Chapter 1870: 927 Stunning Beauty (Second Update)_2
Gu Jiao said, "Thank you."
Xiao Hen smiled warmly, "It’s my honor."
Shouldn’t it be that he blushes shyly and says if you mind, I won’t make such decisions on my own next time?
Gu Jiao squinted at someone: His skills have deepened!
However, a husband like this is also quite interesting.
Gu Jiao retracted her gaze and asked, "How many days did I sleep?"
"Two days," said Xiao Hen.
"I actually slept for so long... No wonder my throat isn’t hoarse..." Gu Jiao muttered quietly and then asked earnestly, "Did I miss the tea ceremony for the princess and marquis?"
She remembered that before marrying, her mother reminded her that on the second day of the wedding, she should serve tea to her in-laws.
If other relatives of the family were also present, then she would also need to pay respects to them.
The elder lady and lord of the Xiao family have both passed away, and the two sons from the second wife are stationed far on the eastern frontier. There was no one else in the residence she needed to visit.
Xiao Hen said, "It doesn’t matter, they were not here yesterday."
"Are they here today?" Gu Jiao asked.
Xiao Hen smiled lightly, "They’ll be here once you’ve rested."
Since coming to ancient times, Gu Jiao hadn’t been fond of looking in the mirror, because of the birthmark on her face; out of sight, out of mind. Thus, even after washing up, Gu Jiao hadn’t noticed the change on her face yet.
Xiao Hen chose for her to discover it herself instead of telling her.
Yu Yaya heard the noise in the room and came in to help Gu Jiao wash up.
As soon as she entered, she was stunned, and looked at the unfamiliar woman in the room, saying, "You, you are..."
"What is it?" Gu Jiao asked oddly.
It was the voice of the young lady.
This person—
Young lady?!
No wonder Yu Yaya didn’t recognize her; after all, the birthmark on her young lady’s face was so distinctive. If it suddenly disappeared, anyone would suspect the wrong person was in the room!
"Young lady, you, you, you..." she stammered, unable to finish her sentence, and glanced at the young master for help.
The young master shook his head slightly at her, and she understood, calming the turmoil in her heart, she said, "Why did you come out like this? You’re married now, you shouldn’t be wearing your hair like this anymore."
In the village, Gu Jiao was considered a fool, and no one cared how she wore her hair.
After coming to the Capital City, the family knew she and Xiao Hen weren’t truly husband and wife, so they never forced her to wear a married woman’s hairstyle.
"I don’t know how," said Gu Jiao.
A married woman’s hairstyle is really hard to do.
"I’ll do it!" Yu Yaya said with a smile.
Gu Jiao sat directly at the Eight Immortals Table instead of the dressing table, and Yu Yaya took a comb and styled her hair into a small married woman’s hairstyle.
But she still looked like a little girl, with a face full of innocence.
Yu Yaya said, "That’s how it is when a child wears an adult’s hairstyle!"
Gu Jiao: As if you’re older than me.
Xiao Hen and Gu Jiao went to Princess Xinyang’s place to perform the tea ceremony, and the Marquis of Xuanping was also there.
When the two of them saw Xiao Hen leading a little fairy in, they were both stunned.
The Marquis of Xuanping instinctively reacted by thinking they swapped people; he almost kicked his son out. Newly wed, and you bring another woman before your parents, who are you trying to anger to death!
Xiao Hen: "Father, Mother, Jiaojiao and I are here to pay our respects."
The Marquis of Xuanping: "???
Gu Jiao whispered to Xiao Hen, "Why are Father and Mother looking at me like that? Is there something on my face?"
Xiao Hen replied softly, "There is nothing on your face."
"Hmm?" Gu Jiao truly didn’t understand.
The couple glanced at their son and, incredibly in sync, did not reveal the change to her.
Gu Jiao went to hold Little Yiyi.
Little Yiyi touched Gu Jiao’s face here and there, "Whoa?"
It’s gone?
Gu Jiao served tea to her parents-in-law. Princess Xinyang gave Gu Jiao a huge red envelope, and the Marquis of Xuanping was also surprisingly generous for once—
He was generous indeed, not because he was extorted by Qin Fengwan.
Most of the servants in the residence had never seen Gu Jiao’s true appearance, but that didn’t stop them from finding out from others.
A purchasing boy said, "I heard that our Young Madam is extremely ugly and doesn’t match our Young Marquis at all!"
Among those around him were several of the residence’s craftsmen, one of whom said, "Can’t be? Who told you that!"
The boy said, "I heard it from someone in the Ding’an Marquis Residence! It was the maid beside their second young lady who personally told my sister-in-law!"
The craftsman asked, "How does your sister-in-law know someone from the Ding’an Marquis Residence?"
The boy said, "She doesn’t, she just happened to run into them at the jewelry shop! The maid said, ’What’s the big deal? Even if she’s so ugly, marrying her will make the Young Marquis despise her!’"
The craftsman said, "Then why did the Young Marquis marry her?"
The boy sighed, "Well, she did the Young Marquis a favor, and besides, she got lucky and became a Shang Country’s heiress, was a match for him, and the Young Marquis could only admit to his misfortune."
"Hey, hey." A craftsman tugged at his sleeve.
"What?" he asked.
The craftsman pointed not far away: "The unsightly appearance you mentioned... is it like that?"
Everyone looked in the direction he was pointing and gasped in amazement!
In the midst of the flowers, a young marquis in a moon-white brocade robe walked hand in hand with a woman wearing a cyan flowing fairy dress.
The gentle breeze lifted the hem of her light gauze skirt.
If she didn’t come out from a mural, she must have fallen from the Nine Heaven Palace.
Everyone’s mind floated with one sentence: Is this ugly? Are you blind, you damn idiot?!
...
After serving tea to her parents-in-law, the couple entered the palace to pay respects to the grand-aunt and the emperor and empress.
Empress Dowager Zhuang had a fall this morning, and upon receiving the news, everyone rushed over—the emperor and empress, the elder preceptor, and the entire family from Bishui Alley, except for Little Jingkong, who was taken out by Shangguan Qing for a three-day tour of the Capital City.
Empress Dowager Zhuang was fine, but Eunuch Qin was hurt under pressure and limped while walking. Empress Dowager Zhuang gave him a few days off for injuries.
Not wanting to worry the young couple, the elderly lady withheld sending a message to the Princess Residence, only for the young couple to arrive today.
——Newlyweds, are you sure you don’t want to spend a few more days at the residence?
The emperor and empress had just left, Gu Xiaobao was taken by a palace maid to play with Eunuch Qin’s little turtle, and the others sat under a large tree in the Garden for shade.
Gu Jiao often visited Renshou Palace in the past, and the elderly here all have seen her, but today none of them recognized her.
Had she not come in holding Xiao Hen’s hand, they wouldn’t have dared to let her in.
Empress Dowager Zhuang, while sneaking a candied fruit, noticed a heavenly little figure that transformed into a fairy. She raised an eyebrow and said with deep implications, "Oh, consummated the marriage?"
Her little great-granddaughter could finally be on the schedule!
She wanted her to be chubby, cuter than Xiao Yi!
Yao Family uttered a sound and nodded blankly, "I think so."
The old preceptor stroked his beard. He was very surprised and also very satisfied, "I can hold my apprentice’s grand disciple."
Gu Yan sighed regretfully, "Too good for my brother-in-law."
Gu Xiaoshun scratched his head, looking clueless, "Am I the only one who doesn’t understand what you’re all saying? And that person... is she really my sister?"
I almost can’t recognize her!
Gu Jiao had long declared that she and Xiao Hen consummated their marriage, and now she couldn’t contradict herself. Even if no one believed it that time, she didn’t know; she always thought her little secret was safely kept.
She puffed up her little chest and said sternly, "I’ve told you, Ahen and I have been true husband and wife! We even, well, consummated in the countryside already!"
Gu Yan: "Liar."
Yao Family: "Not true."
Gu Jiao stood there with unwavering confidence, her aura strong and unwavering: "How could it not be? Does my face have ’I only just now consummated’ written on it!"
Everyone in the courtyard was left speechless: "....."