Chapter 183: The Night of Candles in the Cave Room
In front of the only pawnshop in Qianyang Town, the man in black and the black flute, who was already about to walk over, suddenly took a few steps backwards and looked up at a painting hanging on the counter.
There are some simple things painted on the painting, clothes, makeup boxes, ordinary and unremarkable, but everything looks vivid and real, and people are always worried that the rouge box will fall down and fall on people's heads.
People kept passing by and were amazed by the painting.
The man looked at it for a while, walked into the pawnshop, pointed to the painting, and said, "I want this painting." β
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Not long after the man in black left, Yi Renli and the six gourd babies of the Li family also arrived in Qianyang Town.
Yi Renli's search route was here in Qianyang Town, and he happened to meet the Li family brothers, and then the Li family brothers were caught up by their own people, and finally got the exact news of Wen Zhen and Yan Sui, Yi Renli immediately sent someone back to inform Lin Feibai and others, and he followed the Li family brothers back to Qianyang Town.
As a result, they hurried back to the town, but they got the news that the Yi family had married in advance, and Yi Ming and Li Xiao had already set off in the morning. The crowd had no choice but to chase after them all the way.
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Li Xiao stayed in the room where the dowry was kept.
Her Highness's performance after waking up was a bit of a test of her heart. His Highness seems to remember everything, but he messes up a lot. He remembered Wen Zhen and woke up with a small cake, but he recognized her as Wen Zhen.
His Highness also remembered his own identity, but he did not remember what he was going to do this time.
asked him who Li Xiao was, and he commented in front of her: "Yi Ming's foolish fiancΓ©e." β
Asked him who Yi Ming was, he said, "The stupid son who is ranked fifth." β
Li Xiao silently swallowed mouthful after mouthful of blood. I regret that I didn't twist a few more times when I gave him the needle, and I went straight to dementia, right?
She silently hugged her knees, looked at the fire trees and silver flowers outside through the window, the fireworks were being released, and there was a faint sound of chickens flying and dogs jumping.
Yan Sui goes, it should be able to solve it.
She lowered her eyes a little enviously.
Suddenly, in the midst of the noise, I heard some discordant sounds, such as shouting, screaming, and even faintly hearing the sound of swords entering the flesh, the kind of popping sound was very calm but made people's scalp tingle.
This sound lasted for a long time, and it felt like it spread throughout the house, even outside the dowry room, through the light of the lights, the dancing figures, undulating swords, and bursts of flashes of spear blades and cold sword light.
Li Xiao wanted to go out to have a look, but now he can't move, there are fights everywhere, and he may die unexplained if he goes out.
Suddenly, the voice gradually fell silent, and as soon as it was quiet, it was completely quiet, not to mention the screams of the fight, and even the sound of fireworks was gone. The silence only made Li Xiao more and more uneasy, and she was about to get up to see what was going on, when suddenly a sharp and powerful footstep approached, and before she could hide, there was a bang, and the door was kicked open.
In the shadow of the door, Yi Ming stood.
She now looks completely different from usual, that kind of chic and merry state, it seems that they are scattered in the wind with this burst of bloody fireworks, she stands at the junction of moonlight and shadow, slightly hanging her head, the crimson brocade robe is covered with patches of deeper red, there are some thick liquid dripping from the corners of her sleeves, from the angle of Li Xiao, you can only see half of her snow-white side face, the bridge of her nose is like a knife, flashing with a faint cold light.
She paused, then strode over and laughed with both hands.
Li Xiao never imagined that it would be this action, and struggled vigorously under fright, but Yi Ming's hand was like an iron tong, clamping her tightly.
Her voice also rang coldly in Li Xiao's ears, Li Xiao had never heard her speak in such a tone since he knew her.
"My bride, if you don't want to spend candle night with me tonight, then I will remember to incense your tablet in the ancestral hall next year."
Li Xiao didn't dare to move, she was stiffly carried out by Yi Ming, the shadows outside were full of people, some people were still holding bloody long knives in their hands, and the group of people with bloody qi floating all over their bodies quickly followed Yi Ming's footsteps, but their eyes were looking towards the periphery - far away, there were more people standing, with scrutinizing and puzzled eyes, watching their new head of the family take out their bride.
Yi Ming lowered his head slightly, and said in a cold whisper: "Hold my neck tightly, look at me, like you used to be!" β
Laughing and pursing his lips.
"My men have gone to pick up my six brothers-in-law, but I can't guarantee that I will be able to meet you."
She smiled and spoke slowly, "Maybe, you'll never get it back." β
Li Xiao gritted his teeth and raised his head, staring at Yi Ming's eyes, and for a while, a slightly stiff smile appeared.
In the distance, someone suddenly shouted, "Miss Li! Do you know whether Yi Ming is a man or a woman?! β
Li Xiao stared at Yi Ming in shock, and saw a trace of ruthlessness in her eyes.
This look made Li Xiao frightened.
She vaguely understood something.
Yi Ming's identity was exposed, at this juncture.
This must have been the handiwork of His Royal Highness, he threw this bomb, so he was able to take Wen Zhen away with the Yi family's home field, leaving the problem to Yi Ming.
The Xichuan Yi family is huge, and the assassin history and the position of the head of the family mean supreme authority, no matter how talented Yi Ming is, it is inevitable that some people will not be convinced.
At this time, as long as someone blows up this secret, Yi Ming will definitely fall into passivity.
What's more, she also saw just now that Yi Yanran was carried out, and the head of the Xichuan Yi family, the person who loved Yi Ming the most, was dead.
She stared into Yi Ming's eyes.
Yi Ming's eyes were very red and bloodshot, and there was no anxious and frightened look in his eyes, only full of ruthlessness and coldness.
But from the depths of this cruel and cold eyes, she saw a faint sorrow.
The person who loved her the most in the world died.
And she didn't have time to grieve, or even to look at the face that she would never see again.
Li Xiao felt a little unimaginable, she had been pampered by her family since she was a child, if she was replaced, she would definitely be unable to stand at this moment.
She suddenly thought about the day she first met Yi Ming.
It's also a winter day.
At that time, her father was still serving as a border army guard in Suizhou, which is adjacent to Xichuan, and had some personal relations with Yi Yanran, so he took her to Yifu to play.
The Yi family has a bunch of children, a lot of distant relatives of the partial branch of the branch, but no matter how much blood of the Yi family is shed in the body, they all look down on the daughter of a fifth-grade deputy general.
As she went, the group of men and women were playing with the striking, a sport unique to Nishikawa, in which wooden bottles were placed on a table filled with colored liquids, and behind the bottles was a propped up cloth. The people shot the bottle with an arrow wrapped in a soft head, and the bottle was struck against the cloth with the arrow, and whoever splashed the most colors with the arrow won the prize.
The young people were all competitive and shouting, and she thought it was funny, and she was also watching from the side, and her hands were itching.
She was born in a family of military generals, and her family has a strong martial style, she has been mixed in the military camp since she was a child, and she is a good hand at drawing a bow and archery.
Someone finally found her, she remembered that it was a young lady in the fifth room of the Yi family, who had always had eyes above the top, and when she saw that she was eager to try, she beckoned her to shoot too, originally wanted to see her jokes, and didn't want her to shoot out with an arrow, the green paint in the bottle splashed a large piece of tender color on the cloth, and covered the rest of the colors.
Suddenly everyone could not get off the stage, and they looked at each other, and they seemed to praise but noisily, and gathered her around the table, where she was at the mercy of her in a daze, and spread her arms, with three bottles on one side of each arm, and one on top of her head.
The group of Yi family disciples over there, giggling and laughing, began to draw their bows and shoot arrows.
Before, no matter how much paint was splashed in the bottle, they could hit the curtain, but now they suddenly seemed to be soft, either they didn't shoot the bottle but her arm, which made her frown, or they shot over the bottle but couldn't hit the curtain, and fell directly on her arm, dyeing her clothes colorful, and the most excessive thing was that they knocked over the bottle on her head, and the paint was splashed on her face, it was a bottle of indigo paint, and she looked at the ugly color, mixed with tears dripping from her chin, falling on her clothes, on her hands, She became like a disgusting monster, and her tears flowed even harder because of it.
But suddenly the wind behind him was fierce.
Behind her, the huge and colorful curtain splashed with paint suddenly snapped its corners and snapped, and then it was wrapped in an arrow, like a huge colored cloud, and slammed over her head and over the laughing people opposite.
She looked up and saw only a five-colored ray of sunlight shining brightly on her eyelashes.
All this happened in an instant, and the curtain whizzed by, and in an instant it covered the men and women, covering their heads and faces, and the men screamed and struggled, and the more they struggled, the faster the paint fell on the curtain, and when they finally struggled out, their bodies were just like her, full of messy colors.
A large group of colored people, and a colored person looked at each other.
She suddenly laughed, trembling with laughter, and pointed at them: "Yes! β
Those people were stunned for a long time, and they all began to curse, and some people rushed over angrily and tried to beat her.
But there was a person who walked over slowly.
Like a wisp of moon-white wind, it is like a wisp of moon-white wind, with the golden autumn flowers and fragrant flowers.
She looked at his eyebrows, looked up at his long thick eyelashes raised in the sun, and felt that she had seen the most beautiful boy in the world.
Those who roared and rushed towards them suddenly stopped, and stepped back in small steps as if they had seen a demon.
But the boy didn't look at them, his gaze fell on her face.
Laughing, but not smiling, his eyes were sincere and warm, falling into her eyes, she felt that the clouds in the sky had bloomed into flowers.
He said, "Smile, don't be afraid. I'm Yi Ming. β
Only one glance is set for ten years.
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How ruthless and broken, no matter how much deception is involved, but the ten years of following are real, the ten years of infatuation are real, and the emotions paid in the ten years are all true.
It is not a piece of candy that can be sandwiched back into one's bowl in its entirety.
Li Xiao's eyes suddenly burst into tears.
She roared in her heart 11,000 times, she was a woman! It's a woman! She lied to you and to me! I'm going to expose her! I'm going to let her die! Die! Die! Lose my dreams and pursuits for the past ten years!
When the words came to his lips, they turned into laughter.
She smiled, the more she laughed, the louder she became, hugged Yi Ming's somewhat stiff shoulders, and turned her head to the shadowy crowd in the darkness with an incredible expression: "Hey, who is talking?" Did you sleep too much last night and still haven't woken up from your dreams? My husband is a woman? My husband is a woman, how can I not know? What about you, if you want to fight for the power of the Yi family, it doesn't matter, you can use any reason, use this ......" She shook her head with a sneer and hugged Yi Ming's neck, "Don't talk nonsense with them, Brother Ming, thank you for coming to save me, we ...... Let's go into the cave room......" said shyly burying his face on Yi Ming's shoulder, but taking advantage of the darkness to be out of sight, he bit Yi Ming's shoulder fiercely.
Yi Ming twitched in pain, his shoulder muscles tensed, and then he relaxed, let her bite, and smiled at the side while tilting his head: "The Spring Festival is worth a thousand gold, so I won't accompany you." As for your ridiculous question...... she blinked, "and when you give birth to a little Yi next year, can you shut up?" β
The group smiled at her and couldn't help but take a step back.
Just now, Yi Ming's fifth brother Yi Keng accused Yi Ming of disguising herself as a man, and a considerable number of people showed interest in this, and challenged Yi Ming in Xitang, but Yi Ming didn't say a word, and immediately killed the person who opposed the most, and captured Yi Keng and locked him up, and killed all the people around Yi Keng.
In just half an hour, blood flowed all over the instep of the foot in the main courtyard of this huge mansion.
Yi Ming is chic and free on weekdays, with an excellent temper, and he doesn't see him accumulating more power, most of the people are a little contemptuous in their hearts, but they didn't expect that at some point, the Yi family already has so many people loyal to Yi Ming.
Many people are still unconvinced, and many people are puzzled, but in the end, a small life is more important - a considerable number of them were originally prepared, and they wanted to make trouble when Yi Ming officially took over the throne and seize the power of the Yi family. Although the other part did not participate, they planned to look at the direction of the wind, and they did not mind stepping on Yi Ming after the wind direction turned away.
As a result, Yi Ming suddenly left the base camp and set the wedding in the remote Yaocheng, still with a short notice, and it was not allowed to bring guards. Everyone was driven away from the main city in a hurry, and trekked all the way to Yaocheng, surrounded by the iron army controlled by the head of the Yi family, like a group of prisoners being escorted.
In this case, what is said and done is passive. Let Yi Keng, a fool, test it, you can attack and retreat and defend.
So once he found out that Yi Ming was determined to prepare and have enough means, he quickly took a step back, pushed it on Yi Keng, said a foolish joke, and protected himself first.
What's more, the bride is the closest person to Yi Ming, and it is impossible not to discover Yi Ming's true identity, her infatuation has not changed to this day, and everyone sees it.
The original firm view is also a little shaken at the moment.
The shadowy black shadow gradually disappeared into the darkness.
Yi Ming smiled, turned around and left with Li Xiao.
"I'm afraid...... You can't wait for that. β
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Yi Ming smiled and kicked open the door of the new house.
No matter what happens, the night of candles in the cave must be passed, otherwise even if the ceremony is not completed, those who are ready to move will have a chance to raise objections.
Her father had been thinking about her for so many years, and she couldn't waste it at the last moment.
There was actually a mother-in-law in the new house who was sprinkling happy fruits, and when she saw Yi Ming coming in murderously, she was able to pull out a smile and say a few routine auspicious words before going out. There is a gold weighing rod on the desk, and a glass of wine is placed, and everything is complete.
When Li Xiao saw it, he laughed for a moment, and then felt sad again.
She had been looking forward to the wedding for ten years, and when it came to this day, there was nothing.
Yi Ming didn't see the glass of wine, so he carried her straight to the side of the bed and threw her on the bed.
This time it was really domineering and fierce, and Li Xiao couldn't help but let out a scream.
Yi Ming didn't pay attention to it, and then went to bed, and the tent fell down with a wave of his hand, looking very urgent, much like an angry husband who was spoiled and eager to vent on the important day of marriage.
Li Xiao was already unsettled, shocked by her actions, knowing that she was a woman, she couldn't help but stare at her in horror, she couldn't help but shrink into the bed, and accidentally hit a red date on her buttocks, thinking it was a monster, and she screamed again.
Yi Ming knelt on the bed with a smile and said in a low voice: "I'm sorry, this cave room must be holed, everyone is staring." β
She pulled out a knife from her sleeve with her backhand, and then pulled out the Yuanpa from under the quilt, and asked her, "With your blood, or mine?" β
Li Xiao's face slowly turned red, and then turned pale again.
She knows that now everyone has doubts about Yi Ming's identity, and it is inevitable to pay attention to the cave room, but it is too embarrassing to be stared at by everyone for such a private matter, and more importantly, once this cave house is over, she will not be able to marry again.
Although she didn't want to marry again, the nature was different.
She is still thinking about Yi Ming at this moment, but is this how she repays her?
Yi Ming lowered her eyes, as if she didn't dare to meet her gaze, and it was not until this moment that a trace of guilt finally appeared on her face, and said, "Xiaoxiao, I'm always sorry for you...... But, having come this far, I can't stop. β
Li Xiao glanced at her coldly, and snatched the knife, "Then it's mine!" β
With a backhand, he slashed at Yi Ming's heart.
Yi Ming hung his head, as if he didn't see it, but when the knife was about to touch his chest, he turned over suddenly, grabbed Li Xiao's wrist at the same time, shook it with his backhand, and bang, Li Xiao was thrown into the futon.
The bed was shaking violently.
Someone outside the house glanced at each other.
A scream of laughter came immediately, and the people outside the house looked at each other again.
Some people are happy, and some people are sad.
Suddenly, a loud noise came from overhead, and everyone looked at it in amazement.
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Li Xiao was smashed on the futon, Yi Ming was not light, Li Xiao fell dizzy, screamed, and cried: "You let go of me!" You let me out! Yi Ming! If you still have a little conscience, you will let me go tonight! β
Yi Ming didn't speak, his long hair hung down, covering his eyes.
Suddenly, there was a loud bang overhead, with a bang of smoke and tiles, and someone fell on the top of the rosewood bed with a bang, smashing a hole in the top of the bed, and then rubbing it on the bed, which was between Li Xiao and Yi Ming.
Yi Ming reacted extremely quickly, a knife stabbed out silently, she half-tilted her head, the light of the stars and the moon leaked down from the big hole above her head, and was covered with dust like mist, but her eyes were always clear in the fog, bright and cold.
The man's movements were extremely light, and he rolled out with a long whip in his hand, knocking off the knife in Yi Ming's hand with a snap.
He landed on the ground, let go of the hard laugh, raised his head, and laughed hard.
It turned out to be a change of people.
Immediately, she reacted, suddenly pounced forward, hugged Yi Renli, and whispered, "Take me away!" Please! β
Yi Renli was stunned for a moment, looked down at Li Xiao, and saw that the girl's eyes were full of tears, but her expression was resolute, and even the lip line was pursed up as a rigid "one".
He was in a trance.
Chasing the marriage team all the way to Yaocheng, he and Lin Feibai first touched the cave house, the Yi family had just been in turmoil, and people's minds were floating, so the guards were inevitably relaxed, and the two of them were lying on the roof, originally wanting to wait for the people to disperse and then look for a chance, but they heard the abnormal movement below.
Li Xiao left a letter to his brothers, and did not mention Yi Ming's gender issue, but also vaguely expressed the meaning that things have changed, and this family affair cannot be done. Therefore, Yi Renli also knew that something might be wrong between the two, listening to the crying below, somehow, suddenly a burst of blood and qi surged, and regardless of Lin Feibai's stopping, he rushed down.
At this moment, looking at the red, swollen and pale eyes of the haggard smile, he remembered the first time he saw on the boat, the girl who was a little willful but also bright and bright, he was a little uneasy.
Why is it suddenly like a pearl covered with dust, stars and moons, and lost its brilliance?
On the other side, Yi Ming got off the bed silently and was looking at them with complicated eyes.
Yi Renli was a little embarrassed, it didn't seem too appropriate to hug someone's bride in someone's cave room, he wanted to break Li Xiao's hand, but Li Xiao hugged him tightly, which made him a little helpless, so it was confirmed that Li Xiao was greatly wronged, and she was not such a cowardly person on weekdays.
It's just that he opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to ask - this is a candle night in a cave room, no matter how much it is fun, what can he say?
On the other side, Yi Ming's eyes were very bright, burning almost to star, and he suddenly grinned, raised the dagger in his hand, and said, "How about making a deal?" β
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In fact, this chapter can also be called if life is only as it first seems