Chapter 70: Marriage
On the day that Li Yuan finished the board, Yi Xiang was released. At that time, Li Ying was lying on the bed complaining, Li Ying had a calm face, and really gave him medicine on his swollen back. When she saw Yi Xiang coming, she didn't say a word and stuffed the ointment into Yi Xiang's hand.
"Let your daughter-in-law give you medicine." With that, she walked out.
Li Yuan was about to sit up in a secret, but Yi Xiang took the first step to hold down the moving body. She had never seen this kind of posture, nor had she helped anyone apply medicine to heal her wounds, but she followed Li Ying's example, slowly sat down on the edge of the bed, dug out a transparent paste from the bottle, and threw it at his back without controlling the force.
Li Yuan suddenly let out a deafening scream, and the remaining half was blocked by him with a soft pillow. He must not let Yi Xiang look down on him and make her think that he is a man who is afraid of pain.
Yi Xiang glanced at the fine sweat on his forehead strangely, wondering why he was sweating so much before it was summer. Thinking that he was hot, he opened the window and brought a strong wind that swept through the room. The sand and gravel wind blew mercilessly across his fragile back, adding a dense sting to the original scars. The pain that was easy to alleviate was mobilized again, and he was crying for his father and mother.
When the neighbors heard this, they went out and gossiped.
"Tsk, this little kite was beaten like this before it passed the door, it's really miserable. Who will persuade? ”
"Come on. People may be willing to fight and suffer, let's not follow blindly. ”
"Men, it's normal to be beaten. Which daughter-in-law is angry and doesn't beat a man to get angry. Disperse, disperse. ”
The crowd dispersed, leaving it alone.
Lai's wedding was so simple that it was even shabby. A couple of newlyweds just registered on the family tree, went to the ancestral hall to kowtow together, and made an oath to count it as a ceremony, and they were sent into the cave without even wearing a wedding dress.
There are several dishes and a pot of bamboo wine on the table. The newcomer sitting on the edge of the bed with a hijab talking to himself took off the hijab and bumped into Yi Xiang and entered the door.
Yi Xiang was thoughtful, the oath that Li Yuan made to her in the ancestral hall was too precious and solemn, and Li Yuan's serious and sincere eyes also made her feel guilty.
"Love and love, unswerving." She repeated the phrase silently.
Li Yuan grabbed the red hijab and asked with a little embarrassment, "Do you want to remove the hijab?" How about having fun? ”
Yi Xiang nodded.
Lai Kite put the hijab back on. From the perspective of the hem part, he watched Yi Xiang's gentle footsteps gradually approach.
Yi Xiang generally lifted his hijab from the game. Li Yuan deliberately made a grimace to scare her. She forgot herself for a moment, and laughed out loud. She quickly covered her mouth and watched him nervously, but he didn't seem to realize it.
Li Yuan pretended to mysteriously pull her out the door.
Yi Xiang followed curiously, and the moment he stepped out of the threshold, the originally dark night suddenly shone brightly, and under the clear sky, purple irises bloomed all over the mountains, crowding his eyes.
Li Yuan pulled her all the way to the depths of the sea of flowers, and threw herself into the thousands of flowers, he looked at her with a little apologies and said, "I have wronged you, I can only use the illusion to fulfill this dream." ”
Yi Xiang shook his head and smiled heartily.
Li Yuan curled her fingers tightly and held her soft fingers tightly into her palm.
"Are you happy?"
Yi Xiang nodded.
"If you're happy, I'll be happy."
After the two got married, Yi Xiang's identity was also recognized, and she no longer needed to hide in that corner and see the light of day.
On that day, Li Mei from the courtyard next door often came to talk to Li Ying these days, because she reached the age of marriage, and her parents ushered in the 30th limit one after another. Both parents fell together, leaving Li Mei at a loss and in pain.
The mother took a fancy to the eldest son of the patriarch's family, and intended to come to the door to propose marriage before her thirtieth birthday, hoping to drink her daughter's wedding wine before she died. After they go, there are also people who can help their daughters.
But Li Mei likes the youngest son of the patriarch's family, but the youngest son is only thirteen and a half years old, and it will take half a year to get married, but Li Mei's parents still have more than a month of longevity left, and they can't afford to wait at all.
During those days, Li Mei often complained to Li Ying. Li Ying herself also hides unspeakable sadness in her heart, how is the road in front of her and Jinyunchi that she can't see the future. Seeing Li Mei crying and crying bitterly for her parents and lover, she couldn't help but feel sad and sad when she got to it.
Yi Xiang hid quietly next door, listening to the two of them hugging and crying, and the heart in his chest beat strangely.
A whimper in the wind swirled in her ears. She suddenly remembered the thousand branches above the thirty-six heavens, and whether the cold-faced god of war who shocked the world had ever regretted it after completely strangling her merman clan.
Since he is so ruthless, why should he adopt her, a lonely, ignorant mermaid orphan, it is better to let her get lost in the sea and die in a foreign land. But he just picked the wings of the Vermilion Bird and put it on her back, so that she could never return to the deep sea and hear the whale song.
She had ignorantly regarded him as her only reliance, and she was obedient to him and grateful to him.
He is lonely, murderous and sleeps forever with the blood of others. Before she came to the Thirty-Sixth Heaven, there was only him and his reflection in the Mirror Lake under the thousand-branched tree.
Maybe he was too lonely, or maybe he was bored to the extreme, and he quietly adopted a merman who had a blood feud with him. He fashioned her as the second noblest god in the Thirty-Six Heavens, revered by a thousand gods and worshipped by all spirits.
He was special to her, at least only she had seen a smile he had rarely seen. The lonely years she had passed together, the elixir and jade dew she had drunk, and even the hugs in the extreme cold of the night made her feel extremely precious.
It was he who brought her up single-handedly, from childhood to adulthood.
It has nothing to do with affection, nothing to do with love, it's just a kind of dependence, mutual comfort. In the long, immortal years, an insignificant, to pass the light of the day.
No big deal.
But since he has this power to reach the heavens, why can't he be perfect and completely annihilate the truth. Why did she know the truth? Tens of thousands of years of mutual affection are actually dancing with wolves and recognizing thieves as fathers. It was he who killed her parents, brothers, relatives and friends with his own hands.
On the surface of the East China Sea, soaked floating corpses were all over the sky, the blood-colored waves were endless, and the pungent bloody breath made her dizzy and nauseous. To this day, the tragic situation of that year is still vivid.
And all this is the work of the people she loves the most.
How ironic.
At this moment, she felt a kind of sadness and pain in hindsight. The long-forgotten seven emotions and six desires are returning little by little. Before she knew it, her eyes were filled with tears, wetting the dust of the windowsill.
Li Kite broke in and happened to bump into the scene of her crying. He was slightly stunned, and hurriedly found a clean handkerchief, and wiped away her tears distressedly, "Why are you crying, is Ying'er bullying you?" Li Ying, you come out for me! He turned around to find trouble with Li Ying, and was pulled by Yi Xiang's sleeve.
She shook her head desperately at him, and Li Yuan let go of her posture of avenging his wife.
The relationship between the two is getting closer and closer, although there is no husband and wife, but anyone with a discerning eye can see that Li Yuan likes Yixiang. He wanted to take Yi Xiang into his arms and comfort her for an excuse, but he didn't want to be pushed away by Yi Xiang.
She looked out the window in horror, and there was something familiar in the wind that frightened her.
Li Yuan felt sad because of Yi Xiang's tough refusal, and showed a reluctant smile.
That night, Li Yuan was still holding the quilt and making the floor, but Yi Xiang invited him to stay for the first time. To be honest, she didn't quite understand why Li Yuan didn't want to sleep with her, the gods in the sky never cared where they stayed tonight or who they slept with, they were just resting. It's just that she forgot that the immortals can't touch each other, and the Li Kite in front of her is a mortal who can be completely approached.
Li Yuan was taken aback for a while, and finally rejected her proposal. He tilted his head and smiled at her reluctantly: "Xiangxiang, I know you have someone else in your heart, I can't do this." ”
Yi Xiang didn't understand the reason for his words, but just stared at his face, which was covered by depressed light and shadow, which made her feel heartache.
Soon, Li Ying was caught fornicating with the son of the Jinyun clan, and after being caught on the spot, he was completely imprisoned. Towards the beginning of summer, Li Ying fell seriously ill. Li Yuan went to see her every day, but every time she came back, she was gloomy.
Yi Xiang saw that he was anxious and offered to take care of Li Ying for him. Under her careful care, Li Ying's condition improved, and during this period, her relationship with Li Ying became more and more intimate.
Thinking that she couldn't speak, Li Ying unscrupulously confided in her her bitterness and her deep feelings for the feuding son.
Yi Xiang was always shocked by her straightforward and warm feelings. She often came back from confinement clutching her chest and tried to press the irregular beats. So much so that Li Yuan once thought that there was something wrong with her heart, and she shushed her for warmth.
And every time he greeted him kindly, the irregular beating would be even more unreasonable.
Soon, the wedding of Li Mei and the son of the patriarch was held at Li Mei's house. Because it was the marriage of the patriarch's family, there were many people who came to congratulate and cheer. That night was a rare bustle in the empty mountains.
Yi Xiang didn't go up to join in the fun, but was taken by Li Yuan to drink a sip of happy wine. When she came out, she found a young man standing not far from the door, with a sad expression, and she could vaguely see tears on his face.
Li Yuan told her that it was the patriarch's youngest son.
Yi Xiang gradually understood that the reason why the people here were unhappy seemed to be because they were carrying a curse that they could not escape. A strange emotion welled up in her heart, and she desperately wanted to do something for them.
After returning home, she was a little idle, and went to visit Li Ying in the confinement room. After entering the door, she found that Li Ying's expression was very strange, urgent and anxious, as if there was a date waiting for her in front of her.
Li Ying didn't mean to hide her, and when she saw her, she dragged her and said eagerly: "He's here!" He was waiting for me at the bottom of the mountain. He told me with a heartfelt imprint! He had been injured when he had gone out to search for his history, but now he was getting better, and he didn't know how to be anxious when he saw me being imprisoned. Yi Xiang, I beg you, you help me, let me meet with him, I promise to make it clear to him, and from then on, it will be cut off. As she spoke, she was about to bow down at her, as if she were making a wish to the gods.