Lu Lin was still a little dazed when the silver mask he was wearing fell to the ground.
His horse also began to rampage wildly through the street, frightening the onlookers who had been watching to the point of retreating a considerable distance, afraid of being knocked down by the suddenly enraged horse.
Fortunately, the Lu family guards rushed forward and restrained the charging horse, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Lu Lin was so frightened that he trembled all over and didn't care about his current appearance. He clung tightly to the horse's neck and shouted, "I, I don't want to ride anymore. Help me down!"
The guard hesitated for a moment, especially looking at the crowd of onlookers.
Today is Lu Lin's wedding day. If he doesn't ride a horse to fetch his bride, people might laugh at him.
The Marquis of Anding's mansion is already a laughing stock in the capital. If another one comes along, it will probably wipe out all the prestige that the Marquis of Anding's mansion has accumulated among the people over the years.
Seeing that the guards did not move, Lu Lin was furious. His face, which was already swollen, became even more ferocious and frightening.
He cursed, "You damned bastards, get me a sedan chair now! I'm not riding a horse, hurry up and get it!"
He was already seriously injured, and after the fright he had just experienced, his wounds ached all over. If he were to ride a horse to the Xue residence now, he was afraid his body would truly fall apart.
It was all that despicable couple's fault. He'll remember this debt and make them pay.
Seeing this, the guards could only carefully help Lu Lin off his horse and hurriedly ordered someone to prepare a sedan chair.
As the wedding procession suddenly stopped in the middle of the street, the onlookers recovered from their shock.
Upon seeing Lu Lin's face, swollen like a pig's head, and how he could barely stand with someone's help, everyone burst into laughter.
"Oh, it seems that Young Master Lu really got beaten up. I wonder if it was because he spent a fortune on his confidante at Yingchun Pavilion and was discovered by Miss Xue that he was beaten like this."
"If you ask me, maybe the young master who liked Miss Xue was angry that Miss Xue married such a dandy, so he secretly beat her up.
This Beijing Times is actually quite interesting. I thought it was all nonsense, but it turns out it's true.
"Indeed, it looks quite novel. I heard that they release new stories every day, which is much more interesting than the stories that the storytellers in the teahouse keep repeating themselves."
"That must be more interesting than the old stories told by storytellers. After all, the content in the newspaper is true. Look, Young Master Lu's injury is not light."
It seems that last night at Yingchun Tower was indeed the last indulgence before the wedding.
Upon hearing this, the crowd erupted in laughter again, with some even reading the headline of the Beijing Times aloud, much to the amusement of those around them.
Lu Lin was furious, especially when he saw the Beijing Times. He wished he could rush up and tear it to shreds right then and there.
He will definitely not let that bitch Jiang Yimian get away with it.
Looking around, I still couldn't figure out how my mask had fallen off.
Enraged, he pointed at the crowd and shouted, "What nonsense are you spouting? I was injured by accident, not beaten up as you say. If you dare to talk nonsense again, I'll send you to see the authorities right now."
However, the onlookers became even more animated in their discussion, and even when the Lu family's guards tried to stop them, they were unsuccessful.
There were simply too many onlookers, and the Lu family guards couldn't attend to them all at once.
Fortunately, since they hadn't been away from the Lu family for long, the sedan chair arrived quickly.
Only after Lu Lin was helped into the sedan chair did the wedding procession continue towards the Xue family.
However, the onlookers laughed even louder at the sight, for it was the first time in the capital that a groom had been carried in a sedan chair to fetch his bride.
For a time, people in the capital became increasingly eager about Lu Lin's marriage, especially after they learned that Lu Lin actually went to pick up his bride in a sedan chair, which intensified the ridicule.
This brought a lot of business to Baoxiangfang.
Because Lu Lin was beaten, and his marriage brought the Beijing Times a lot of attention, the Beijing Times' popularity continued to rise for several days. People lined up at the door to buy the newspaper every morning, and other items in Baoxiangfang also sold better.
The content in the Times is so rich and interesting, with each section having its own audience, and the price is not expensive, that people developed the habit of buying the Times in just a few days.
In recent days, people carrying newspapers can be seen everywhere on the streets, in teahouses and pubs.
So much so that people have come to my door urging me to update the series.
After finishing reading the latest edition of Dream of the Red Chamber in the Times early in the morning, Chen Feiyan came to Baoxiangfang without stopping.
Jiang Yimian is currently drying medicinal herbs and some fresh flowers and plants in the backyard of Baoxiangfang.
Now that Baoxiangfang is doing well, she plans to take this opportunity to make a new type of incense pill, so she's looking at these medicinal herbs and flowers for inspiration.
As soon as Chen Feiyan saw her, she rushed over, grabbed her hand, and leaned close to her, saying pitifully, "Miss Jiang, where is tomorrow's Beijing Times? Could you let me take a look? This 'Dream of the Red Chamber' is much more interesting than those stories in bookstores about poor scholars being favored by rich young ladies."
I'm so eager to know what happens next.
It's so agonizing! These past few days, she's been spending most of her time chatting with other young ladies about *Dream of the Red Chamber*, she's incredibly interested in the later parts of the story.
Unfortunately, the Daily Times is only updated once a year, which is not enough to satisfy my craving.
If she hadn't been so eager to know what happened next, she wouldn't have made a special trip to Baoxiangfang to find someone.
When she first learned that the Times was published by Baoxiangfang, she was somewhat incredulous, until she saw the long queue in front of Baoxiangfang with her own eyes and then she was convinced.
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