Rain and dew are evenly distributed
Jing Yao was calculating his own plans in his heart——
Si Peigui is the crown prince, above everyone else and below everyone else. What can he not get?
When people give gifts, apart from seeing if the other party likes it, they also focus on practicality, hoping that the other party can use the gift.
If you are giving a gift to someone of higher status than yourself, you will pay more attention to catering to their preferences. The gift should be expensive enough to be presentable and also touch the other person's heart. That is why so many people give calligraphy and paintings, tea, wine and even beautiful women as gifts.
His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has no shortage of food, clothing, and daily necessities, and he has put a lot of thought into his favorite calligraphy and painting. Si Pei has all the world's most precious works and calligraphy, so it would not be surprising for her to give him these things.
So when giving a gift, it should be unique, fresh, and representative, so that you can tell at a glance that it is related to her.
Jing Yao thought about it for most of the night and suddenly came up with an idea.
The people of Xijing were open-minded and valued both martial arts and beauty. It was not uncommon for men to wear flowers in their hair. Famous handsome men like Baili Wenfu and Gongye Shen had dressed up as Hwarang at the Chunshu Banquet two years ago and the Heyue Banquet last year respectively.
However, she had never seen Si Pei wearing flowers. This man had always looked cold and heroic since he was a child, and he always thought he would not wear those clothes which he thought were too feminine.
Si Pei himself doesn't like it, but Jing Yao really wants to watch it.
Their relationship was strained on Si Pei's 21st birthday this year, so she hadn't felt like expressing anything, let alone giving him a gift. Jing Yao secretly resolved to give him a special "gift" at Chun Shuyan!
Jing Yao didn't think that this "big gift" was too willful and didn't take Si Pei's wishes into consideration, but based on her understanding of Si Pei, he would be happy to accept whatever she gave him.
Since you want to wear flowers in your hair, you have to consider what kind of flowers to wear.
The Si royal family's representative flower is the red crabapple, but it's not in bloom yet, so it lacks interest, and ordinary people wouldn't dare create it in this style. What about the pear blossom? But there are so many planted in the palace that Si Pei would be tired of seeing them. Besides, the white flowers wouldn't look good on him, and it wouldn't be auspicious.
Oops, I was thinking too much. Since it was her gift, I should have chosen flowers that represented her. If it was related to me... Jing Yao had never really liked any flowers.
"What flowers come to mind when you see me?"
She asked out loud as she was thinking. The sisters looked at each other for a while. Huo Zhu thought to herself, "It should be... Xuantan Flower."
"The color of the iris is exactly your favorite ice blue. It really matches well."
Jing Yao nodded when he heard this, and understood why they thought of this flower first.
The Xuantan flower is a flower that was created by the Jing family.
It is said that hundreds of years ago, the immortal Shengyun had an epiphany on Jueyun Mountain in the northern border and ascended to the divine realm. In an instant, the Jueyun Snow Mountain from the top to the valley was covered with ice-blue Xuantan flowers extending from the divine realm, forming a sea of flowers to welcome the immortal Shengyun to ascend to the divine realm.
Witnessing the grand spectacle, the ancestor of the Jing family took a hyacinthus and offered it as a sacrifice, hoping for good fortune. At the time, natural disasters struck the north, and the Jing family followed the refugees south, fortunately making it to Shanghua City. After settling in Kyoto, the Jing family's fortunes gradually improved, with talented members emerging and their status in the capital rising. Later, her great-grandfather designated the hyacinthus as the symbol of the Jing family.
It is said that during the heyday of the Jing family, the huge Jing Mansion was filled with ice-blue chrysanthemums, with faint fragrance and fluttering petals, making it one of the most stunning sights in Shanghua City.
Unfortunately, one night seventy years ago, all the hyacinths in the Jing Mansion were mysteriously infected with a disease, and not a single one survived. Successive heads of the Jing family would send people north to search for the hyacinths, only to discover that they had all vanished in the northern borders.
Jing Yao was a junior, and had only glimpsed the beauty of the fairy flowers in the paintings hanging in the front hall of Duke Jing's mansion in the past, but had never actually seen the splendor of the previous dynasty.
Now, the Jing family is almost extinct, just like the flowers that represent them have suddenly disappeared from the world. Perhaps this coincidental fate was already destined when the Xuantan flower disappeared.
The spiritual energy borrowed by the Jing family was eventually returned.
Jing Yao sighed to herself. Yue Ningning, one of the murderers of the Jing family massacre, was dead now. She should have been happy, but this also meant that the whereabouts of that group of bandits would be more difficult to find.
Although the mastermind was eliminated, the thief who committed the murder is still at large, lurking in the mountains and has disappeared without a trace.
Perhaps only after Si Jue's death will the truth hidden in the mirage be revealed.
"Ling Yi? Jing Yao!"
Jiang Jing's concerned voice brought her thoughts back to the dazzling array of jewelry in front of her -
"Ling Yi, did you pick anything you like?"
Jiang Wen also found it strange. As soon as the four of them entered the store, they went up to the second-floor private room and sat down and asked the boss to bring up all the new high-quality goods for them to choose from. Jing Yao looked at them with great interest at first, but then she became dazed for some reason.
Huo Zhuxin keenly noticed her absent-mindedness, probably because the mention of Xuantanhua reminded her of the sad things that happened in the Jing family.
So she changed the subject: "Perhaps the Zhufang flower is nice. Does it look good on me?"
Jiang Jing's eyes lit up. Did the sun rise from the west today?
Huo Zhuxin, who never pays attention to her appearance, wants to dress up?
Jing Yao was instantly attracted: "Zhu Xin, you can't be..."
Huo Zhuxin smiled mysteriously, and didn't seem to want to reveal more.
"Don't tell me? Humph, I'll definitely catch you after the Spring Festival."
Jing Yao stubbornly suppressed his curiosity, pretending to be indifferent, and picked up the hairpin with flowers in his hand again.
"So Lingyi, what are you going to pick for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"
Jiang Jing was playing with a silver pearl hairpin in her hand. Jiang Min had just tried to wear the hairpin on her head when it was snatched away by Jiang Jing in the blink of an eye.
Jing Yao pondered for a moment, then turned and called the shopkeeper: "Do you have any hairpins in the shape of Xuantanhua?"
The boss smiled flatteringly: "My lady, you really know what you are talking about. In all of Shanghua City, our shop is the only one that has such a Xuantan Flower Hairpin. It was forged by Master Qi himself, using the finest ice glass and indigo jade—"
Jing Yao raised his hand to signal him to stop talking and get the hairpin first. Seeing that this guy was not the kind of person who liked to talk too much, the boss immediately turned around and went downstairs.
As soon as the person left, Jiang Jing asked her without stopping: "Ling Yi, are you going to give her Xuan Tan flowers?"
"Um."
The three of them looked at each other for a while. Although they felt surprised, it was also reasonable.
The Jing family had voluntarily resigned from the political chaos in Shanghua, and their property was not confiscated because of Prince Jin's treason. However, they were dismissed from their posts because they were guilty, so most traces of the Jing family in the city have been erased, and the claim that the scenery had changed is not groundless.
Xuantan flowers are not common among the common people, so the Jing family's affairs have little impact on them. Now we need to choose a flower that can represent Jing Yao, and Xuantan is indeed very suitable.
The boss handed Jing Yao the Xuantan Flower Hairpin that he praised as the only one of its kind in the world.
The hairpin, made entirely of white jade inlaid with gold, is gentle yet elegant, and is paired with ribbon-like petals made of ice glass and stamens inlaid with indigo stone... The chrysanthemum made of gemstones is lifelike, and its posture fluttering in the wind like the flowers you have seen on paper is truly beautiful and eye-catching.
"This flower hairpin looks more flattering to you, Ling Yi. Do you really want to give it to His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?"
Jiang Jing was puzzled, Jing Yao smiled and shook his head: "It's okay, just give this."
"Just because it suits me, I want to give it to him."
Jing Yao beckoned the shopkeeper over: "Pack this up first."
She turned to look at her sisters and said, "You guys keep picking. I'll pay for everything."
Jiang Jingxi smiled happily and no longer worried about anything else. She leaned on Jing Yao's shoulder and said, "I knew Ling Yi was the best~"
Jing Yao felt a chill run down his spine from her affected voice. He pushed her head away and said helplessly, "Go pick some quickly, pick more."
Jiang Min did not go with her sister, but sat in her seat, staring at a hairpin in a daze.
"What's wrong, Wen?"
Jing Yao followed her gaze to a pearl hairpin in the corner. It was adorned with two flowers. One of them, a pink and yellow double-petaled flower, was definitely one of the Jiang family's chrysanthemums. The other looked like... a purple eagle orchid?
She and Huo Zhuxin looked at each other and immediately understood.
Isn’t this a hairpin that carries the logos of both the Wenren Family and the Jiang Family?
"A-wen, if you like it, just take it." Jing Yao approached with a smile. Seeing Jiang Wen's face flushed red, Jing Yao waved his hand and said, "Then I'll decide for you. I'll buy this. You must wear it when Chun Shuyan comes..."
Jiang Min was too embarrassed to look, so she stood up and turned around and said she was going to find her sister Jiang Jing, but before she could look at the road carefully, she bumped into the boy's arms.
"Awen, that young master from the Wen family..."
Jiang Jing, who had come back specifically to give a tip-off, hadn't even uttered the words "here too" when she saw her sister bump into Wen Renyou.
She chuckled and slid to Huo Zhuxin's side with her feet greased.
Jing Yao loves to see young boys and girls shyly facing each other, stammering and unable to speak but still trying to talk to each other. He doesn't need to guess to know that Wen Renyou must have come to pick a gift for the Chunshu Banquet, and as for who to give it to, it is obvious.
The three of them were still laughing and pretending to ignore the two of them, Jing Yao was especially so, not knowing that two uninvited guests had hurriedly arrived downstairs.
Jing Yao looked at Wen Rencuo who was staring at him with burning eyes, and Si Jue who was smiling but waving a folding fan with an extremely cold look in his eyes, and cried out in his heart what bad luck he had today to meet two annoying guys at the same time.
"What a coincidence! Are you two here to buy jewelry as well?"
Jing Yao glanced at the two of them. There was no woman around Si Jue. Wen Rencuo didn't know her well, but judging from his personality, it didn't seem like there was any. So why were these two people coming to the jewelry shop?
Could it be that he is here to accept Shuyan’s gift?
Especially Wen Rencuo, his eyes were almost popping out, and seemed to be sticking to her.
Was he afraid that she wouldn't be able to see his improper thoughts?
Jing Yao could just describe the chill of disgust as disgust, but now he just felt nauseous.
"I originally wanted to buy a Xuantan flower hairpin, but I didn't expect it to be such a coincidence that the buyer turned out to be my cousin Lingyi."
Si Jue smiled lightly. She didn't know if it was her illusion, but she felt that he emphasized the word "Ling Yi" on purpose, which made Jing Yao feel uncomfortable all over.
"Cousin Lingyi has stolen my love."
The corners of Jing Yao's mouth hidden under the veil could not help twitching. She was the one who came first and bought it first, so how could she be accused of stealing someone's love? It made her seem as if she had done something wrong to someone.
"If Prince Lin really likes it, he can send the palace craftsmen to make a more exquisite hairpin."
Jing Yao snorted coldly and said, "If you like it, get it yourself."
Si Jue's smile froze for a moment, and Wen Rencuo seized the opportunity to interject, "A beautiful hairpin matches a beautiful woman. This Xuantan Flower hairpin really suits Madam Jing better."
Wenren mistakenly thought he was flattering Jingyao, but Jingyao didn't care. He said casually, "It's useless to just complement me. It should complement His Royal Highness the Crown Prince. I bought this hairpin as a gift for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
This surprised the two men in front of him, but Si Jue still maintained a smile: "Cousin Ling Yi wants my brother to... wear a flower in his hair?"
"Why, isn't it good? Your royal brother is a rare handsome man, and he can still hold up with two flowers in his hair."
Jing Yao sounded like he was joking, but he didn't hide the sweetness in his words.
Wen Rencuo's mood was not as good as Si Jue's, and his unhappiness was written all over his face.
They were both vying to get the hairpin and give it to Jing Yao, but she wanted to buy it for Si Pei to play with?
The boss, unaware of the situation, rushed to the second floor and said, "Gentlemen, there's no need to argue. There's another piece of jewelry in the same Xuantanhua pattern in the shop in the east of the city..."
Before he finished speaking, he realized that Si Jue and Wen Rencuo had lost interest, and thought he was too abrupt.
Jing Yao was very happy: "Do you two want to buy that one? If not, I'll go buy it later."
Si Jue blurted out a sour joke: "Who is cousin Ling Yi going to give it to next?"
It was really self-humiliating. She was definitely going to pair herself with Si Pei...
Jing Yao said something surprising: "Of course it's for Zuo Yuanwu."
Faced with everyone's surprise, Jing Yao smiled and didn't think too much about it. He gave them all to Si Pei, and Zuo Yuanwu had to give something as well to express his gratitude.
Logically speaking, Zuo Yuanwu is half a member of the Jing family, so it is reasonable for him to wear a Xuantan flower!
Huo Zhuxin and the other two felt helpless when they heard this. Judging from Jing Yao's slow attitude towards feelings, it seems that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince still has a long way to go.
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