Chapter 26

Two days after Su Mi’s return was the Mid-Autumn Festival. However, this year, Su Qi was still in the county town due to the shop matter, and Su Zhen didn’t have a happy face after her failure to be selected.

Yu Qingniang and Aunty Zhao didn’t have much mood either, so in the end, the family casually had a meal together, which could be considered a reunion festival.

Although Yu Qingniang couldn’t be said to be beaming with joy at the table, she still showed a bit of a smile and was in better spirits. Su Mi had been comforting her all these days, and with the fact that her marriage to Qin Yan was already a done deal, she had relaxed a bit.

The day after the Mid-Autumn Festival, Feng Bao did as he had promised and sent a matchmaker to the house. Because the marriage was directly requested by Qin Yan to the emperor, the original betrothal gifts and inquiry of name were waived. After taking Su Mi’s birthdate, they prepared to set the wedding date. As for the matter of betrothal gifts, Feng Bao also mentioned that he would personally come to visit in a few days.

From then on, Su Mi’s marriage was settled.

On this day, Su Mi was in her small courtyard, lying on a soft couch with one hand supporting her head. Because she was at home, she dressed more casually, wearing a pale pink smoke gauze shirt with a flowered pleated skirt, the hem of which was slightly above her ankle, revealing her delicate and white ankles like pearls from the Western Regions, smooth and lustrous.

The hand that was idle was holding Qin Yan’s silver-threaded plain brocade cloak, but her gaze was fixed on it, and she didn’t know where her thoughts had flown.

Since she met Qin Yan that day, he had gone from Jiaozhou to the capital, and although they didn’t meet every day, they had always been in the same city. Now that they were suddenly separated by two places, Su Mi felt a kind of indescribable emptiness in her heart.

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Su Mi remembered and immediately deflated. She looked at the cloak she was still holding in her hand.

“Chun Mei, when you see the chief at the door later, help me return this cloak to him. Su Mi thought like this, She had been thinking of returning it all along, but in the end, she hadn’t. It wouldn’t be good to owe someone a piece of clothing before getting married.

What she wanted more was that if Qin Yan saw this cloak, he might think of her more.

“Yes.” Chun Mei took the cloak with a smile, but she stared at it for a while and suddenly exclaimed.

Su Mi was suspicious and followed her gaze down. “Chun Mei, what’s wrong?”

“Miss, did a bug make a hole in this cloak?”

Upon hearing this, Su Mi furrowed her brow. She took the cloak and unfolded it, and sure enough, there was a small hole at the hem of the cloak.

She had looked at it several times before but hadn’t noticed it!

“I washed it and kept it in the wooden cabinet. How could it be bitten by insects?”

“Miss, did you put it in the wooden cabinet when you went to the capital and didn’t use camphorwood?”

Su Mi nodded in confusion.

In fact, she was also a wealthy young lady and didn’t know much about insect prevention. During the month she spent in the capital, she would take out the other clothes she changed every day to wash and dry, but she would carefully hide this cloak at the bottom of the cabinet and only take it out occasionally to look at it.

In the small courtyard, there was also Chun Mei, who helped her put a few pieces of camphorwood in the cabinet. But once she arrived in the capital, Su Mi didn’t think about these things.

“Miss, I think it’s better to find a piece of white cloth to patch it up. Since it’s at the hem, the prospective son-in-law won’t notice, and even if he does, he won’t blame you.”

Although Su Mi also felt that Qin Yan would not blame her for this and perhaps even forget when he gave her the cloak, she had originally wanted to show him how well she had preserved it. Now…

Su Mi walked up to the embroidery table and pushed aside the pile of miscellaneous books on top. When Chun Mei brought the white silk over, she carefully patched up the hole. However, her sewing skills were not very good, so the result was crooked and uneven.

Chun Mei hesitated before speaking up. “Miss, do you want me to help you?”

Su Mi knew that Chun Mei was criticizing her sewing skills and blushed, “I can do it.” After all, it was Qin Yan’s clothes, and she wanted to do it herself.

Chun Mei let Su Mi do as she wished. Although her mistress was good in many ways, her sewing skills had always been lacking. She preferred reading novels and had no interest in embroidery. Additionally, her mother had always doted on her and had never forced her to learn.

Su Mi sat at the embroidery table and sewed for a while. Finally, she finished, but she couldn’t help but feel that it was too obvious that there had been a patch there.

“Chun Mei, can you still see the patch?”

Chun Mei took a look and tactfully suggested, “Miss… why don’t you embroider a pattern to cover up the stitches?”

Su Mi looked down at her stitches and felt a little embarrassed. “But what should I embroider?”

Chun Mei thought for a moment and suggested a simple rabbit on a white background.

“Miss, why don’t you embroider a rabbit? Just follow the stitches and make the shape. You can still give it to the young master in time.”

Su Mi thought it sounded easy enough. “Okay, sure.”