Chapter 452 — Hard to Be the One
Purple Streets of Chang'an · Page 4 of 4
Somewhat disheartened, Miao Zhi said, "Forget it. Even if I knew, it would be of no use to me! It has nothing to do with me anyway." Yet inwardly she was secretly alarmed: Yizhi Hall was run as tight as an iron barrel—she could pry out nothing she wished to know. By contrast, in Guixiang Court, she had learned who Song Cen's bedchamber maid was not long after her marriage.
No wonder her father-in-law could not best his elder brother!
On this point alone, her father-in-law had already lost.
She began to fret over the relationship between Song Han and Song Zhi.
A young maid came in and announced, "Two of your maternal uncles have come to visit you!"
Miao Zhi was taken aback. "Which two uncles?"
The maid was her accompanying servant and knew the Miao family well. She smiled and said, "The Fifth and Sixth Masters."
The Fifth Master was her full brother, Miao Anping; the Sixth was the youngest son of her father's elder brother.
"Show them in!" Miao Zhi changed her clothes and went to the small reception hall.
Miao Anping wore a brocade robe in the current fashion—sapphire blue woven with deep purple roundels of five bats bearing the character for longevity—and a gold hairpin styled "step by step rising high." Her sixth cousin, meanwhile, wore a brocade robe of dark red woven with the pattern of "peace throughout the four seasons," and a gold hairpin of "surplus year after year." Both were dressed so brightly they dazzled the eye.
Miao Zhi thought of the jade bonsai displayed in the Dou family's hall, and could not help knitting her brows slightly. She gestured mildly toward the armchairs in the hall. "Please, sit down and talk, both of you."
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