Chapter 92 Chapter 92 Kneel down to worship heaven and earth.
The next day, Zhang Rushan did not choose to go to the barracks with Zheng Qi and others. He accompanied Zhang Jingxian to hunt outside Changling City.
It was also at this time that Zhang Jingxian learned that her cousin could ride a horse and his riding skills were no less than hers.
"Mrs. Ban raised a herd of horses in Jiangyuan, and over time, I learned how to ride them. However, the quality of the horses there is far inferior to that of the colt." Zhang Rushan looked at the colt under Zhang Jingxian with a hint of admiration and couldn't help but praise it, "What a good horse!"
The colt seemed to know that the male human was praising him, so he held his head high and chest out, looking majestic.
Seeing this, Zhang Jingxian felt a little guilty. She was afraid that her cousin would ask her where she got the foal from, so she pulled the reins as if nothing had happened and galloped out of the city.
All the way to the outside of the city, no one stopped us.
However, Tinglan and Yiyu followed them closely behind.
Yi Yu's attitude towards her was not as good as before, but he pointed out a suitable hunting location for her. Zhang Jingxian trusted him very much and followed his instructions without hesitation.
Our destination was a picturesque valley, bordered by dense forests and rolling hills. The interweaving of emerald green and withered yellow told everyone who arrived that autumn had arrived.
Zhang Jingxian took a deep breath, smiled and got off the horse.
There were many pairs of eyes around who were secretly looking at her, but when they saw that she had only fed the horse some water, they all looked away.
This human girl is nothing to be afraid of.
It seemed that they were right. Zhang Jingxian and her cousin worked hard for most of the day and caught several pheasants and rabbits, but they didn't catch a single goose.
Once, she accidentally broke free from a wild goose; once, when she saw the wild goose was about to fly down, Tinglan coughed because of the pollen she inhaled; another time, when she drew the bow, Yi Yu's arrow pierced the wild goose's feather before her, and of course only one feather was left.
As for my cousin, it was even more miserable. The geese were not flying towards him at all.
In the afternoon, Tinglan kindly reminded them of the time to return to the city, so Zhang Jingxian returned empty-handed on the first day.
What's more, the same thing happened on the second and third days.
On the fourth day, Zhang Jingxian finally persuaded her cousin and Zheng Qi to go to the barracks. She changed the hunting location according to her memory of her previous life.
This time they were very close to the manor that Xie Yun had built in her previous life. She was familiar with the surrounding environment, so she walked around and found a clear lake.
By the lake, many migratory birds have stopped in the muddy reeds to look for food, including six or seven wild geese.
She was overjoyed and asked Tinglan and Yiyu to keep an eye on the horses they brought. She set the trap by herself and refused to let any of them interfere.
The effect was obvious. Zhang Jingxian successfully caught two live geese with their feathers still intact.
She skillfully tied up the wild goose, wiped the sweat from her forehead, rode on the foal's back and headed back to Changling City.
In the sunlight, the woman's fluttering skirt is glittering and colorful, like a vivid and moving painting.
"Madam Zhang is really amazing." Tinglan followed behind and couldn't help but sigh. She thought back to the first time she met Madam Zhang, she felt very weak.
However, in the next few days, she continued to feel the vitality brought by Madam Zhang.
It is vigorous, exuberant and makes people feel comfortable.
"Yeah." Yi Yu was a little distracted. After a moment, he whispered, "Follow her."
It was almost noon when Zhang Jingxian returned to the mansion with the captured geese.
After she settled the foal, she washed up a bit, ate a few pieces of bean cakes, and then carried the two live geese directly towards the door.
Halfway there, she met a white-haired old man in official uniform and suddenly realized that she had made a confusing mistake.
She was not the "Mrs. Zhang" in her previous life, but just a guest who had stayed in Changling Mansion for a few days. How could she know where Xie Yun lived when she deliberately avoided contact with him?
She didn't even care about status and wanted to go straight into the front hall where Envoy Xie was holding meetings.
It was no wonder that the white-haired old man was looking at her strangely, as if he didn't understand why a woman would appear in the front hall where officials came and went, holding two wild geese in her hands, which was even more puzzling.
Zhang Jingxian recognized him and politely called him, "Grain Officer."
Upon hearing this, the grain official Weng and the maid following behind her were stunned.
"Sir, the grain officer, I am a guest of the envoy. I am here on the envoy's orders to catch wild geese for his wedding ceremony." Zhang Jingxian introduced herself calmly, and said that she had just entered the mansion and did not know the envoy's residence yet.
"It turns out to be a female guest. Beyond this corridor door is the envoy's office. Today's meeting has ended. You should quickly report to the envoy."
Weng Liangguan was a gentle man and kindly showed her the way.
Zhang Jingxian thanked him sincerely and walked into the corridor.
Grain official Weng looked at the wild goose in her hand and murmured softly, "I heard that the envoy's wife saved his life. This marriage is mostly for the sake of benevolence. I wonder if I can accept the envoy's invitation to participate..."
Unfortunately, Zhang Jingxian walked too fast and didn't hear what he said.
She walked to the wooden corridor and paused for a moment before asking the person guarding the door to inform her.
Xie glanced at her, but did not report to the envoy. Instead, he told her to come in calmly, "Madam Zhang, you are the envoy's benefactor and respected by everyone here. You don't need to report to the envoy if you want to see him."
A strange thought flashed through her mind, but she didn't catch it so quickly. Zhang Jingxian responded dryly, still holding the two geese in her hands, and walked into the door.
The next moment, the door closed.
She paused slightly. It was so quiet around her, as if no one was there. But Xie Yun was indeed there, so she had no choice but to go in.
The quietly burning copper lamp and the dark, heavy curtains created a chilly atmosphere, except for the live goose in her hand, which offered some warmth.
When Zhang Jingxian walked to the deepest part and saw the figure leaning carelessly on the low couch, her fingers suddenly loosened, and the two geese tied with vines immediately let out a terrified cry.
"quack--"
Harsh and noisy.
Xie Yun opened his eyes, and his dark pupils stared at her sinisterly, with a slight blue tint under his eyes, as if he had not rested for a moment during the days when she had eaten and drunk well and gone hunting leisurely outside the city.
And just as he got a chance to rest for a while, she rushed in with two geese that quacked like ducks.
Zhang Jingxian smiled awkwardly. She deliberately avoided him and really didn't know how busy he was.
"My dear, this is my wedding gift to you and your wife."
She fulfilled her promise and gave him two live geese with lush feathers that flew high and far.
Xie Yun stood up from the low couch and walked towards her step by step, his eyes never leaving her. His black eyes were like an endless abyss, wanting to suck her soul in.
Zhang Jingxian fell into a trance. When she had to look up at his stern face with great effort, she suddenly woke up, turned her head awkwardly, and took a few steps back.
"My gift to you, my lord, has arrived. Please take a good rest."
After saying this, she hurried out.
"Wait." Xie Yun stopped her, her tone calm, "The embroiderer in the city sent over the patterns for the wedding gowns. Ah Xian, please choose one."
His finger pointed at a pile of embroidery patterns on the table. Zhang Jingxian was silent for a moment, walked closer, lowered her head, and carefully selected them.
The embroidery is mainly based on a black background, with red silk threads outlining various auspicious meanings, indicating that men and women are compatible.
There are sun and moon, flowers and plants, and animals.
After comparing them, Zhang Jingxian chose the noble and elegant orchid pattern and whispered, "My dear husband and wife, both of you are gentlemen of orchids and flowers. This pattern will be more suitable for your wedding dress."
Lan Fang gentleman.
Xie Yun silently recited these four words, and a hint of amusement gradually appeared in his deep eyes. After playing tricks on him, this peasant girl actually wanted him to be a gentleman.
"Okay, embroider this pattern on the wedding dress." He immediately told someone to inform the embroiderers in the city and said coldly, "Have them finish the work as soon as possible."
How long is as soon as possible?
Zhang Jingxian remembered that she didn't know his wedding date yet, pursed her lips, and turned around without saying a word.
"Actually, there's something I've been wanting to ask Ah Xian." Suddenly, a deep male voice came, carrying a faint smile. "If I don't get an answer from Ah Xian, I'm afraid I'll be unable to sleep at night and will be worried about it."
It just sounds like a joke.
"Excuse me, sir." Zhang Jingxian turned her back to him and watched his shadow swallow her own shadow.
"You said you would never like me. What did you mean by never?" Xie Yun had no expression on his face. He needed a specific answer.
"It means," Zhang Jingxian said, her face pale with pain, her lips curved, "the resurrection of the dead and the reversal of time."
This is something that will never be possible.
Because time cannot be reversed, and the dead will never come back to life.
Xie Yun smiled, but his gloomy eyes were devoid of any light. "It really is, forever, impossible."
After saying this, he nodded calmly and asked her to fulfill her responsibilities as a guest and help him organize the wedding.
"I will."
Zhang Jingxian responded and strode out.
From this moment on, she became as busy as Xie Yun, and almost all the arrangements for the wedding came to her.
Zhang Jingxian had no idea, so she could only agree on the surface, while secretly frantically looking up literary allusions. If she couldn't find anything, she would shamelessly go to some village elders' homes and ask them.
The wife of the grain official Weng was also "harassed" by her several times, but fortunately, in the end, all the regulations were successfully finalized.
"When is the wedding date?" She finally found time to ask Xie this question.
Xie replied in a deep voice, "Seven days from now will be an auspicious day."
Zhang Jingxian nodded. She would be able to leave in seven days, and from then on, she would never set foot in Changling City again.
Perhaps she had already determined that this marriage coincided with that in her previous life, so she still did not ask about Madam Xie Yun's identity.
Since she didn't ask, naturally no one told her the truth.
In this way, she was busy arranging the wedding for Envoy Xie, while Zhang Rushan and others went to the military camp for experience, and time passed day by day.
Until the day before Xie Yun's wedding, she suddenly had nothing to do.
Zhang Jingxian took Huang Ying and Xiaoju to the market in Changling City. Just like what she did in Ying County, she wanted to buy food and quilts for her journey back to Xishan Village.
The weather is getting colder, so I need to buy some wine and dried meat to keep warm.
Zhang Jingxian felt happy to spend all her gold, so she bought a lot of things abnormally and was not frugal at all.
Fortunately, Envoy Xie was generous enough and had asked Xie to send her the monthly salary of a high-ranking guest not long ago, so she still had a lot of gold left.
Zhang Jingxian counted and walked into a magnificent pavilion without blinking, buying rouge, pearl powder, sword, and spices...
"Ah Xian!"
Someone called her name in surprise. Zhang Jingxian turned around and a hint of joy appeared in her eyes.
"Xiao Chan, Madam Cai, why are you here?" She didn't expect to meet Cai Shu and Xiao Chan in Changling.
"Axian, autumn is here, let's deliver food and medicinal materials to the Northern Army." After Cai Shu said this, Zhang Jingxian remembered and nodded approvingly at her.
"Not only that, Envoy Xie is getting married, and County Magistrate Chen and Mr. Ziji are coming to watch the ceremony. My lady and the head of the family also received an invitation." The little cicada chirped excitedly. Being able to be a guest of Envoy Xie meant, to some extent, that the Cai family would have a backer from now on.
"The envoy's wife should be of noble status and both good character and beauty, just like Ah Xian said, right?"
"Yeah, flawless."
Zhang Jingxian curled her eyes and followed Xiao Chan's words.
Cai Shu was just about to ask who the girl was when suddenly, a servant of her father, Cai Gong, came and told Cai Gong that he was looking for her urgently.
"Ah Xian, we'll talk later."
Cai Shu and Xiao Chan left in a hurry. Zhang Jingxian kept her eyes open and whispered to them, "Goodbye."
There will be no future.
She returned to the guest house where she lived. The red color that hit her face made her slightly dazed. When she saw a few red feathers stuck on the wooden cage of the yellow warbler, she took out the wine she bought in the market.
Zhang Jingxian only drank a small cup.
But this was enough for her to fall into a sound sleep, lying on the soft bedding with a smile on her face.
She smelled a faint fragrance and fell into a deeper sleep. Tinglan and several maids came in to bathe her and comb her hair, but she was completely unaware.
A very long time.
Zhang Jingxian felt that she had fallen into an illusion again, her mind was floating and she couldn't find her sense of reality.
But the feedback the body gave to the brain was restraint, heaviness, and a feeling of a big hand holding her firmly.
It seemed as if at the moment she knelt on the ground, as if the two colors of black and red came into her eyes, it seemed as if the dream was separated from reality and could no longer continue.
Zhang Jingxian suddenly woke up from her psychedelic dream, and then she was shocked to find that she was wearing the orchid wedding dress she had chosen herself, and was kneeling on the ground hand in hand with someone.
Her eyes opened completely and her body froze. That person... was Xie Yun.
And they are kneeling to worship heaven and earth.
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The author has something to say: Muah, the next chapter will start at the crematorium.
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