Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 8

[Chapter 8: The Wedding]

Winter days are short. The generals returned to camp, wei Shao entered the city, and the sky was already dark.

In front of the gate of the Xindi Mansion, there were many fire rods, he was still draped in a layer of heavy armor with a layer of ice, stepping on the creaking snow on the soles of his feet, when he strode up the steps, he had just arrived at the city gate to welcome him back, and Wei Liang, who was walking with him at the moment, suddenly remembered, rushed to catch up, and leaned over and whispered, “Lord, Qiao Nu has arrived!” Ju yu yang she has been more than half a month.

“According to Zhong Miao, Qiao Nu was very quiet, and she couldn’t leave the door during the day, and the sun even went up to the sandalwood for a while, realizing that there was nothing unusual, so she did not stop it.”

After he finished the words that preceded him, he added this sentence.

Wei Shao sighed faintly, and his footsteps did not stop for half a minute, and he crossed the threshold and walked towards the Sheyang House where he usually lived.

Wei Liang looked at his back, saw him go out a few steps, suddenly stopped again, turned his head and looked in the direction of Yu Yang She behind him.

Standing here through the heavy door, you can’t see there, you can only see the huge black shadow rising from the sandalwood nearby, which looks like a giant beast crouching on the ground at any time.

“Tell Zhong Mi to get ready and have a wedding tomorrow.”

He withdrew his gaze and said suddenly.

“Tomorrow?” Wei Liang was stunned.

“I’m afraid I can’t prepare…”

“Everything is simple.”

Wei Shao turned and continued to move forward, not staying any longer.

Wei Liang looked at his back, hesitated, and turned back to hurriedly go to Zhong Mi for consultation.

……

The two servant women with very tight mouths, after half a month of getting along, gradually became familiar with Chunniang, and Chunniang could more or less make some words out of them.

According to the servant woman, Zhong Mi was a person close to Wei Shao’s grandmother, Lady Xu, and she had not been in Xindu for a long time, and the purpose was to prepare for the wedding of Wei Shao and Xiao Qiao. The reason why Wei Shao was not in the city some time ago was because there was another war on boling’s side, and now he was victorious.

In this year, the chaotic world is coming, the local warlords are all big, except for a few special cases like the former Jizhou Mu Gaotang who took the initiative to jump out and be a target without waiting for the strength to be saved, the princes of all walks of life, such as Wei Shao, are still ostensibly still the subjects of the Han Dynasty and must obey the orders of the Son of Heaven. As for the confrontation between each other, it is entirely who has the final say who has the hard gun, and the imperial court has long been powerless to restrain it.

Xiao Qiao didn’t really have much interest in what Wei Shao was doing. After half a month of hiding here, he finally showed up, and what she was most concerned about now was what was going to happen next.

Normally, according to the previous agreement between the two families, it is time to enter the final and substantive step: the wedding.

“The lady is a little more at ease. Since Wei Hou returned, things were easy to say. Tomorrow I will go to Zhong Mi and ask her when the wedding date is set.

Chunniang saw that Xiao Qiao seemed to be shy, thinking that she was anxious, so she softly comforted her.

“The lady opens the door!”

Just at this moment, the voice of a Wei family servant came from the door.

Chunniang shook Xiao Qiao’s hand and went over to open the door, but unexpectedly saw that Zhong Mi, who had not shown her face for some days, came.

After Zhong Mi came in, she gave Xiao Qiao a salute, stood up straight, and said: “The prince has returned, and the wedding date will be tomorrow, and the maid specially came to let the lady know.” After saying that, he owed it again, turned around and left.

……

Wei Shao had just returned, and at this moment, the notice actually came down, and the wedding was to be held tomorrow!

This is also too fast!

Xiao Qiao still couldn’t react for a moment, and when he was stunned, Chunniang and the maid on the side immediately became joyful and came to bow down to her in turn to congratulate her.

Little Joe understood their thoughts.

Everyone has arrived here, waiting for a wedding ceremony. Only with the ceremony did she truly become the daughter-in-law of the Wei family and the wife of Wei Shao. Without this step, even if there was more red tape in front of her, her identity would never go up and down, and she could only hang so awkwardly.

So when they heard the news, they were all relieved.

Little Joe smiled and accepted their congratulations one by one, but his heart was hard to say.

The wedding is coming, and there is no change. Once they are officially married, it means that from now on, their fate will be tied to this man named Wei Shao.

Would he treat himself the same way he treated Big Joe as she knew about his previous life?

If so, how should she treat herself?

This question had been going through her mind since the first day she left Yanzhou on the road. But until now, there is still no answer.

……

Chunniang’s joy did not last long. For she soon learned that this wedding was completely devoid of the thoughtfulness and grandeur that the daughter of the king she expected should deserve.

Think about it, but after a night’s effort, what can you prepare?

Chunniang suppressed the bitterness in her heart and did not dare to show it in front of Xiao Qiao, lest she be sad. While serving her into the bath, she said with a smile that the wedding would be held in Shaoyang Hall, there would be many vips to watch, and most importantly, Wei Hou was young and handsome, brave and decisive, and there were countless girls in the city who fell in love with him just by glancing at him from a distance, but she heard that there seemed to be no favored concubines around him.

“Female Junmei is so beautiful, how can Wei Hou not like it?”

Chunniang rubbed her soft skin with rich balm over and over again, her eyes fell on her beautiful figure, and her tone was full of praise and encouragement.

Under the service of Chunniang and the maid, Xiao Qiao repeated the procedure before leaving the house that day from the beginning.

Take a bath, dress, comb your hair, dress up. She stood in front of the mirror and looked at the bride in the mirror whose green sideburns were as bright as clouds and flowers, and suddenly felt a little strange.

……

Zhou Li, “marriage” is originally “faint”.

At dusk, the sandalwood platform in the Shinnomiya that has been silent for a long time is lit up from the bottom to the top, and under the background of the night, it looks like a brightly lit pagoda, which is even more majestic.

The people in the city looked up and scrambled to deliver a message: the prince’s wedding was tonight.

On the corridor of Shaoyang Hall, a red lantern also rose, the lights in the lobby were as brilliant as day, and on the large case of black paint and golden hair in the middle, there were neatly arranged the black, millet, prison (meat dish), pine, pickle, and soup used for the wedding, and the guests who came to watch the ceremony were also neatly dressed, sitting on the low bed laid behind several cases in order. They whispered to the people around them while waiting for the auspicious time to come.

Among these people, most of them were ministers who had followed Wei Shao here, and there were also local officials in Xindu. They also just learned about the wedding during the day. Although some of them knew before that Wei Shao was going to marry Yanzhou Qiao Nu, it was still surprising that the wedding came so quickly, after all, at this time last night, Wei Shao had just recovered from the battle in Boling.

Regarding the old affairs of the Yanzhou Qiao family and the Wei family, most of the people present here had heard about it. MasayaIn this way, the marriage between Wei Shao and Qiao Nu ten years later was even more imaginative, and she was even more curious about that Qiao Girl, waiting for her to appear after a moment.

The auspicious hour arrived, and Little Joe entered the auditorium.

When she appeared in front of the guests with her hands up and down flat on her abdomen and wide sleeves, the auditorium, which was still humming slightly, suddenly became quiet, and many pairs of eyes shot over and fell on her in unison, some scrutinizing, some stunning, and some unknowable.

Little Joe didn’t feel nervous. She lowered her eyelids slightly, and her gaze quietly landed on the ground in front of her feet, and with the sound of praise from the ceremonial officer in her ear, under the gaze of those eyes around her, she was led by two companions, and she moved forward without hurrying, and finally walked to the front of the few cases in the hall, and when there was still a few feet away, she stopped.

Across from her, there stood a man.

She clearly felt the two gazes coming from the other—unlike those on the side that she could ignore completely, and the man’s gaze was looking directly at her, without hesitation, with a force of oppression that she could hardly describe.

The skin under her heavy clothes seemed to sense this oppression, the pores around her body slowly relaxed, and the hairs seemed to stand up quietly one by one.

She slowly raised her eyes and caught the eye of the man across from her.

……

Relative to his status and fame, Wei Shao was still quite young; But compared to himself, it was true that he was a fully adult man, with broad shoulders and a straight waist, and the two stood opposite each other, and she was more and more petite by his lining, so that she had to look up slightly to meet his direct gaze.

As Chunniang described, he was a very handsome man, dressed in the crown of the nine chapters of Longshan, dressed in xuan clothes, black and red, calm, and majestic. In the praise of the ceremonial officer, he looked straight at little Joe who was only an arm’s length away from him, his eyes did not blink, his eyes were dark, as dark as the darkest part of the night.

Little Joe’s eyelashes fluttered slightly, and he lowered his eyes again.

After the ceremonial officer finished singing the praise, someone held a red scarf, one end was put into Xiao Qiao’s hand, the other was placed in Wei Shao’s hand, the two of them held the red scarf together, walked to the front of the case, the red scarf was taken away, the two sat on both sides of the table relatively opposite, under the guidance of the ceremonial officer, in turn, the Wo Ceremony, the same prison ceremony, and the joint ceremony.

After a long and elaborate series of ceremonies, it is the final ceremony that indicates that the two are married.

The companion cut a strand of hair from each of their feet and tied it together. At this time, the people around them were smiling happily, and the congratulations were incessant. The man on the other side had a straight waist and a straight body, but Xiao Qiao saw that the corner of his lips on the side of his line was very good and imperceptibly ticked slightly.

If she read it correctly, it was clearly a hint of impatience and a somewhat careless smile.

[End of This Chapter]