How Could a Grown Man Have So Many Hair Ornaments?

Zhou Wanwan couldn't help but shake her head and say, "My goodness, Xie Cheng'en's family is really rich."

She then turned around and opened a particularly large cabinet, discovering that it was filled with jade ornaments.

The bottom of the box was covered with a royal blue velvet cloth, filled entirely with jade pendants: a jade pendant with a dragon and tiger design, several peace and safety plaques next to it, a double fish pendant, and a qilin pendant...

These jade pendants were all made of the finest jade. When Zhou Wanwan held them in her hand, she felt a cool sensation, and the energy seemed to be desperately trying to penetrate her body.

Zhou Wanwan packed all the jade ornaments away; they were very useful to her.

She walked around the room and then went to the next room, which was a music room with several guqin (a seven-stringed zither) inside.

Zhou Wanwan was quite happy. She also learned some guqin, but these guqin were much better than hers.

Zhou Wanwan sat down and began to play the guqin.

The maids beside her were stunned. Zhou Wanwan played a piece called "Spring Snow" on the zither. After finishing, she shook her head and said, "It's still a bit lacking. How was it? Did it sound good?"

The maids nodded repeatedly; Zhou Wanwan's skill with the guqin was indeed quite high.

In her past life, besides interacting with plants, she spent the rest of her time learning things that interested her.

Her favorite instrument was the guqin. Liu Su'e walked in and said, "Wanwan, where did this house come from? You... brought someone else's house back again? Isn't that a bit inappropriate?"

Zhou Wanwan smiled and said, "Mom, it's not bad at all. Our current place is rather small, so this will be much more spacious."

Ten rooms were moved back yesterday, and now the entire Liu Family Village can live there.

Liu Su'e looked around and said, "This looks like the house of a wealthy family. Wow, the furnishings here are really different!"

Zhou Wanwan nodded and said, "Mom, we have to get used to this kind of life. In case we buy our own house in the future, we can decorate it even better than this."

Liu Su'e chuckled:

"If it were even better decorated than this, wouldn't it be a royal palace?"

I've heard the palace is incredibly beautiful, with floors paved with gold bricks. I wonder if it's true.

Zhou Wanwan smiled faintly and said, "Maybe we can visit the palace someday."

Liu Su'e quickly waved her hand and said:

"How could ordinary people like us possibly get into the palace?"

Besides, going to the palace isn't necessarily a good thing.

Zhou Wanwan smiled and said:

"Mom, let's go for a walk together! This room is quite big, and the room next door is nice too. You and Dad can stay in the next room."

The older brothers can also each have their own room.

There were indeed quite a few rooms here. Zhou Qingyan, Zhou Qinghe, and Zhou Qingchen all came in, and when they saw the room, they were completely dumbfounded.

Zhou Qingchen exclaimed, "My goodness, this room is so big and spacious! No wonder it's where a young master like you lives. Compared to our little shabby house, it's like heaven and earth!"

Zhou Qinghe touched the blanket on the bed and said, "Why is this blanket so soft? It feels like Yun Duo."

Zhou Qingyan tapped the washbasin and said, "This washbasin isn't made of gold, is it?"

Zhou Wanwan touched it and said, "Yes, it really is gold."

Liu Su'e touched the washbasin and said, "Are the washbasins of wealthy families all made of gold?"

Zhou Wanwan nodded and said:

"This ancient bronze mirror is quite nice, and this comb is probably made of ivory."

"And this grown man has so much jewelry, it's incredibly extravagant."

Xie Cheng'en actually had a dressing table filled with all sorts of hair ornaments.

A plain silver hair ornament with intertwined branches, a mutton-fat jade bamboo-shaped hairpin, a moon-white satin headband with subtle patterns, a red agate beaded hairpin, a gilded crown inlaid with small pearls...

Zhou Wanwan counted, and there were more than a hundred kinds of hair ornaments, hairpins, and headbands alone.

Many of them have appeared on television and are quite valuable.

Zhou Qingyan frowned as he looked at the headdresses and said, "How can a grown man have so many headdresses? And I just can't figure them out."

Zhou Wanwan looked at him and said, "Big brother, I think it's a good opportunity for you to learn these things, because if you want to take the imperial examinations in the future, you'll need to know these things."

If they went to the Upper Capital and knew nothing, people would naturally think they were country bumpkins.

Zhou Qingyan shook his head and said:

"But I think I should focus all my energy on my studies."

These things are just decorations; they don't really serve any purpose for us.

Zhou Qinghe was quite interested in these things. "We can study how the young master dresses, so that we'll have some ideas if we go to the Upper Capital."

Zhou Qingchen sighed and said, "We're wanted criminals now. I'm afraid we'll never have a chance to go to the capital in this lifetime, right?"

All three looked at Zhou Wanwan, Zhou Wanwan shook her head and said:

"I've already asked around, and we've never been on the wanted list. It was all Cheng Xiao who drew our portraits to scare us."

What he did was unreasonable, and we haven't done anything illegal, so there's nothing to be afraid of.

"Cheng Xiao should be the one who's afraid now."

Not only Cheng Xiao was scared, but the entire Xie family was in an uproar.

Xie Cheng'en has been staying in the ancestral hall recently, ostensibly to reflect on his mistakes, but in reality, it's just a pretense to avoid the limelight.

He was sound asleep when Lu Ming woke him up. Xie Cheng'en frowned, opened his eyes, and was startled. "Ouch... are you a human or a ghost? You scared me to death!"

Lu Ming covered his face and couldn't help but cry:

"Young master, I don't know how, I flew out last night."

I lay on the road all night, my face was swollen from the fall, and my arm was broken too.

Xie Cheng'en looked at his face and said:

"His face is smashed into a pancake shape, how did they do that? Hahaha..."

Lu Ming, who exactly did you offend outside?

Lu Ming cried in distress:

"I don't know either. I was planning to beat up Zhao Hu yesterday, but then Zhao Hu disappeared."

We're all like this now, all fallen and broken, either with a limp or a broken arm.

Xie Cheng'en threw out a silver ingot and said:

"Take this to your doctor! Rest well these days, anyway, I'll be staying at the ancestral hall for a while longer."

What bad luck! I'll stay a few more days, then I'll go up the mountain and personally gather those medicinal herbs.

"You're saying those thousand-year-old medicinal herbs, if you eat them, can really grant you immortality?"

Lu Ming looked at him and said, "When we first saw them, they could already talk. I thought that if we ate them, we could live forever."

Xie Cheng'en squinted and said:

"Wait a couple of days, I'll go out and look for them carefully. I'm sure I can find them. Even if I can't, I'll at least trick them out."

If I offer them to my aunt, the Imperial Concubine, I can avoid decades of hard work.

"Then they'll just appoint me to a high-ranking official position, and I won't have to go through all that trouble to take the imperial examinations."