Chapter 95 Chapter 95 She and he are destined to be together.
The next morning, the two ladies, the matchmaker sent by the Zhang family, and the servants began to make nervous preparations for the wedding.
She was not getting married in her own house. Her registered family background in the Xue family could not be changed, so she had to return to the huge and depressed Xue Mansion to get married.
Originally, the servants and two ladies had returned to Xue's house last night and had almost everything ready. They had cleaned the house from top to bottom and decorated the boudoir with bright red and festive decorations. However, Xue Yuanyin did not sleep well that night. When she woke up the next day, the whole bed was a mess. Even the brocade quilt with the pattern of mandarin ducks playing in the water had been kicked off the bed.
Helplessly, the matchmaker came in to clean up again. Xue Yuanyin felt embarrassed to stay in bed, so she got up and yawned helplessly on the soft couch.
It was not until Xue Yuanyin was pressed in front of the bronze mirror and Fuzhu splashed a cold handkerchief on her face that she shivered and finally woke up.
Seeing her finally open her eyes, Fuzhu said, "Miss, are you finally awake? Today is your wedding day, you haven't forgotten it, have you?"
Xue Yuanyin naturally did not forget. While the matchmaker was washing her face and tying her hair, she slowly recalled what she had done last night.
The culprit was Ning Yan. She had actually come secretly after dark, and she hadn't come empty-handed. She had brought her best-kept album to look for her, saying:
"We didn't finish our discussion during the day. After returning to the palace, I thought about it and decided it wasn't going to work. So, I found a very detailed picture album, a treasure I have in my closet. I'm afraid you won't be free tomorrow, so you should study it as quickly as possible tonight."
Xue Yuanyin wanted to refuse because she had once secretly seen some small picture albums in her brother's study. She was greatly shocked at the time, and the knowledge was deeply imprinted in her mind. She was not completely confused.
But Princess Ning Yan was very quick and had already opened the album and handed it to her. When Xue Yuanyin saw the lifelike postures in it, her eyes were fixed on it.
I have to say, it's still very exciting.
Thinking that tomorrow night is the wedding night, she can't show her fear in front of him... Xue Yuanyin took the album and thought, I'll just take a look at it reluctantly.
She opened the album and listened to Princess Ning Yan's introduction:
"I wonder what you prefer? A wedding night naturally calls for some variety. Do you like the idea of 'making love'? It would be quite interesting if you were to connect head to tail... But you should shower beforehand. I don't think a man's private parts smell very good..."
Xue Yuanyin flipped through the pages of the album in a messy manner. Even though she thought she was knowledgeable, she couldn't help blushing and her heart beating fast.
This album was indeed a treasure trove, and it really opened her eyes. The postures depicted in the album did not look like intercourse, but more like fighting. Without some basic physical training, it would be impossible to complete such extremely difficult movements.
Xue Yuanyin coughed lightly and whispered to Ning Yan, "The men in these albums have pretty good abdominal muscles."
Ning Yan nodded rapidly, as if she had found a kindred spirit, and said, "What a huge penis! Xiao Lang's is impressive, but not as majestic as this. Are there really men with this size, or is the picture in the brochure exaggerated?"
Xue Yuanyin quickly covered her mouth and glanced at the place Princess Ning Yan mentioned. It was indeed very large, and the painting was lifelike...but Zhang Jingxuan's seemed to be very large too?
However, the one in the album seemed different from Zhang Jingxuan's. Compared to the album, his seemed a little fiercer.
I don't know how such an ugly thing could have grown under his gentle appearance...
The matchmaker's call brought Xue Yuanyin back to her senses. When she came to her senses, she heard the matchmaker say that her hair had been tied up and asked her to have some lunch first. After that, she had to put on her wedding dress, touch up her makeup, and wear jewelry.
Xue Yuanyin looked in the bronze mirror. The matchmaker sent by the Zhang family was truly skilled at tying her hair, especially for her. She quickly ate a few bites of lunch, a filling meal, and then changed into her wedding dress. The mirror illuminated her face, a vibrant crimson, but she had no time to admire it as she was pressed down to put on makeup again.
The hours ticked by, and her makeup was gradually completed. Her hair was covered with pearls and jades on top of her black hair, and her red wedding dress reflected her bright and lively oval face. Perhaps because Xue Yuanyin had never used rouge or powder, her sudden formal appearance made everyone in the room stunned for a few seconds.
When the matchmaker saw this, she was also startled, then she smiled and said:
"Miss Xue is born with bright eyes and white teeth, and she looks radiant. Why don't you usually see her dressing up seriously?"
The tone of her words was full of regret, as if she had often messed up her own face.
Xue Yuanyin looked at herself in the bronze mirror and found it hard to recognize her. She looked so beautiful no matter how she looked at her. Could this really be her? She stubbornly refused to admit that her cooking skills were poor and praised the nanny, saying, "Your cooking skills are good."
The sound of suona could be heard in the streets outside Xue's house. The voices of congratulations and greetings gradually became more frequent and could be faintly heard in the side rooms.
Xue Yuanyin finally began to feel the reality of her marriage. She had never imagined she would actually marry Zhang Jingxuan. They would see each other constantly from now on. Wouldn't it be easier to argue after marriage?
She glanced at the clepsydra and saw that the auspicious time was approaching.
The matchmaker brought a red veil and put it aside, waiting for the auspicious time to cover her with it.
Xue Yuanyin finally began to get nervous. It was not because she was nervous about getting married, but because she thought that tonight would be her wedding night, and she had not yet figured out what posture she should use to make Zhang Jingxuan fall at her feet wholeheartedly.
All the lessons she had lost to him in the Imperial College, she was going to make sure he paid her back tonight on their wedding night! This day had finally arrived, and she was going to beat him!
Xue Yuanyin placed her palms together on the hem of her skirt embroidered with a phoenix tail, tapping the ground with her toes. She nervously simulated in her mind the scene that would happen tonight and what posture she would use.
It just so happened that he hadn't kicked her in the butt yet, so she had to make good use of this handle and think carefully about what to ask of him when the time comes.
She must win this battle in bed!
As the sky gradually darkened, I suddenly heard the sound of gongs and drums outside, accompanied by a loud shout: "The auspicious time has arrived -"
The matchmaker put a red veil on Xue Yuanyin's head, and Xue Yuanyin could not see anything clearly. She listened carefully and heard the sound of horse hooves in the streets outside, accompanied by the faint beating of gongs and drums. It must be the Zhang family coming to marry into the family.
Her former close classmates from the Imperial College, the neighbors nearby, and the younger generations of some aristocratic families that the Xue family used to be friends with all came to help her stop the marriage, and a crowd of people blocked the gate of the courtyard. Xue Yuanyin had good hearing and heard the unhurried footsteps that belonged to Zhang Jingxuan as he walked to the front of the courtyard, where he met Gao Songlin and the other three who were blocking the road.
The three of them had agreed yesterday to show off their skills and test Zhang Jingxuan's homework. Today is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
Gao Songlin tested Zhang Jingxuan with his carefully prepared poems, full of confidence, but for Zhang Jingxuan it was just a matter of thinking for a while.
After Zhang Jingxuan calmly answered the question, cheers erupted from the surroundings, followed by the sound of children scrambling for wedding money. This was a tradition among the aristocratic families in the capital, where the groom would throw money before the bride.
Xue Yuanyin became a little nervous.
She would go back to Zhang's house with him later and sleep on his bed. She wondered what Zhang Jingxuan would look like in his wedding gown... But that was not important. The wedding gown would certainly be difficult to take off. Tonight she had to find a way to get him to take it off on his own initiative. She couldn't expose the fact that she didn't know how to undress.
The noise outside stopped at the gate of the yard. Xue Yuanyin stood up with the matchmaker and walked out step by step.
After Xue Yi died, there was no one to carry her to get married. Xue Yuanyin was led by the matchmaker and supported by the female historians on both sides. She stepped over the threshold step by step and walked out of the house. It was almost dusk outside. Marriage is also called a "humiliating marriage". She never expected that she, who was asked by Xue Chang to find a son-in-law and have children, would one day get her wish and marry her lover.
Xue Yuanyin's eyes flickered with crimson as she walked step by step towards the gate of the courtyard. There was the sound of gongs and drums, and a figure was standing quietly waiting for her.
She was a little dazed thinking that those days as the heir of the family seemed like a lifetime ago. It seemed glorious on the surface, but it was too lonely. The days that others were accustomed to were something she could not have.
She was trapped in the empty Xue Mansion day after day, and once thought that she would sacrifice her entire life for the family's rights.
However, she did not expect that after she left the Xue family, she owned her own house, which was now her dowry sealed at the bottom of the box; she had the title of captain, which was conferred by the emperor himself; she also became a teacher in the women's class of the future Imperial College, and was recorded in the book by the palace historian.
All havoc brings hope. She is about to walk out of the mansion, push aside the fog, and see the road ahead filled with birds and fish, and steps leading up over layer upon layer of hills.
Xue Yuanyin walked to the gate of the yard and saw a hand reaching out from her side from under her veil. The hand was as white as jade and had slender joints. She held it firmly.
Zhang Jingxuan lowered his voice, his unique gentle gurgling voice, and asked, "Are you ready?"
Xue Yuanyin nodded softly.
His voice was clear and smiling as he said, "Shall we go?"
Suona, gongs and drums roared, firecrackers and fireworks rang out in the air, and his voice reached his ears clearly. Xue Yuanyin nodded vigorously under her red veil and replied, "Okay."
She walked with him towards the wedding sedan parked outside the Xue Mansion, stepped out of the dilapidated and deserted courtyard, heard the crowd in front of her laughing and congratulating, and thought to herself that the most correct thing Zhang Jingxuan had said and done in his life was to divine an ordinary "Sui Gua" outside the cabin in Qingxi Town.
In ancient times, there was a wild beast, with one wing and one eye, who could fly together. Just as the fortune-telling said, she and he were destined to be together.
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Author's Note: Xue Yuanyin: Immediately prepare for the ultimate struggle (ì _ í )
I will take a day off tomorrow to write about my wedding night.
Because I plan to write two versions, I am not sure about the plot and word count, nor when I can finish writing it, so I have tentatively decided to release the first version at 10pm the day after tomorrow, Wednesday.
(If I can’t finish writing, I will ask for leave and postpone it)
*Manman: According to the "Classic of Mountains and Seas", there is a bird in the mountains that looks like a wild duck, has only one wing and one eye, and can only fly in pairs. Its name is "Manman" (Biyi Niao).
Later generations gradually transformed its characteristic of "one wing and one eye, flying together" into a symbol of love, implying that the two parties are interdependent and inseparable.
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