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Chapter 9

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The Ji Shui Yard didn’t have many servants, except Lian Yue who was her personal servant, there were only two elderly woman servants who were in charge of cleaning. Due to Wen Qiao’s quiet personality, their job was only to clean the yard, they didn’t have to serve their master. The Ji Shui Yard was known as the most peaceful place in the Wen family.

The second wife was worried that the current Ji Shui Yard wouldn’t be able to manage the busy schedule. Thus she intentionally arranged more servants to help out.

Face washing, hair combing, make-up, dressing up…… Everything was proceeding as ordered.

After Wen Qiao wore the heavy wedding dress, she sat on the couch while holding a “Ru Yi” (TL: refer to the bottom for Chinese Ru Yi) shaped low ranked artefact waiting for the right timing.

“Miss, are you hungry?” Lian Yue asked.

“Please endure it, third lady. It would be better to not eat much food before leaving the house to avoid inconveniences.” The chaperon who was waiting beside said.

Lian Yue wasn’t happy with her words, “Miss has a weak constitution, how could she endure hunger? If the Seventh Prince knew, he would feel distressed too.”

After the chaperon heard her words, her mouth slightly twitched, but she didn’t deny Lian Yue’s words. According to the Seventh Prince’s action, it could be seen that he put a high value on his fiancée.

Lastly, Lian Yue took a bowl of porridge made from spiritual rice and Lily flower to let Wen Qiao fill up her stomach.

The chaperon turned around silently and thought, ‘Ignorance is bliss, these cultivators don’t even care about the rules.’

However, today’s wedding ceremony wasn’t the dual cultivation ceremony of cultivators but was a normal wedding ceremony according to the standards of common customs just to make it joyful. The chaperon was ordered to follow the rules, but the bride didn’t want to, how could she do it?

There were a few mesdames of the Wen family who came. When they saw Wen Qiao, who wore her wedding dress, sitting at her place and slowly eating her porridge; they turned silent for a moment.

The chaperon smiled awkwardly as she had no idea what to say because she failed to carry out her customer’s request.

Luckily the cultivators weren’t strict in trifles, the second wife and the other mesdames ignored the situation and sat together to talk with Wen Qiao. They told her about the things that were needed to be cautious in the ceremony, some rules in the Ning royal family and some trivial things about the Ning family. They wanted her to be prepared in order to avoid getting married without knowing anything.

These words should have been said by Wen Qiao’s mother. Unfortunately, there were no elders in the first house, so the second wife acted as the elder to tell her.

After she finished the porridge, Lian Yue helped Wen Qiao to fix her make-up.

The world of cultivators was different from the world of mortals, the ladies from the aristocratic family would rarely wear make-up. They took in the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and were born to possess a flawless beauty. Even if they didn’t wear any make-up, they were still prettier than the ladies from the world of mortals who meticulously dressed up. They usually wore light make-up in some specific events to make themselves look fantastic.

Today, Wen Qiao wore light make-up, her pale complexion was covered by fine rouge and made her face looked rosy. She wore a bright red wedding dress embroidered with an exquisite phoenix pattern. Everybody in the room was stunned by her outstanding countenance.

Everybody regained their consciousness after the braid veil was put down which covered her face.

Everyone had heard about the twins of the Wen family. According to the sayings, the twins were the most outstanding ladies in their generation, they had the most stunning looks and the highest talent in their cultivation. But after they met the third lady, they realised the third lady wasn’t inferior to the twins. Due to the fact that she rarely went out, people didn’t know about her.

The right timing had come, the sound of beating drums and clanging gongs sounded from the outside.

The mesdames of the Wen family got up hurriedly. The second wife said, “The Seventh Prince would soon be here to fetch the bride, please get prepared quickly.”

The Ji Shui Yard once again became busy.

The Seventh Prince Ning Yu Zhou was riding a big demon-horse to the Wen family’s house to escort the bride for the wedding.

He got down from the horse and walked into the Wen family house. He was wearing a bright red bridegroom robe traced in gold with a noble appearance. While he walked by, the room was graced with his appearance.

Everyone who saw him highly praised his looks. They sighed in their hearts, how could a stunning man like him be unable to cultivate?

No matter how handsome a man was, after a hundred years, he would be just a piece of a skeleton.

As Ning Yu Zhou entered the Ji Shui Yard, he saw the bride sitting in the centre of the hall. He showed a gentle smile and took a big step forward.

Ning Yu Zhou joined his hands together and saluted the mesdames of the Wen family. Then, he went forward and lifted his bride.

Everyone was clueless when they saw the situation.

Wen Qiao was also muddled by Ning Yu Zhou’s actions.

Then, she heard the man who was holding her say with a soft voice, “Don’t be scared, I’m here to fetch you.”

Wen Qiao wanted to reply to him, but the sound of beating drums around them was too noisy, she could only approve of his actions tacitly.

Wen Qiao was light, Ning Yu Zhou could easily lift her. He said with a genial manner, “The third lady has a weak constitution, I’ll embrace her out the house.”

The mesdames: “……”

She was a cultivator, how could her health condition be worse than a waste cultivator?

Everyone was speechless while looking at Ning Yu Zhou embracing the bride to walk out the Ji Shui Yard. Next, they went to the hall in the front yard to bid farewell to the bride’s family.

Even though the wedding ceremony was held with the standards of common customs, most of the elders of the Wen family attended to show their respect towards the Ning royal family.

The elders of the Wen family were headed by Wen Zhong Qing waiting in the hall.

Ning Yu Zhou brought his bride to bid farewell to her maiden family.

Wen Zhong Qing wasn’t close with his niece, it could also be said that they were unfamiliar. He just told them some farewell words and gave them some marriage advice.

The other elders of the Wen family did almost the same thing.

After they bid farewell to the elders, Ning Yu Zhou placed the bride on the bride’s sedan chair by himself. Then, he got up to the demon-horse and the escort procession left the house of the Wen family noisily.

When the Wen family saw them leave, they felt relaxed.

After the escort procession went around the imperial city, they entered the Seventh Prince’s palace, which was situated beside the royal palace.

While the Seventh Prince was grown up, he left the royal palace in order to build his palace. Emperor Cheng Hao cared about the safety of his most doted on son. The Emperor not only built the Seventh Prince’s palace beside the royal palace but also sent a team of well-trained disciples from the Ning royal family to be the Seventh Prince’s bodyguard. The Seventh Prince’s palace was fully protected.

Emperor Cheng Hao came to the Seventh Prince’s palace early. The Emperor wanted to manage his youngest son’s wedding ceremony by himself.

The other elders of the Ning royal family also attended the wedding ceremony.

Since the Ning family valued the wedding ceremony, the other aristocratic families could not merely send gifts but also had to attend the wedding ceremony held according to the standards of the common customs.

“The wedding ceremony of the mortals has so many trifles and is different from our dual cultivation ceremony.” A cute young lady who was wearing a light green coloured thin silk skirt said surprisingly. “Fifth Brother, our Father Emperor dotes on the Seventh Brother very much to allow him to hold such a grand wedding ceremony.”

“Father Emperor had his reasons.” The Fifth Prince Ning Ping Zhou replied flatly.

The young lady rolled her eyes and whispered, “No matter how much Father Emperor dotes on him, he is just a waste cultivator who needs to marry at an early age, even the standard of his wedding ceremony was according to the common customs. The couple is a good match, as one of them could not cultivate and the other possesses a weak constitution.

“Don’t talk nonsense.” Ning Ping Zhou reprimanded her, but it didn’t sound that he was angry at her actions.

The young lady thrust out her tongue with a naive look.

After they had completed the couple’s worship rite, Wen Qiao was sent to the bridal chamber.

A slender hand picked up the braid veil.

Wen Qiao lifted her head, she saw a man with a purple-golden coloured crown, wearing a bright red robe traced with gold. He was as handsome and gentle as she first met him one month ago.

Ning Yu Zhou looked at her for a while and said with a gentle voice, “I need to send Father Emperor and other guests off. You could rest a while and eat something if you’re hungry.”

Wen Qiao: “En.” She didn’t look nervous.

Ning Yu Zhou looked at her again and left.

After Ning Yu Zhou left, a few servants entered the room to serve Wen Qiao. They took off the heavy phoenix crown on her head and tied her long black silky hair into a bun with a white jade hair clasp. Next, they took a soft silk dress and helped her to clean up and get dressed.

Lian Yue was stunned to watch the well-trained servants of the royal family. Suddenly, she had the feeling of inferiority.

Meanwhile, she heard Wen Qiao asked, “Lian Yue, where’s my flower pot?”

Lian Yue regained her consciousness and said, “It’s outside, Miss. Do you want me to carry it inside?”

Wen Qiao: “En.”

The servants who were holding different kinds of hot spiritual food took a glance curiously and carefully. The servants felt suffocated when they saw Lian Yue was holding a rustic porcelain flower pot with some dark brown coloured soil inside.

Why was she holding an empty flower pot?

Wen Qiao, who was sitting in front of the dining table, ignored the servants. She took over the flower pot and touched the edges of the flower pot with her fingers. Then, she put the flower pot beside the table, took over the chopsticks given by the servant and started dining.

The delicious spiritual foods and the rustic porcelain flower pot had a strong contrast, just like a wealthy family living an extravagant life compared with a peasant family living in the countryside.

Did the Seventh Princess give up on herself and started to live like a mortal after marrying the Seventh Prince?

Only Lian Yue knew how her Miss valued the seed planted in the flower pot. Although it hadn’t sprouted, her Miss treasured it because it was given by the Seventh Prince.

After Lian Yue’s unconscious revelation, the servants of the Seventh Prince’s palace just knew the seed was given by the Seventh Prince.

The servants did not gaze at the flower pot in a weird way but started to value it.

While Ning Yu Zhou was back from sending off the guests, he saw his wife, who had taken a bath, was holding a rustic flower pot.

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TL notes:

“Ru Yi” was translated directly from the pinyin of 如意 in Chinese, the literal meaning was ‘as desired’, ‘as [you] wish’ or as an adjective meaning “satisfied, pleased, happy, comfortable”.