The Prime Minister's Darling novel Chapter 202

Chapter 202: 127 Group’s Pet (second update) _3

Another box of gifts was prepared by Marquis Gu and his brother from the residence; neither of them had opened it.

The last gift was from Xiao Liulang.

Everyone was looking forward to it.

He always gifts a pen or paper. The whole family knew what he would send this time. Could it be calligraphy paper?

Then Xiao Liulang took out a brocade box.

Under everyone’s eager gaze, Gu Jiao opened the box.

The result was indeed a stack of calligraphy papers!!!

Gu Jiao: “…”

Everyone: “…”

However, it seemed not to be the usual calligraphy paper; each page was a poem.

Gu Jiao felt that these poems were written exceptionally well, even though she didn’t understand what they meant.

Gu Jiao patiently flipped through each paper. To her surprise, Xiao Liulang seemed to have not expected her to review the calligraphy papers in public. He appeared inexplicably nervous.

As Gu Jiao was reaching the last paper, she found a delightful surprise. The box was specially made, and a white magnolia hairpin was embedded at the bottom.

Hmm?

Gu Jiao’s eyes widened.

Finally, this straight-shooter knew to give her a hairpin?

What Gu Jiao didn’t know was that this hairpin is also called a “ji”, and in the Zhan Country, when a girl turns fifteen, she wears a “ji”. On this day, the elders in the family would arrange her hair and present her with a “ji”, symbolizing her coming of age and eligibility for marriage.

Of course, if a girl is married before she turns fifteen, then the “ji” ceremony will take place on her wedding day, also indicating her adulthood.

No “ji” ceremony took place when Gu Jiao got married. The Gu family wouldn’t go to such lengths for someone deemed dim-witted, but Xiao Liulang remembered it well.

Upon seeing the hairpin that her son-in-law gave to her daughter, the entire picture became clear to the Yao Family matriarch. She had initially believed that her daughter had already had the “ji” ceremony, so she regarded this day as an ordinary birthday.

The son-in-law was mindful.

Gu Jiao finally understood why the fellow never gave her a hairpin. Apparently, it was too hot of an item to handle.

Without the “ji” ceremony, she couldn’t use a hairpin.

“You…” The Yao Family matriarch began to speak but then stopped.

Little Monk glanced at Gu Changqing, then at the Yao Family matriarch, and asked, “Benefactor Yao, do you know each other?”

“Benefactor?” This wasn’t a common address, Gu Changqing looked at the little guy weirdly, “Are you a monk?”

Little Monk explained seriously: “I was a monk before I descended the mountain! Now I am not anymore! Benefactor Yao is a patron of our temple! I often see her! We are very familiar with each other! Big Brother, are you also here to celebrate Jiaojiao’s birthday?”

Little Monk was talking from his own perspective, but when Gu Changqing heard it, he thought that the Yao Family matriarch and Little Monk’s family were merely old acquaintances.

He and this stepmother actually knew the same acquaintance. What a coincidence.

Gu Changqing seriously responded, “No, I am just passing by. Do you like birds?”

Little Monk tilted his head and thought: “I like them!”

Gu Changqing handed him a bird cage covered in cloth that was hanging on the saddle of his horse: “This is for you.”

After saying this, he rode his horse and left without looking back.

Little Monk watched the figure fade away with the wind and waved his little hand: “Thank you, Big Brother!”