Chapter 33: Husband and wife bow to each other
If it were just these few lines of words, Chen Qing would not be sure of their meaning, but when the wedding dress and wedding wine popped up, the meaning became clear instantly.
"The lover's thoughts are longing for the beautiful girl, and her delicate face, veiled with a scarf, is even more alluring. Our two shadows stand together by the bridge, waiting for you to reveal this sentiment."
It simply requires the two to play the role of a newlywed couple, go through a process, and act out the situation in the sentence.
The man embraces the beautiful girl, which means the man embraces his bride. The scarf covering the delicate face refers to the veil covering the face. The shadows are together by the bridge, and this scene is waiting for the king to show his love. The newlyweds stand by the water, embracing each other in joy.
But when the two of them changed into their wedding clothes, the voice came out again.
"The incense smoke, the candlelight shines, the bride and groom enter the wedding hall together!"
Hearing this voice, Chen Qing frowned, with a bad guess in his heart.
Li Daoxuan also raised his eyelids and glanced at Chen Qing.
The next moment, the voice was tinged with joy: "I bow to heaven and earth, thanking them for their creation, and praying for a good marriage."
When the voices died down, the two of them remained like clay statues, neither of them willing to move an inch.
The ground shook even more violently, and the voice was now tinged with impatience, and even a bit of annoyance when listened carefully. "I bow to heaven and earth, thank heaven for their creation, and pray for a good marriage!" The tone was slightly higher.
Seeing the two walls closing in section by section, approaching the two of them, at this critical moment of life and death, the conflicts of the past had to be put aside.
Chen Qing took the initiative. She gritted her teeth and pulled Li Daoxuan to the edge of the pond. As if she was afraid that Li Daoxuan would do something weird again, she whispered softly and coaxed him, "Your Highness, if you want to survive, the only way now is to follow that voice. After we leave here, we can think of other things, okay?"
In this dimly lit place, reflected by the shimmering water, her eyes were surprisingly bright at this moment. Li Daoxuan looked at them and felt that there always seemed to be inexhaustible vitality and energy in her eyes, full and about to overflow, which was very different from his own lifeless self.
There was no flower hall at the moment, so the two of them stood by the water, which was in line with the saying "Two shadows stand by the bridge, this scene is waiting for you to show it."
At such a critical moment, Li Daoxuan was extremely calm. He raised his hand, and his fingertips slightly hooked the glass heart at the collar of Shen Qing's shirt, and rubbed it with his thumb. His drooping eyelashes covered his dark pupils, blocking the outside world's exploration.
"Why not take this opportunity to make things clear. Madam Chen's words that day were always ambiguous, and she didn't set a specific date. Madam Chen, when will you be willing to offer your Liuli Heart to me?" he said.
Chen Qing had never expected that Li Daoxuan would say this at such a critical moment. He was stunned for a moment, and felt the vibration under his feet becoming more and more obvious. However, the man remained calm and composed. Chen Qing secretly cursed him for being cunning, while his body was stiff.
She did have some ulterior motives, at least she would not hand over Liuli Heart just like that, but now that he had asked, she had to give a satisfactory answer, otherwise she could not predict what he would do.
After repeated consideration, Chen Qing gritted his teeth and said, "After we get married, I will offer myself to you with both hands and I will never break my promise."
Li Daoxuan curled his lips slightly, "Words are not enough."
Chen Qing raised an eyebrow and said, “Then what do you want to do!”
"Simple." He took out a pill from somewhere, and before Shen Qing could react, he pressed it into Shen Qing's mouth.
Li Daoxuan put his thumb deep into Chen Qing's lips and tongue, stirring the pill in her mouth, and then pressed it hard. Chen Qing opened her mouth in pain, and swallowed the pill as it rolled down her throat.
It was clearly an extremely ambiguous action, but there was only an undercurrent surging between the two of them, with no ambiguity at all.
As the knuckles left, her lips became as red and moist as if she had applied lip balm, and her eyes were also filled with water, which was choking.
Chen Qing bent over and coughed as she asked him, "What did you give me to eat?!"
Li Daoxuan lowered his eyes slightly and casually wiped a few strokes on his wedding dress to clean the water stains on his knuckles.
Finally turning the tables today, he narrowed his eyes and said happily: "Poison, from now on, Madam Shen, come to me once a month to get the antidote. Whenever you are willing to offer your Liuli Heart, you can get the antidote."
Chen Qing was furious that she had been tricked, and couldn't help asking him, "You treat me like this, aren't you afraid that I won't ever truly agree?"
Li Daoxuan: "Then you can just die." His tone was floating and he didn't care. After a moment, he added, "But I believe that Madam Shen cherishes her life and will not bury her life so easily."
Anger swirled in Chen Qing's eyes. She closed them for a moment, then said as if in compromise, "Then it's settled. From now on, Your Highness will protect my safety, and I will give Your Highness the Glazed Heart."
She changed the task of "taking her to get rid of evil spirits" to "protecting her safety."
Li Daoxuan just smiled at Chen Qing's secret change of concept. It was not known whether he was pretending to be stupid or had long forgotten the content of their conversation that day. In short, Li Daoxuan neither shook his head nor nodded. He just quickly returned to the mural, moved the wedding cup away, and pulled out the red veil underneath.
Under Shen Qing's gaze, Li Daoxuan opened the veil and covered it on Shen Qing's head.
Yes, "the scarf covers her delicate face, making her even more charming." Since it is a wedding ceremony, how can we not have a red scarf?
As Li Daoxuan raised his handkerchief, Shen Qing's eyes suddenly turned red. Then he put his arm around Shen Qing's shoulders and turned her around. "Madam Shen, I bow to heaven and earth."
He repeated the voice's words.
The boy's voice was like a spring breeze, soft and soothing, brushing past the ears, as if it could make people feel warm and comfortable. But when you look through the voice and look at this naughty boy, you will think it is just an illusion.
In this crisis-ridden environment, the two seemed unperturbed by the outside world and bowed to the lake together, which really gave them the feeling of getting married.
Putting aside the previous unpleasantness, a subtle sense of weirdness quietly emerged from Chen Qing's heart. Chen Qing thought optimistically that this could be regarded as adapting to the marriage process in advance. When they got married in the future, she would be able to suppress some of her resentment.
After the first bow, a strange voice said: I bow to heaven and earth, thank heaven and earth for their creation, and pray for a good marriage.
"I bow twice to my parents, thanking them for raising me!"
The two of them also bowed towards the pond.
"Husband and wife bow to each other, wishing them love and harmony, and respect for each other like guests!"
The more Chen Qing listened, the more strange it seemed to him. He felt that the words "loving and harmonious" and "respectful to each other" were ironic to him.
After the worship was over, the sound finally disappeared, but the walls were still closing. It was not until the noise was approaching them that there was finally movement on the water surface.
The only wooden bridge on the surface of the pond suddenly sank into the water, and then the water in the pond split to both sides as if it was boiling. A boat slowly floated up from the crack in the water and drifted to the two of them.
It seems that this is the real way to cross the pond.
Everything went incredibly smoothly, so smoothly that Shen Qing did not let down her guard. Instead, she became more alert and even hesitated in her heart. Should she step onto this boat?
Before she could think about it, her waist suddenly tightened, and she heard Li Daoxuan recite the words slowly in her ear, "The man's love for the girl is hard to let go." His hands on Shen Qing's waist tightened more and more, until Shen Qing threw herself into his arms, and then he lifted the veil of the person in his arms with one hand.
He gently rested his chin on the top of Shen Qing's head, as if praising her, "It's really hard to let go. In this case, Madam Shen, please explore the way for me." After that, he suddenly pushed the person onto the boat.
Chen Qing was caught off guard and was pushed into the boat with great force by the shoulder. She fell into the boat, causing the already unstable boat to sway from side to side. The boat slid on the water for a distance due to inertia.
When she raised her eyes again, the two walls on the shore along with several murals disappeared in the dust. The wall lamps were gone, and the light in the pool became dimmer. Chen Qing vaguely caught a glimpse of a figure in red coming through the dust and standing at the bow of the boat.
He was like a feather, unable to shake the boat at all when he fell.
After the ship was stable, it sailed slowly towards the opposite side.
The voice that had vanished at this moment reappeared, and it began to sing again:
“Money and paper were scattered all over the ground, along with yellow, white, and black coffins.
The sound of gongs and drums is deafening, and the sedan chair is decorated with flowers and flowers.
Red and white collide, and the suona sounds.
We are together in life and together in death."
The tone of voice also changed, "The sky is blue and vast, the water is rippling. I sigh in the mortal world, and I cross the dark river alone~"
It sang the tune over and over again, tirelessly. The strange thing was that the shore was right in front of them and the boat did not stop moving forward, but they seemed to be trapped in the looping tune and could never reach the shore.
Li Daoxuan also noticed something was wrong. Half a minute had passed, and they should have reached the shore by now.
The boat was too small, and Chen Qing didn't have as good Qinggong as Li Daoxuan, so she simply sat in the boat and tentatively reached out to poke the water, but the strange green smoke did not come out.
Li Daoxuan looked at Chen Qing's paddling movements and saw that there was no green smoke. He then tapped his toes and tried to fly towards the shore, but this time he was forced back by the emerging green smoke, just like before.
When he returned to the boat, the voice happened to sing: "The world of mortals is long and sad, and I am crossing the secluded river alone~"
Hearing this, they all raised their eyes at the same time.
Even if Chen Qing's reaction was quick, it was not as fast as Li Daoxuan's. She didn't even have time to resist before she was pushed into the water.
The high splashing water wet the corner of the culprit's clothes. He just looked at the person struggling in the water, then casually took off his wedding clothes and threw them into the water.
The exposed black clothes were like his heart, with a black heart under the red shell.
Chen Qing finally floated to the surface, holding onto the edge of the boat with one hand and wiping off the excess water on her face with the other, but she saw him looking at her with a playful expression.
She gritted her teeth and said, "Li Daoxuan, what do you mean?" She seemed to be so angry that she didn't even call him Your Highness.
Li Daoxuan: "Madam Shen, didn't you hear it say, 'I will cross the Youhe River alone'? How can I cross the river if you are on the boat?"
What he said was so reasonable that even someone as sharp-tongued as Chen Qing couldn't find any words to refute it.
She gritted her teeth and looked at him. The bastard was obviously very proud, his eyes and eyebrows full of smugness. But even a beautiful face couldn't stop the murderous intent churning in Chen Qing's heart. She suddenly shut up and turned her gaze to the shore.
I have to say that this method really works. With one of them in the boat and the other in the water, they were actually crossing the pond in a disguised way. Anyway, the boat finally reached the shore, and Li Daoxuan stepped on the land as he wished.
When he turned around and looked at the water surface, he saw that it was empty. The person who was grinning and angry had disappeared without a trace.
Li Daoxuan did have a playful mentality, but he did not really intend to drown Qing in the water. When they were on the boat, his eyes were always focused on her, paying attention to her safety. Once there was any movement in the water, he would immediately pull the person out.
But in the blink of an eye, Chen Qing disappeared silently.
Li Daoxuan frowned slightly. He walked a few steps to the shore and called out, "Chen Qing?"
The water is quiet.
"Shen Youan?" he called.
An unknown amount of time passed before Chen Qing still didn't show up. Just as Li Daoxuan was about to dive into the water with his sword to look for her, Chen Qing suddenly popped out of the water. Raising her hand, she raised a curtain of water and grabbed Li Daoxuan's calf, shouting, "Help me! There's something in the water!"
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