"Miss, it's time to wash up."
Before she knew it, Lu Zhi, who was sleeping on the couch, was awakened by the maids who came in one after another.
The window was open all night. There was a heavy snow yesterday and the first snow of the year fell not long ago.
The cold wind blew towards her head all night long. She was half pushed and half pulled by the maid to the dressing table. Lu Zhi rubbed her sore eyebrows and had a splitting headache.
An abnormal blush appeared on the fair face of the girl in the bronze mirror. Her blurry eyes stared at the bronze mirror, and after a moment she blinked as if her soul had returned to its place.
Until the waist-length thick hair was turned into a bun on top of her head by the deft maid, and the heavy and gorgeous gold hairpins and gold crown were fixed in her black hair, Lu Zhi supported her aching neck with one hand and suddenly remembered that today was her wedding day.
The Lu and Shen families have been friends for a hundred years. It is said that their ancestors once fought together on the battlefield and took down the enemy's head, thus forming a friendship. The two families are well matched and have arranged marriages several times, but accidents often occur and the population is still sparse.
The red star moved, and the eldest wife of the Shen family gave birth to twins in Chang'an 214. Lu Zhi's eldest sister married the eldest son of the Shen family, Shen Yuanwei, a few months ago.
Lu Zhi herself was betrothed to the youngest son Shen Yuanshuo.
She had only met her fiancé once before marriage.
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The Shen family came to offer betrothal gifts, Shen Yuanshuo followed behind Mrs. Shen, and Lu Zhi sat on a bench separated by a tulle curtain. Through the tulle, she could vaguely make out the man's strong face and his imposing bearing.
When he opened his face, Lu Zhi frowned slightly.
After the dense pain like being bitten by ants, the face was covered with choking white powder.
The girl in the mirror, who was originally pretty and dignified, gradually matured after having her eyebrows drawn, lips contoured and makeup added, like a ripe melon, exuding a youthful and charming fragrance all over her body.
With her arms outstretched, she obediently waited for the maid to change her clothes while wearing the heavy crown.
I don't know what happened today, the whole Lu Mansion was dead silent, even the maids who usually smiled and laughed had changed. They all had stern faces, lifeless black eyes that were never focused, like soulless puppets.
Shocked by the metaphor in her mind, Lu Zhi shook her head slightly. The tassels of the gold hairpins on her head hit each other, and the crisp sound brought her back to her senses.
With layers of clothes overlapping each other, Lu Zhi has a slender figure and does not look bloated at all.
The golden thread outlines the shape of the lotus, and the wide sleeves are inlaid with exquisite and complex patterns. The bright red embroidered upper is also embroidered with small and lovely lotus, and the tip of the shoe has a round East China Sea pearl.
The high collar covered the girl's slender, white neck and the red plum branch birthmark on her skin.
Madam Lu and Mr. Lu looked stern, walked forward mechanically, and spoke, but Lu Zhi didn't hear clearly.
A red veil was draped over her head, obstructing her vision, leaving a scarlet scene.
Lu Zhi lowered her eyelids and stared at the tip of her shoes.
The noisy wedding send-off that should have happened did not happen. The Lu family had very few people, and Master Lu only had one wife and one concubine.
Mrs. Lu gave birth to two daughters, named Lu Yue and Lu Zhi, which were taken from "The tip of the tree is like a deer antler and the moon is like an eyebrow. When the moon reaches the tip of the tree, it shines brightly." The aunt gave birth to a boy and a girl.
A pile of shoe tips suddenly appeared on the cold floor in front of her. She had never seen new shoes on her eldest brother before.
Lu Zhi didn't think much about it, but the man's sturdy and strong shoulders couldn't give her any sense of security.
His heart was beating so hard that it was about to jump out of his throat. Lu Zhi didn't know what was wrong with him. He was so abnormal today - he was wary of his eldest brother without any reason.
But the subconscious reaction cannot be faked.
The whole journey was extremely quiet, until the servant who had dismounted in a panic shouted in a panic: "Report! Young Master Shen is busy and can't get away, please ask the future lady to get on the sedan chair alone!"
Hearing this, Lu Zhi's heart skipped a beat.
I'm afraid today is not a good day to get married.
The Lu family didn't care much about it. The Lu couple, who were standing at the door leaning against each other, widened their eyes. Their dark pupils suddenly shrank, and a hint of scarlet excitement flashed across the depths of their pupils.
After saying a few polite words, Lu Zhi was carried onto the bridal sedan by her eldest brother himself.
The cramped space inside the sedan was relatively warm, and because the maid beside her was afraid that she would feel cold, she hurriedly gave her a heater before she left.
Lu Zhi placed his cold little hands on the warm heater and breathed a sigh of relief.
She was the only one in the sedan chair. She no longer cared about her dignified and elegant image as a noble lady, and her straight back relaxed slightly.
From the time of Yin when I was starving to the time of Chen when I was about to leave, the sky turned pale as the red sedan chair swayed forward, and the soft and slightly cold winter morning light shone into the sedan chair through the swaying curtains.
Raising his hand to cover his rumbling belly, Lu Zhi took a deep breath, and the gloom and depression between his brows completely receded.
She didn’t know if it was because she got married or what, but she felt particularly uncomfortable in the Lu Mansion today. Her heart felt heavy, as if a huge stone weighing a thousand pounds was pressing on it.
The sedan chair team staggered forward. At noon, there were many people working early in the streets, but not many came to join in the fun.
What a joke. Anyone who dares to step forward after seeing the Lu family's unique logo on the complicated sedan chair would be risking his life.
Rumor has it that the Lu and Shen families offended a fierce ghost in the mountains. They stole the twin spring water brewed by the ghost and gave birth to twins, but were caught by the ghost. The angry ghost cursed the two families.
Anyone who marries twins or marries twin brothers and sisters will definitely not live beyond three months.
"It's been almost three months since the eldest lady of the Shen family married into the Shen family. Could it be that..." The man sitting at the simple wooden table in front of the liquor store tapped the table with his chopsticks meaningfully and glanced at his friend opposite him.
My friend shook his head with lingering fear: "I'm afraid it's coming soon!"
As expected, a shrill cry echoed through the bustling morning market: "The eldest master is dead!!"
In just half an hour, everyone knew that Shen Yuanwei, who had just married his beautiful bride three months ago, was dead, and from what they heard through the grapevine, his death was tragic.
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The swaying sedan chair became a natural cradle. Lu Zhi did not sleep well last night. She had been asleep since the 3am till now and was so sleepy that she could not even open her beautiful eyes.
Suddenly I heard the loud sound of gongs and drums, and the sleepiness in my brain was driven away, and my confused mind became clear.
She raised her hand tentatively, and with her slender fingers she lifted a corner of the red veil, and with her cat-like eyes, she listened attentively outside.
The white coffin comes out and the red sedan comes in.
When a happy event meets a sad event, you should give way.
The swaying sedan chair stopped to the side, quietly waiting for the funeral procession to proceed.
The silk curtains hanging from the sedan chair rippled in the wind, and cold wind sneaked in through the window and hit Lu Zhi's face. She looked at the corner that was blown away with some surprise.
Suddenly, everything went dark.
Suddenly, a red face poked its head into the sedan chair through the window. The face with Zhong Kui's facial mask came closer unexpectedly. Lu Zhi was so frightened that his heart skipped a beat. He felt as if it was expected.
The strange and inexplicable emotion made her frown for a moment.
Zhong Kui stared at her for a long while, and Lu Zhi had already heard the crackling sounds of gongs, drums and suona.
I'm afraid today is not an auspicious day. First, the groom couldn't pick up the bride, and then he encountered a funeral procession.
Asking Zhong Kui to exorcise ghosts may be due to some hidden reasons behind the death of the person in the coffin.
Bai Sangshi left quickly, and the little paper figure held in the servant's arms suddenly blinked, and looked at the red sedan with his ink-painted eyes, and the curve of his mouth deepened.
White and red paper money were thrown into the air in a flurry, and the cold wind blew over them, swaying left and right as they fell to the ground. White overwhelmed red, red overwhelmed white, and the weirdness was intertwined with a bit of coldness and greed.
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