Chapter 319 Kowtow to Heaven and Earth

Meng Xuan was overjoyed and kept shaking the person in his arms. He asked quickly, “You want to marry me? You even call me Shenshi! Are you really willing to marry me immediately? Xiaoyi!”

He Danggui hurriedly held him down and rebuked, “You are injured. Be carefully. Even if you don’t care your body, you should take care of yourself for me!”

Meng Xuan nodded vigorously and his eyes narrowed into a slit. He replied, “Don’t worry. Your husband is strong and healthy. It is just a little blood. You will not be a widow! We will die on the same day!”

He Danggui patted his forehead and scolded him, “If you keep bleeding, I’ll have to keep bandaging you! That will be annoying!” Thinking of what Meng Xuan said, she suddenly realized something, “You were injured by the imperial guard? When? Did you infect by some colorless and odorless poisons? I remember you were poisoned three years ago. Or, Lu Jiangbei’s sword power is so strong that it keeps you bleeding?” While saying, she wanted to re-examine Meng Xuan’s wound.

Meng Xuan smiled and stopped her, “I’ve got no poisons. I deliberately pulled the wound and forced the blood out to make you feel distressed. Xiaoyi, your expression of being worried about me is so beautiful. I want to see it one more time.”

He Danggui was frightened and angry, “You’re crazy! You are not the immortal!” Her chest rose and fell violently, bringing unspeakable feelings.

“Deceiving to get the love of a beautiful girl with a little blood is the most cost-effective business in the world.” Meng Xuan approached her with a smirk. His expression was seriously inconsistent with the elegant temperament of his handsome face. He demanded, “Candy! Again! Xiaoyi, let’s continue. And I want to hear you call me Shenshi again. Your voice is so fair-sounding.”

He Danggui resolutely shook her head and said, “You are seriously injured. If you don’t take a rest, you will die! If you don’t control yourself, you will lose me. Why don’t you understand that we can do it later?” She had never seen such a salacious man! He acted as he had never seen a woman.

Meng Xuan slumped back on the pillow. He stared at He Danggui with her long hair sliding over her shoulders, and confirmed, “Are you really willing to marry me?” He acted as if she would go back on her words if he didn’t ask for evidence. However, what would be available evidence? Meng Xuan thought for a while and decided, “When I am recovered, let’s continue what we should do today, okay?”

No way! He Danggui became angry, but she couldn’t lose her temper on this pale-faced Meng Xuan who had lost too much blood. So, she said perfunctorily, “Let’s talk about it later.”

“Why?” Meng Xuan felt that she was insincere, “We should make an appointment now so that we both can prepare for it.”

“For what?” He Danggui asked confusedly.

Meng Xuan answered seriously, “I am preparing a way to make you feel less painful. In this way, we could purely enjoy it. Xiaoyi, I’m your husband from today.” He seemed to be drunk and said everything came to his mind. Suddenly, he bounced out of the bed and shouted, “That’s right. Let’s kowtow to Heaven and Earth! After that, we will formally be a couple!” Regardless of He Danggui’s attempt to stop him, he searched every corner of the house, “Do you have red candles? They are necessary!”

He Danggui didn’t know how to communicate with this idiot Meng Xuan. Taking into account his wound, she comforted him, “You stay here. I will find you some.” She just asked Meng Xuan when he would come to marry her. He once said that after he got consent from his parents, he would take betrothal presents to Luo’s Mansion and marry her as a concubine. So why did he want to play house now?

Muttering in her heart, she still took out a pair of thick and long red candles in the cabinet and lit them on. After fixing them on the cabinet in the corner, she let Meng Xuan come to her, “Here, let’s perform the wedding ceremony.” She felt that it was similar to the scene that she coaxed him to play Go when they met for the first time.

Meng Xuan grinned and tried to smooth down his rumpled clothes. Then he asked, “Do you have red dress and red cloth? Those would be perfect costumes.”

He Danggui shook her head, “No, not even the reddish ones.” She didn’t like the cloth with strong color.

“No?!” Meng Xuan was a little disappointed. He smacked his lips, “Are you sure?”

He Danggui shook her head unhappily, “I didn’t know that I am going to perform the wedding ceremony today.” Meng Xuan should regard it as a trifling matter. Was he really going to make out with her after his recovery?

“Don’t worry. We will use them next time.” Meng Xuan grabbed He Danggui’s wrist and pulled two slender leaves from a flowerpot on the windowsill. He folded the two leaves and hooked them together. Then he motioned her to pull the other end and said, “I’ll count to three, and then we pull them together!”

Play grass? Holding the thin grass and wondering in her heart, she was getting more confused than ever before. It seemed that he wanted to determine something by playing grass! She couldn’t help but ask, “Why are we playing this game first? What do you want to do next?”

Meng Xuan kindly explained, “I have read a book recording a custom that the bride and the groom should kiss each other in front of everyone. I think we should perform it.”

Well, that was his goal. He Danggui thought that he was really like a man who had never kissed and hugged a woman before.

Meng Xuan continued, “Since the last time we played grass, I have liked this game. I even play the game myself with my left hand and my right hand twice a day. I am now a master! You should be careful. Come on. After I count to three, let’s pull it!”

One, two, three, snap! The grass in He Danggui’s hand was intact, but the one in Meng Xuan’s hand was broken. He Danggui laughed at him, “A master, huh? I don’t think so.” Seeing Meng Xuan only smiling, she remembered to ask, “You still haven’t told me your purpose. What does it have to do with playing grass?”

Meng Xuan said slowly, “Well, the loser will be punished and the winner will be rewarded.”

“What reward?” He Danggui stepped into the trap without knowing it.

“Since you win, you should punish me.” Meng Xuan announced the rules of the game while shaking his head. He sighed, “Bad luck! Come on! I won’t resist.”

He Danggui fluttered her eyelashes confusedly.

Meng Xuan pointed at his lips and said, “The loser will be kissed by the winner until…the candles burn out. I am ready to be punished!” At the time, a sly smile showed on his face.

He Danggui couldn’t help but retort, “Bullshit! You are always the benefited one!”

Meng Xuan shook his head in disapproval, “Not at all. You will understand it in a moment!” Then, he dragged her to the cabinet and knelt there facing the red candles. Meng Xuan said solemnly, “This is official. Xiaoyi, be serious. Say what I say.”

He Danggui knelt and straightened her body as well, but she felt a little embarrassed. Did Meng Xuan ever attend a wedding before? They were not like getting married, but like becoming sworn brother and sister…

She shook her head and drove the thought away. Meng Xuan might be used to becoming sworn brothers with men. Anyway, this was not the point. Once she became his concubine, her misery of previous life would be gone forever. She would be able to live a happy life with Meng Xuan in the future.

She stayed here only because she wanted to be summoned to treat the Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. In the future, the dying Zhu Yuanzhang would need Senior Lord Luo Maitong to treat him, however, Senior Lord would be heavily ill at that time. Therefore, she could grab the opportunity with her Yunqi Acupuncture and get into the Imperial Palace in replace of Senior Lord. Then, she would use the historical knowledge she knew to ask for a decent and glamorous identity from Zhu Yuanzhang. Her marriage was in the last place to consider.

This was the script she wrote in her heart three years ago. However, seeing her two previous lives in the Fantasy Dream, she learned the “Tenth Princess” who was left out in a dilapidated palace by his father, Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang. This girl was even inferior to a maid. From the conversation between the Tenth Princess and Gao Jun who killed her, the Ten Princess was also a Mongolian. She was probably like Zhu Quan whose biological mother was a Mongolian noblewoman. That was the reason why she was called the Princess of Mongolia by Gao Jun. It was her lot in previous life of the previous life, which was so complicated and also the reason of her death. Therefore, she really shouldn’t get involved in it rashly.

Moreover, someone in the capital and the Imperial Palace must have seen the appearance of the Tenth Princess. Before she was disfigured, secretaries, guards, and the imperial guards all might have seen her appearance. He Danggui’s face, exactly the same as the Tenth Princess, was really troublesome. Although she could disguise herself and wear a veil, the risk still existed.

In fact, the reason why she wanted to change a good identity was to marry a good man. Now, the best man in the world had already come to her. So why should she look for someone from elsewhere? She was convinced that Meng Xuan would definitely treat her well even as his concubine. In this way, she would not have to take risks for an uncertain future. Wealth always came with dangers. What if she was appointed to marry someone after having an identity like Infanta Xiancao? She should better stop now and be Meng Xuan’s concubine.

However, the agreement with Qing’er could not be reached forever. Anyway, their wishes might only belong to fairy tales told by Qing’er. It was too childish to ask a man to only marry one woman. As a powerful general, Meng Xuan naturally had to marry more women and would have more children to prevent one day dying with no offspring… Well, this thought was a little bit vicious. If Meng Xuan died, she would be a widow…

At the time, Meng Xuan patted her on the shoulder and said solemnly, “Come on, Xiaoyi. It’s time to kowtow. I’ll count to three. Let’s do it together!”