Chapter 254 - 160 Lady Su
Evening.
Ran Yan had just finished dressing up, preparing to go out with Ran Yunsheng, when she stepped out and saw Liu Qingsong in disarray. She nodded slightly and said, "Doctor Liu has returned?"
Liu Qingsong looked Ran Yan up and down, Ran Yan dressed in a treasure blue robe with purple borders and wide sleeves trailing the ground, embroidered with clusters of moon-white begonias. A moon-white precious flower pattern on silk draped over her arms, and in her hair, she wore a White Jade Cloud Hairpin. Her ink-black hair cascaded like a waterfall, setting off her flawless, cool complexion with a kind of distinctive, cold beauty.
"Forget it, seeing that you’re a beauty, I won’t hold it against you," sighed Liu Qingsong, his gaze falling on the cloud hairpin in her hair. An ambiguous, gossipy smile crept across his face as he leaned in and asked, "Did Jiulang give you these two hairpins?"
Ran Yan had guessed that they were a gift from Xiao Song; now that Liu Qingsong had spoken aloud, she was not too surprised, merely nodding in acknowledgment.
"So quickly! And he even asked me how to please a woman, he truly is a sly fox!" grumbled Liu Qingsong.
Ran Yan frowned slightly, "What you mean is, these two hairpins have some special significance?"
"You don’t know?" This time, it was Liu Qingsong’s turn to be astonished. It seemed Xiao Song had secretly given away something so valuable. Liu Qingsong felt a bit guilty, unsure if he had caused any trouble by revealing this, but since he had spoken, he wasn’t in the habit of only telling half the story, "Those cloud hairpins are possessions only a legitimate wife of the Xiao family can own. For example, the Zheng family has only a bracelet... Every major clan has these kinds of objects that symbolize status. You didn’t know?"
Such matters were generally somewhat known outside, and people with some status were usually aware of these details about the major noble families.
Ran Yan paid no attention to Liu Qingsong’s rambling; she turned back into the room, took off the two hairpins, and carefully put them away, replacing them with an ordinary Mutton Fat Jade Hairpin on her head.