Chapter 9
Together
“Hey, look! Isn’t that Jiang Xi who’s walking over with a green hat? ” Someone shouted at the door, and everyone craned their necks to look. Yang Shaoqun and Yang Kun’s faces turned black as they watched Jiang Xi approach them, step by step. The green hat on her head was so green that it was blinding. She was also holding a bouquet of chrysanthemums in her hand, which were used to pay tribute to the dead.
Yang Shaoqun’s face was sullen, and his brows were furrowed into an inverted triangle, looking very mean. Yang Shaoqun was afraid that Jiang Xi would make a scene and make Yang Kun’s wedding impossible, so he quickly called for the door to be closed. “Close the door, close the door, quickly close the door, let’s finish the ceremony first!”
Yang Kun was stunned for a moment, but he did not refute it. He pulled the bride and quickly returned to the lobby.
When the guests in the courtyard who were attending the wedding saw this scene, their expressions turned ugly. The Yang family was a little too ruthless. In the beginning, it was the Yang family who rushed to propose to Jiang Xi, but then they broke off the engagement and refused to marry her. This made several villages know about it. Now, they locked Jiang Xi outside the door. With Jiang Xi’s fragile heart, she was probably going to find a place to hang herself.
“Go back and guard the beams of our house to prevent Jiang Xi from seeking death.” Some people in the crowd were discussing in low voices.
The Jiang family’s faces darkened. Jiang Da grabbed the table with both hands and was about to flip it over in anger, but Yang Fen stopped him while crying.”Jiang Da, don’t be impulsive. Just take it that I’m begging you. Your uncle is doing this for the sake of the marriage. Now, our whole family is counting on your uncle to live and reward us with some money. You have a family now, but your younger brothers are not married yet, and your wife is going to give birth to a child. Money is needed everywhere!” Yang Fen begged humbly. In her heart, the Yang family was still her maiden family. Whether it was for public or private reasons, she should not have fallen out with them and cut off all ties.
Jiang Xi’s father, Jiang Guoyou, had been called to work in town on the way here today. Jiang Guoyou had not wanted to come to the Yang family’s wedding banquet, so he simply left for work.
“I’m begging you, I’m begging you. Let’s just go back and coax Jiang Xi. Don’t make a scene at the Yang family’s wedding today.” Yang Fen could feel the piercing gazes around her, but she did not dare to look at them. She could only beg her three sons.
Yang Fen’s husband, Jiang Guoyou, was the eldest son of the Jiang family. Jiang Guoyou also had a younger sister who had already married into Laifu Village. He and his younger sister were from the same mother. Later, their mother passed away, and their father married his current wife, Old Madam Jiang. After Old Madam Jiang married into the family, she gave birth to three sons, but they were not very close to Jiang Guoyou. Later, Jiang Guoyou married Yang Fen and left the main family of the Jiang family. Jiang Guoyou was even more distant from the Jiang family. In Yang Fen’s eyes, the Jiang family was not reliable. Her sons had been living a hard life, so she could only get closer to her maiden family. This was also the reason why she wanted to marry Jiang Xi to Yang Kun when he was not a daughter-in-law. Unfortunately, the Yang family didn’t seem to think so.
“First bow to heaven and earth!” In front, the ceremony continued. Yang Kun and the bride each held a big red satin cloth and bowed to heaven and earth. The attention of the guests in the courtyard was not on Yang Kun and the bride at all. They all stared curiously at the crack of the door and looked at Jiang Xi through the crack.
He saw Jiang Xi standing straight outside the Yang family’s gate, wearing a green hat on her head and holding three incense sticks in her hands. There was a fire on the ground, burning the white paper scattered by the flower-delivering staff! Jiang Xi’s face was solemn and sorrowful. The villagers were shocked and quickly pulled the people sitting beside them to take a look.
As the emcee asked the couple to heaven and earth, Jiang Xi also bowed with a solemn and pained expression. Inside the door, a couple was bowing to heaven and earth. Outside the door, Jiang Xi, who was wearing a green hat, was paying respects to the spirit of her fiancé. As soon as the emcee asked the couple to bow to their parents, Jiang Xi bowed again. Inside the door, Yang Kun and the bride bowed to their parents. Outside the door, Jiang Xi solemnly paid respects to the gods around her. After the emcee asked the couple to bow to each other, Yang Kun and the bride stood face to face inside the door and bowed to each other. Outside the door, Jiang Xi bowed to heaven three times and then silently took off her green hat and burned it.
Jiang Xi’s face was serious. She wanted to help the original owner fulfill her wish. She would slowly help Yang Kun and the original owner fulfill the oath that Yang Kun had made when he came to propose to her! They had already completed the wedding ceremony!