General's Gown

On the eighth day of the fifth lunar month, it is early summer, Chonghu (Wuyin) Shannan, suitable for marriage.

Outside the magnificent Donghua Gate of the Ming Palace, the eldest son of Dongyun, a 84-member send-off team slowly stopped.

Xuanji was wearing a big red wedding dress embroidered with gold silk and auspicious clouds, and a nine-phoenix crown wearing a beaded phoenix crown. She gracefully stretched out a slender jade hand from the 16-person wedding sedan chair carved and gilded.

Just this one hand made all the bearers hold their breath and avoid their eyes.

Men in Dongyun regard black as the most precious color.Helian Rongchuan was dressed in a gorgeous golden cloud wedding dress with black background, and Xinxin stretched out his hand to welcome Xuanji out of the sedan chair.

"The bracelet is so beautiful." Helian Rongchuan swept Xuanji's slender wrists and praised.

Xuanji lowered her head and lightly stroked the nine-turn exquisite red gold bracelet inlaid with diamonds that was two fingers thick on her wrist, and said coquettishly: "Your Highness is really good at talking. He doesn't praise people for their beauty, but only the beauty of the bracelet."

Helian Rongchuan laughed: "Whether a person is beautiful or not, I will know later."

Xuanji lowered her head shyly, her delicate face like a flower looked even more beautiful under the reflection of the big red hipa.

The ceremonial officer stepped forward and instructed that according to Dongyun etiquette, the groom and the bride should climb up the 49 [-] steps together and enter the main hall to thank the emperor.Because the bride is covered with a hipa, it is inconvenient to move, so the groom carries the bride into the palace to show the intimacy of the husband and wife.

hold the bride?

Helian Rongchuan lowered his eyes and smiled faintly, and suddenly remembered that one morning a few months ago, he also wore a groom's wedding dress, and forcibly hugged a man as cold and arrogant as a sculpture of ice and snow in his arms.At the neck of the man's hair, a faint, clear smell like melting ice and snow rushed into his chest, making him feel refreshed.It's a pity that at that time, Helian Rongchuan was still thinking of playing tricks, completely unaware of what a wrong thing he was about to do.

But the man was willing to forgive him later.He is even willing to destroy his future for his own thoughts.

And what did he do?It is clearly an eagle soaring above the nine heavens, why would he think about how to break his wings, and how to hide him in his own golden cage?

Helian Rongchuan sighed inaudibly, and shook his head self-deprecatingly.

"Your Highness?" Xuanji covered her head and couldn't see Helian Rongchuan's expression, but he seemed to be in a daze without moving, so she couldn't help but speak.

This sound interrupted Helian Rongchuan's memory.The sound of silk and bamboo sounds, and the auspicious time is coming.The ceremonial official said loudly: "Enter—bye!"

Helian Rongchuan picked up a piece of scarlet wedding silk and handed it to Xuanji.

"My king is still seriously injured, so I invite Princess Xuanji to go with me."

Xuanji was taken aback, touched the bracelet on her wrist, and nodded understandingly.

The two of them took their time and entered the hall following the ceremony.In the resplendent imperial palace, King Dongyun was leaning on the dragon chair, already impatient with the complicated etiquette. His index finger and middle finger tapped the lifelike pure gold dragon head carved on the armrest more and more frequently.

Over fifty years old, Dongyun King, who has always been pampered and pampered, looks much younger than his actual age. The amber eyes and deep facial contours that symbolize the noble blood of the Helian royal family faintly reveal a bit of the handsome demeanor of his youth.However, his high cheekbones and the greedy look in his eyes from time to time made him look a bit unhealthy and sick.

Crown Prince He Liantao wore a gold crown on his head and a robe embroidered with gold and jade belts. He smiled and nodded at Helian Rongchuan, and said to King Dongyun respectfully in a low voice: "Father, the time to practice has not yet come, go later It’s not too late to cultivate the Immortal Terrace.”

"Not too late? Waiting for the auspicious time for him to worship, the auspicious time for my cultivation will be delayed!" King Dongyun waved his sleeves impatiently: "Why don't you even worry about me?"

Crown Prince He Liantao bowed respectfully and respectfully: "I dare not. Everything will be arranged by my father."

"This is just like my prince." King Dongyun glanced at his most beloved and obedient eldest son with satisfaction, and before the officer of ceremony sang praises and prostrations with a high voice, he picked up a piece of paper from the vermilion lacquer plate. Team Xiangyun Yuruyi stepped down from the stage.

According to the etiquette of Dongyun, when the prince enters the palace to bow down, he needs to perform the same prison ceremony. After washing, he will be bestowed with the jade ruyi by the king.However, at this time, King Dongyun was focused on rushing to the auspicious time to go to his newly built Immortal Cultivation Platform with white jade pillars and gold roof to practice, hoping to become immortal as soon as possible, so he couldn't care less.

Pushing Yu Ruyi into the hands of Helian Rongchuan and Xuanji, King Dongyun felt relieved, but seeing his second son, who had always been careless, being so serious at this moment, he suddenly lost face.After all, it was also a day of great joy. The prince got married two years ago. Not only did he wave his hand, he gave the prince ten thousand taels of gold and silver treasures without hesitation. .

Although this second son came from a humble background and his birth mother was humble, he looked down upon him very much.But after all, it's his big day, so it shouldn't be too obvious to favor one over another.

King Dongyun stroked a strand of beard on his chin, coughed lightly, and said, "Well, then I wish you... well, a happy marriage for a hundred years, and a marriage together. I will give you—"

Before he finished speaking, the window lattice of the main hall creaked, and a gust of wind unexpectedly swept in, which lifted most of the bride's red hijab at once.Most of Xuanji's alluring face was exposed.

This face actually made King Dongyun feel inexplicably familiar.

King Dongyun suddenly widened his eyes, took a step back, and shouted sharply: "Are you——?!"

When it was too late, Xuanji stood up suddenly, with a flick of her snowy wrist, and with a click, the two-finger-thick red gold bracelet was automatically split into two pieces, revealing the sharp jagged blade hidden inside, and the cold light flashed and swirled. Hit directly into Dongyun King.

King Dongyun couldn't dodge in time, was stabbed in the abdomen, knelt down with a plop, vomited blood, and pointed at Xuanji in disbelief: "You!"

The moment the blade pierced into King Dongyun's body, the consternation and fear in King Dongyun's eyes made Xuanji feel a sense of revenge that she had never felt before.

It turns out that you also know to be afraid!When you set fire to our home, when you looted my people, you know they will be afraid too!

Prince Heliantao rushed over in a hurry, slapped Xuanji who was about to assassinate to the ground, and shouted: "There are assassins!"

However, Xuanji moved faster than the soldiers outside the hall.She took off the red hijab and the phoenix crown on her hair, a cold light flashed in the palm of her left hand, and the murderous intent suddenly appeared, and she rushed towards King Dongyun regardless of herself.A raging fire was burning in a pair of beautiful eyes, with the power to destroy everything without hesitation.

She wanted revenge so much that she didn't even have time to think about why the prince's palm just now didn't have the slightest lethality, and why Helian Rongchuan behind her never made a move from the beginning to the end.

I'm about to be free!It's time for revenge!

However, a figure suddenly flashed in front of him.

The short sword stabbed down fiercely, but the person who was hit by the sword was not the one she thought.

Xuanji's face changed drastically, and she stared at Helian Rongchuan in disbelief.Before he could speak in the future, he was caught off guard on the chest and received a solid palm from him.

Her body was like a broken kite with broken strings, Xuanji was hit by this palm and fell straight down. She struggled to stand up, but there was already a sharp dagger across her neck.

The man who almost became her husband used his flesh and blood to block the fatal sword that stabbed King Dongyun.Bright red blood gushed out from Helian Rongchuan's shoulder blades, dyeing a large piece of black wedding dress red, like a magnificent and gorgeous peony blooming in the dark night.In contrast to this strong color, is the pale face of the man, like frost, holding a short sword, and his eyes are like amber in the ice, without any warmth.

Which bridegroom would hide a dagger on his big day?

In an instant, Xuanji understood everything.

There are still people in the world who can perform tricks so well.

Heh, heh, heh.

The wry smile from the hoarse throat was laughing at himself for being useless, and also laughing at the injustice of God.

The guard rushed in and took Xuanji down without any explanation.

Several imperial doctors frantically stopped the bleeding and felt the pulse of King Dongyun.The knife Xuanji gave him hurt his abdomen, but because the blade was too short, although it was dangerous, it was not fatal immediately.

So the imperial doctors chanted "bless the gods, bless the gods" in unison, and carefully carried King Dongyun out of the hall.

The hall fell silent.It was as if the sea had finally calmed down after a storm.

Prince Heliantao lowered his eyes to look at King Dongyun who had fainted from fright, and then looked at Helian Rongchuan who was silent and stared down at the pool of blood beneath him.

Speak calmly:

"what do you mean?"

Helian Rongchuan raised his head and looked into Helian Tao's eyes.Those were a pair of very different, taupe eyes.

"I suddenly felt that he couldn't be allowed to die so happily. That would be too cheap for him."

Helian Rongchuan pulled a pale smile from the corner of his mouth, and his figure shook slightly due to blood loss:

"Anyway, your goal has been achieved, hasn't it?"