Daughter of aristocratic family

Chapter 112 Adding makeup
  After being successful in the examination, the new candidates have nearly two months of leave to go back to their hometowns to visit relatives and worship their ancestors.

However, after the gold list was released, the second-level Jinshi observed the government for one month and participated in the election held by the DPRK.

Guanxuan, also known as the selection of Shujishi, is an important way to select outstanding Jinshi for the imperial court. If a second-level Jinshi wants to take a further step in his official career, he must pass the imperial examination, enter the Hanlin Academy, and become a shujishi.

Zhao Yin was a prodigy in Jinke, and entered the Hanlin Academy as usual. He was an editor in the Imperial Academy of the Seventh Rank.

There was no need to participate in the selection, and Zhao Yin did not need to go back to his hometown to visit relatives. He could just go out with his senior brother to socialize with others.

Seeing that he went out every once in a while and came back happily, Zhao Wangshu felt relieved and went on a sweet date with Yun Hao.

In the early summer of April, the sun is shining brightly, which is the season when flowers are in full bloom and it is also the time for weddings. Zhao Wangshu and Yun Hao walked in the garden together, enjoying this beautiful moment.

Yun Hao picked flowers randomly and wove a garland.

Zhao Wangshu watched his hands dancing among the flowers, as if playing a silent piece of music.

"How do you know how to weave garlands?" Zhao Wangshu asked curiously.

"My nanny taught me this when I was a child. She said I could learn how to weave a wreath so that I could give it to the girl I love." Yun Hao answered with a smile and kept moving his hands.

"Then who are you planning to give the wreath to?" Zhao Wangshu asked knowingly.

"Of course it's for my beloved girl." Yun Hao said, gently putting the knitted garland on Zhao Wangshu's head.

Zhao Wangshu smiled sweetly and said, "I didn't expect you to have such a skill."

Yun Hao pinched her nose gently: "I still have a lot of things you don't know."

"What is it? Tell me honestly and I will forgive you." Zhao Wangshu stretched out his slender finger and poked his chest.

Yun Hao held her fingers and intertwined them, "Let me tell you one thing first, I am a carpenter."

Zhao Wangshu was surprised, "Can you make me a makeup box?"

Yun Hao nodded, "No problem, what do you want? How many drawers of makeup boxes?"

Zhao Wangshu tilted his head and thought for a while, "How about using landscape paintings as the background, carving some flowers, birds, insects, and fish as embellishments, and adding one or two lines of poetry?"

Yun Hao smiled and nodded, "Can it be made of rosewood?"

"It must be possible." Zhao Wangshu smiled with crooked eyebrows. She was so lucky, she liked a treasure boy!
  The two of them talked and walked forward. The sun shone on them through the gaps in the leaves, making them warm and beautiful.

At this time, Ling Hao came from the opposite side in a panic and saw the two of them, "Master Yun, Miss Zhao."

"Mr. Ling, is someone chasing you?" Zhao Wangshu asked.

"Someone is chasing me. Please don't tell me that you have seen me." Ling Hao said and ran away the way they came.

Yun Hao asked: "Should we go to that path, or should we continue on this road?"

"I want to see who is chasing him?" Zhao Wangshu was quite curious.

The two of them were standing at the fork in the road. Yun Hao's sharp eyes saw someone approaching on the road where Ling Hao came, "Here they come."

The person arrived very quickly. Zhao Wangshu and Yun Hao had only taken two steps before the person was in front of them.

The visitor was none other than Princess Jiahe, who was relentlessly pursuing Ling Hao.

Princess Jiahe didn't know Zhao Wangshu, but she knew Yun Hao, "Master Yun also comes to play in the West Garden."

Yun Hao asked coldly: "I came to visit the West Garden. What's the problem?"

"No problem, what's the problem?" Princess Jiahe glanced at Zhao Wangshu, "Sister Xinxing must know that Mr. Yun doesn't accompany women who are not good or bad."

"Didn't the princess rinse her mouth?" Yun Hao interrupted her.

Zhao Wangshu lowered his head and held back his laughter. Princess Jiahe glared at her fiercely, "I will tell sister Xinxing."

After that, she stomped past Yun Hao, and then she discovered that there were two roads ahead. She turned around again, "Yun Hao, have you seen Ling Hao?"

Yun Hao said expressionlessly: "No." "Then which way did you come here."

Yun Hao asked coldly: "What does it have to do with you?"

"You tell me." Princess Jiahe pointed at Zhao Wangshu and said sternly.

Zhao Wangshu pretended to be scared, leaned closer to Yun Hao, and pointed back to the road they came from, "That one."

"Really? If you dare to lie to me, I will crush your mouth." Princess Jiahe threatened with a fierce look on her face.

Zhao Wangshu shrank, "I, I didn't lie."

With an obvious guilty conscience, Princess Jiahe was sure that she was lying, "You can't lie to me." He led a group of people and headed to the right road in a hurry.

Yun Hao sneered, "You are smart."

"Obviously I acted well." Zhao Wangshu said proudly.

Yun Hao looked at her proud look, raised the corners of his lips, and said with a smile, "My Wangshu is the best."

The two of them wandered around the West Garden until early noon before going to Jinzun Tower for dinner.

When he returned home in the afternoon, Zhao Wangshu saw the invitation placed by Mrs. Zhao Cui on the Kang table, "Grandma, whose party is this?"

"It was sent from the mansion. Yuzhen is getting married. Do you want to go to the mansion to add makeup to her?" Zhao Cui asked.

Zhao Wangshu thought for a while, "I don't want to go, let Hong Chang go."

"Okay." Ms. Zhao Cui took out a brocade box from the drawer, "Let Hong Chang send this set of hair and noodles."

Zhao Wangshu took the brocade box and opened it. Inside was a set of gilt bead-embedded headdresses, which was quite suitable for Zhao Yuzhen, the wife of the prince of the uncle's house.

The next day, Hong Chang took this set of hair and face to the mansion to add makeup to Zhao Yuzhen.

Zhao Yu was really happy to see Hong Chang, "Didn't Sister Shu come?"

"What's so good about this place?" Zhao Jiahua sneered. If her father hadn't failed to live up to his expectations, she would have stayed away from the mansion like Sister Shu.

"My girl asked my slave to add makeup to you." Hong Chang handed over the brocade box.

Zhao Yuzhen opened it and was immediately amazed, "Sister Shu really took the trouble."

"The girl said that you will be the wife of the prince's son in the future, and this hairstyle suits you very well." Hong Chang said with a smile.

Zhao Yuzhen stroked the hood, with a trace of gratitude flashing in his eyes, "Please help me thank Sister Shu. I will cherish this gift."

The mansion said that they used 3,000 taels to buy her a dowry, but the dowry was not worth 3,000 taels of silver at all. They were all face-value goods, and the money at the bottom of the box was only 300 taels.

The dowries added by the girls in the family are not valuable. It can be said that the set of hair and face given by Zhao Wangshu is the most expensive of her dowries.

Zhao Yu was really grateful to Zhao Wangshu. Hong Chang put on makeup and went back.

Going out from the west corner gate, when I arrived at the gate, I saw several fierce-looking men escorting Zhao He, who looked decadent, to make trouble at the gate.

"We are from Jixiang Gambling House. We have come to Zhao's house to collect gambling debts. Call your master out quickly, or we will break this kid's legs."

The disciple recognized that the person they were escorting was the eldest young master, and quickly sent a message inside.

After a while, Mrs. Zhao came out in a hurry. When she saw the situation, she said, "Hurry up and let my son go."

"If you want us to let your son go, you can give us twenty thousand taels of silver."

Mrs. Zhao said angrily: "You know whose mansion this is, and you dare to blackmail me?"

"Old woman, it's natural to pay back your debts. This guy borrowed 10,000 taels of silver from our gambling house and lost everything. He owes us 20,000 taels with interest. Hurry up and get the silver."

"Stop blabbering and get the money quickly." The other thugs shouted.

(End of this chapter)