Chapter 547 The Lock of Love

Seven days, such a long seven days.

Could it be that God has arranged some unexpected events to torture this pair of lovers?

Such thoughts kept turning over and over in Huo Gannian's mind, making him restless day and night.

He carefully checked all matters in the wedding ceremony over and over again, doubled the number of guards at the wedding ceremony, and required all guests and attendants not to bring any swords or sharp objects to the banquet.

He even personally locked the cups and wine for drinking the wedding wine in a box and placed it under the bed, for fear that a thief would poison them.

This defense was as impenetrable as a dragnet, so tight that even the flies and mosquitoes that flew over the wedding banquet that day were numbered and registered. Even Rong Yi, who volunteered to be in charge of the wedding ceremony guards, couldn't help but complain:

"I've gone through the whole process dozens of times, and rehearsed the guard deployment hundreds of times! I'm so familiar with the dream of getting married that I almost feel like I'm getting married to the boss!"

Even so, Huo Gannian was still very nervous.

After four or five days of this, Rong Yi couldn't stand it anymore, so he grabbed Duan Jie, Rong Jiang and others and together they forced Huo Gannian to drink a lot of wine, trying to help him divert his attention.

Now, all the meritorious military generals have been made kings. Duan Jie was made King of Annan, Rong Jiang was made Marquis of Dingbei, and Zhuang Fengtian was made King of Pingxi. They moved to the west with the entire Zhuang family.

Fu Lin volunteered to guard the farthest and most desolate northern border and was given the title of King of Zhenbei. Rong Yi stayed in Kyoto and was given the title of King of Shengjing.

The reason why everyone was delaying going to the border to take up their posts was that they were waiting for Huo Yun's wedding and to drink the wedding wine before leaving.

At this moment, everyone gathered in the central hall of the Imperial Tutor's Mansion.

Ever since Huo Gannian abdicated the throne, everyone has returned to their former close relationship.

At this moment, seeing Huo Gannian's face full of bitterness and hatred, and not having any joy in being a groom, everyone felt puzzled.

Huo Gannian was already slightly drunk at this time. He held his forehead and sat there motionless.

His slender white hands slightly covered his eyes, so Duan Jie beside him could not see clearly what he was looking at. He only saw something crystal clear like pearls falling down.

Duan Jie stretched his neck to look, his eyes widened instantly, and his hair stood on end:

"Fuck, are you crying??"

The others were also shocked and came over to watch.

Huo Gannian's eyes were red and tearful, and he looked so pitiful that his eyes seemed to be about to break. Everyone's expression was even more horrified than seeing a mosquito carrying a big knife and chasing the black-scale cavalry.

Fu Lin frowned, unable to understand, but still took out a handkerchief from his arms, stuffed it into Huo Gannian's hand, and asked him to wipe his tears.

Rong Jiang considerately smoothed things over for Huo Gannian and said with a smile:

"The deeper the love, the deeper the affection! I understand, I understand!"

At this moment, Huo Gannian seemed to be touched by sorrow and sighed with a sad voice:

"It's okay, I don't know what happened these past two days... It's just... But when I think about Chen'er getting married, I feel really bad..."

As soon as these words came out, the entire hall was stunned:

Are you sick? Yun Chen is marrying you! Not someone else!

Hey, you're getting married, not marrying off your daughter! Why are you being so sentimental?

Finally, Yun Wang, who had been silent on the side and was mainly exhausted by state affairs but could not resign, came over.

Yun Wang raised his hand and touched Huo Gannian's forehead, staring at Huo Gannian's face with a serious expression:

"Dad, I don't care how much you miss Sister Chen, get off your brother-in-law first."

“Hahahahahahahaha——”

Everyone burst into laughter, and their laughter almost blew the roof off.

Huo Gannian finally burst into laughter, looked at the bright sky outside the hall, and sighed softly:

"Hope everything goes well tomorrow."

"It must be going smoothly! The eldest has already gone to the Prime Minister's Mansion to get married. Song Qiaoqiao, Cao Shuyu, and so many of her sisters are accompanying her! Don't count the hours anymore! Now everything is ready, only the bridal chamber is missing, hahaha!" Rong Yi said, slamming the door shut, not allowing Huo Gannian to look at the sky anymore, and called everyone:

"Come on, drink—keep drinking—"

Yun Wang felt that this was inappropriate and wanted to remind everyone that the bride would be arriving tomorrow, so it would be better for them to sit quietly today.

But before he could finish his words, Rong Yi poured a mouthful of wine into his throat, choking him and making him unable to say anything.

Rong Yi put his arm around Yun Wang's shoulder and laughed:

"Don't worry! It's only noon! We still have a whole night to go! It's okay to drink a little!"

Just like that, I couldn't tell how much time had passed.

The central hall was filled with people lying all over the place, all of them with red faces and snoring drunkenly.

Even Huo Gannian collapsed onto the seat cushion as never before, hugging a pillow and calling out sadly in his drunken dream, "Chen'er..."

Rong Yi, who had the best alcohol tolerance, was the last one to get drunk.

Seeing Huo Gannian's pitiful look, which was completely different from his usual aloof and taciturn appearance, Rong Yi found it both fresh and funny, and also understood. He said with a thick tongue:

"Oh, this is just pre-marital phobia... I had the same problem when I got married for the first time, but it got better after a few more marriages..."

Huo Gannian obviously couldn't stand what he heard. He turned over in a half-drunk and half-awake state and turned the back of his head towards Rong Yi.

Seeing that Huo Gannian rarely sneered or cursed, Rong Yi became bolder and patted Huo Gannian on the back comfortingly:

"You just feel insecure. I have a trick. I'll help you!"

After saying that, Rong Yi sent his servant back to the Rong Mansion to get some samples.

Although the servant was surprised and puzzled, wondering what Huo Gannian wanted that thing for when he was about to get married in a few hours, he still ran over obediently and took the thing away swiftly.

It's a pair of iron handcuffs.

There is also a thick iron chain connecting them in the middle.

It looks thick and solid from the outside, but it cannot be opened without a key.

The handcuffs are wrapped with a layer of soft leather, which does not hurt the skin on the wrists when worn.

The servant took this thing out from the boudoir of one of Rong Yi's concubines.

He didn't know what Rong Yi wanted with this thing that was not worthy of being displayed in a formal occasion. He just saw Rong Yi walking towards the unconscious Huo Gannian with a drunken gait that no one would recognize him.

Rong Yi put one of the handcuffs on Huo Gannian's wrist with a "click" and muttered incoherently:

"I'll teach you... If you feel insecure... just use this thing to tie the boss down... so she can't leave or run away... just like this, the lock of love, one end is tied to you, the other end is tied to me... once you lose the key, hey, we'll be inseparable for the rest of our lives..."

After saying this, Rong Yi became drunk and fell headfirst beside Huo Gannian, and was no longer able to move.