Chapter 69: A Second Marriage in Destiny
In Luoyang city.
The streets are full of lanterns and are very lively during the Lantern Festival.
At dusk, when it was not yet completely dark, Yun Xiangye and Gu Yan held little Nuonuo and played in the city. Although the Lantern Festival had not yet started, the city was already crowded with people.
While strolling along the street, Gu Yan bought a lot of food for Xiao Nuonuo.
Yun Xiangye thought that it was a rare opportunity to bring Nuonuo out to play, so she let Nuonuo eat along the way.
"Fortune telling, fortune telling, do you want to tell your fortune?"
When Yun Xiangye turned around, she saw a blind old man holding a bamboo pole and shouting in the crowd.
There were many tourists in the city today, and the blind old man was pushed around. When he met some people with bad tempers, he was scolded.
Seeing this, Run'er couldn't help but feel sympathy, "Girl, let's ask him to tell our fortunes?"
Yun Xiangye smiled faintly and said, "Calculate when you will find a good marriage partner?"
Run'er hurriedly said, "Girl! I don't want to get married!"
"Why?" Yun Xiangye looked at Run'er in confusion.
Run'er glanced at Gu Yan who was holding Nuonuo and said, "I'm afraid of marrying a husband who is as bad as my son-in-law."
Yun Xiangye smiled and said, "I am just unlucky. I will definitely choose a good husband for you when the time comes."
Gu Yan frowned and said, "Xiangye, you keep saying that people around me look down on you, but you allow your maid to talk about me?"
Yun Xiangye said: "Run'er is my little sister who grew up under my care. She is not just a maid, and you deserve to be told off!"
Yun Xiangye smiled and walked up to the blind old man who was fortune-telling and said, "Sir, can you tell me my marriage fate?"
"Of course."
Yun Xiangye smiled and said, "Can you please calculate the marriage fate of this little maid of mine?"
The fortune teller stroked his graying beard and asked, "What is your birth date?"
Run'er lowered her eyes and said, "I don't know my birth date. I have been sold here and there since I was a child."
Yun Xiangye felt sorry for Run'er, so she could only tell him her own birth date and time, "Sir, please calculate my marriage fate based on my birth date and time..."
When Gu Yan heard Yun Xiangye's birth date, he knew it was her own birth date, so he frowned and looked at Yun Xiangye and said, "You have too much money to spend, right?"
The fortune teller moved his fingers slightly, and after a while he said, "Your fate indicates that you will be very rich and powerful after you get married, but your marriage is not going well. I'm afraid you will have two marriages. It's a sign that you will get married again."
Yun Xiangye whispered: "Two marriages?"
Gu Yan frowned and looked at the fortune teller, sneering, "Where did this blind charlatan come from? Qing Ming, give him some silver and let him go."
The fortune teller stroked his beard and said, "My dear, although I am blind, fortune-telling never lies. This girl is destined to be remarried and will get married twice."
Gu Yan frowned and said, "She will never be able to marry again in this life!"
Yun Xiangye smiled faintly, ignoring Gu Yan's anger, and added fuel to the fire, "You can never say for sure."
Yun Xiangye approached the fortune teller and read out a string of birth data in a very low voice: "Sir, could you please calculate the marriage fate of this woman with this birth data?"
The fortune teller moved his fingers slightly, then stroked his beard and said slowly: "The phoenix is flying, its feathers fluttering, and it will also gather here and stop."
Gu Yan frowned slightly as he listened to the fortune teller's words. Although Yun Xiangye lowered her voice when reporting her birthday, Gu Yan, who was standing next to her, also heard the year and month. Judging from the year and month, she should be two years older than Yun Xiangye. Isn't that Ye Wanhe?
The phoenix is flying...Gu Yan frowned slightly.
Yun Xiangye listened to the fortune teller's words and chuckled, "This is the money for you, sir."
Yun Xiangye hurriedly took out the silver note from her purse and handed it to the fortune teller.
The fortune teller took the banknote and said, "Thank you, ma'am."
After the fortune teller folded the silver bills, he began to move the bamboo stick tremblingly and shouted fortune-telling.
The voice of fortune-telling gradually faded away. Gu Yan frowned and looked at Yun Xiangye and said, "You want to marry again, only if I die!"
Yun Xiangye said: "What if you die and I remarry?"
Gu Yan frowned, staring at Yun Xiangye and said, "Then you can't marry again!"
Yun Xiangye said: "By that time you will no longer be alive, will you still be able to control me?"
Gu Yan frowned, he was very angry, "Yun Xiangye!"
Yun Xiangye was so angry that Gu Yan was furious, but he just felt relieved, "It was just nonsense from a quack. You took it seriously. If he could really tell fortunes accurately, he wouldn't come to the crowd alone in the winter to ask for fortune-telling."
Gu Yan frowned and said, "If you dare to have a second marriage, I will definitely kill your second husband!"
Yun Xiangye took Xiao Nuonuo from Gu Yan's arms and said, "On the Lantern Festival, what nonsense are you talking about in front of Nuonuo?"
Gu Yan said angrily: "You were the one who wanted to marry again first."
Yun Xiangye said: "Don't worry, I don't think my life is too long. I have suffered enough from marriage once, and I will definitely not marry again."
"Bird...big bird..."
Nuonuo pointed at the phoenix lantern on a pleasure boat in the river and said, "Big bird."
Yun Xiangye chuckled and said, "Nuonuo, this is not a big bird, it is a phoenix. Follow mother and chant, phoenix..."
"Woof woof." Nuonuo called out indistinctly.
Gu Yan said beside Yun Xiangye, "The birth date you calculated just now was Aunt Ye's?"
Yun Xiangye glanced around, fearing that the prince's secret guards were following them.
Gu Yan said: "It's okay, just say it, they can't hear it."
Yun Xiangye chuckled softly and said, "It's Sister He's birth date."
Gu Yan said: "I didn't expect Sister He to have the fate of a phoenix, but if she wants to become a phoenix, I'm afraid it will be difficult."
"What do you mean by Phoenix's fate?" Yun Xiangye asked, "Have you never read the Book of Songs?"
Yun Xiangye glanced at Gu Yan and said, "The phoenix is flying, its feathers fluttering, and it also gathers and rests. This is from the Book of Songs, which says that the phoenix flies high and all the birds admire it. Nowadays, this sentence is often used to say that a couple is deeply in love and lovers will eventually get married. This clearly means that my sister can get married with her lover and have a happy marriage. What does this have to do with the fate of the phoenix?"
Gu Yan listened to Yun Xiangye's explanation and thought it was possible, but he was a royal relative and when he heard the word "Phoenix" he only thought of the position of queen.
This line of poetry means that husband and wife are in love and harmony. This line of poetry is also commonly used by blind sorcerers when they predict people's marriage.
Nuonuo was very excited when she saw the exquisite lanterns on the boat.
The lanterns on the bridges on both sides were also lit up, and it was suddenly as bright as day. Many people on the shore also released lotus lanterns into the river to make wishes. The river was filled with various lotus lanterns with candlelight floating on them, dotted like the Milky Way.
Yun Xiangye then took Nuonuo to buy a lotus lantern, wrote down her wishes and put them in the lotus lantern.
Gu Yan came up to Yun Xiangye and asked, "What wish did you write?"
Yun Xiangye said: "I hope that all my loved ones will be free from illness, disaster and pain, and live in peace and prosperity."
Gu Yan asked, "Are you still worried about Zhao Jing's illness?"
Yun Xiangye frowned and looked at Gu Yan and said, "You bastard! If I hadn't been afraid that you would be angry and didn't go to see Zhao Jing that day, Nan'an would never have come to insult me! How dare you misunderstand me?"
Gu Yan said: "I just asked casually, don't be angry."
Yun Xiangye said, "It seems that the fortune teller just now has some skills. He really predicted everything correctly. Since you don't believe me, divorce me now and let me remarry as soon as possible."
Gu Yan listened to Yun Xiangye's words, pursed his lips, reached out and held Yun Xiangye's wrist and said: "After we return to Chang'an, we will get married again. I owe you a wedding gift."
Yun Xiangye looked at Gu Yan in confusion.
Gu Yan said, "Didn't the blind man say that you would get married twice? When we return to Chang'an, you and I can hold a wedding ceremony and get married again. That will be exactly two weddings, and it can be considered your second marriage."
Yun Xiangye frowned and said, "You have too much money and nowhere to spend it, right? Nuonuo is already two years old. If you and I get married again, aren't you afraid of being laughed at?"
Gu Yan said: "Didn't you say that you were in a difficult situation in Chang'an and everyone looked down on you? Let's make up for the wedding ceremony, invite all the royal relatives, nobles and aristocratic families to the wedding ceremony, and announce to everyone in Chang'an that you are my Crown Prince's Consort."
Yun Xiangye said: "I don't have the time to marry you again. You just told me about a sorcerer. Do you still believe his fortune-telling?"
Gu Yan said, "That's right. Fortune telling is not accurate. Previously, a powerful Taoist priest said that my aunt was destined to be a phoenix. But later, my aunt did not enter the palace to become the empress. It can be seen that most of them are lies."
Yun Xiangye took Xiao Nuonuo's hand and walked to the shore and placed the lotus lantern.
Little Nuonuo imitated Yun Xiangye and put his hands together to pray.
Gu Yan asked Xiao Nuonuo, "What is Nuonuo's wish?"
Xiao Nuonuo raised her eyes to look at Gu Yan and said, "Tanghulu."
Gu Yan pinched Xiao Nuonuo's cheeks and said, "Okay, I'll buy you a candied haws later."
The river was filled with lotus lanterns, and a team dancing with dragon lanterns passed over the bridge, causing the people to exclaim in amazement.
Gu Yan held Nuonuo in one hand and put his other hand on Yun Xiangye's waist and said, "I heard that if you pluck a hair from the Qilin lantern, you will be able to have a child this year."
Yun Xiangye looked at Gu Yan and said, "Don't give me that. I don't want to give birth to a child for you!"
Gu Yan laughed and said, "That's fine. After all, if you have a child, you have to endure it for the first three months, the next three months, and another two months after the birth. It's almost a year..."
Yun Xiangye realized what Gu Yan said, and she stepped hard on Gu Yan.
Gu Yan felt pain but still smiled.
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The Lantern Festival and other festivals in Chang'an are more lively than those in Luoyang.
At the palace gate was a parade of lanterns presented by various prefectures in Dasheng.
On the palace wall, Zhao Yun looked at the lanterns below but showed no interest.
Fu Qianran stood beside Zhao Yun and said, "Your Highness, do you want to go outside the palace to see the lanterns? The merchants on Shanglin Street are all having lantern riddles. The winner can win a lantern. It's really lively."
Seeing that Zhao Yun didn't respond, Fu Qianran whispered, "Your Highness?"
Zhao Yun glanced at Fu Qianran, frowned slightly and said, "You want to guess the riddles?"
Fu Qianran whispered: "I do. After all, this is the last time I will celebrate the Lantern Festival outside the palace..."
After her wedding and becoming the Crown Princess, she would no longer be allowed to leave the palace for fun during the Lantern Festival.
Zhao Yun said, "There are too many people on the street, so I won't go with you. Shi'an, brother Rui, you two will accompany Miss Fu to Shanglin Street to guess lantern riddles."
Xie Shian, who was watching the lanterns on the palace wall, was chatting with Xiangjun Wang Zhao Rui about Gu Yan's pursuit of his wife.
Xie Shian was stunned when he suddenly heard Zhao Yun's order, "Your Highness, this is inappropriate, isn't it?"
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