Chapter 178: Awakening (2/2)
After another ten days, on an auspicious day of the zodiac, the welcoming procession went to the door with gongs and drums, and Zhou Xia was taken by the servants to change into the bride's red robe, and put on a red hijab on her.
However, when the servants tried to push her out, she refused to go out. Zhou's mother had to persuade her over and over again in her ear, saying that this was for her good, the other party was a wealthy family in Zhibeicheng, and the man of the other party had admired Zhou Xia for a long time, and after marrying, she only had to be a rich wife, she didn't have to do anything, and her mother-in-law would not let her be angry......
Zhou's mother babbled a string, but Zhou Xia was expressionless, and she didn't know if she had listened to it. Suddenly, she struggled to get to the back room, and Zhou's mother let the servants let go to see what she was going to do.
But I saw that Zhou Xia ran into his bedroom, and then came out with two long swords.
It was the sword that her father had bought for her, and it was the sword that the god had put back into her hand.
Seeing her daughter holding a pair of swords tightly in her arms, and then nodded, as if to say, it's okay to have this, Zhou's mother burst into tears for a while, it seems that this is her daughter's last thought.
Although there is no precedent for the bride to marry with a sword, and it doesn't seem to be very compliant, Zhou's mother can't refuse her daughter's last small request.
Finally, with the permission of Zhou's mother, Zhou Xia wore a red hijab, a red wedding dress depicting dragons and phoenixes, held the double swords in his arms, and sat in the sedan chair for the wedding.
She has lost even the basic common sense of the human race, her mother asked her to go, and she went, but as for what Zhou's mother told her, she didn't understand it very well.
In Zhou Xia's consciousness, the whole world seemed to be separated from her by a membrane, everything outside the membrane was vague, and the voices and meanings of the people outside were difficult to enter her consciousness.
In the past, she had committed suicide in order to rebel against the lifestyle she saw as inferior to pigs and dogs. Now, however, she doesn't know that she is being pushed down a very similar path by her biological parents.
Zhou Xia has worked hard all her life in order to be free, this life is very short, but it is also her small life so far. In order to be able to live freely, she learned a lot of knowledge, and practiced martial arts and swords, no matter how hard and tired she was, she gritted her teeth and survived.
Also, in the end, before she died, she went to a place as far away as Jing Kingdom to seek the Tao, just to be able to become a real strong person, to be able to ignore all the prejudices and constraints in the world, and live the life she wants to live.
It's a pity that her parents didn't know what she had thought, and her parents really thought about her from the bottom of their hearts, so they helped her choose this path.
There is no right or wrong for anyone, maybe it's just a matter of perception.
Outside the sedan chair, there was a sound of blowing and blowing, and someone lifted the sedan chair, and her figure swayed with the sedan chair, and then panned forward.
Her head was covered by a red hijab, she couldn't see anything, she just felt dazed and overwhelmed, her parents were not around, everything was strange.
Zhou Xia could only hold on to her sword tightly, as if it was her only and last support.
The sedan chair swayed for a long, long time, climbing hills, crossing bridges, walking through the streets and alleys, and sometimes stopping to rest. Finally, after a long journey, the sedan chair and the people outside finally stopped.
Zhou Xia heard a lot of unfamiliar voices, and another person shouted loudly:
"Come on, help the bride out!"
The car door opened.
At that moment, Zhou Xia made a subconscious move.
She quickly hid a pair of swords into her wide red wedding dress.
Then, someone helped her out of the sedan chair from front of the sedan door.
"The bride enters the lobby!"
The man shouted again.
Zhou Xia was dragged forward by someone.
She still couldn't see anything, only a patch of red in front of her, but listening to the voices of the strangers around her, her heart somehow slowly cleared up.
"Where am I...... I...... What are you doing? Zhou Xia thought in his heart, "That's right...... Mom and Dad, married me off...... I'm ...... In the ...... of getting married"
The words that her mother once said are circulating in Zhou Xia's heart, get married, have children, take care of children, rich wives, live a stable life, and mother-in-law will not bully people...... Little by little, many coalesced in her heart, pounding at her atrium, and finally converging into a heart-wrenching force.
Zhou Xia stopped and didn't go any further.
The person pushing her around her was a little impatient, and dragged hard, "Hurry up!" ”
The man's actions were very rough, and Zhou Xia was dragged to a stumbling position.
She felt how weak she was.
So follow the instructions of so many people, live a life that you don't want to live, and enter the trap that everyone throughout the ages will enter.
Everyone was smirking at her and saying, "Obey."
Listen to the words of the father, to the words of the husband, to the words of the governors, to the words of the king.
Disobedience, death.
Yes, die, she's already died once because she's too weak. She remembered.
Tears streamed down her cheeks.
In Zhou Xia's body, there was no life in the first place.
At this moment, he miraculously shed tears.
"I ......"
“…… I've already died once...... Why...... Still don't let me go? ”
The people around couldn't understand what she was saying.
Someone pushed her behind her back, and it was an old woman's voice: "What's wrong with the bride?" How can you not understand the rules? ”
Zhou Xia didn't watch out for a while, the double swords in his hands couldn't hold it steadily, and they fell out for a while, fell to the ground, and made a bang.
There was a sudden sound of surprise around him, and then someone said angrily: "How can anyone marry someone with a sword?" Put it away for me! ”
So saying, some men went up and tried to take the sword from the ground.
"Sword! My sword! ”
Zhou Xia's heart suddenly panicked, that sword was entrusted to her by the gods, it was her most important treasure, and it couldn't be lost, it couldn't be lost!
Someone grabbed her arm and tried to cut her hands back, an act that gave her an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
"I don't want to be a weakling."
"I want to change that."
"You want to be in control of your own destiny."
"I want to gain power beyond the world!"
Strength.
Zhou Xia stretched out his hand, and the power emerged, and the chaotic thinking world was shattered by this force in an instant, and the fragments were scattered, and all the falsehoods, confusion, and obstacles collapsed, and the world revealed its true face in front of her.
A new force sprouted from the depths of her body, destroying her dead body, as if a whole river of flames had ignited in her body.
Her consciousness cleared.
"This is my sword!"
The person holding the sword was an adult man, he couldn't help frowning when he saw Zhou Xia coming to grab the sword, and wanted to push her away with one hand and take the sword away.
Zhou Xia's white little hand was held on the hilt of the sword, and then a huge force surged, the man's tiger mouth was directly torn, and the double sword was grabbed by Zhou Xia!
Memory, gradually restored by the surge of power.
From the past to the present, little by little memories fall back into the lake of the heart, completing her personality.
At this time, several people stepped forward and pulled her, trying to make her obedient. She pushed around, and the power in her body surged out.
All the people around were suddenly knocked away by this force and fell into the distance, and in an instant, Zhou Xia's side was empty.
People let out exclamations, and Zhou Xia removed his hijab with his hands and looked directly at the crowd around him without hindrance.
"Quick, grab the bride and cover her head back!"
Seeing that the bride was disobedient, the officiating elders of the wedding immediately shouted loudly and tried to make amends.
Zhou Xia lifted the red wedding dress and took out the two long swords inside, she held one in one hand, and then skillfully flicked it, the scabbard fell to the ground, and two swords as bright as autumn water suddenly appeared in her hand!
Zhou Xia raised his sword and made the battle preparation moves that he had done countless times.
Tears were still hanging on her cheeks, but she didn't want to cry anymore.