Chapter 117: Meeting on a Narrow Road
Seeing this, Mu Feng hurriedly winked at the matchmaker.
The matchmaker smiled and said loudly: "The auspicious time has arrived, light the firecrackers."
Out of consideration for her reputation, Wang had no choice but to push the crying Gu Wanru to Nanny Zhou and ask her to take her into the house.
"Hurry up and persuade him, we have to go back to the Duke's Mansion to entertain guests soon."
Nanny Zhou quickly helped Gu Wanru into the house.
Wang waved her hand, and someone lit the long firecrackers hanging on both sides of the gate.
There was a burst of crackling sounds, mixed in with the lively sounds of blowing and beating.
Then, the people from the Gu Mansion scattered the prepared tea leaves and rice grains on the top of the sedan chair.
The two brothers Gu Ruiwen and Gu Jinwen walked along with the sedan chair, which was called "sending the sedan chair."
Gu Huan sat in the sedan chair with a nervous heart, always feeling uneasy.
Did Aunt Pei only prepare three hooligans to stir up trouble?
The wedding procession walked for a long time with music and dance. Gu Huan was a little confused and quietly lifted the curtain to look outside.
Hey, how did we get to the downtown area?
As they walked, Mu Feng and his men scattered copper coins all the way, causing people from all over the city to rush over frantically.
Fortunately, there was a row of guards wearing black robes, red brocade belts, and red hairbands standing on each side of the street. All of them had stern expressions, which seemed a bit... inappropriate with the festive red.
"Aunt, are you feeling unwell?"
Mu Feng, who had been staring at the curtains, immediately rode forward, leaned over and asked in a low voice.
Gu Huan quickly lowered the curtains: "Nothing is wrong... Liu Lang, this road is wrong."
If Mu Feng hadn't come to pick her up in person, she would have suspected that someone was plotting to take her away.
The fear of being kidnapped still hasn't dissipated.
Mu Feng's heart ached.
Yesterday he learned that some women from the Mu family were abducted, and he was so anxious that he wanted to rush to his second uncle's Duke's Mansion that night. However, his parents held him tightly, crying and shouting, not allowing him to go.
Fortunately, the next day the Duke's Mansion sent someone to invite him to marry, and he was finally able to put his mind at ease.
Just now someone actually tried to throw dirty water on Gu Huan, and he was so angry that he wanted to tear those people apart.
Gu Huan is such a good and pitiful girl, why do people bully her?
He almost lay on the horse's back and whispered to the curtain, "My second uncle instructed that we should follow the ceremony of marrying a wife, so the bridal sedan should go around the city and also go around the Tianfa Altar. There, the monks will light incense and wait to bestow blessings of "a thousand years of life."
Gu Huan was speechless.
My heart was instantly filled with warmth and my eyes were filled with tears.
Mu Junyan wanted to announce to the entire capital that he treated her as his legal wife.
"Well, thank you for your hard work, Rokuro."
Mu Feng felt sad when he heard this.
He straightened his back and tried hard to suppress the astringency in the corners of his eyes.
Tianfa Altar is where the people of Bianjing pray on a daily basis, and it is always bustling with incense all year round.
The wedding procession stopped here. Mu Feng stepped forward, saluted the monk, took the incense and lit it in the incense burner. After saluting towards the top of the Tianfa Altar Pagoda, he inserted the incense into the incense burner.
The two brothers Gu Ruiwen and Gu Jinwen stepped forward. Gu Jinwen held a red lacquered carved incense box. Gu Ruiwen took three incense sticks from the monk, lit them, and carefully put them into the incense box.
Taking the Gu Fu and placing it in the fire jar is called "receiving the fire."
The two brothers returned to the bridal sedan and bowed to it.
"Second sister, we are back."
Gu Huan nodded and told the two to study hard.
The two brothers bowed again and prepared to return home.
Gu Jinwen held the incense box in her hand, looking back every time she took a step, her eyes gradually filled with tears.
From now on, it will be difficult for him to see his only sister who loves him.
He wanted to cry.
The wedding procession then marched towards the Yongguo Mansion in a mighty manner, and Gu Huan finally put her heart at ease.
On the gray tile roof of an inconspicuous building, a man in a gray robe was sitting.
If you don't look carefully, you won't notice there is a person there.
Ji Xuanyu stared at the bridal sedan and the lively wedding procession, the silver half-face mask in his hands was almost broken into pieces.
Qingjun's face was completely bloodless and looked sickly pale.
He wanted to snatch the person away.
However, with his current status, even if he succeeded in snatching the girl away, what could he give her?
If he really snatched her away, the people in the capital would definitely think that it was she who was abducted.
He had hurt her once and couldn't do it a second time.
Gu Huan, who was sitting in the sedan chair and breathing a sigh of relief, suddenly felt inexplicably anxious again.
Quietly lifting a corner of the curtain and looking out, I saw that the wedding procession had already crossed the Imperial Street and headed towards the inner city, and then passed through three more blocks to reach the Duke of Yong's Mansion.
The inner city has stricter jurisdiction, so nothing should happen.
Suddenly, Gu Huan heard a loud noise, the wedding procession stopped, someone screamed, and there was a sound of hurried footsteps.
The bearers carrying the bridal sedan also panicked. They carefully put the sedan down and quickly squatted down to avoid the attack.
Gu Huan was startled and was about to lift the door curtain to ask what was going on. As soon as the curtain was lifted, she saw three arrows whizzing towards her face.
Zhou Zhilan drew out her sword and flew over to block one of the arrows.
She screamed, "Huan'er, get out of the way."
Gu Huan was so scared that she broke out in a cold sweat and immediately fell to the ground.
The remaining two arrows did not shoot in. When she got up and looked outside, she saw two figures, one red and one gray, standing on their horses facing each other.
They each used a sword to knock away the other two arrows.
Several masked men were escorted over not far away.
The girl called out in a trembling voice: "Master!"
Mu Junyan looked back at her and nodded.
The man opposite him, wearing a half silver mask, also suddenly looked over.
Gu Huan was shocked.
Isn't this the kidnapper leader?
"Master, be careful! He is a cruel and ruthless man!" Gu Huan rushed to the sedan chair and shouted anxiously.
Ji Xuanyu stared at Gu Huan steadily, completely ignoring Mu Junyan swinging the sword at him. The tip of the sword was pointing at his neck, and blood would splatter on the spot in the blink of an eye.
Gu Huan quickly closed her eyes.
However, there was no movement for a long while.
She quietly opened one eye, and her eyes widened as she looked at the man in the silver mask with some confusion.
His eyes were like the one when he saved her from falling off the cliff that day, revealing an inexplicable sadness.
She felt as if her heart was stabbed for no apparent reason, and it hurt slightly.
The tip of Mu Junyan's sword had already pierced his neck.
But he stopped and didn't continue stabbing.
Although this man was the leader of the group that kidnapped Gu Huan, he saved Gu Huan from danger twice.
Mu Junyan was actually shocked by his willingness to die for the person in front of him.
Mu Junyan couldn't help but doubt his identity.
When Ji Xuanyu saw Gu Huan’s nervous look, his lips moved slightly, and he really wanted to tell her that he was her Brother Ji!
Gu Huanxin's heart suddenly tightened, she was afraid that Mu Junyan would get hurt.
"Jun Yan, don't show mercy. This kind of person is very insidious."
Mu Junyan looked over in surprise.
She called him Jun Yan?
This was the first time we called each other so intimately.
It sounds pretty nice.
He coaxed her gently: "Be good, don't be afraid, I'm here"
The girl nodded obediently.
Ji Xuanyu's eyes instantly turned red and he felt heartbroken.
He suddenly burst into wild laughter, and his shaking neck was stabbed back and forth several times by the tip of Mu Junyan's sword.
Mu Junyan couldn't figure out the person's background, so he put away his sword and said, "Today is my wife and I's wedding day. Warrior, can you allow us to finish the ceremony and hold a banquet for you another day?"
Gu Huan's eyes became hot.
He calls himself Madam.
Ji Xuanyu stopped laughing, his eyes were dark, and his tone was cold: "I will come back to find you!"
He pointed at the three people who were bet on: "They are not my people. My people would not be so stupid!"
Mu Junyan nodded.
Ji Xuanyu jumped down, quickly left the crowd and disappeared into the alley.
Mu Junyan quickly ran to the bridal sedan and asked with concern, "Are you not scared?"
Gu Huan shook her head: "No."
"Well, don't miss the auspicious time."
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