that he would come to visit Miss Xiao this afternoon.

The female guard pleases herself, and being persuaded by the agate crystal, Xiao Wenqing, who has always been cautious, immediately decided to be a little more tolerant to herself today.

Putting on the gorgeous clothes that Mrs. Liu specially made for her from the clothes shop, Xiao Wenqing took out sixty Wen coins from the drawer under the dressing table, gave them to the crystal agate, and then went to the yard to accept New Year greetings from other wives in the yard. , and rewarded them with copper coins.Mrs. Liu is the official fourth-rank wife of the imperial court. On the fifteenth day of the first day of the lunar new year, she will enter the palace to meet the empress. On the first day of the new year, she dresses up early and goes to the palace with Liu Hanlin who also needs to pay the emperor New Year's greetings.

Xiao Wenqing had breakfast in the Osmanthus Garden, and then went to Mrs. Liu's courtyard to wait.While waiting, the brothers and sisters of the Liu family and Aunt Liu arrived one after another. They paid New Year greetings to each other and then separated.The brothers of the Liu family went to the front yard to entertain low-ranking officials who might come to pay New Year's greetings instead of their father. The sisters of the Liu family and Xiao Wenqing drank tea and chatted in Madam Liu's yard, waiting for Madam Liu to come back.

In the morning, Mrs. Liu came back first.Xiao Wenqing, Aunt Liu and the sisters of the Liu family rushed out of the house to greet her and wish her a happy new year.Mrs. Liu, who was wearing the court dress of the fourth-rank court woman, looked at Xiao Wenqing's makeup today, and praised, "My fourth brother is really lucky. I can find a good-looking and talented girl when I work as an undercover agent outside. Not bad, I know the fourth brother The jewelry sent matches the suit I had ordered."

She did not tell Xiao Wenqing that the exquisite and luxurious hair mask sent by her fourth brother was made by the most famous gold, silver and jewelry craftsman in the capital. Ten thousand taels of silver.Judging from Tongzhi's one-year salary equivalent to less than 8000 taels of silver, the commander of the third-rank Longlin Guard, it seems that her fourth brother has extra income.

"Ma'am, isn't it too luxurious for me to dress like this?" Xiao Wenqing said shyly. Although she didn't serve Mrs. He to comb her hair when she was a maid, and she didn't touch Mrs. He's jewelry box very much, she had seen Mrs. He's jewelry .She doesn't understand the condition of gold and the quality of gemstones, but she can still tell that the total value of her set of exquisite jewelry exceeds that of any set of Mrs. He's jewelry.

(End of this chapter)