Edited by Elanor
Madam Lin was sitting on the heated Kang, with her hair in a rich high bun, her back leaning on a soft pillow, with a fragrant tea in her left hand, and her right hand letting the maid dye her nails. She was leisurely and lazy, very comfortable.
Feeling that a lot of time has passed, she lazily yawned, “Is it almost time?”
Wang Momo was also waiting to watch the excitement, but she didn’t dare to show it, and only looked out the window from time to time. Hearing her Madam mention it, she immediately beamed with smiles, “It is time, I don’t know what kind of fuss that cheap bastard will make. Don’t worry, Madam. This slave will go and see and come back to give you the news.”
But before she could ask, someone ran in and delivered a message, “Madam, the Second Young Master successfully entered the house and paid homage to the Eldest Young Master of the Chu family!”
“Crash–”
Madam Lin’s tea cup immediately fell to the ground and smashed to pieces, “What did you say?!”
The man was kneeling on the ground, not daring to raise his head, “The Second Young Master’s sedan followed the Eldest Young Master of the Chu family into the mansion. At the auspicious time, they will… pay, they will pay their respects.”
Madam Lin put her hand on her forehead and suddenly felt dizzy.
What did she hear? Was it an illusion?
Wang Momo was also startled. She stared at the person kneeling on the ground with sharp and gloomy eyes, “Did you see it clearly? If you dare to lie and deceive Madam, the family law will show you no mercy!”
“I saw it with my own eyes,” the man gulped, and carefully replied, “The sedan chair stopped at the door, and the Chu family’s Daughter-in-Law stuffed six hand-pressed red seals. The Second Young Master got off the sedan chair and was greeted by the Chu family’s Elders. The Young Master held his hand and went in…”
Madam Lin was furious, but she always hid her temper, so she didn’t act on it immediately. After motioning for the person to leave, she overturned the table and smashed everything in the room.
“Impossible! He’s just a bastard, why should he be accepted! Even if he was brought up as a legitimate son and got a lot of benefits from following the Eldest Wife, he was still born to a concubine!”
Wang Momo hurriedly tried to persuade her, wording her words carefully, “No…even if that cheap bastard is proud, he can only be proud for a while…”
Madam Lin’s face was distorted, her eyes were almost on fire, “Where’s Ma San! What is he doing! I didn’t give him the money just for fun, I wanted him to do something!”
“This old slave will go and check it out right away!”
Wang Momo got this excuse and hurried out. After leaving the house, she breathed a long sigh of relief.
Madam Lin’s nails hud dug into her flesh tightly, but she didn’t feel any pain at all. She looked along the crack of the window to the sky in the distance, in the direction of the Chu family, and suddenly sneered, “Do you think you can be complacent? You can escape this time, but you can’t escape next time, you can’t escape me, and you can’t escape others!”
“So what if the Chu family really wants to marry you?”
Madam Lin was not optimistic about this marriage. In her opinion, even if she was not pleased, then Xie Tingyue could not be pleased either. A temporary success could not withstand the final capsize.
Unfortunately, this time she was destined to be disappointed, as Xie Tingyue passed the threshold smoothly.
Of course, there were still some hiccups.
Getting married was a major event in life, and every process had its own explanation. You had to ask for blessings and have to follow the auspicious time. You could wait for the auspicious time, but you could not let the auspicious time wait for you. For example, if the auspicious time was coming soon, the couple would have to catch up. If the auspicious time was still far away, but the wedding ceremony was going smoothly and quickly, then this road would have to be walked slowly, which was time-consuming.
The wedding ceremony for newlyweds must be meticulous, could not have any hint of something wrong and the couple would also encounter things like waiting, but that time was generally not very long. There would be “new couple sitting next to each other” etiquette before the worship process. The length of time could be adjusted by themselves, which was just right.
It was at this time that the hiccup occurred.
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But the daylilies were nowhere to be found. The ones that had been prepared and put aside suddenly disappeared, some undiscerning person had put in random weeds. The prepared charcoal was also wet. It was too busy in the back, and the servants had to trot around to serve them, as a result, by accident, two servants bumped into each other. The one who was hit happened to be holding a pot of tea in his hand, and the fine silver cypress charcoal… was drenched.
Silver cypress charcoal could still be used after it has been dried, and it was not considered damaged. However, this was the best charcoal, and the price was very high. Stocks were available in government offices, so of course, it could be replaced if misfortune happened in the event of marriage, but for this type of charcoal, there was a special book recording the collection status, and one had to go through the process. There was no time now, trying to follow the process to get it, the auspicious time would definitely pass.
Unfortunately, the Main Housekeeper was not around at this time and could not be found anywhere. The Old Matriarch was with the Eldest Wife, and the Second Wife was waiting for guests in the back. No one could get out…
Good things never come in pairs, and bad things never come alone. At this moment, a white dumpling jumped down from the wall.
This white dumpling had a round head, round eyes, round body, and chubby paws. The fur all over his body was fluffy and soft, without a single stray hair out of place. He was a beautiful cat. The tip of the white cat’s tail was tied with a blue satin bow that was the same color as its small and very delicate eyes. It raised its tail and walked elegantly in a straight catwalk, its chin was raised and seemingly looking at people with disdain. It looked quite haughty in its small appearance.
For a moment, everyone seemed to freeze, and the scene suddenly became quiet.
The responsible housekeeper was so worried that his beard was about to be pulled off. Why was this ancestor here?
The white cat seemed to hate people blocking its way. It didn’t like cups or anything. It raised its paw and scratched two people and knocked several cups away. It was quite arrogant. Not only did no one dare to scold it for being so showy and domineering, but those who were closer even quickly caught the things that Uncle Meow swatted away.
The overbearing white cat’s goal would not be diverted by anyone, and it walked towards Xie Tingyue with a swaggering and aggressive attitude.
Xie Tingyue didn’t quite understand the current situation, he raised his eyebrows slightly and glanced at Chu Mu.
The smile on Chu Mu’s face was as usual, without any prompting.
Xie Tingyue had a toothache, okay…
The onlookers all gasped and looked at this Young Master Xie with pity.
This fierce god didn’t get close to anyone except the Old Matriarch. It would scratch and bite without giving anyone face. If Xie Tingyue was targeted by it, he would inevitably suffer and on this happy day, what would you think would happen…
Pity was pity, everyone just lamented that it was a pity, but they didn’t dare to come and stop the cat.
What if the white cat changed its target and attacked them?
What happened next shocked everyone.
The domineering white cat came to a stop at Xie Tingyue’s feet. Without scratching or biting him, it walked around and sniffed him, then lay down directly and showed its belly, “Meow——”
The voice was called delicate, soft and sticky.
It was begging for a touch!
It was overbearing when it came to scratching, and it was also very direct when asking for petting. It hugged Xie Tingyue’s legs and rubbed itself back and forth, urging, indicating if Xie Tingyue didn’t touch it, it would climb up his pants, claws hooked up, and it wouldn’t let go.
Very shameless.
Xie Tingyue subconsciously pulled at the waist of his pants, feeling a little embarrassed.
But when he glanced to the side, he found that no one was laughing at him. Everyone’s eyes seemed to be… complicated?
He had no choice but to ask his new husband for help again.
Chu Mu smiled slightly and nodded, as if encouraging.
Xie Tingyue no longer had any baggage, he squatted down and let the white cat sniff his hand, and then it started to purr, rub, and twist on Xie Tingyue’s hands.
The round head, the back of the neck, the waist, the chin… Before the whole set was completed, the domineering white cat had been transformed from a hundred-refined steel to a finger-wrenching softness, purring and meowing so much that it could almost drip water, and it was delicate and sweet.
Everyone looked at each other in disbelief and found that the other’s eyes and emotions were exactly the same.
Has this cat’s core been changed?
The new Young Mistress has magic power!
No matter what anyone said, this was the Old Matriarch’s favorite cat, the second oldest in the whole house. The men in the family had to coax it when they saw it. Who dared to care about others? The entire Chu family, wherever it was, was auspicious. Dare one say something else… Do you think your life is too long and you have had enough? Or is it that the monthly salary given by the government is too high, and you don’t like the smell of money and want to find another ‘good place’?
The servants of the Chu family looked at each other and immediately took action.
Anyway, the white cat was never wrong, it liked the Young Mistress, and so of course the Young Mistress was right, but if things didn’t go well, and the auspicious time would go wrong…it would be their fault!
Immediately everyone started to move around, showing off their special skills and smoothing all the roadblocks——
Cats have cat paths, rats have mouse paths, very quickly, daylilies, silver cypress charcoals were all quickly prepared, and the auspicious time had arrived.
The white cat didn’t like the sound of firecrackers, so after it felt comfortable all over after the rubbing, it hooked Xie Tingyue’s wrist with its tail, meowed a thank you, and shook its butt to say goodbye. The gesture seemed to say, Uncle Meow will remember you, and you will continue to serve me like this next time.
Xie Tingyue: “……”
“The auspicious time has come for the newlyweds to pay their respects——”
Amidst the sound of music, Xie Tingyue and Chu Mu walked into the main hall holding the two ends of the red silk.
“Worship the heaven and the earth——”
“Second, bow to the high hall——”
“Husband and wife pay homage to each other——”
Three sentences, three rituals, time was very slow, but also very fast.
Xie Tingyue saw Chu Mu’s smile opposite him. It was warm and genial, like the spring wind and the moon on a summer night. The stars and tides reflected in his eyes, which were deep but also sincere.
He seemed…really happy.
After the ceremony, everything went even smoother. The new house was very quiet, no disturbance and no fault to be found. The Old Matriarch also sent the servant next to her to bring food to the new Young Mistress – she heard about the white cat’s troubles.
In any case, because of her statement, everything went smoother.
Xie Tingyue breathed a sigh of relief.
After waiting for a long time, Chu Mu came over to the nuptial room. His hair was slightly damp and he had changed his clothes, it was obvious that he had already taken a bath.
Xie Tingyue smelled a faint medicinal fragrance. Was it a medicinal bath?
Qin Ping, the Chief of guards, pushed Chu Mu to the table, placed books on the left side of the table, a small wine cup and a long-necked wine flask on the right side, and with his head lowered, slowly left without saying anything.
Xie Tingyue looked at the table and saw that the book was open. There were even wet marks on the corners of the inner pages. There was half a cup of wine in the wine cup, which must have been drunk before.
This man… was taking a medicinal bath while reading a book and drinking wine?
Perhaps noticing the curiosity in his eyes, Chu Mu picked up the wine cup with three slender fingers and took a sip, “I have always been in poor health. The doctor said that drinking a little wine is good for the body.”
Xie Tingyue realized clearly that this was the case and thought in his heart, how can ordinary patients drink alcohol? It can be seen that Chu Mu’s illness is unusual.
“Have a drink with me?” Chu Mu cupped his chin with a hand and extended the invitation with a smile.
His smile was no different, but Xie Tingyue suddenly noticed the bloodshot eyes and flushed cheeks.
This man was exhausted.
It must be hard for him to hold on for a whole day, right?
A trace of guilt gradually crept up from the bottom of his heart.
This marriage was ridiculously hasty from beginning to end. Chu Mu didn’t need to pay too much attention to it. He was a patient and nothing he did was out of line. No one could find a reason. But he still braved the cold wind to welcome him, took care of him and gave tips.
There were many things that he should always pay attention to as a person with plans…
“Next time you have a drink, can I accompany you?” Xie Tingyue looked at the wine bottle on the table, “Drinking too much will harm your health.”
There was only half a cup in the cup, and there was not much in the pot. If he joined, he must add wine, which was not appropriate.
Even though the words were vague, the meaning was clear. Chu Mu understood, the corners of his eyes became more curved: “Okay.”
Xie Tingyue felt that it was a bit strange. When newlyweds met in the bridal chamber, the atmosphere was mostly awkward and shy. He and Chu Mu were not like others. They were relaxed and natural, like old friends facing each other, very comfortable.
Seeing that it was getting late, he asked Chu Mu, “Do you want to rest?”
Chu Mu held the book with his long fingers and didn’t look away, “Wait a minute, I still have to read for a while.”
Xie Tingyue: “Then after you finish reading, I will help you spread the quilt and take off your clothes.”
The scroll was placed on the table by slender fingers and closed. Chu Mu turned his head and said, “I won’t read it.”
Xie Tingyue: “Hmm?”
Chu Mu smiled, “Take it off.”
Xie Tingyue: …! !
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That was a very quick change of mind 😂
Thank You for the new chapter (∩˃o˂∩)♡
Lmao chu mu your thirstiness is showing 😂
LOL the Chu Mu definitely knows Xie Tingyue
Heehee Lao Gong so wild~~~
Lmao the way Chu Mu switched priorities like- snap 😂👏 and what the heck is going on here?? Is Chu Mu also from the future?? He’s way too suspicious~ 😅
lol when the author tries to hint but the hint is a bit too big- or maybe they’re trying to mislead us, maybe they got a hidden past that Xiao Yue forgot?
His man switched sides faster than my sh!tty @ss dog can p!ss on the kitchen floor 💀 (no lies) but respect dude got his priorities straight ofc can’t make wife wait 😂