Qing'an hurried to follow.

Su Yan shook his head. What a madman, what a madman.

-

Qingzhou.

"Miss, the wedding dress has been delivered. Do you want to try it?" Su Yue said happily.

Wanruo was still busy getting medicine in front of the medicine cabinet. "I'll try again tomorrow. The embroiderer made it for me, so it shouldn't be wrong."

"You are getting married in a few days, why are you still so busy?" Su Yue helped her pack the medicine.

"It's only because I'm getting married that I want to finish my work. I have to go to a village to see a doctor in the next few days, and the eldest lady of Mr. Wang's family is also waiting for my medicine bag."

Su Yue said with a smile: "Miss, you are really popular everywhere. The Xie family was also like this..."

As soon as he opened his mouth to speak, he realized that he had said the wrong thing and stopped talking immediately.

Wanruo paused her movements and her eyes dimmed slightly.

"I was wrong. I shouldn't have said that."

Wan Ruo curled the corners of her lips and said, "Don't mention it again. It's already happened. There's nothing to say."

"yes."

As he was speaking, Lin Han came.

"Wanwan."

"Why are you here?" Wanruo put down the work in her hands.

Lin Han scratched his head and said, "Today, there is a lantern festival. I want to take you there."

"Hmm?" Wanruo was still a little confused.

Su Yue winked and smiled: "Miss, you forgot, today is Qixi Festival, the lantern festival tonight must be very lively."

Wanruo finally realized what was happening. Lin Han's ears flushed red as he stammered, "Wanwan, when are you closing the shop?"

Su Yue took over the work from Wan Ruo's hands: "It's enough now. Miss has been busy for these days and it's time to relax. Let me clean up these."

Wanruo looked at Lin Han's hopeful gaze and nodded gently: "I'll be right there."

She took off her apron, loosened her braids, put on a veil, and walked out of the shop with Lin Han.

"I was wondering why there were still people tying lanterns on the street today. I was so busy that I forgot about it."

"Today's Lantern Festival is a rare lively day in Shiya County. It would be a shame to miss it." Lin Han explained in a self-deprecating manner.

Wan Ruo pursed her lips and smiled: "Yeah."

They walked out of the dark alley side by side. It was getting dark. Lanterns outside the streets were all lit up. The streets that were usually deserted were now unusually lively.

Although it cannot be compared with the city of Yanjing, on a day like this in Yanjing, there must be box lights, big Aoshan, fire dragons, and all kinds of acrobatics filling the streets.

But the simple lantern arrangement in Shiya County also has a unique warmth.

Most of the men and women coming and going on the street are unmarried. They take this opportunity to meet each other under the pretext of watching the lanterns and express their love to each other.

Wanruo and Lin Han walked side by side in the crowd, no different from other people. Wanruo felt a strange feeling, as if she had suddenly seen the light of day. She was no longer the particularly lowly existence in the Xie Mansion, but an ordinary, common person who could see the light.

They walked onto a stone bridge, and Lin Han suddenly stopped her: "Wanwan."

"Hmm?" Wanruo turned around.

Lin Han swallowed and took out a silver hairpin from his sleeve, his face flushed unconsciously: "It is a custom in Qingzhou that on the Qixi Festival, a husband will put a hairpin on his wife."

He didn't dare look at her and stammered, "We're getting married in five days. I think it's about the same..."

Wanruo was startled for a moment, and subconsciously turned her head to look at the people around her, habitually afraid of being seen doing any intimate actions.

But then she realized that she had already left the Xie Mansion. Lin Han was not Xie Xianyu. She could stand beside him in broad daylight and it was also reasonable.

Seeing her hesitation, Lin Han was afraid that she would feel awkward, so he quickly said, "Forget it then."

Wan Ruo smiled and lowered her head slightly: "Then you can pin it for me."

Lin Han's eyes were filled with ecstasy, and he carefully inserted the silver hairpin in his hand into her bun.

Wanruo reached out to touch the silver hairpin, and looking at Lin Han's happy eyes, her heart was moved.

Since leaving Beijing, the nostalgia and reluctance that had been hidden in my heart, which I dared not and was unwilling to face, suddenly disappeared.

What was so different about their lives now? They walked side by side, honest and upright, amidst the crowds of people, and even after marriage, they would support each other, without any inferiority or hidden secrets.

Those people that I should not have touched and the world that I should not have entered in the past should have been let go long ago.

"Do you like it?" Lin Han asked her expectantly.

Wanruo smiled, her eyes sparkling: "I like it."

Across the crowd, at the end of the street, a tall figure sat astride a fine horse, his knuckles gripping the reins, veins bulging.

A pair of bloodshot eyes stared at the scene of love between a man and a woman on the stone bridge. It was so glaring that his face was extremely gloomy.