A match made in heaven
Before the night of Grain Rain.
The moon shone palely through the gaps between fingers, and there had been no rain in Xianyu City for several days, so it was not difficult to guess that the weather would be good on the wedding day.
Guiyao has been very busy these days.
When winter goes, the ice will melt; when spring comes, grass will grow naturally.
The Gui family has a mansion granted by the emperor in Xianyu City. However, in the past, the owner retired to farm and only servants were left to sweep the courtyard. Now it has returned to its original place.
Just to let his daughter marry in style.
The most luxurious mansion in Xianyu City was lit up with luxurious lanterns, and the people talked about the imperial physician Gui from a prominent medical family, and how he had a close friendship with General Ren regardless of their age difference.
A good match? Of course!
Not to mention that retiring was the Gui family's own choice. During the epidemic, the area outside the city was desolate and wild, and it was the doctors of the Gui family who kept Xianyu City safe.
Perhaps it was this kind of good fortune that allowed the formerly foolish young lady from the Gui family to recover, and her eyes were as cool as spring water.
"Yaoyao, when you were still an infant, your parents knew that you would be mentally retarded for the first half of your life. They had already made every effort to protect you for the rest of your life, but things are unpredictable."
My aunt gently brushed back the hair from her temples, looked at Guiyao's drooping eyelashes, and whispered, "Do you remember when you regained consciousness three years ago? Strangely enough, your temperament back then was no different from what it is now."
"My aunt thinks that you have your own ideas and it was you who decided to get married that we just agreed to this marriage certificate."
Their eyes met.
She seemed to be asking, does my son regret it now?
In her previous life, Gui Yao was born in an orphanage without a mother or an aunt. After waking up in this life, she loved to study poetry and books, and what she least wanted to learn were those complicated etiquettes.
The moonlit night is deep and silent.
She knelt on her knees and rested her forehead on the back of her hands.
"My heart aches with difficulty, and my mother has worked so hard."
Suddenly, a carp jumped up and fell down beside the pavilion's pond, splashing water. However, it was too dark at night and it was impossible to see how far the water flowed.
After this wedding.
She was going to go to Beijing with him.
Sometimes, Gui Yao felt that it was the task of reading the mind notes that pushed her forward, and sometimes she could only grit her teeth and feel the sound of her own heartbeat.
She looked at the paintings her aunt had stuffed into her hand before she left after bringing her back to her room. The pieces of satin that depicted a lifelike scene of a man and woman making love were thrown to the side of the bed in boredom.
She blew out the light, but just leaned on the couch.
"Gui Yao."
The window is not wide enough to be opened by the north.
He didn't need to light a tinder to see the girl beside the couch clearly when Frostlight shone through the window.
After two months in the general's mansion, Gui Yao's pretty, thin face finally gained some flesh. When they looked at each other, there seemed to be less sickness in her clever eyes, whether real or fake.
"...This is against the rules."
It was she, a modern person, who rebuked him.
Thinking of this, she squinted her eyes and wanted to smile, and subconsciously wanted to pat her side, but her hand stopped.
She suddenly realized.
Now she is no longer facing General Ren from the General's Mansion, nor is she facing the cold main task target in the mind-reading notebook.
After spending these two months together, she undoubtedly regarded Ren Beixi as her friend.
But……
She didn't know when she would be able to finish this mind-reading journal. By then, would she choose to separate from him and survive alone in this completely different era?
Admittedly, she wasn't sure.
"Ren Beixi."
She called her name softly. She clearly couldn't see his appearance, but she could feel his breath getting closer and closer, and finally stopped in front of the bronze mirror where she often dressed.
The man looked at the dressing table that had been prepared in front of the bronze mirror, and touched the box of powder with his fingertips.
His voice was deep: "Are you going to get married?"
"Could I regret the engagement?"
Guiyao laughed when she heard this.
It was a quiet moonlit night. The Gui family mansion was given to Gui's grandfather by the late emperor. It was located at the head of the long street south of Xianyu City.
She thought that if Ren Beixi wanted to come see her, it would only take less than a cup of tea to ride there, but she was sick and weak. If she hadn't had a wedding sedan, walking to the general's mansion would be just like the first day, and she would be exhausted and out of breath.
She couldn't help it and took out a tinderbox to light the lamp.
But her wrist was held by the man, and his skin was much hotter than usual.
"Don't order."
"Why?"
"I don't want you to see me."
Gui Yao lowered her eyes and blew hard at the flame. She looked at the deep halo that illuminated Ren Beixi's dark eyes, and suddenly discovered that there were tears hidden in his cold eyes.
Why did he show weakness before her?
"But this isn't fair." Gui Yao spoke silently, her moist red lips slightly parted. Watching his tears fall on the back of her hand, she blew out the tinder in a fit of anger. "Ren Beixi, ever since I woke up, I've only lived for this marriage certificate."
Hearing this, the man did not let go of her slender wrist, but continued to hold her slightly sweaty palm.
His voice was a little hoarse, and if you didn't listen carefully, you would feel that he was not as cold as before.
"You're marrying me anyway."
Gui Yao felt a chill on the back of her neck when she heard these words.
She kept asking, "Who should I marry?"
Ten miles of red makeup, immersed in golden glow.
Rouge-colored gauze curtains were tied to the treetops every nine steps, and bright red peonies were placed on the roofs of the betrothal carriages carrying thousands of people, to congratulate the happy marriages that had been concluded today.
Ren Beixi had a stern expression and his black eyes were like torches. He was wearing a bright red wedding gown, a golden basalt-patterned belt around his waist, and a gilded crown inlaid with green jade to hold up his jet-black hair.
The sound of drums and music shook the banquet hall and stopped the moving clouds.
Inside the main pavilion of the Gui family mansion, festive sounds drifted in from outside the window. Gui Yao had no siblings, so it was her uncle who personally blocked the door, joined by Li Congcou and the village chief of Xiaohe Village, who had stayed at the mansion the previous day.
She lowered her eyes and asked, "Is it time to go?"
My aunt nodded with tears in her eyes and put on the pearl, brocade and gold phoenix crown for her with her own hands.
The veil was hanging on the golden hairpins, and Guiyao was supported by the hand of a maid as she bid farewell to her aunt and uncle, left the house and got into the sedan chair.
She raised her chin and saw Ren Beixi holding the reins tightly on horseback from afar. The man's gaze seemed to be able to penetrate her veil, burning her heart.
No looking allowed.
Guiyao avoided his gaze and quickly got into the wedding sedan in a huff.
"Even General Ren, who rides on a powerful cavalry and cuts down thousands of cavalry with a single sword, can get nervous sometimes."
Li Cong rode up from behind, looking like he was both a member of the wife's family and the husband's family. At this moment, his eyes were smiling like a fox.
Ren Beixi held the reins with one hand, pressed his lips together when he heard that, and looked back frequently to see if the wedding sedan was moving smoothly.
Walk from Nanchang Street around Xianyu City.
There was a constant stream of congratulations from the roadside, and people were spontaneously scattering concentric fruits.
The spring dusk comes quite late, and as the auspicious time approaches, the front door of the general's mansion is really bright. The people around who have followed the general all the way have gathered to watch this grand wedding banquet that has not been seen for a hundred years. Every face can't hide the joy.
Ren Beixi turned over and dismounted, walking solemnly.
Xiao Hui was forced to listen to Li Cong clapping and teasing: "Did he walk so fast when he came to see me before? Wow, he even carried me in his arms."
The man firmly grasped the slender hand that was half exposed from the wedding sedan, and then carried the bride out of the sedan. While his right hand firmly protected her slender waist, his other hand carefully adjusted her red veil.
Yes.
Even though he couldn't see her eyes, he could still feel her waist and arms, her weight, and her weak breathing.
He has already kept it all in his heart.
Gui Yao looked at Ren Beixi's cold and hard face through the red veil, and her heart was filled with sorrow. She felt that Aunt Lan Fang beside her was holding the marriage certificate in her hand. She had already kept the "Beginning of Autumn of the Guisi Year" written in gold letters on the red paper firmly in her mind.
Recalling the argument with the man beside her last night, Ren Beixi seemed to be not fully awake, or was hiding it too deeply, which only made her sulk like she was stuck in a dead end.
The young lady held a five-colored heart-knotted scarf in her hand, and walked step by step across the Magpie Bridge with the man beside her, straddling the saddle and stepping on the rice bag. The music beside her was still as joyful as ever, and she could only see the road under the veil.
The other end of the scarf in her hand clearly led her strength as she walked all the way to the main hall of the general's mansion.
"Bow to Heaven and Earth!"
Gui Yao and Ren Beixi bowed together.
"Bow to your parents twice!"
Madam Li Yuqing sat upright on the left, with the old general's tablet on the table beside her. Gui's uncle and aunt sat holding hands on the right, and the tablet of Gui's parents was also in the center.
"Husband and wife bow to each other!"
Guiyao just turned sideways.
Each of them was more disbelieving of fate than the other, and felt less related to the family than the other. She looked through the red veil, but did not meet Ren Beixi's black eyes as usual.
She only saw Ren Beixi take half a step back and solemnly bow to heaven and earth with her.
The ceremony is over.
The plaque in the backyard of the general's mansion was written by the emperor himself. It was named "Without me, I can tie the boat". It was hung up after the newlyweds had finished their worship.
Gui Yao was supported by Ren Beixi's hand and walked step by step back to the inner bedroom where they would live in the future. After entering the room, she lowered her eyes slightly and reached out to lift the veil, but his wrist was held tightly again.
"I'll do it."
Ren Beixi held the scale that had been prepared on the table beside him, slowly lifted her veil, and with his other hand, he held the young lady's wrist tightly.
The trembling eyelashes lifted along with the red veil.
Their eyes met.
Guiyao's fair cheeks were probably made hot and hazy by the candlelight, and her breathing became more and more rapid through her slightly opened red lips. She looked at the man in front of her in a bright red wedding suit, biting her lip and not speaking.
He usually looks first-rate, but today he looks different from any other time of the year, with his fine clothes and fine horse, making it impossible to take your eyes off him.
Gui Yao only wanted to use her eyes to carefully record Ren Beixi's current appearance inch by inch.
The man seemed to have misunderstood her intention.
He looked at her frail figure and said in a deep voice, "I'm going back to the banquet. There's dinner on the table. You're tired today, go to bed early."
"good."
Guiyao answered readily.
She looked at his tall and straight back, took off her phoenix crown and sat down at the table. The small drawer-like compartment rustled, and she took out a bowl of bacon fried rice from it. There was also a lot of her favorite soybean ribs on the rice, and a plate of pickled mustard greens, but she didn't even look at it.
Just about to start eating.
When I looked up, I found that Ren Beixi had not left yet.
For some reason, when she looked at his back, she suddenly remembered their first meeting on Nanchang Street. At that time, Ren Beixi rode past on horseback and looked back.
It was as if it was a match made in heaven for her to marry him.
But now Ren Beixi turned around, his dark eyes looking at her expression. Both of them had different ignorance from the one on Nanchang Street. It was clear that both of them had many unclear emotions in their eyes.
The guests in the front yard were happy, but the spring chill was still there after the rain.
Gui Yao suddenly propped up her face with her hands, her eyes sparkling and her smile full of joy.
"Husband, please help me clear up my confusion."
"The man I was supposed to marry was your brother Ren Zhong, the eldest son of the Ren family who passed away ten years ago?"
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