The old man took three fresh straws and used them to weave two grasshoppers. The little girl played with the grasshoppers.
The two sisters were jealous and stared at the grasshopper in the little girl's hand next to the tea stall.
Princess Zhou called out, "Come here, little one."
Princess Zhou took off the two butterfly hairpins on her head and said, "My daughter likes your grasshopper. Give it to me."
The little girl stood on tiptoe and handed over two grasshoppers, and Princess Zhou gave her two butterfly hairpins.
The two sisters, Yudie and Mengdie, were very happy to get the grasshopper and said to the little girl, "Why aren't you wearing shoes?"
"My straw sandals are broken."
Yudie took off a pair of shoes and threw them on the ground: "This is a reward for you."
The little girl picked up the shoes on the ground and held them in her arms.
"Yudie, Mengdie, we are going to Sanfei College. Please lower the curtains."
"Grandpa, they gave me shoes and two hairpins."
The old man next to the tea stall saw his granddaughter looking at the carriage reluctantly, then looked at the gold hairpin in the girl's hand and decided to take his granddaughter to Kyoto.
There was not much money to be made from running a tea stall. As his granddaughter grew older, bandits from nearby came to cause trouble. The old man packed up his belongings, traded his gold hairpin for a fast horse, and headed straight for Kyoto.
Princess Zhou didn't know that her unintentional action changed the fate of the grandfather and grandson who ran the tea stall.
The grandfather and grandson had no pass and followed closely behind King Xiaoyao's carriage. When they were stopped and checked, they took out their hairpins and shoes and lied that they were servants of King Xiaoyao's family and that they had fallen behind because they had gone back to buy jewelry for the young lady's wedding.
The officers and soldiers who were checking remembered what Princess Zhou was wearing and decisively let them pass. The grandfather and grandson followed King Xiaoyao's motorcade at a leisurely pace and arrived in Kyoto as they wished.
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