Chapter 31: The Chapel

Next, the bride in Gu Xu's wedding team went to Zhao Yan's boudoir and urged the bride to get on the sedan chair.

Also known as "Mrs. Welcome" and "Xi Grandma", "Xi Niang" is a woman who knows how to speak and socialize, and is responsible for taking care of the bride and dealing with guests.

During this process, the bride will pretend that she does not want to marry, and she has to be urged three times before she is willing to leave.

Gu Xu went to the foyer to toast his father-in-law.

Zhao Changying looked at her son-in-law in front of her who was generous and talented, and her mood was extremely complicated.

He had been worried about his daughter's marriage.

Zhao Yan has a perverse personality and is a maverick, and she doesn't like to deal with the opposite sex of the same age, but she likes to stay in the Qinglou and mix with the Oiran dancers.

Zhao Changying once suspected that her daughter liked women, thinking that the family lineage would be interrupted in her hands.

It wasn't until Gu Xu appeared that he breathed a sigh of relief-

It turned out that it wasn't that her daughter's habits were abnormal, but that her fate had not yet arrived.

It's just that on the day Zhao Yan really got married, in addition to joy, he also had a strong reluctance and an inexplicable melancholy in his heart.

Qu Qingqiu is gone, his daughter is married, and in the future, he will be the only one in the huge courtyard of the Zhao family.

"Take care of her."

Zhao Changying drank all the wine handed by Gu Xu, then patted him on the shoulder and said solemnly.

"I will."

Gu Xu's words were very simple and calm, and he didn't make the kind of poisonous oath that plucked out his heart and lungs and thundered in the sky. But his serious gaze seemed to have a heavy weight. Zhao Changying could feel from this that he would never joke about this matter.

At this time, Zhao Yan finally walked out of the room in full costume surrounded by the maidservants.

She followed the customs of the north, and did not wear a red hijab like a newlywed woman in Daqi, but held a group fan, and her face like a demon loomed behind the fan.

Gu Xu immediately went out of the house to avoid it according to custom.

Zhao Yan faced her father, and Ying Ying bowed to express her gratitude to her father for his nurturing grace.

Zhao Changying let out a long sigh, and a faint smile squeezed out of the corner of her mouth: "Go ahead." When you two have a child, I, an old man with nothing to do, may be able to help you bring them. ”

Zhao Yan's eyes were a little moist again.

Then, she stepped on the red felt carpet spread on the ground and stepped into the sedan chair.

From the perspective of the Great Wilderness Spiritual Taboo, the bride is easy to attract evil spirits, and a lot of evil aura is hidden under the land. In order to prevent dirt and keep it clean, carpets are laid out to avoid stepping directly on the ground.

Of course, with Zhao Yan's current strength, most of the fierce gods and evil spirits have to take a detour when they encounter her.

It's just that in a life event like a wedding, in order to be auspicious, anyone will inevitably become elaborate and superstitious.

After getting into the sedan chair, the bride's buttocks can no longer move casually, which means peace and stability. Under the bride's seat, there is a fire with charcoal fire and spices, and a mat is tied on the back sedan bar of the sedan chair, commonly known as "the fire in the sedan chair, the mat behind the sedan chair".

After getting up the sedan car, the sound of firecrackers in the house roared like thunder again, and the smell of smoke filled the air for a long time. The relatives and servants of the Zhao family sprinkled tea leaves and rice grains on the top of the sedan chair, which is said to be able to drive away evil spirits and avoid harm.

When the sun was setting and the red glow was in the sky, the sedan chair pinched the time and entered the gate of the Liangzhou prefect's mansion where Gu Xu temporarily lived.

The officials of Liangzhou City have already organized a vast number of musicians and people to play music here to welcome the sedan chair.

Not long after they surrendered to Gu Xu, they were gearing up to behave well in front of the new lord and leave a good impression on him - so they worked extra hard in the process of helping Gu Xu prepare for the wedding.

After the sedan car stopped, a five- or six-year-old dressed up and called "the sedan chair lady" walked out of the door, and after the sedan car door opened, he gently pulled the bride's hand three times and asked the bride to get out of the sedan chair.

Zhao Yan, with the support of the bride, stepped over a vermilion wooden "saddle", stepped on the red felt, and stood on the right side of the wedding hall.

Gu Xu pretended to hide elsewhere, and was invited back by the little girl with a bouquet of candles and stood on the left side.

The next step should be to worship the elder.

However, because Taishang Haotian had already been sentenced by Gu Xu as a pseudo-god, and the reincarnation of Emperor Ziwei was standing alive in front of everyone, this step was directly omitted.

As for worshipping the elders...... Gu Xu's parents in this life have long passed away, and the couple can only bow to the spiritual position and offer incense to worship.

"Husband and wife worship each other!" Then the salutant shouted.

Gu Xu and Zhao Yan looked at each other again and bowed three times.

When his eyes met, Gu Xu could clearly feel that the threads of cause and effect on the two of them were becoming more and more tightly entangled, and it was difficult to cut or separate.

"After the ceremony, quit the class, and send it to the cave room!" At the end of the worship service, the salute shouted again.

Under the guidance of two young people holding dragon and phoenix candles, Gu Xu held a colorful ball ribbon and led the bride into the cave room.

Along the way, the two of them had to walk on the sack - there were five sacks in total, and when they walked through one, the bride would pick it up, pass it on to the front, and continue to pave the way, which means "passing on the ancestry" and "meeting the five generations".

After entering the cave room, Gu Xu couldn't stay here for a long time, and soon he had to toast his relatives and friends outside.

Because of physical problems, Gu Xu has always been bad at and doesn't like to drink.

But on today's special occasion, in order to have a happy occasion, he drank a few large glasses full of alcohol - of course, in order to avoid getting drunk and unconscious on the wedding night, he quietly used Zhenyuan to dissolve the strength of the wine.

Because Gu Xu's identity is different from the past, the guests didn't dare to pester him all the time - they toasted him, said some words of blessing, and let him leave.

Gu Xu was finally able to sit on the edge of the bed and enjoy the quiet world of the two with Zhao Yan.

In the wedding room, a huge mahogany carved bed is placed in the center, and a screen painted with auspicious clouds and mandarin ducks is placed next to the bed, implying a happy marriage. The bed is covered with red futon embroidered with gold thread, and carved candlesticks are placed on either side.

Zhao Yan has already been served by the maids, taking off her fancy clothes and changing into civilian clothes.

The dim candlelight danced on her jade-like skin, making her whole being glow with a dreamlike glow.

Seeing Gu Xu coming, she showed half of her cheeks from behind the fan, looked at Gu Xu's gorgeous wedding dress, and chuckled: "It's the first time I saw my husband wearing red today, and he looks so good." ”

"It's not as fragrant as the lady's country." Gu Xu smiled.

He reached out and grabbed Zhao Yan's wrist and asked her to gently put down the dough fan that was covering her face.

She finally bloomed in front of him like a gorgeous and incomparable flower.

(End of chapter)