strictlysupreme Chapter 155 Welcoming the bride
Chapter 155 Welcoming the bride
Lin Jiaojiao turned over and rode on Feixue, leading a wedding procession towards the village entrance.
The villagers woke up early and gathered in the yard to watch the excitement. Everyone was very excited. They didn't expect to see such a grand wedding procession in their Linjia Village.
However, after leaving Linjia Village, Lin Jiaojiao and her team got on the carriages that had been parked outside and waiting.
After all, it would take more than an hour and a half to walk from Linjia Village to the town, so Lin Jiaojiao saved the trip by taking a carriage.
When the four carriages arrived at the town, Lin Chun and the other seven people were already waiting with the wedding sedan. Lin Jiaojiao got off the carriage and climbed onto Feixue. The others also got off the carriage, reorganized the team, took their belongings, and followed Lin Jiaojiao to Nanshan City with gongs and drums.
It was still early and there were not many people in the town, but the festive sounds still attracted many people to come out of their homes and watch.
When the group arrived at Nanshan City, the streets were already bustling with people, because everyone knew that the Fu family was having a wedding today, and they all came to join in the fun to see if they could grab the wedding bag.
The wedding bags are prepared by the man’s family for the wedding. Red dates, peanuts, longans, and rice dumplings are sewn into cloth bags and distributed to relatives and friends who come to give blessings.
Outside the wall in front of Fu's house, there was a long row of carriages parked side by side. They were all business partners of the Fu family, as well as high-ranking officials and county magistrates in the city.
However, while all these people were surrounding Prefect Jiang and Magistrate Su, Su Minyue was sitting aside with a gloomy look on her face. She only found out when she was seven years old that she had an older sister, but she died young.
This has always been a taboo in their family. It cannot be mentioned or discussed, and they are not even allowed to go to Nanshan City.
Later, when she grew up, she learned from her classmates and friends that the tragedy that happened that year was that her mother's ex-husband was captured by bandits on the way to visit relatives with their children and was taken to the mountains and raped. When her mother led people to eliminate the bandits and arrived, the man had already hanged himself.
The child only found the jade pendant and some undigested limb bones in the wolf's stomach in the wolf's den in the back mountain.
Her birth happened to be at that time, which did not bring any joy to the family, but made it even more sad.
Her father was just a maid who came as a dowry with her ex-husband. He had sex with her after getting drunk one time and she was born. The ex-husband felt sorry for the maid who had been with him for so long, so he asked her mother to give her a legitimate status.
Although her father has been promoted to a concubine and her current husband has only given birth to two sons, she is still the only girl in the family.
And now she is about to have a sister, a legitimate daughter, and also her marriage to Jiang Huai. Is all this going to be in vain?
Lin Jiaojiao had already arrived at the gate, but was stopped and asked to guess riddles, do math tests and compose poems. She was so embarrassed that if she was really a farmer's daughter, she would have died at the poetry composing stage.
She just recited a poem and people around her kept applauding and cheering. She felt embarrassed by the praise and kept being low-key.
She came to the main hall and saw Su Tongpan standing at the door with an emotional look in his eyes, but she ignored him and walked in, bowing and greeting the people in the room.
On this side, Fu Ling was holding a red scarf and holding the other end of the groom who was wearing a red wedding cloth and a red robe.
Fu Ling and Du Mingrui rushed back in the middle of the night yesterday. Du Mingrui went home first to report that she was safe, and after she came back she was busy dealing with things.
Now she handed the red handkerchief to Lin Jiaojiao with a tired look on her face, and patted her shoulder with her other hand and said something harsh.
"I've entrusted my brother to you. If you dare to let him suffer any injustice, I will never forgive you."
She took the red handkerchief and said with a smile on her face: "Sister, don't worry, I will love him and protect him."
Fu Qi lowered her eyes to look at the other pair of red boots on her feet, listening to the voice she had been thinking about day and night, he finally stood beside her with full justification.
The two of them held up their teacups and offered farewell tea to Fu's mother and father who were sitting in the upper seats, and then she walked towards the main gate of the house holding the red handkerchief.
Fu's father could no longer hold back his tears and began to wipe them with a handkerchief. Fu's mother's eyes also became moist. She then took a deep breath, stood up, and began to entertain the guests and prepare to set off for Linjia Village.
Lin Jiaojiao led Fu Qi to the wedding sedan chair and held out her hand with her palm facing up. "Hold me, be careful not to hit your head."
He joyfully placed his hand in her palm, then bent down and entered the wedding sedan. At this time, Tongfu also took an apple and handed it in through the window.
After she saw the person sitting firmly in the sedan chair, she whispered, "There are some biscuits under the pillow behind you. Eat some if you are hungry."
"Um…"
Listening to his mosquito-like response, she smiled, lowered the curtain of the sedan chair, walked to the front and jumped on the horse.
When the matchmaker saw that there was no problem, he shouted, "Bring up the sedan chair."
As the sound of suona began to sound, the crowd making way for the procession made way for the beautiful bride who was leading the procession on a white horse, followed by a sedan chair carried by eight people, and dowries being carried out from Fu's house and following the procession.
The people around congratulated him one after another, and the servants began to distribute wedding gifts in baskets.
"Look at the size of the wedding gifts and the grand ceremony. This is not just a peasant girl getting married. This is even bigger than the last time the Xie family married their son off to Qingzhou."
"Can the Xie family be compared? What peasant girl? She is obviously the adopted daughter of our Lord Jiang. How can their status be the same?"
"Tsk tsk, your information is too outdated. Now everyone in Qingzhou is betting on whether Lin Jiaojiao is the daughter of Su Tongpan."
"What? There is such a thing? Sister, please tell me..."
Su Tongpan got on the carriage with a bit of disappointment. Thinking back to when she had just peeked at her guessing riddles, doing math, and composing poems through the door, she had seen how smart and high-spirited she was. She became more and more certain that she was Jiao'er.
Su Minyue was following her mother and about to get on the carriage when she saw someone coming out of the door. It was Mr. Jiang, and behind him was a man wearing a blue cloak with a fur collar and a veil on his head. It was Jiang Huai.
She had only seen what he looked like when she was a child, and when she grew up, she could no longer see his appearance because of the curtain. She couldn't say how much she liked him, she just wanted to marry him.
Jiang Huai also noticed that the eyes next to him were staring at him. He looked through the curtain, his eyebrows slightly frowned and a look of displeasure flashed in his eyes.
The day before yesterday he knew the person Fu Qi was going to marry, probably his deceased fiancée, but he didn't feel anything. The two of them had no more intersection except the bond of that piece of paper.
He actually hoped that she could recognize her ancestry and then formally cancel the engagement, rather than letting Su Minyue use the engagement to harass him constantly.
Today's wedding procession left a deep impression on the people of Nanshan City. The horse-drawn carriages followed behind and drove out of the city. It was probably all the carriages in the city that went there.
The third floor of Zuixianlou.
A man in red stood in front of the window, his hands on the windowsill, his cheek in his hand, looking into the distance at the red street.
Lan Qi pushed the door open and walked in. "Master, we can set off now."
Qi Yao was unmoved, instead he found it more and more interesting the more he looked at it, until the red shadow could no longer be seen on the street.
"Is getting married so exciting? It makes me want to get married now."