The heat was gradually gone, and autumn had come. After an autumn rain fell, the noble ladies in Beijing began to communicate with each other again. But from the beginning of autumn, there was only one thing they talked about—Xie family's third young master was going to marry a wife!
Speaking of Xie's third young master, Xie Xun, he was the most outstanding young man in Beijing. His father was Duke Xie, and his maternal grandfather was the crown prince's imperial teacher. He had a great family and appearance. He had traveled abroad and possessed the unrestrained heartiness of a young master from Chang'an. Even the emperor's son paid a personal visit to this elite man, who was both a scholar and a martial artist, and also very handsome. When he rode a horse on the long street after winning third place in the imperial exam, he attracted many noble ladies who threw flowers at him.
[T/N: At the end of the imperial exam, the emperor would interview the top contenders and decide the final ranks. The first place, the second place, and the third place of the exam would exit the imperial palace on horses and they would parade around the capital. At this time, it is a custom that ladies would throw flowers or perfumed sachets at these scholars in hope of attracting their attention. If the scholar accepts their "token", it means he also accepts their affection.]
In the hearts of everyone, his grace and talent were more than enough to match even a princess.
But no one ever imagined that the shameless Jiang Shuyao would actually take him down!
Jiang Shuyao was also a small well-known figure, but all of her fame was notorious. She was born in the Jiang family, Lord of Xiangyang, but she did not look like a lady. She had a hollow mind and an empty brain. She even made a few jokes by peeking at handsome young men.
Not long ago, on the princess' banquet. She wanted to pick flowers and accidentally fell into the water. She was rescued by Xie Xun who was on the shore. Since then, she clamored that her innocence was ruined and Xie Xun must marry her.
That's why she was so shameless. If she lost her innocence, then shave her hair and be a nun, why did she rely on the Xie family's third young master?
Everyone thought that this would not happen, but Duke Xie's Mansion nodded in agreement.
A little lady who knew the inside story revealed that Jiang Shuyao made some troubles after returning home. Then, at last, she took a rope and hanged herself. After being rescued, she had more air going out than air going in.
This incident reached the ears of the elder princess who was hosting the banquet. When she entered the palace, she told the emperor to talk about the matter. However, Mrs. Xiangyang's sister, Imperial Concubine Lin, happened to be present, so she had to sell her niece to make it sound nicer.
The emperor didn't know the notorious name of Jiang Shuyao, the empty brain, but knew that she was Lord Xiangyang's daughter. Lord Xiangyang did not have good luck with children. He took several concubines but did not produce a son. When he was getting older, his concubines' stomach still did not move, but his wife finally got pregnant and gave birth to a girl.
He was very sympathetic to Lord Xiangyang, and this sympathy made him had a good impression on Jiang Shuyao. After hearing the tearful story from the beautiful Imperial Concubine Lin about Jiang Shuyou's hung herself "to prove her innocence", he was quite touched. It so happened that Xie Xun was meeting the prince in the East Palace, so he called Xie Xun to ask a few questions.
The palace is a strange and weird place. When the prince and Xie Xun arrived, the quiet and calm queen was also there, and she had a bit of intention to give him a marriage edict.
Xie Xun heard the queen's meaning of marriage and went home to his parents. Although he was very reluctant, he went to the Jiang family to propose marriage.
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Jiang Shuyao was sitting by the bed, her throat was slightly itchy, and she wanted to extend her hand to scratch, but thinking about the current situation, she quickly held back.
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Usually, the routine when other people transmigrated were to find someone to talk to as soon as they opened their eyes and to figure out the situation after a few words. But when she opened her eyes, she became a temporary mute with a broken throat. Before she could figure out what was going on, she was stuffed into the sedan chair to marry someone.
The noise went from far to near, and Jiang Shuyao knew that Xie Xun had come in, so she sat down obediently.
As the blessed person sang loudly, the red veil was lifted, and a sudden light suddenly lit up in front of her. Jiang Shuyao raised her head and happened to meet a pair of eyes that were too good to be true.
Seeing Xie Xun's face, Jiang Shuyao was relieved.
Her husband-to-be was as handsome as rumored. It was no exaggeration to say that he was the snow on the white mountain, the bright clouds over the moon, an existence that ordinary people cannot imagine. A beauty of this level will never touch her, so she will be safe until the next day.
Xie Xun frowned slightly as he looked at Jiang Shuyao's pinkish mask-like face, his face showed an unabashed disgust.
Not long after he returned to Beijing, he heard Jiang Shuyao's notoriety. He didn't expect that one day he would be taken by this woman and forced to marry her as his wife.
The rumors were hard to believe, but thinking that she clung to him after falling into the water that day, and after getting out, she immediately shouted that she had lost her innocence despite that it would shame her. Just with these, her character was clear.
He was cold all over, and the atmosphere in the room suddenly became stiff.
The next process was very perfunctory. After drinking a glass of wine, the blessed person picked up the plate and fed Jiang Shuyao some glutinous rice balls.
Generally, the bride took a symbolic bite. After the blessed person asked, "Raw or not," the bride lowered her head and replied shyly, "It is raw."
Jiang Shuyao, who hadn't eat rice since morning, knew this, but she ate the whole thing in one gulp, chewed it, and almost spit it out in disgust.
The blessed person was dumbfounded and stuttered, "Ra.. Raw or not?"
Jiang Shuyao's throat was just recovered. It hurts when she swallowed something without chewing. She puffed up in embarrassment, neither swallowing nor vomiting, her face wrinkled into a ball, "Too raw."
Xie Xun sat beside her, and his resenting value went all the way to the top.
When he traveled abroad, he had seen all kinds of people in the world, and he had also thought about the appearance of his future wife, whether it would be gentle and virtuous, or dignified and generous, but he never imagined that he would marry such a person.
After the blessed person finished singing, Xie Xun went out of the room without looking back. Except for removing the red veil, he never gave Jiang Shuyao another look.
The female family members in the room were all playing "You look at me and I look at you", and without saying a single auspicious word, they went out of the room silently.
In the early morning of the next day, everyone in the mansion knew that the third young master slept in the study room on the night of his wedding.
Everyone was waiting to see Jiang Shuyao became a joke, but Jiang Shuyao, who was at the center of the gossip, was not as miserable as they thought.
After she woke up comfortably, the maids waited on her to dress up.
The original body had a very bright and charming face, but this kind of look was not pleasing in this era. People would be chewing their tongue and scolding her as "vixen".
When marrying a wife, a man must marry a virtuous, gentle, or dignified one, and only when he was taking a concubine he would deliberately choose a woman with bright appearance.
Mrs. Xiangyang didn't like the bunch of charming concubines in the Xiangyang's mansion, so when she saw her daughter's beautiful appearance, she deliberately raised her to look like a gentle wind.
The original body was starved every day by her mother, just to achieve the look of a weak woman. Her body, which supposed to be protruding forward and backward, had turned into a shriveled thin monkey.
Most of her willow-leaf eyebrows were shaved, and it was drawn into flat and thin eyebrows that turned into a frown. She applied a thick powder to cover up the vibrant blush on her face all day long, and she was dressed in plain clothes. The style was nondescript and looked very funny.
Jiang Shuyao stopped the maid's powdering her, and put on her own make-up. She painted her eyebrows and finally brought back the energetic sword-like eyebrows. The charming and bright face instantly has a bit of heroism and it neutralized the skinny, bright, and seductive feeling brought by her snake face.
She put some lipstick on her lips, and today's makeup is complete.
Jiang Shuyao looked at herself in the bronze mirror with satisfaction. Freed from Mrs. Xiangyang's devil's claws, she finally realized her aesthetic freedom. After thinking about the days when she can't eat as much as she wanted, her face couldn't help but reveal a little bit of joy.
The original body was temperamental, and the maids around her were more cowardly than normal. Even if today was the first day of her wedding, they did not dare to wake her up early.
So when Xie Xun came, Jiang Shuyao had just finished dressing up and had not eaten breakfast.
Xie Xuan was slightly dissatisfied, but thinking of the scene in which he had not returned to the room yesterday, and Jiang Shuyao was kept in the room and secretly in tears, the blame suddenly dissipated.
"It's getting late, it's time to go to the hall to serve tea." He suddenly said, shocking the maids who surrounded Jiang Shuyao and saluting.
Jiang Shuyao hurriedly got up from the dressing table and trotted to Xie Xun's side, "I'm ready, let's go." On the first day of marriage, she was in a very good mood.
There is beauty, money (dowry), no pressure for marriage, and the husband is equal to decoration. Isn't this the same as the "three joys of life: promotion, wealth, and death of a husband" as the modern said, this is a happy day!
Xie Xun couldn't help but frown because of her lack of etiquette by jumping of joy.
Is she so pleased with him? Just seeing him makes her happy.
Yes, if she was not so pleased with him, how could she had no courtesy, no righteousness, and no shame, and threatened him with her life to force him to marry her.
Xie Xun was tall and has long legs, and when he was thinking about things, he took a lot of steps. Jiang Shuyao had to run to keep up with him. Fortunately, she wore a simple dress today and only wore a few jewelries on her head. Otherwise, she would get tired and sweaty.
After walking for a while, Xie Xun remembered that he was walking with someone else.
Suddenly he paused and turned his head back, which stunned Jiang Shuyao and she nearly hit him.
Jiang Shuyao immediately braked, stopping exactly half a step away from him.
The pinched silver wire and red agate on her head swayed drastically, and the morning light passed through the pendant, reflecting the brilliant light. Xie Xun couldn't help but squinted his eyes.
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The person in front of him opened her red lips and panted slightly, her cheeks flushed from the movement just now, and there were tiny beads of sweat on the tip of her nose, she looked cute and charming. A pair of eyes filled with water vapor, clear and bright, looked at him in surprise.
Xie Xun felt like he was pierced by the light passing through her jewelry, and he suddenly stopped.
The Jiang Shuyao in his memory, except for the big white face when he picked up the red veil, was only the mottled face she had on the day she fell into the water, which what she used to look like when she removed her heavy makeup.
He stepped back a few steps, put his hands behind his back, didn't dare to look at Jiang Shuyao anymore, and looked straight ahead, "You'll dress like this in the future, my mother doesn't like women with thick makeup."
Jiang Shuyao originally planned this way, so she said, "En, I see."
Xie Xun was a little surprised, he didn't expect that she was so well-behaved. She was different from when she was crying her heart out that day.
He felt a little guilty in his heart. The wife who will spend the rest of her life with him should be in love with him, not Jiang Shuyao who forced him to marry her by a death threat. This marriage was destined to have no good results.
Even if she was so pleased with him, and she was soft and peaceful in front of him, but she can't get the same feeling.
Thinking this way, he subconsciously slowed down his pace to match Jiang Shuyao's pace.
When the two arrived at the main room, the hall is full of people.
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[T/N: The dumpling thing is one of the Chinese wedding traditions.
What would happen is, the bride sits on the bed, the groom's family give her some dumplings which are not entirely cooked. While she eats it, people will ask: "Raw or not (生不生)?", and she has to answer, "Raw（生）!"
The character "生" (Sheng) actually has two meanings: "Raw" or "to give birth".
So, it is a thing to "blessed" the newlyweds to have children as soon as possible.]
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