"How...how can you wear this?" Xiangzhu asked the head maid with a look of disgust. "Would you even approve of your daughter wearing this?"
"My daughter won't wear this." The head maid also looked down on it, but since it didn't concern her, she didn't care. "Hurry up and change, it'll be bad luck if it's past noon."
Although the fabric was inexpensive, its bright red color made Mu Run's delicate face even more dazzling.
Even the head maid was stunned and exclaimed, "What a beauty! No wonder the prince wants you as a concubine."
Mu Run immediately understood what was going on with this sudden arranged marriage.
It seems that Prince Sheng had feelings for Xiao Su, the maidservant by the Princess's side, and that Lady Yan arranged the marriage to prevent her from rising in status.
Xiangzhu sighed, "We maids are just objects in our masters' hands. They can do whatever they want with us, and we have no right to refuse. Although you have married a servant in a hurry, you have gained your freedom. But many people, even after marriage, still have their children and grandchildren as slaves."
The head maid also said, "That boy Shi Xuan seems like a good person. He might rise to prominence in the future, and you'll be very fortunate then."
Mu Run took out a small purse from her sleeve, one of Xiao Su's belongings. She poured out about twenty copper coins and gave them all to the head maid, keeping only an empty purse for herself. "Please tell her about Shi Xuan, so I'll have something to look forward to."
The head maid took the money, and her expression immediately softened. "This boy was originally a beggar on the street. A few days ago, the prince's horse was spooked and it looked like something terrible was about to happen. This boy bravely stopped the horse and saved the prince from danger, so the prince took him in and made him the gatekeeper."
"I see." Xiangzhu clearly knew some of it, though not as much as the head maid. "How old is he this year? What's his zodiac sign? Is he compatible with our Xiao Su?"
"I don't know. He's just a beggar; he probably doesn't even know himself." The head maid continued to urge, "Don't miss the auspicious time. Hurry up, I'll have someone bring the sedan chair over."
Although the time was short and the configuration was low, it was still a wedding, and she would be carried there in a sedan chair.
Mu Run sat on the hard earthen bed, listening to the sound of the door closing, and ripped off the red cloth from his head.
The room was very simple, with a table, a stool, a bed, and a wardrobe. There was a stove in the corner with an iron kettle on it, emitting faint steam.
"It doesn't seem much better than that dilapidated courtyard." Mu Run looked around the room, and finally walked to the stove, picked up the iron kettle, which was full of hot water.
He took out a white porcelain cup from his spatial storage, with a cute lucky cat painted on the cup, and poured a cup of hot water into the iron kettle to warm his hands.
After all, she had just suffered a serious injury and her body had not fully recovered, so she was weak and sensitive to cold.
*Thud!* Something fell from the roof.
Mu Run stared intently... It was a large scorpion with a jet-black back! It was at least eight centimeters long!
With a slight twitch of her eyebrows, she pulled out the wooden hairpin that held her hair up, squatted down, and used the tip of the hairpin to poke at the black scorpion.
The black scorpion then attacks the wooden hairpin with its stinger.
The room door was pushed open.
A man entered the house.
Mu Run looked up, and her delicate and beautiful face came into the man's view.
The man was taken aback.
Mu Run looked at his blue robe and ordinary but unnatural face, "Shi Xuan."
"What are you doing here?" Shi Xuan frowned, his timid demeanor gone from before Yan Shi, as he looked indifferently at Mu Run, who was dressed in a red bridal gown.
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