Three days later, it’s time to go out and welcome your bride!
Wanfu County and Qingyao County are both under the jurisdiction of Yaozhou. The two counties are adjacent to each other. Due to official connections, ordinary people can walk within a day's journey.
So everyone gathered at the east gate of Wanfu County early in the morning and set off. After a day's journey, they could reach Qingyao County in the evening.
Huangfu Xu had already set off in advance and booked an inn in Qingyao County. After everyone arrived in the evening, they stayed at the inn for one night.
Early the next morning, I went to Xu's house to pick up the bride, and then returned at exactly 10 o'clock in the morning. At night, I returned to Huangfu's house to hold the wedding ceremony.
Along the way, the groom Huang Funing rode a tall horse at the front, followed by a group of performers and musicians playing gongs and drums, followed by an empty sedan chair carried by four bearers, and finally two carriages, one of which
One contained some items needed to welcome the bride, and the other contained Lu Zheng's carriage.
"That is to say, the distance between the two counties is relatively close. Otherwise, we would have to deal with it all night on the road, and things would be a lot more troublesome out of nowhere."
In the carriage, Huangfu Jing was explaining the itinerary to Lu Zheng and Liu Qingyan, "Even so, tomorrow's journey will be quite busy. It may be too late to get home..."
"That's just in time for the dinner." Liu Qingyan said, "Have you invited any guests?"
Huangfu Jing shook her head, "I just invited a few familiar friends."
"That's okay."
"Yes." Huangfu Jing nodded and turned her attention to Lu Zheng's carriage.
"Lu Lang, your car is really good. It doesn't even have any bumps." Huangfu Jing looked at the cup of tea on the low table of the carriage. Although it swayed from time to time, she had no intention of spilling it.
"I added some things to the car to make traveling more comfortable." Lu Zheng said with a smile.
The main reason is that I don’t know how to explain the spring, so I just briefly mention it.
However, Huangfu Jing nodded with an unclear look on her face, thinking that Lu Zheng had added some kind of talisman or spell, so although she didn't feel any fluctuations in mana, she didn't dare to ask anymore.
The team traveled quickly and arrived at Qingyao County just in time.
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Fulai Inn.
There were nearly twenty people in the group, and they were all arranged to stay in an inn for a night's rest.
There was no conversation all night, except for someone who fell down while going to the toilet in the middle of the night and let out a cry of pain, but there was no other sound.
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The next day, welcome the bride!
The band set off from the inn and soon left the city and arrived at the Xu family manor in the suburbs.
It can be seen from here that the Xu family is even closer to human beings than the Huangfu family, because the distance between Xujiazhuang and Qingyao County is even closer than the distance between Huangfuzhuang and Wanfu County.
Call the door!
Sing!
Goodbye!
Welcome!
After a full hour of various ceremonies, the bride was finally welcomed out of the door and invited into a large sedan chair draped in red and colorful.
Then it’s time to return to Wanfu County.
Lu Zheng didn't have to do anything, and no one dared to ask him to do anything. He just watched the whole process.
Don't say it, it's just like watching a movie, it's exciting and lively.
However, he watched the whole process with his hands behind his back like a big boss, while Huangfu Jing and Liu Qingyan were busy running around and needed to cover everything.
It wasn't until the wedding team embarked on the return journey and the two of them returned to the carriage again that they breathed a sigh of relief.
"Thank you for your hard work!" Lu Zheng smiled and poured tea for the two of them.
Lu Zheng poured water and tea himself, which made Huangfu Jing look at him in surprise, and then looked at Liu Qingyan with eyes full of relief.
Liu Qingyan's eyes were crooked, she took the tea from Lu Zheng with a smile, lowered her head and took a sip, feeling the sweetness in her heart.
"You're going to go to the church to get married when you go home, right?" Lu Zheng asked.
Huangfu Jing said, "Exactly, the family has already made arrangements."
Lu Zheng nodded, he was familiar with this, he had already seen it once in the River God Mansion.
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At midnight, everyone had arrived at the outskirts of Wanfu County, only a few miles away from Huangfuzhuang. At this moment...
"Infinite Heavenly Lord!"
In front of the team, a trumpet suddenly sounded.
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Someone is blocking the way, or is it someone from the Taoist sect?
Lu Zheng's eyes flashed, he opened the car door, then got out of the car.
I saw two Taoist priests in gray robes, an old man and a young man, standing in front of the team, blocking the team's way.
The little Taoist priest looks to be only thirteen or fourteen years old, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, and looks quite smart. The old Taoist priest is actually not old, with a pale face, black beard and hair, and looks to be in his fifties.
At this time, the old Taoist priest twisted an incense stick in his hand, and the smoke curled up in a straight line towards the team, and then drifted gently not far in front of the team.
"Two Taoist priests, why are you blocking my way?" Huangfu Xu got off his horse, walked forward, and asked with a sincere expression.
Although he was not frightened at this time, after all, there was a Taoist descendant behind him, and the attitude of Taoist people towards monsters was relatively kind.
"Infinite Heavenly Lord!"
The old Taoist priest looked around Huangfu Xu, then moved his eyes to the team behind him, and then raised his eyebrows and asked, "May I ask where the master is coming from and where he is going?"
Huangfu Xu replied, "Come from Qingyao County and go to Wanfu County."
"I don't know...huh?"
As soon as the old Taoist priest finished speaking, he saw a young scholar coming from behind the car.
"Fellow Taoist is..."
"Lu Zheng, layman from the outer sect of Baiyun Temple, has met his senior!" Lu Zheng passed through the team and came to Huangfu Xu's side, bowed to the old Taoist priest, and then nodded to the young Taoist priest.
The old Taoist priest looked Lu Zheng up and down. At this time, Lu Zheng was running the "Bai Yun Chang Shuo Qi Refining Sutra", and his body was filled with Taoist cloud energy, revealing his identity.
"Infinite Heavenly Lord! Jiuzhen from Fengyang Mountain has met fellow Taoist."
"Liu Ning has met big brother!"
Lu Zheng nodded and said, "This junior knows the Huangfu family. As far as I know, the Huangfu family has always been kind to people and helped the village. There has been no bad deeds. I don't know, senior..."
Lu Zheng thought the old Taoist priest was here for Huangfu's family.
"I came here for a human-faced fox." Taoist Priest Jiuzhen said, "Since there is a Taoist friend as a guarantee, it may be a misunderstanding. The old Taoist thought that this family was covering for the human-faced fox."
"Human-faced fox!" Huangfu Xu was startled.
"Human-faced fox?" Lu Zheng was stunned when he heard this.
"Exactly." Taoist Master Jiuzhen said, "The old Taoist was passing through Luonan County and happened to encounter this man with a fox face and evil intentions, so he took action to subdue the demon. Unexpectedly, he still had a treasure and escaped.
Fortunately, the old man had already picked up his aura and led Lu Xiang in pursuit, and he had just arrived.
However, the human-faced fox had already hid in the team, and Yin Luxiang could not recognize it. The old Taoist thought that the foxes in this family were relatives and friends of the human-faced fox, and were covering for the fox."
"No, no!" Huangfu Xu waved his hands and said, "We don't know human-faced foxes!"
Lu Zheng suddenly looked back and glanced around the team.
All are familiar faces.
"The natural ability of the human-faced fox is to kill people and eat their hearts, then transform into the other person and live and walk as the other person." Taoist priest Jiuzhen reminded.
"Skin painting?" Lu Zheng asked.
Taoist Priest Jiuzhen shook his head and said, "It's either the art of skin painting or the art of transformation."