Chapter 13: The Unexpected
Hao's house is really magnificent, with two solemn stone lions in front of the door, two large lanterns with the word "Xi" hanging on the door beam, and a string of extremely long firecrackers winding on the ground. This was originally one of the private residences of King Yong, and it has now been given to Hao Tianlin, and the plaque of Hao's house has been hung.
As soon as the sedan chair stopped in front of the gate, someone lit the firecrackers, the sound was deafening, it rang for a long time, and a burst of smoke was raised, so it was not noisy!
The sound of firecrackers fell, and the bride shouted: "Open the sedan chair, the newcomer rises!" ”
Hao Tianlin came to the sedan chair, picked up the curtain of the sedan chair with a happy bamboo, helped out the bride, and slowly helped her into Hao's house.
They came to the front of the hall, there was King Yong sitting in the hall, a group of people waited outside the hall to watch, some of them looked at the bride, more to see the prince, although King Yong sometimes performed on stage in the Miaoyin Hall, but that was the place where the rich and noble could enter, and most of the people outside the hall were ordinary people.
"The bride and groom are in place!" The bride shouted, "Kneel, offer incense!" ”
Hao Tianlin and Xia Chun each took the incense handed to them by their subordinates and inserted them on the altar.
Xi Niang shouted: "Kneel! One kowtow, then kowtow, three kowtows! ”
They knelt before the altar and prostrated three times.
Xi Niang shouted: "Kneel! Worship heaven and earth! ”
They worshipped heaven and earth.
The bride shouted: "Second worship the high hall!" ”
They bowed and poured tea for King Yong.
Ben Hao Tianlin also invited his distant cousin Concubine Chun to come over to officiate the marriage, but Concubine Chun had to serve the Queen Mother with typhoid fever, so she couldn't come.
Qiao Zimei has been standing in the crowd to watch the wedding ceremony, and when she arrived at the high hall, she suddenly found Nangong Yi who was also standing in the crowd wearing a black cloak and the little girl Lan Yuan who was accompanying her, she and Nangong Yi were separated by a few people, maybe Nangong Yi was too fascinated by the ceremony and didn't find her, but she clearly saw that Nangong Yi changed her cold and arrogant demeanor in the past, her side face wearing a black hat was white and haggard, her eyes were faintly sad, and her obsidian-like pupils were rolling with tears, and she had been staring at a couple of newcomers tightly, The fist clenching the golden wand protrudes the well-defined bones.
When the bride shouted "husband and wife worship", Nangong Yi's tears finally rolled down, out of control, like beads with broken threads, falling down one by one, and the scenes of the past are vivid-
"Brother Tianlin!"
Six-year-old Nangong Yi was wearing a water blue skirt, tied two soft low braids, and still had that soft and elegant Qi bangs on her forehead, and her smile was cute and sweet.
She jumped in front, her big watery eyes and a smile looked back: "Brother Tianlin, hurry up, I'll take you to see the flowers on the other side!" ”
Eight-year-old Hao Tianlin followed quickly, a little helpless, and said: "That is the legendary flower of death, how can it exist in reality!" ”
Nangong Yi led him to the mountain, through a dense forest, from noon to dusk.
Hao Tianlin was reluctant to leave, and said, "Why didn't you take it off at that time, I was so hungry and wanted to go back!" ”
Nangong Yi turned his head and dragged his arm forward quickly, and said, "That flower can't be picked!" It's almost there! ”
When they came to the edge of the cliff, Hao Tianlin took her arm and prevented her from getting close to the cliff: "Danger, don't go over!" ”
Nangong Yi took his hand and said, "Why are you so daring!" I found this flower when I was picking medicine, and it bloomed on the edge of the cliff, and it was very beautiful! ”
Hao Tianlin had no choice but to follow her to the edge of the cliff, holding her hand tightly, and walking very cautiously.
Nangong Yi shook off his hand, lay on the edge of the cliff and looked down, and excitedly pointed to the bottom of the cliff and shouted: "Brother Tianlin, look! ”
Hao Tianlin also followed her example and lay down and looked down. I saw a small piece of red flowers growing in a stone crevice on the edge of the cliff, the red flowers were curled backwards, as thin as claw-like petal needles, and the flowers fluttered in the wind, like a red-clothed dancing girl standing on the edge of the cliff.
Nangong Yi exclaimed: "It's so beautiful! According to the witch book, the flower on the other side is the only flower on the Huangquan Road, guiding ghosts to the underworld. ”
Hao Tianlin said: "This is just an ordinary flower, but it is rare, what is so magical!" ”
Nangong Yi looked stubborn: "Have you ever seen an ordinary flower growing on the edge of a cliff?" My dad is the most powerful wizard, he predicted that I would become even more powerful than him, you have to believe me, this is the flower that leads to hell! ”
Hao Tianlin looked around and saw a bunch of wildflowers and weeds growing on the edge of the cliff not far away, he pointed to the pile of wildflowers and said, "Look, those wildflowers also grow on the edge of the cliff!" ”
"Humph!" Nangong stood up angrily, patted the dust on his palms and clothes, and said, "The flower on the other side is the flower of hell!" ”
Hao Tianlin also stood up, also quite stubborn: "Then you say, where is hell?" ”
Nangong Yi pointed to the bottom of the cliff and said, "You will know where hell is if you jump down!" ”
With that, she turned around and left.
Hao Tianlin looked at the bottom of the cliff, he couldn't see the bottom, his feet were weak, and he chased after Nangong Yi.
Memories are always good, suffocatingly beautiful.
The former sister of Nangong, the current Nangong girl, the former brother Tianlin, the current brother Hao, the former Qingying bamboo horse, and the current nodding friend.
Nangong Yi returned to reality, looking at Hao Tianlin who was dressed with bloodshot tears, she had a splitting headache, she suddenly ran away holding her aching chest, and Lan Yuan chased after her. Everyone was immersed in the joy, and no one cared about them.
When Hao Tianlin turned around to send the bride back to the new house, he suddenly saw the darkness in the crowd, and he was leaving in a hurry.
The wedding banquet was held in the courtyard of Hao's house, and Ling Zixuan invited a famous chef to come over to cook food, and prepared delicacies from the mountains and seas, and elixir and jade dew. There are two banquets, one in the morning and one in the evening, and at noon, the guests will rest in the house, and in the evening, the bride will come out to toast with everyone.
Ling Zixuan asked Hao Tianlin to drink a few glasses of wine with him, and he laughed and said: "Hahaha, Hao Zhan, you grew up with this king when you were eight years old, and now you have the upper hand, earlier than this king to marry a wife!" ”
Everyone burst out laughing.
"Then the prince is going to hurry!" As he spoke, Hao Tianlin raised his head and drank another glass of wine.
At this time, a guard came to say: "Lord Wang, Miss Hua is already waiting for Lord Wang." ”
When Ling Zixuan heard this, he immediately bid farewell to Hao Tianlin and hurried to Miaoyin Hall.
Hao Tianlin continued to drink with everyone, and drank happily.
When everyone was feasting, Qiao Zimei was accompanying Hua Mantian in the new room, Hua Mantian was sitting on the red bed, and she hadn't lifted the red hijab yet, she had to wait for Hao Tianlin to lift it, just now Hao Tianlin took her in with a red hand, and was hugged by a friend to drink, and it was too late to open it.
Qiao Zimei said: "Congratulations! ”
Hua Mantian said absent-mindedly: "This is also something I didn't expect." ”
Qiao Zimei heard her low voice, so she asked, "What's wrong?" ”
Hua Mantian was silent for a while, and said: "I took Xia Chun and owned everything from Xia Chun, including memories. ”
Qiao Zimei saw her depressed expression through the red hijab as thin as a cicada's wings, and only listened to her continue: "Xia Chun met a person on the street - my sister Hua Yingrong, she handed over a bag of silver to Xia Chun and asked her to put it in the food of Tianlin, at first Xia Chun refused, but her sister said that this is just a kitsch medicine, which can let her get what she wants, Xia Chun really loves Tianlin in his heart, and his brother in the family has to wait for a sum of money to marry a wife, so he agreed, but I didn't expect that this medicine is not as simple as a kitsch, it will be fatal." ”
Qiao Zimei was surprised: "Why did Hua Yingrong do this?" ”
Hua Mantian said quietly: "She wants me to leave Hao Tianlin, but why did she suddenly know that the person I like is him and not Ling Zixuan?" ”
She paused, and then smiled coldly: "She knew that he was the person I liked and still did this, and sure enough, after following the empress, she was also ruthless!" Zimei, you go to King Yong and tell him that my sister is going to harm him, he is also in Hao Mansion today, it is a great opportunity, otherwise you go to Miaoyin Hall to find him, if you meet my sister, things will not be so easy to do! ”
Qiao Zimei nodded: "I'll go find him." ”
"Zimei," Hua Mantian saw that she was about to leave, and hurriedly stopped, and said: "In the future, if you have nowhere to go, you can stay here, and I will help you cultivate into a demon and get the entity." ”
Qiao Zimei was silent, in her impression, the demon seemed to be a very dark category, she didn't dare to think about it, she had worked hard to be a ghost, and she could touch the entity now.
Hua Mantian looked at her through the red hijab, saw her suspicious expression, and said, "It's okay if you just stay here, at least I can protect you." ”
"Thank you!" Qiao Zimei said, there is no doubt that Hao Mansion is a good place to stay, at least to avoid the capture of the goblins.
"Poof!"
Suddenly, I vomited when I heard the flowers, and a large mouthful of blood spit on the wedding dress, and the bright red wedding dress became more and more red.
Qiao Zimei was shocked, and hurriedly went over to help her: "What's wrong with you?" ”
Hua Mantian took a red handkerchief and reached into the hijab to wipe the blood on her lips, and she muttered: "It's a woman with high mana, she sent a message to tell me thousands of miles away, let me leave Hao Tianlin, she knows that I am a goblin!" ”
Qiao Zimei immediately thought of who this woman would be: "Nangong Yi? ”
Hua Mantian asked, "Do you know who she is?" ”
"She's a witch," Qiao Zimei nodded, and then glanced at Hua Mantian, "I like Brother Hao." ”
Hua Mantian said: "I have taken the house now, and my mana has decreased a lot, so I will be so easily injured by her, when I salute today, she must be there, I can see at a glance that I am a goblin, and I also hurt me by casting spells in the air, and my mana is not bad!" ”
Qiao Zimei saw that Nangong Yi looked like she was only in her twenties, and she actually had such a high mana, which was indeed surprising.
Suddenly, someone knocked on the door: "Lady, I'm coming in." ”
Qiao Zimei immediately hidden, Hua Mantian looked a little nervous, and suddenly caught a glimpse of the red blood stains on the wedding dress, and immediately made the blood stains disappear, she said: "Tianlin, you come in!" ”
Hao Tianlin entered the door with a smell of alcohol, but he saw that he was still sober, he closed the door casually, and said, "I'm afraid that you will be lonely, and I'm afraid that they will keep pouring alcohol and come in to avoid it." ”
Hua Mantian let out a gentle "um".
When Qiao Zimei saw him coming, he also left with interest and hurried to find King Yong.
Hao Tianlin stood in front of Hua Mantian with his hands and looked at her for a while, Fang stepped forward and lifted her red hijab with Xizhu, and when he lifted it, he saw Nangong Yi wearing a wedding dress and makeup!
He blinked and shook his head, and when he fixed his eyes, there was no doubt that it was Xia Chun.
Hua Mantian remembered what Xia Chun had done, and said, "I, I ......"
Hao Tianlin stretched out his hand to cover her mouth and said, "Let's live a good life in the future." ”
Hao Tianlin's words dispelled her concerns, she nodded, and sat with her eyebrows lowered.
Hua Mantian didn't wait for his next move, but heard him ask, "Are you hungry?" ”
"Huh?" Hua Mantian was surprised by his inopportune question.
Hao Tianlin said with a smile: "It's been a hard day, you haven't eaten yet, I'll go to the kitchen and let them prepare it and send it over, after eating, you take a rest, you don't have to wait for me all the time, and I'll come to pick you up when the dinner comes." ”
Hua Mantian nodded, feeling lost in his heart, saying that he was afraid that she would be lonely, but he just came over and lifted the red hijab, so that she didn't have to wait any longer, and then thought that he was not the real Xia Chun, and he felt better in his heart, so he regarded it as a new beginning, let him slowly and truly like himself!
After Hao Tianlin asked people to prepare food for Hua Mantian, he didn't go to entertain guests, but went to the study, he sat at the desk, supported his cheek with one hand, and thought quietly-
"Brother Tianlin, do you want to enter the palace?"
"Or else? My only relative, my father, was killed by your father! ”
"Your Majesty ordered Lord Hao to arrest all the people who study witches in the world, and my father will kill your father by mistake because he resisted, and my father has been beheaded, and my mother has also been martyred, if you want to go again, I will really be alone!"
"Witchcraft kills people for money, don't learn it again in the future, don't follow your father's back path!"
"Nonsense, witchcraft helps people, and it is false witches who harm people!"
"My cousin sent someone to pick me up, we are also enemies, and we will meet indefinitely!"
The first emperor died, and the proud country Jingchang was given four years, and witchcraft gradually prevailed.
Hao Tianlin retracted his thoughts and thought to himself, this is all fate.
Qiao Zimei searched around Hao's house, but she didn't find Ling Zixuan.
She came to the place where he was most likely to go, Myokondo, and it was in the room where he usually rested, that she finally saw him.
Ling Zixuan was painting alone, painting several koi fish, with different shapes and lifelike.
"Zimei has seen the prince!" Qiao Zimei knelt down.
"Huh? What are you doing again? Ling Zixuan glanced at her lightly, and continued to paint very calmly, not surprised by her arrival at all.
"I came today to tell the king." Qiao Zimei said.
"Say!" Ling Zixuan is still painting, painting the eighth koi in the lotus pond.
"Zimei wants to tell the prince that Hua Yingrong is ......" Qiao Zimei paused, wondering if he wouldn't believe it.
"What is she?" Ling Zixuan raised his head with interest.
"She is a goblin, she stayed by the prince's side, she wanted to harm the prince!" Qiao Zimei finished his words in one breath, he had seen all the ghosts, how could he not believe that there was a demon.
"Hahaha!" Ling Zixuan suddenly laughed, and finally drew the mouth of the eighth koi, before he raised his head, he smiled weirdly, and his eyes rolled up sharply to glare at her, "Really?" ”
Qiao Zimei felt as if he had fallen into an evil spirit, which was very different from usual, and wanted to leave, so he hurriedly said: "Zimei has finished speaking, so I will leave first!" ”
"Want to go?" Ling Zixuan came to her in a flash, smiling and not smiling, very bluffing.
Qiao Zimei was surprised: "You ......"
Ling Zixuan stretched out his hand to grab Qiao Zimei, and she became the size of a palm, and put her into the painting, becoming the ninth koi.
Ling Zixuan grinned proudly.
There was a sound of footsteps in the distance, Ling Zixuan immediately changed his body and changed back to his original appearance, and the girl Ah Xiu, who had been invisible, also showed her face, and Ling Zixuan was disguised by Hua Yingrong.
Ling Zixuan pushed the door in, he had just finished training a few new dancers, they were excellent in dancing, he was in a good mood, and said while walking towards Hua Yingrong, who was painting: "Let this king come and see how the beauty is drawn!" ”
Hua Yingrong stood up with a smile, and her voice was gentle: "Please take a look." ”
Ling Zixuan picked up the painting, admired it for a while, and said with appreciation: "Beauty, your painting skills are comparable to that of a first-class painter!" ”
Hua Yingrong said with a smile: "The prince has won the award, can you mention words for Yingrong's painting?" ”
Ling Zixuan held a brush in his hand and wrote five big characters on the painting - koi play lotus picture.
Hua Yingrong praised his words: "The prince's words are vigorous and powerful, and they have the potential of a pen to walk a dragon and a snake." Yingrong, thank you for the word! ”
They had another idle time, Hua Yingrong was about to leave, but Ling Zixuan saw that she couldn't keep her, so she let her go.