Ask the Nine Ministers

Chapter 85: The Lonely One Comes to Get Married
When the bridesmaid saw the prince's procession pause at the bridge, her expression changed immediately.

She quietly approached the wedding sedan and whispered, "What should we do? Aunt Jinshu, the prince's procession is blocking the way."

Jinshu really didn't expect to encounter such a thing on her wedding day.

I guess the girl is the same as her.

I expected someone to cause trouble, but I didn't expect that person to be the prince.

Jin Shu said: "We'll act according to circumstances."

The bridesmaid pinched the red veil in her hand, smiled with wrinkles on her face, stepped forward courageously, bowed deeply and saluted.

"Your Highness the Crown Prince is safe!"

"This is the wedding sedan chair for the young lady heading to Prince Duan's mansion. I dare to ask, Your Highness, do you want to cross the Auspicious Beast Bridge, or, do you want to stay here for a while..."

Most people will politely give way when they come across weddings or funerals. The host will also present some auspicious items, such as wedding candies, and say some polite words. Conflicts will only occur with particularly unreasonable people.

But the other party is the prince, and the dynasty has a strict hierarchy. If the prince wants to cross the bridge, the wedding team needs to give way.

If the prince stopped at the bridge and did not leave, the wedding party would have to take a detour, and there was absolutely no reason for the prince to give way.

The bridesmaid thought of various ways to deal with it...

Unexpectedly, the prince on the sedan chair had a blank expression on his face and spoke lightly in just one sentence.

"I'm also going to Prince Duan's Mansion, it's on the way."

Since it's on the way, there's a first and a second...

The prince is the most respected, so naturally he should walk in front.

The bridesmaid smiled and bowed nervously.

"Then please go ahead, Your Highness..."

The prince raised his voice and pursed his lips, "After all, this is my brother's wedding, so I can't steal the show. Let the bridal sedan go first, and I'll come to see him off!"

The words "I come alone to marry you" were spoken with great force and domineering power.

But the bridesmaid was horrified when she heard this.

Which family in the capital city can marry off their daughter worthy of the Eastern Palace?

Which family’s wedding procession dares to march in front of the prince?

Your Highness, this is going to cost her life——

The bridesmaid wanted to kneel down and kowtow to the Crown Prince, begging this ancestor to leave immediately...

Li Zhao, however, did not seem to be joking. He waved his hand slowly, indicating that the East Palace guards should be arranged on both sides, with red umbrellas and dragon flags arranged in an orderly manner. The scene was shocking enough, and when it was matched with the wedding sedan, it seemed even more grand, as if a picture of a beautiful marriage in a prosperous era was spread out before their eyes...

Everyone who saw this scene was amazed!

What is going on, Your Highness the Crown Prince?

Even if you want to make trouble for Prince Duan, you shouldn't interfere with his wedding, right?

This is so absurd!

The prince has always had a bad reputation, so it seems understandable that he did this just to make Prince Duan uncomfortable.

There are thousands of ways to make Prince Duan uncomfortable, so why should he escort someone else's daughter to get married?

The local residents were all baffled.

Xue Sui sat in the wedding sedan, not making a sound.

Jinshu didn't know what the girl was thinking...

But she could imagine that after the people spread the story by word of mouth, who knows what kind of romantic affairs or storytelling versions of what happened today would be spread...

Li Zhao didn't care at all.

A group of tall guards protected him like an iron wall.

His eyes were slightly narrowed, with a faint smile on the corners of his mouth. He leaned leisurely on the sedan chair, tapping the armrests with his slender fingers, as if he was beating the beat to the music...

Of course, the same goes for Xue Sui in the sedan chair.

With his hands folded on his knees, his face was calm and silent.

The most frightening people were the few knights in the restaurant near Linqiao who were paid to commit crimes.

And the bearer who tampered with the sedan chair, knowing that it was about to break at the "Lucky Beast Bridge"...
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"Boss, what should I do?"

Several knights in the restaurant looked at the prince's procession and looked at each other in bewilderment.

When walking in Shangjing, they may not recognize Li Zhao, but they recognize the emblem of the Eastern Palace.

The leader of the rangers was a burly man with a strong build and a full beard.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Forget it, the situation is not right, let's retreat!"

When everyone thought about it, they laughed so hard that they slapped their thighs.

"Yup!"

"Boss is wise!"

"Then we didn't do anything and earned two hundred and fifty taels..."

Some people also felt that it was inappropriate and said it with a grunt.

"But Boss, we have received money from our employer..."

The burly leader glared at him and said, "What are you afraid of? Anyway, the employer didn't say he wanted to kill the bride. He just wanted to disrupt the wedding and make her look bad... Once the sedan chair breaks, the scene will be in chaos, and the bride will look bad enough. We won't be breaking our promise..."

Doesn't this count as breaking an appointment?
What the employer said was that they should kidnap the bride and make her too embarrassed to face anyone?

A few rangers looked at each other.

The sturdy leader looked at the shining East Palace dragon flag.

He suddenly spat and spit on the ground.

"Damn it! At worst, we brothers can just go to Los Angeles and hide for a year or two. The employer is very generous and looks like a wealthy family. These bastards have done so many shady things, how dare they come to us to settle the score?"

"Go! Retreat! Retreat!"

The boss spoke and everyone immediately reached a consensus.

If you offend your employer, at most you will have a bad reputation, and at worst you will just have to find another job.

If you offend the prince, all nine generations of your clan will be implicated!
"Let's go to Qunfang Tower and have some wine!"

A few knights pulled off their masks and prepared to leave.

But they saw a sturdy man holding a ring-handled sword and slowly stepping onto the wooden ladder, staring at them without blinking.

He was not wearing an official robe, but a tight suit. His eyes were sharp and he exuded an inviolable aura.

"Where do you want to go, my friends?"

The leader shouted sternly: "What does it have to do with you?" The man who came was Guan Ya, and he sneered.

"The Military Affairs Department is investigating Xizi's spies. I suspect you are Xizi's spies!"

"Damn it, what's this Xiznanzi? Don't try to scare your uncle..."

Several knights-errant acted ferociously and threatened to resort to violence.

Unexpectedly, the sound of countless people stomping on the ground came from the corridor. A group of imperial guards in armor and sharp weapons seemed to have been waiting there for a long time and caught them in a trap...

The men were dumbfounded!
He really didn't do anything and yet he was arrested.
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The Ruishou Bridge was bustling with people.

The wedding procession was filled with music and dance. Several big men in red robes and short jackets puffed out their cheeks and blew the music vigorously.

The sounds of gongs and drums intertwined together, and they walked onto the Auspicious Beast Bridge in great joy.

"The sedan is shaking!"

The sedan bearers' voices were high-pitched and loud, piercing the clouds and tearing the silk.

At this shout, people started laughing loudly.

"Auspiciousness and good fortune will come with a bang!"

"It's destined that the two of us will be together!"

"Three Dian descendants are everywhere!"

"Four ditches..."

Snapped!
Amid the creaking sound of the sedan chair bouncing back and forth, a sharp and piercing "crackling" sound suddenly came out, instantly suppressing the joy and noise.

The sedan chair decorated with red silk suddenly cracked at the connection between the bottom pole and the sedan chair cabin.

The pole of the car broke in the middle, and the car suddenly tilted forward.

Several sedan bearers who were walking didn't know what was happening. One staggered and fell to the ground, while another, in order to steady himself, grabbed the curtain and tore the silk cloth of the curtain with a loud noise, revealing a corner of the bride's clothes.

"Ah! The wedding sedan broke!"

"The wedding sedan was broken on the bridge. This is the Auspicious Beast Bridge. It's unlucky!"

"Not auspicious! The wedding sedan is broken, a very bad omen!"

The bridesmaid was dumbfounded.

A sedan chair bearer bent down to pick up the broken pole, with a dazed look on his face.

"This is really bizarre. I checked it inside and out before we set off and didn't find any problems. How could it break?"

The three sedan bearers were confused.

There was also a sedan chair bearer who pretended not to know what was going on.

When something like this happens, not only will it make the people laugh at it, the key question is what to do now?
You can't let the bride walk to the palace, right?

Everyone was discussing where to find a sedan chair to carry the bride...

Then he heard the bride's voice in the sedan chair.

"How far is this place from Prince Duan's Mansion?"

The bridesmaid bowed and said, "Sixth Miss, it's still another three or five miles away."

Xue Sui said, "It's not far. I'll walk there."

Before the voice fell, the bride came out of the sedan chair with a wedding fan in her hand, bowed slightly, and glanced at the restaurant by the bridge with her clear eyes, then slowly stepped over the broken sedan chair pole...

Everyone stared in shock.
Xi Niang wanted to stop her.

"Ms. Xue Liu, it won't take much time to change a sedan chair."

Xue Sui asked, "Wouldn't it be even more unlucky to change the sedan chair?"

The bridesmaid hesitated.

I have never heard of anyone changing sedan chairs during a wedding...

Some onlookers praised the bride for her calmness and composure, and for having the character of a girl from a noble family, while others said some mocking rumors about her, and even vaguely heard talk of the seven evil stars.

Xue Sui seemed to have not heard anything. Her back was as straight as a bamboo, and she walked steadily and calmly. Every step was neither fast nor slow. She was dignified and elegant. The fan in her hand half-hid her delicate face. Her clear eyes were bright and firm, as if everything around her had nothing to do with her...

Li Zhao's voice came at the right time.

A playful smile.

"I would like to borrow your chariot for a while, as a gift."

The crowd was in an uproar.

The prince's meaning was too obvious. He could lend his sedan chair to the bride. But how could a lady from Prince Duan's mansion get married in the sedan chair of the Eastern Palace?

As everyone knows, the East Palace and Prince Duan's Mansion are at odds. Li Zhao's appearance here at this time seems to be helping, but in the eyes of discerning people, it is no different from coming here to mess up the marriage with hostility towards Prince Duan...

From time to time, I could hear whispers and buzzing sounds in my ears.

Xue Sui had an indifferent expression and bowed slightly to Li Zhao.

"Thank you, Your Highness. Xue Liu is not worthy of such a great gift."

"is it?"

Li Zhao clenched his fingers tightly and raised his eyelashes slightly.

After a pause, he smiled with an aloof, arrogant, and noble look on his face.

"I'm telling you, can Miss Xue Liu bear it?"

Xue Sui said: "Your Highness, this is against etiquette. If people go beyond the limit, the social order will be disrupted. Xue Liu dare not break the etiquette and risk the wrath of the world!"

She said this calmly, strode forward, and walked calmly towards Li Zhao's procession.

On and under the bridge, everyone was solemn and silent.

All eyes were cast on the slender woman in the crowd. Her skirt fluttered, her hairpins and rings swayed, she looked light and calm, with a faint smile. Although she was walking among the crowd, she seemed not to be in this world, independent and separate.

Li Zhao sat upright on the sedan chair, motionless.

The dim light from the sky made his entire figure flicker.

Although the sun had not yet set, the wind at Ruishou Bridge seemed to be freezing cold.

Seeing the bride getting closer and closer...

Li Zhao: "Make way!"

Lai Fu was stunned.

His eyelids twitched a few times before he shouted at the top of his voice.

"The prince has ordered! Make way for the bride!"

I'm late, sorry, I'll update at dinner time.