Chapter 36: Married
The white crane stopped in front of a magnificent palace, and the tidbits jumped off the white crane's back with the distracted Xu Qian, and as soon as her feet touched the ground, she was pulled forward by the red rope on the tidbits' hands, and countless men and women dressed in white stopped in the empty space in front of the palace.
There was a little noise in the crowd, and they whispered a lot of talking:
"Tsk, who is this girl, so miserable, falling into the hands of the Seventh Elder, it's also pitiful!" a young man sighed with a broom.
"It's a pity that this flower looks like the moon. Another man with a broom chimed in.
"You two perverts, how can you talk about elders like this? Medicine people are beautiful and ugly, men and women, as long as they can be favored by several elders, it is a thing to be thankful for. A woman said enviously while trimming flowers and plants.
"Thankfully, Hua Xiaoping, you might as well become a medicine man. You didn't hear the scream of pain in the middle of the night, it was strangely permeating, and the other day, do you remember the newly refined medicine man? It is said that the pain was unbearable, and the skin that he scratched was torn apart, and the handsome face was ruined to only a horrible and distorted outline. One of the women wiping the stone tripod glanced at Hua Xiaocui and said jokingly.
"Only when you suffer hardship can you become a superior person. Hua Xiaoping continued: "Although he is unrecognizable, he has strong muscles and a tough body, and more than a dozen big hammers hitting him may not hurt him at all." Such a powerful defensive shield is not comparable to you and me. I went through many selections from a mountain village, and finally managed to get shortlisted, but due to congenital deficiencies, I was just a useless gardener for decades. If God gives me a chance, I am willing to become a medicine man to make up for my innate deficiencies, become an upright introductory disciple, and learn the exquisite magic book. ”
"People, it's easy to have some unrealistic dreams, and it's easy to lose your heart and ......go crazy when you dream too much," an old man sighed and continued: "The old decay relies on this unique spiritual power to nourish and shelter, and it has survived for thousands of years, and now it is a person who is about to enter the earth with half of his body. What if a person becomes strong? Is it immortal and immortal? Life and death follow the way of heaven and earth, and it is nothing more than living a few more years and gaining more time, living in the present, being happy, and being content and happy. ”
Xu Qian's ears poured into the old man's words, her eyes traced the source of the old man's voice, and saw him, he was dressed in blue, out of place with the white clothes here, he picked up the hoe, lifted it up, and reclaimed a land full of weeds. The way he hunched his back and buried his head reminded her of a farmer who was ploughing, with his face facing the grass and loess, his back to the sky. It's just that when Xu Qian took a closer look, the old man had disappeared, as if he had never appeared here. She was hesitantly dragged up the stone stairs by the tidbits, and the voice behind her ears still sounded:
"Who is talking?" Hua Xiaocui kicked the scissors in her hand, looking around for the source of the sound, she didn't see the old man, and several people looked at each other and said, "It's weird." ”
Xu Qian was dragged and stumbled up the forty-nine steps and appeared under the plaque of the palace, which mentioned 'Fengxi Palace'. The palace door was wide open, the main seat of the palace was vacant, and there were five elders sitting in an orderly manner on the left and right, they were the eldest elder Feng Yunxi, the second elder Hua Junling, the third elder Feng Qixiang, the fourth elder Hua Siyu, and the tenth elder Hua Ling'er.
The five elders saw the woman brought back by the tidbits, and their eyes kept looking at Xu Qian one by one.
"Auntie, as you predicted, follow Junyou and indeed find the girl who gave the book to Junyou. Tidbit pushed Xu Qian and said, "She doesn't know how to use spells, she doesn't have a trace of spiritual power, can you see if it's the person you're looking for?"
Feng Yunxi got up, walked up to Xu Qian, held her hand and ordered, "Close your eyes." ”
Xu Qian closed her eyes worriedly, and her heart was mixed: "Should I become a medicine man soon, become a medicine man with a hideous face and a strange physique, or become a drug test failure, and be abandoned in the wilderness. I don't want to be a medicine man, I don't want to ......' What surprised Xu Qian was that Feng Yunxi didn't feed her any medicine, just held her hand, and the gentle voice (that voice gently guided the direction of the power in her body) The same invisible force shuttled through her body, and in less than a minute, the power in her body surged to the Heavenly Court Acupoint from all directions.
"Poof" Xu Qian spat blood from her mouth and fainted in Feng Yunxi's arms.
When she woke up, she was slowly approached by two women dressed in white, and her eyes were covered by a red hijab, and she couldn't see where she was going, and through the gap between the red hijabs, she saw a bustling crowd of people passing by, they had pink shoes, brown, black, white, etc., and she was wearing a pair of red embroidered shoes, and her slender waist was tied with a gold embroidered silk belt.
She trembled, 'What kind of world is this, are they going to marry me?' It is really uncomfortable to be married, I have been married once for the sake of my unborn child, and the unhappy marriage destroys every nerve and whips every inch of my body, I don't want to be buried in the grave of marriage again, I don't want to live in such humiliation again, I have to escape, the farther away the better......
"Hello, I want to be a compliment. Xu Qian whispered to the woman in white beside her.
"Yes, ma'am. The two of them replied in unison: "After the ceremony, we will help you out." ”
"But, I'm ...... now" Xu Qian clamped her legs and pretended to be in urgent need of going to the bathroom, but the two women who supported her comforted unmoved: "Madam, bear with me, I will go to the main hall soon, and I can ...... after the salute."
"Hurry up, slow down, be careful if you miss the time. A delicate girl's voice came from the front, interrupting the two women's unfinished words.
"Yes, Elder Spirit. The two replied nervously, and carried Xu Qian up the steps quickly, walked to the threshold of the main hall, and stopped.
Music sounded, replacing the loud and lively chatter.
The two white-clothed women beside Xu Qian stepped back, Hua Ling'er stretched out her hand to hold Xu Qian and walked into the threshold, Xu Qian caught a glimpse of the child holding her hand from the gap between the red hijab, it was the ten elders who saw in the hall that day, her delicate tiger head shoes were too eye-catching, it was not like the tiger head shoes worn by a one-year-old child, it was the tiger head shoes worn by a teenage girl, the tiger head shoes embroidered with gold silk thread exuded dazzling light, and the tiger's nose was dotted with a blue glowing stone, which was said to be a spar transformed by the tears of the merman.
Hua Ling'er led Xu Qian to the middle of the hall and left.
A man's hand reached out, took her bewildered hand, and led her forward for a dozen or so steps.
"One worships the gods, two worships the elders of the clan, three worships the disciples present, and four husbands and wives worship each other......" With the rhythmic voice of the middle-aged man's password, Xu Qian was pressed by a mysterious force to bend down and carry out the wedding.
"Finish!" said the middle-aged man with a long tail note.
There was a lively sound in her ears again, and she was helped out of the main hall by two other women in white, and after crossing the corridor and walking to a courtyard, her body was hit in the back by the force of a stone, and she found that she was no longer weak in her limbs. After entering the courtyard, it was relatively quiet, and there were many fewer people coming and going, so she secretly applauded.
"I came up with Gong. Xu Qian said to the two white-clothed women beside her again.
"Yes, ma'am. The two women in white replied, and the two exchanged glances, one of the women left, and the other woman helped Xu Qian into a bedroom. She helped Xu Qian sit on the red bed and stood quietly beside Xu Qian. After a while, another woman in white returned with a wooden bucket (the barrel is rectangular, with an oval opening on the barrel, lined with soft pads, and a lid on the mouth, very similar to the toilet bowl used today, the only difference is that it cannot be flushed). She placed the wooden barrel behind the screen on the side of the bedroom, and helped Xu Qian to go behind the screen to congratulate. The two untied the silk belt around her waist, untied her clothes, helped her squat down, and stood beside her to wait.
"Can you two stand outside the screen?" Xu Qian said with great embarrassment.
"Ma'am, I'm afraid this will not work. One of the women in white replied.
"Go out ......" Xu Qian scolded angrily, she knew that this was a good opportunity to escape, and she had to fight for it no matter what.
"Yes, ma'am. The two replied in unison and withdrew from the screen.
Seeing that they had withdrawn, Xu Qian quietly took off the red hijab, put on her clothes, and sealed her waistband, while "humming" with an extremely exaggerated sound of compliment. After dressing, she opened the window behind the bucket, tiptoed on the chair under the window, and climbed out.
Outside the window, Xu Qian's feet just landed, and the moment she turned around, her head hit something, and when she looked up, she found that she was in Hua Junyou's arms.
Hua Junyou was dressed in a red robe and horse coat, like a groom's outfit. Hua Junyou hugged Xu Qian, who was holding the cat in his arms, and said, "My bride, you are so interesting, you like to go in and out of the window." ”
The two people who heard the sound in the bedroom and chased them out hurriedly asked Andao: "Master, Mrs., she ......"
"Don't get in the way, you guys go down first!" Hua Junyou waved his hand.
Xu Qian struggled to escape from Hua Junyou's arms, but was pressed by Hua Junyou's right hand, Xu Qian fell into his arms again, and with a flick of his left hand, he hugged Princess Xu Qian and carried her back to the bedroom.
Xu Qian struggled, scratching Hua Junyou, and kept shouting: "Let me down, let me down." ”
Hua Junyou hugged Xu Qian to the bed, put her down on the bed, and said after clicking on her acupuncture points: "Hua Moyu, I didn't mean to offend you, I was also arrested and married." ”
After a pause, he continued, "I didn't know that I had given you a book, since my aunt's prophecy had been fulfilled. She was a natural prophet, and everything she predicted would happen, and this time they secretly predicted my marriage behind my back......"
He paused, walked to the table, picked up a cup and poured a glass of water, moistened his throat and said, "I'm dying of thirst, and I haven't drunk a glass of water since I was captured." ”
After the water clattered, he poured five cups of water and continued: "There is a prophecy in my clan, this prophecy is 10,000 years old, it is my ancestor who issued this prophecy, she predicted that there is a goddess who will marry the head of our flower clan, and this goddess can lead us to recover the lost territory and regain the throne. ”
"The goddess you prophesied about is me?" Xu Qian recalled that the two women in white had just called Hua Junyou the head, and she couldn't believe it.
"Yes, that's you. Hua Junyou nodded affirmatively, and then came to Xu Qian and said, "I'm also surprised." ”
"What are you going to do? You can't touch me, in our place, marriage is democratic, selective, and respects personal wishes, not so ......coercive," Xu Qian muttered with her hands in front of her.
"No, I didn't think about the thin girl, I ...... I'm just ......" Hua Junyou stammered to explain, picked up a frog at Xu Qian's feet and said, "I'm going to catch it." ”
So saying, he took the frog in his hand, went out of the bedroom door, closed the door and left. Xu Qian listened to Hua Junyou's footsteps in the distance, so she could safely plug in the deadbolt of the door and hide back on the bed.
All night, the footsteps of patrolling outside the house never stopped, Xu Qian did not dare to act rashly, she nested in the quilt and planned to escape.