After Du Ruo listened to Liu Qingshuang's explanation, a trace of displeasure flashed between her eyebrows, and she stretched out her hand to take off the flower on her head.
"What are you doing!" Liu Qingping quickly stopped her.
"I don't want to ask people to pick and choose! It's just like a commodity!" Du Ruo said very boldly.
After listening to her words, the Liu sisters frowned and looked at her with a strange expression, "Who treats you as a commodity?"
"Those people!" Du Ruo looked towards Lu Lingyun.
I saw Lu Lingjun drinking tea and eating snacks with a group of ladies and ladies. A group of people surrounded her, talking and laughing.
Their eyes fell here from time to time.
"Treat us as goods to be resold by others!" Du Ruo looked unhappy.
"You're thinking too much!" Liu Qingping continued.
"That's right, this is an occasion to get to know each other. The ladies who come are all serious. There are either young masters or young ladies of the right age at home. They are all serious about showing themselves to the children in the family. Their character, appearance, and family background are all important. After careful consideration, there is no way to see the goods!" Liu Qingshuang looked unhappy.
They all came to the banquet seriously.
In this era, women marry at the behest of their parents, but their parents also put their best efforts into it.
They know that the elders in the family bring them to this kind of banquet just to expand their circle and give them more opportunities to choose.
How could they be treated as commodities and changed hands at will like Du Ruo said.
If this is the case, why bother to hold a banquet? Just go up to the top to curry favor with the powerful and send your daughter to the top.
There is no need to consider who is the right match, just focus on the best interests.
In this era, the status of women is low, but parents will try their best to make their daughters live as well as possible within the limited choices.
"I don't like it anyway!" Du Ruo couldn't listen.
She stretched out her hand to pull out the flower hairpin from her head.
"Ouch, what are you doing!"
"Don't pull it out! That's what my eldest sister dressed up specially for you."
"That's right, look at how much my eldest sister cares for you. Your outfit is the most eye-catching in this garden!"
"Why don't you know what's good and what's wrong!"
Liu Qingping and Liu Qingshuang tried to dissuade her.
Du Ruo became even more displeased when he heard this, and plucked off the flower on his head, "I don't need such kindness!"
Seeing this, Liu Qingping lost her patience and felt that Du Ruo was unreasonable. She sneered, "Ha! You really think that you will be chosen just because you are here!"
"Yes," Liu Qingshuang looked at Du Ruo and lost her good attitude, "With your appearance, no one can look up to you! You can pick it off, no one can look up to you even if you wear a phoenix crown!"
"What a waste of our eldest sister's efforts."
Du Ruoke didn't like hearing it.
She just didn't like the fact that she was being picked on by a group of old women, but she couldn't accept that she couldn't even stand in the eyes of a group of old women!
What's more, she was among a group of women of her own age.
This is of great significance!
Du Ruo, who has been pursued by a group of men since childhood and didn't pay attention to other girls at all. She just felt that the girls next to her couldn't compare with her, and she was suddenly aroused to be competitive.
She glanced at the orioles and swallows in the garden and said, "Oh, they are the only ones, how can I not be able to compare with them!"
"Your family doesn't seem to be very powerful. Only two brothers are Jinwu guards, and their official positions are not high."
"That's right, you don't come from a high family, do you have any other specialties? Are you a talented girl who is famous all over the capital, or are you proficient in music, chess, calligraphy and painting?"
Liu Qingping and Liu Qingshuang asked in unison.
Du Ruo was speechless.
For a moment, there was a hint of shame and anger on her face.
Seeing that she was about to get angry, Liu Qingping and Liu Qingshuang looked at each other, "If you want to know what they think, we might as well eavesdrop!"
"Yes, let's go listen!"
at this time.
In the flower hall.
Lu Lingjun made a group of new friends. Most of the people who came to the banquet came to say hello after knowing that she was the wife of Ningyang Hou Shizi.
After everyone got to know each other, everyone got to the point.
Look at this girl for a while, ask that young lady for a while.
Liu Qingping and Liu Qingshuang were asked several times because of Lu Lingjun.
Aunt Liu was so happy that she introduced her daughter to the people around her.
At this time, a lady said, "By the way, who was the girl wearing pink clothes who was with the Liu sisters just now?"
When Madam Wang, who was drinking tea next to her, heard this, she didn't care that she hadn't swallowed the tea, and said hurriedly, "I brought it, cough cough!"
"Sister Wang, please slow down." Lu Lingjun smiled and patted her on the back.
After coughing a few times, Mrs. Wang wiped her mouth with a handkerchief and looked at the others with a smile, "Sister Lu also brought it with her. She is staying at Sister Lu's house during this period and is being educated by her."
Everyone became interested when they heard that Du Ruo lived in the Hou Mansion and had been educated by her these days.
"I noticed that the little girl has an extraordinary temperament as soon as she came here."
"Yes, that dress is very tasteful."
"I also think the pink peach blossom on her head is very unique, cute and dignified."
Du Ruo, who was eavesdropping behind the flower hall, heard this and immediately looked left and right at the Liu sisters beside him.
Liu Qingping and Liu Qingshuang were jealous.
They're not complimenting you, they're complimenting her eldest sister's aesthetics!
But they couldn't talk at the moment, so they continued to listen.
Then I heard the person inside continue to ask, "By the way, Madam Wang, who are you that girl?"
"Are they relatives of your family?"
"No," Mrs. Wang looked at everyone with a smile, "Aruo is the niece of my neighbor Mrs. Du. Her man is the leader of the Nancheng Gate Guard. Aruo's father was also the leader of the city gate guard during his lifetime. However, after his father passed away, the family only The remaining two brothers are both on duty in the Duwei Mansion as Jinwu Guards."
When Madam Wang reported Du Ruo's family background, most of the light in the eyes of the ladies around her suddenly faded.
The main people here today are the family members of the civil service system. Originally, civil and military officials disliked each other, and the official positions of the Du family were even more inconspicuous. There were only two brothers in the family who were Jinwu guards, and an uncle who was the leader of the city gate guards. The family background was real. It is inconspicuous.
"What about Miss Aruo's mother?" someone still asked.
"Aruo was a hard-working woman. Her mother died of illness when she was very young." Madam Wang said truthfully.
As soon as this was said, everyone was even less interested.
These days, women who have not yet left the government attach great importance to their mother's upbringing.
Sometimes the father's side is inconspicuous, but if the mother's side is famous, that is also a big advantage.
But Du Ruolian didn’t even have a mother!
This simplicity is adding insult to injury!
"This girl Aruo is really pitiful."
"Yes, how can a little girl live without her mother's upbringing?"
"What a shame for such a good girl."
"Who says it's not? I liked it at first, why is it so miserable?"
Everyone sighed, but their words were filled with indifference and disgust.
She has been excluded from the list of considerations for daughter-in-law.
When Madam Wang heard these words, she couldn't help but feel a little more embarrassed on her face.
