Chapter 586: Wedding Dress
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Su Xiaoxiao asked in amusement, “Where did Dahu hit you?”
“Here, here, and here!”
He pointed at his entire body.
Su Xiaoxiao asked exaggeratedly, “He even hit you on the head?”
“Yes!”
Xiaohu complained immediately. Dahu shouted from the courtyard, “I didn’t hit you on the head!”
Xiaohu shouted back, ‘You hit me!”
The two little fellows quarreled across the air.
Su Xiaoxiao called Erhu over. “Tell me, what happened?”
Erhu said clearly, “Xiaohu wanted to hit the gong, but Dahu didn’t let him. Xiaohu used a small hammer to hit Dahu. Dahu snatched the hammer and hit
Xiaohu back.”
Su Xiaoxiao remarked, “After all this time, it’s a fight between brothers.” “You started it,” Su Xiaoxiao said seriously to Xiaohu.
Xiaohu crossed his fingers and said guiltily, “I didn’t. It was the hammer.” Su Xiaoxiao said, “Dahu didn’t do it either. It was the hammer.”
Xiaohu was suddenly dumbfounded.
Xiaohu couldn’t win with reason, so he began to act pitifully. “It hurts! Xiaohu hurts!”
Su Xiaoxiao was speechless.
Who did the little guy take after?
Su Xiaoxiao brought the three little ones home.
Su Cheng was cleaning the courtyard. Su Ergou had also moved back from the Marquis of Zhenbei’s Estate and was feeding Sihu.
Sihu had grown up a lot more and was jumping around and trampling the lawn.
“Grandpa…’
As soon as Xiaohu entered the courtyard, he spread his arms and walked towards Su Cheng while crying.
Su Cheng quickly put down the broom and picked the little guy up. He asked worriedly, “What’s wrong? Why are you crying?”
“Wuwa… Dahu hit me…
A new round of complaints began.
Su Cheng brought the three little fellows to the central room. When he came out, the three little ones were already sitting obediently on the stool and were extremely affectionate.
Xiaohu fed Dahu his pancake. “Dahu, do you want it?”
If she wanted to coax a child, she had to rely on Father Su.
Su Cheng continued to tidy up the courtyard.
Su Xiaoxiao asked, “Dad, why are you suddenly tidying up the courtyard?”
Su Cheng sighed. “Sigh, aren’t we about to move out? We have to clean it up for her. After all, we’ve lived here for so long.”
Yes, they were about to move back to the Protectorate.
This courtyard belonged to Mistress Hui Jue. They had lived here since they came to the capital. They really treated this place as their home. Su Xiaoxiao said softly, “If Dad likes it, you can stay for a few more days.”
Su Cheng said, ‘You have to marry from the Qin family, right?”
This was for his daughter’s lifelong happiness. Although he did not care about those superficial things, he always hoped to give his daughter the best.
Back in the countryside, he had casually caught a live-in son-in-law and did not even put up a proper banquet. This time, she had to marry him openly.
Her father was already so reluctant to part with a small courtyard that he had only lived in for a few months. When he left the countryside back then, was her father even sadder?
At that time, his father did not know his background and accompanied her to the capital without hesitation.
Su Xiaoxiao felt more than once that her father was too good.
The two of them sat down on the small stool.
Su Xiaoxiao tilted her head and leaned on Su Cheng’s shoulder.
She was not used to being intimate with her elders. This was the first time.
She felt that her father needed such comfort.
“Dad, I’m not getting married anymore. This is good. Anyway, Wei Ting is our live-in son-in-law.”
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
Su Cheng glared at his daughter.
Although he said that, he felt sweetness in his heart.
To be honest, he could not bear to part with his fair and chubby daughter. He was afraid that she would be bullied after marrying into her in-laws’ family. Otherwise, he would not have chosen to recruit a live-in son-in-law in the countryside.
The Wei family was different.
His daughter would not suffer any grievances after marrying over. Besides, she
had the Qin family backing her up. Unless the Wei family was tired of living, they would never dare to stack the deck against her.
“I’ll find an opportunity to move your mother’s grave over later.”
“Okay.”
Su Cheng patted his daughter’s hand and let out a long sigh. There was clearly a month before she got married, but he had already begun to miss her. Su Xiaoxiao suddenly said, “Dad, why don’t you marry another wife?”
Su Cheng said seriously, “What nonsense are you talking about?”
Su Xiaoxiao said, “One has to look forward. Mother has passed away for so many years, and you’ve guarded Ergou and me for so many years. Ergou and I are all grown up. You should plan for yourself.”
She knew very well that when she was in the countryside, the matchmaker came to matchmake her father with various women, but his father didn’t want any of them.
Firstly, he did not meet anyone he liked. Secondly, he was worried that their stepmother would make the two children suffer.
Su Xiaoxiao said, “Dad, you’re still young. You’re only in your thirties. You’re young enough to give Ergou and me two younger siblings.”
Su Cheng said with a dark expression, “I’m fine on my own. Why would I marry a wife?”
As soon as he finished speaking, a pink undergarment fell out of his sleeve.
Su Xiaoxiao was speechless.
And so Su Cheng.
On the first day of June, the three little ones welcomed their three-year-old birthday.
Xiaohu took a deep breath of the milk bottle and valiantly expressed that from now on, he would be a three-year-old child!
Su Xiaoxiao and Su Ergou were brought to the family by Qin Canglan to pay respects to their ancestors. The two of them were officially named on the family tree and had their own names from then on.
Qin Su, word, Xiaoxiao.
It was still Su Xiaoxiao.
This name was the result of many parties’ suggestions — the inputs came from Qin Canglan, the Old Marquis, and Su Xiaoxiao herself.
Su Ergou was called Qin Wu, a name Sikong Yun came up with.
Su Xiaoxiao seriously suspected that Qin Canglan had placed a knife on Sikong Yun’s neck, giving Sikong Yun a chance to reorganize his words.
However, Su Xiaoxiao was still used to calling him Ergou.
In addition, Manager Sun finally bought the shop next door.
Manager Sun opened the wall in the middle and widened Su Xiaoxiao’s small courtyard by two times. There were two more rooms.
This shop was bought for Su Ergou to make snacks. In the future, it would be called Ergou Pancake Shop.
Wei Ting was out of danger and moved back to the Wei family to recuperate.
Because Wei Liulang had ground his bones, his recovery period was longer. He had to completely recover before he could have his arm fitted.
This could not be rushed.
With the wedding approaching, the Empress Dowager stopped Su Xiaoxiao from entering the palace and asked her to prepare for her marriage at home.
Most of the brides in the Great Zhou Dynasty embroidered their own wedding dresses. Su Xiaoxiao’s needlework was fine, but it was too difficult for her to make a wedding dress.
Princess Jingning and Princess Hui An brought their embroiderers to the Protector Duke’s Estate.
“I didn’t expect you to be the first to be married off,” Princess Hui An muttered.
“You’re clearly a few days younger than me.”
Among the three of them, Princess Jingning was the eldest. She was 17 this
year.
Princess Hui An and Su Xiaoxiao were born in winter and December.
Princess Hui An sat on the chair and said listlessly, “But it’s good to get married so that no one will miss you.”
Su Xiaoxiao acutely caught the hidden meaning in Princess Hui An’s words.
“Is something wrong?” she asked.
Princess Hui An said nothing.
Princess Jingning said, “Father plans to marry me to the Western Jin for a marriage alliance. A minister suggested… sending a princess to be married..”
