Forgotten Legend of the Bloodied Flower

"Ah?"

Nan Hua blinked her eyes, a bit surprised by this.

To be honest, Nan Hua had seen her maidservants and Long Qian Xing's servants getting close. But she didn't want to meddle in their relationship and felt that if they have anything to do, they should do it by themselves.

At the very least, Nan Hua didn't think that she should make arrangement for them.

And the one that she had seen the most was Nan Si and Long Ai Ning. If she was not wrong, the two of them planned to get married after Long Xu's marriage matter was settled.

However…

Long Xu hadn't come back yet.

If Nan Hua was not wrong, Long Xu was still enjoying his newly married life and was not wiling to come back. And Long Qian Xing himself had no intention of forcing Long Xu to come back so quickly.

There was no urgent matters for Long Xu to do and he deserved a break.

So Long Ai Ning and Nan Si's matter was delayed.

What Nan Hua didn't expect was that during this break period, Lou would be the one to step forward to propose marriage to Chu Yue.

"They have my blessings if they want to get married," Nan Hua said unhurriedly. If her maidservant wanted to get married, she would not stop them. Moreover, Lou was also a pretty good man from what she had seen so far.

He should be able to take care of Chu Yue.

"I have given him my blessing," Long Qian Xing said with a chuckle. "You just need to tell your maidservant about it."

"Ok."

"Also, do you want to see Song Chuan? Today is the examination day and he asked me to come," Long Qian Xing proposed. He guessed that the days in the Long Family Residence might be a bit boring for Nan Hua. It would be better for them to spend time walking around outside.

Besides, it would be good for Nan Hua to walk around from time to time as her exercise.

"Examination?" Nan Hua repeated.

She thought about the previous tea party with the other noble ladies and remembered that they also mentioned about this matter.

"Is this the last Imperial Examination in Cheng City?"

"Yes." Long Qian Xing nodded and then explained, "Song Chuan told me in the letter that in this last Imperial Examination, the few people who achieved the best result would be sent to the new capital city and then the rest would be stationed here. Because of this, the number of participants from the areas around here increased significantly."

Nan Hua nodded.

For the people who lived around Cheng City, it would be much more convenient for them to take the exams this year rather than waiting for the next year and travel to the new capital city.

The distance from the current Cheng City to the new capital city was a bit far and it might take 1 month for most people to reach their destination.

For these scholars who valued their study time so much…

It was a bit annoying.

If it was possible, these people would like to review more than spending their time on the way to go to the examination's venue.

"Let's take a look." Nan Hua had never had the chance to take a look at the examination venue. When Feng Ao Kuai took the exams back then, Nan Hua was not present because she was occupied with other matters.

Besides, women were not allowed to participate in the Imperial Examination.

So for her to take a look back then, she would have to sneak in and without anyone she knew, Nan Hua would not be interested.

Now that Long Qian Xing proposed to let her take a look, Nan Hua felt that it would be good to go.

"Yes." Long Qian Xing smiled and made the arrangement.

In the meantime, Nan Hua went to Chu Yue and gave her blessings. As for their marriage's arrangement, she would leave it to them to arrange.

When she went out this time, she only took Mu Yan to accompany her.

The rest stayed in the Long Family Residence.

"You're going to get married?" Xiao Yun asked in surprise after Nan Hua left. She looked at Chu Yue with some disbelief.

"Yes." Chu Yue smiled brightly. "I have made an agreement with Lou, so we can get married with a peace of mind."

"Ah…"

Xiao Yun looked at Chu Yue with some envy. She also wanted to get married, but in the end, it was Chu Yue who got married first.

Wait, if she wanted to get married, who will be her partner?

Fei Mao?

Thinking about that man, Xiao Yun's cheek reddened slightly before she quickly pushed the thoughts away.

She felt a bit shy.

"A servant's marriage is usually quite simple," Ran said slowly and then looked at Chu Yue. "But the details can depend on what you want."

It was definitely not going to be as grand as the marriage between the nobles and so on. Some of them were even sent to the man's house directly without saying anything and it was already considered a marriage.

It was really crude.

The comparison between the marriage ceremony between those with status and those without were simply… too big.

Of course, there were also some servant's marriage that was done well such as they followed the ceremony but the scale was much smaller. Those were pretty good and they were moved from their small residence or it could be said dormitory, to the living place of the man before doing simple bowing ceremony.

Many of these servants didn't have parents anymore because they had died or they were alive but no one knew where they were because they were all sold when they were still too young to understand anything.

Because of this, the ceremony was usually very simple.

As for banquet or anything, they would just prepare simple meals to entertain other servants who came to them.