The moment Bai Chen opened his eyes, he saw a bright red color and a red cloth blocked his vision.
The candlelight shines through the red cloth, casting a dim glow, and the interior furniture is vaguely visible.
The red veil should be blocking the view!
Did I travel back to the wedding night this time
But why is there an eerie silence during a newly-married couple's wedding
The whole world seemed to be still, without even the chirping of insects or birds.
It seemed as if the client had been crying all the time. The front of his shirt was wet and his eyes felt stinging from crying for too long.
He casually pulled off the red cloth on his head and looked around.
Sure enough, in the huge wedding room, there was only the bride sitting alone at the head of the bed.
The wedding room was decorated festively and magnificently.
The red veil, red bedding, and red wedding dress all sparkled with golden light, and were particularly dazzling under the red candlelight.
Everywhere you look, you'll see red fabrics inlaid with gold threads.
The atmosphere of wealth is unobstructed.
Dark red antique carved sandalwood furniture is neatly arranged throughout the room, emitting bursts of ancient sandalwood fragrance.
The quaint and magnificent wedding room looks full of joy, but it inexplicably has a sense of eeriness.
It was so cold that people couldn't help shivering.
This body seemed to be filled with fear of this marriage, and the depression in the heart made it hard to breathe.
Bai Chen got up and opened a window, wanting to see the environment outside or breathe some fresh air.
However, as soon as she opened it, she was stopped by a maid outside the window, "Madam, please close the window quickly. It's not decent for people to see it."
Turns out there’s someone outside!
I thought I was the only one left in the world.
Bai Chen said nothing, obediently closed the window, and sat back on the edge of the bed to take in the plot.
The client's name was Ji Jiuyue, and he was born in Liushi Village, Jiaoting County during the Yuan Dynasty.
However, this Yuan Dynasty is not that Yuan Dynasty. The Yuan Dynasty here is not ruled by the Mongols.
Because Ji Jiuyue was born in September, her father gave her this name.
She is the fourth child in the Ji family and has three older brothers.
Because she was the only daughter in the Ji family, she was very much loved when she was a child.
Among the farm girls, she was the most beautiful and could be said to be the flower of the village.
All the young men in the village wanted to marry her.
However, his father had other plans. He hoped to marry his beautiful daughter to a wealthy family so that the Ji family could get out of poverty and become rich.
When Ji Yue was 94 years old, the Ji family began to arrange a marriage for her.
Many matchmakers came to propose marriage, but my father was not satisfied with any of them. He always complained that the family was not rich enough or the boy was not capable enough.
But among the truly wealthy families, who would be willing to marry a country girl
As a result, Ji Jiuyue's marriage was delayed by her father, and she was still unable to find a good husband until she was eighteen years old.
Just when the Ji family was worried about Ji Jiuyue's marriage, a noble family suddenly contacted the Ji family.
That year, a severe drought struck and many farmers had no harvest. The Ji family was so poor that they could barely make ends meet.
It would be great if marrying off a daughter could solve the family's food problem.
So, as soon as the matchmaker mentioned it, Old Man Ji was already interested.
The Qi family of Pingchang Marquis Mansion, which is far away in the capital, is not only wealthy, but also a family of officials. It would be difficult to find a marriage like this even with a lantern.
But why would a family like that want to marry a peasant girl
It turned out that the eldest son of the Qi family had never been engaged because he had been weak and sickly since childhood.
A girl of equal status certainly doesn't want to marry a sickly man, and he doesn't like those with poor conditions, so the marriage is delayed.
Just recently, the eldest son's condition has worsened again, and the Qi family hopes to marry a girl to bring good luck.
The Qi family was very generous. They gave the Ji family one thousand taels of silver and twenty days of grain as soon as they arrived at the door, which immediately turned the Ji family from poor peasants into rich peasants.
Without hesitation, the matchmaker took out the portrait of the eldest son of the Qi family.
Judging from the portrait, the eldest son of the Qi family is a good-looking man. Although a little frail, he has a noble temperament.
Old Man Ji no longer hesitated and immediately made the decision, agreeing to the marriage.
The Marquis' Mansion was very quick and sent a generous betrothal gift ten days later, and Ji Jiuyue was carried away the next day.
However, things don't always go as planned. As the Ji family was far away from the capital, the wedding procession took half a month to reach their destination.
But when the bride stepped into the Qi family's threshold, the eldest son of the Qi family had already died.
The entire mansion was painted white, except for the new house, which was bright red.
Ji Jiuyue held her husband's tablet, worshipped heaven and earth, worshipped her parents, and entered the bridal chamber.
The bride was married, but her husband died. The wedding did not achieve the expected effect, and the Qi family was of course very dissatisfied.
Fortunately, the husband had already been buried, otherwise, the new wife might have been buried with him.
This was all thanks to the Taoist master who calculated the burial date, which was one day earlier than the new bride's arrival, and he inadvertently saved her life.
After Ji Jiuyue entered the Qi family, she was regarded as an unlucky person by the Qi family, and everyone stayed away from her.
From then on, she was locked in the bridal chamber, not allowed to go out, and lost her freedom, having to spend her days guarding her husband's tablet.
Fortunately, the Qi family did not skimp on food, and servants would deliver meals three times a day.
For Ji Jiuyue, as long as she had food to eat, she seemed to be able to live. It was better than living at her mother's house, where she had no idea where to eat.
She thought that from now on, she would live like this until she died.
But she never expected that her husband, who had already passed away, would come to see her at night.
On the seventh day of her marriage, when she entered Mengxiang, her husband gave her a dream.
He told her that his poor health was caused by someone else, and the person who did that was his stepmother.
It turned out that the Marquis of Qi had married a wife in his early years, but she died not long after giving birth to the eldest son.
Later, the Marquis of Qi married Qin as his second wife.
Qin was extremely beautiful, beautiful inside and out, intelligent, virtuous, well-educated and well-mannered. She was perfect in every way.
Moreover, she loved her first wife's son very much, as if he were her own son.
Later, Qin gave birth to two sons and a daughter for the Qi family, and her position as the mistress of the family was secure.
When the eldest son was five years old, he suddenly fell seriously ill and almost took his life.
At that time, it was his stepmother Qin who stayed by his side for ten days and ten nights without taking off her clothes, and finally saved his life.
From then on, the eldest son's health never improved and he was always ill.
Whenever he was sick, Qin would be extremely anxious, looking for medical treatment and medicine, asking about his health, and even serving him.
Every time that happened, the eldest son felt grateful, thinking that although his biological mother died early and was frail and sickly, at least his stepmother was good to him.
Two months ago, the eldest son's condition worsened and the whole family was at a loss. Qin even went to the temple to pray for blessings from the Buddha, hoping that he would recover.
She even drew a fortune stick in the temple and got the conclusion that it would bring good luck.
After returning to the Marquis' Mansion, Qin quickly implemented this matter.
The Qi family tried every possible means to save the situation and made arrangements everywhere.