Once Wed to the Disabled General Chapter 8

Outside the sedan, the wedding procession kept throwing wedding candies to the crowd of people. Those who got some naturally had to say a few auspicious words. Amidst many congratulations, the long procession circled half of the city of Yanjing and headed towards the direction of the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery's Mansion.

In a teahouse on the street, there were two figures sitting in a private room by the window. Upon closer inspection, they were the Fourth Prince Zhao Yi and Xi Zhu.

The rather unruly Fourth Prince spent a large sum of money to buy the time of the Ruqingfang musician. Instead of listening to the music or going out, he dragged him to watch the fun.

Xizhu was drinking the famous boiled snow tea in the teahouse when he saw Zhao Yi staring at the wedding procession. He raised his head and looked outside, and saw the sedan chair passing by the teahouse. Others had the groom riding a horse and the bride carrying the sedan chair, but they had a bright red covered carriage as their sedan chair. The curtain covered the view, so the newlyweds could not be seen clearly.

"What a pity." Zhao Yi looked at the gold tassels hanging from the edge of the sedan chair, his tone full of regret.

Xizhu remained silent.

"Don't you think that carriage is suitable?" Zhao Yi turned his head to look at him, almost moved by his own "thoughtfulness". "Ethan Gu has a leg disease and wants to build a carriage. If she has the same problem, wouldn't they be a good match?"

Xizhu naturally knew what he meant. He had always felt sorry that the girl from the Nian family was not hit during the incident at Longhua Temple.

"If she gets hurt, the Nian family will definitely pursue the matter to the end."

"They can't find out." Zhao Yi watched the sedan go away, his eyes deepened, "She is willing now, but they are different after all. It is inevitable that they will have grudges over time. But if they are the same, they can live together for a long time."

When both of them have physical illnesses, they can be considered a perfect match in the true sense.

"That may not be what the young general wants." Xi Zhu was not afraid of him because he was a prince. "It seems that the fourth prince is fooling people."

Zhao Yi smiled and didn't respond to his words. Instead, he turned around and prepared to leave. "Come on, I will take you to the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery's mansion for the wedding banquet."

"The time is almost up. Your Highness the Fourth Prince can go by himself. I have to go back to Ruqingfang." Xizhu decisively rejected his invitation to watch the fun. He would not go even if he was paid more. He didn't need it.

Zhao Yi did not stop him. Out of his sincere appreciation for him, he said, "Take good care of your hands. I will come to listen to your new music another day."

They got on the carriage outside the teahouse, which was not at all low-key, and followed the wedding procession. It was already dusk when they arrived at the Mansion of Marquis Zhongyong.

Several strong guards first helped Ethan Gu onto the wheelchair, and then performed the ceremony of welcoming the bride.

Someone in the crowd shouted, "Kick your feet!"

The faces of the Helena family members at the gate of the Marquis' Mansion changed immediately, but with so many people watching, how could they find the person who was deliberately rubbing salt into other people's wounds? The matchmaker hurriedly tried to smooth things over, "It's not appropriate to kick the sedan chair, the groom should use this to hit it."

As he spoke, he handed over a stick tied with a red ribbon.

Ethan Gu had a frosty aura around him. He took the stick and knocked on it. The matchmaker hurried over and opened the curtain, "Bride, come here."

A piece of red silk was stuffed into his hands. Yan Jin pushed the wheelchair, while the matchmaker supported the bride, and they entered the gate of the marquis' mansion one after another.

He stepped over the fire basin and crushed the tiles. The awkward scene outside the door was slightly alleviated by the matchmaker's continuous auspicious words. However, Ethan Gu's look of keeping strangers away did not look like a groom who was happily getting married. The invited guests were discussing in a low voice. Outside the wedding hall, two figures were standing under a tree, looking at the two people who were getting married in the wedding hall from a distance.

"Now that you've seen it, do you have anything to say?" The two men, dressed like ordinary young men, looked four or five years apart in age. They had some similarities in their eyes and brows, but the younger one had a guilty look and more of a timid look.

"Sixth brother, can we not mention this matter?"

"No? What are you doing here today?"

"I just wanted to see how his injury is recovering."

"When you used my order and ran to the Northern Frontier without saying a word, did you ever think about the consequences today?"

The seventh prince Zhao Yan's face changed slightly, and he whispered in defense, "I also want to do meritorious service for you. My second brother is always better than you, and last time he boasted about his victory in the expedition. I was so angry that I wanted to use the young general to suppress his arrogance for you."

"Then you shouldn't have stolen my warrant and sneaked away, and went to the battlefield on your own. Ethan Gu was not only injured but also lost the battle in order to save you, and I had to keep this a secret for you."

"If the emperor knew about this, and you were blaming even the sixth brother, wouldn't that make the second brother even more proud?" Zhao Yan's words made more and more sense. "Besides, didn't mother say that we should keep this matter to ourselves and pretend that I never went there? He lost the battle and broke his leg, so we should compensate him more in the future."

Seeing his brother's words getting more and more outrageous, Zhao Rui, who was good-tempered, also frowned, "You still don't know you're wrong?"

The spoiled Zhao Yan pouted, but was not convinced, "There are always casualties in war, and besides, we just failed to capture it, not lost the city."

Before he finished speaking, Zhao Rui left directly, not wanting to continue attending the wedding banquet. Zhao Yan then hurriedly chased after him. At the gate, they met Zhao Yi who came in leisurely. When the three brothers met, Zhao Yan's eyes were extremely alert.

"What are you doing here?"

"Seventh brother, what you asked is very clever. What can I do here? I'm not here to grab the bride." Zhao Yi looked at Zhao Yan and said, "You've been ill for half a year, but you've recovered quite well."

When Zhao Yan was secretly sent back from the Northern Frontier, he was also injured. In order to prevent others from noticing anything, Concub!ne Qi asked Zhao Yan to claim to be sick and sent him out of the city to recuperate. He rarely returned in the past six months.

"You are pretending to be merciful." Zhao Yan was also a little afraid of him. He always played tricks in secret, making it hard for people to guard against him.

I watched the two brothers leave. I saw that they were dressed so ordinary and it seemed that they did not come in as princes.

"It's really interesting. We were so close before, but this is the first time you've visited me in the past six months."

Although there were undercurrents between the brothers, it did not affect the wedding hall at all. After the ceremony, they were escorted to Qingpu Courtyard and entered the main house. The matchmaker presided over the ceremony and asked the groom to pick up the wedding veil and drink the wedding wine.

However, since they had already arrived in the courtyard, Ethan Gu was unwilling to cooperate anymore. He simply left Amelia Nian and the others and went to the study next door.

I have been a matchmaker for so long, but this is the first time I have encountered such a situation. After being stunned for a moment, I quickly made up for it, "The groom may be tired. I will go and invite him..."

As soon as she finished speaking, Amelia Nian, who was sitting on the bed, lifted her veil herself.

... The matchmaker hurried back and wanted to call out to her ancestors, "How can the bride lift the veil herself? Cover it up quickly."

"The young general must be very tired after a busy day. I can do it myself." Amelia Nian opened her eyes wide and looked at the matchmaker. "Do we have to eat raw dumplings?"

The matchmaker suffered a setback in her career, so how could there be a bride who called out the steps herself? Didn’t the Nian family girl know that it was unlucky to do so? How silly.

"Yun Su, bring the red envelope to the matchmaker." Amelia Nian called the maid Yun Su, took out a heavy red envelope and stuffed it into the matchmaker's hand.

Yun Suo said directly: "My uncle is not in good health and cannot drink alcohol. You should just assume that my uncle and the young lady have done all that."

As he spoke, Yun Suo pressed the thick purse again and said earnestly, "I'll have to trouble the matchmaker to tell those people not to come to see the bride when she leaves later, and just say that the son-in-law and the girl have gone to bed."

There's no need to pick up the handkerchief, drink the wedding wine, eat dumplings, or even look at the bride. Does that mean it's all right just to marry her?

Feeling the heavy weight in her hand, the matchmaker immediately changed her tone, "That's right, you're tired after a whole day, you should take a good rest, I'll go out now and tell them not to come."

After the matchmaker finished speaking, she went out. On her way out, she glanced at the red purse and saw that it was actually gold.

When they were almost at the door, they met two girls from the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery's Mansion, followed by several young ladies from the clan. They were here to meet the new bride.

So the matchmaker stopped them and said, "After a busy day, the groom is tired and he and the bride should rest early."

Gu Ruowei was stunned. Her father and third uncle were still waiting for her eldest brother to come over and toast them. No matter how reluctant they were, they had to do their best to save face in front of so many guests.

Gu Ruoqiang, who was outspoken, said directly, "Brother is tired, sister-in-law is also tired? Why did you rest in such a short time? Don't you want to see us?"

"From what you said, the groom must be taken care of." The matchmaker had seen a lot of things, so she was more than capable of dealing with this. "You can't just go and watch the young lady of your mansion take care of the eldest son, can you?"

The faces of those who were married or not all looked unhappy, but there was nothing they could do but leave. The matchmaker looked at their dissatisfied expressions, sighed, and put the heavy thing in her arms.

There's no way, the young lady gave too much.

The groom never showed up for the banquet in the front yard, and after sending people to inquire about him several times without any result, Master Gu offered a toast on his behalf, and gave a suitable excuse, saying that he was unable to come due to health reasons.

In Qingpu Courtyard, Amelia Nian sat in front of the bronze mirror, letting Yunsuo and Clara Su remove her facial ornaments. She felt very sorry, "I have been wearing it for a whole day, and my husband has never seen it."

"If the news gets out that my son-in-law sleeps in the study like this, it will become a joke." Clara Su was very dissatisfied with her son-in-law's behavior of not considering her daughter's reputation at all.

Amelia Nian turned around and looked at the huge new bed. "Is the bed in the study the one that my son-in-law used before?"

"My son-in-law moved here two days before I made the bed, and all the things that were originally here were put in the study."

"Maybe he is used to his own bed." Amelia Nian guessed, "Is the son-in-law asleep?"

"The lights are out."

Amelia Nian nodded, and two quarters of an hour later, she appeared at the door of the study wearing a thick coat, holding her own jade pillow in her hand.

She looked at Yan Jin who was standing outside: ...

...

Then she smiled sweetly, "Is the uncle asleep?"

"In reply to Madam Young, the Major General has gone to bed."

"Then I'll go in and sleep too."

Yan Jin watched Amelia Nian push the door open quietly without stopping her.

The study was pitch black, and it took Amelia Nian a long time to get used to the light. She hugged her pillow tightly and looked around, and finally saw the bed behind the screen. Then, after bumping into a stool once, stepping on broken porcelain twice, and nearly knocking over the lamp stand, she finally came to the bed.

Someone in the darkness opened his eyes unable to bear it any longer. He really couldn't continue pretending to be asleep after she made noises again and again.

But someone felt that he was not awake.

She stood beside the bed, carefully holding the edge, first moved closer to take a closer look, and then was about to climb onto the bed.

Just as she stepped forward, Ethan Gu spoke up: "What are you doing?!"

Amelia Nian seemed to be startled. She sat down on the bed with her long hair hanging down. She stared at him with wide eyes. Finally, they met her gaze. "Husband, are you awake?"

"Get out!" Ethan Gu didn't want to say more and ordered them to leave.

"Are you going to sleep in the main house?" Amelia Nian's eyes lit up. "If you prefer your own bed, I can sleep here with you."

Ethan Gu changed his words, "You sleep in the main room, and I sleep in the study."

"No, husband and wife must sleep together." Amelia Nian looked at him very seriously, and said word by word, "Only in this way can you have a baby."

Ethan Gu was stunned for a moment, then his eyes were filled with anger, "I'll say it one last time, get out!"

Amelia Nian shook her head, "It's not good to sleep apart."

Since the conversation didn't work, Ethan Gu didn't bother to say anything more. He just reached out and grabbed her, trying to pull her off the bed.

But Amelia Nian was holding a pillow in her hand, and when he pulled it, the pillow fell down. Worried that it would hit him, she quickly rushed over to grab it.

This fell directly on him.

Like an octopus, it stuck to him.

At an extremely close distance, the clear and shining eyes came into view, and Ethan Gu couldn't avoid them.

There was also a faint fragrance wafting from her body, filling his facial features and invading them.

She was still blinking at him and her hand had already reached out quietly, wanting to touch his face, but the next moment, Ethan Gu pushed her away.

Amelia Nian rolled over and rolled to the inside of the bed.

She consciously picked up her pillow and wanted to roll up his quilt.

Ethan Gu suppressed his anger and asked: "What are you doing?"

Amelia Nian pulled the corner of the quilt pitifully, "Husband, I'm cold."

After looking at each other for a moment, Ethan Gu finally couldn't help himself.

"Yan Jin!!!"

Yan Jin, who was guarding outside the house, heard the thunderous roar and quickly opened the door. Before Ethan Gu could speak, Amelia Nian took the lead and said, "Guard Yan, please go to the main house and ask Yun Shu to bring another quilt."

Yan Jin kindly asked, "Or does the general want to go back to the main house?"

Ethan Gu: ...

Going to the main house would just be what she wanted, and he would not go out of Qingpu Courtyard.

Amelia Nian was still talking, "Two quilts are better, so that my husband can sleep more comfortably."

After she finished speaking, her face flushed. She didn't want to let him know so soon that she had a bad sleeping posture. Her second brother said that she had to maintain her image.

Ethan Gu had no choice but to carry his bride back to the Nian family on the wedding night. As long as they were in the marquis' mansion, she would definitely follow him.

The two quilts couldn't touch me.

In this way, Amelia Nian successfully slept on the side. There were two quilts and two pillows between the two people. Not interfering with each other was Ethan Gu's last insistence.

Before going to sleep, he was planning in his mind that he must make her give up. He had underestimated her before and thought that he could leave her alone after fulfilling the engagement, but he didn't expect it to be so difficult.

As he was thinking, the sound of someone else's steady breathing rang in his ears, making it even more difficult for him to fall asleep as he already had a light sleep.

What's more, the breath is getting closer and closer?

Ethan Gu turned his head and saw Amelia Nian, who had fallen asleep, had moved to his side, lying on her side, and her sound sleeping appearance was clearly visible to him.

Such a simple person should not have appeared in his chaotic life. Moreover, he didn't know how long he would live in his current state...

Gloomy and intense emotions surged up, and some scenes that he didn't want to recall but were vivid in his mind tortured him and made him suffer from insomnia again.

My heart began to ache again, and a fishy-sweet taste rose in my throat.

Ethan Gu's breathing quickened. He stretched out his hands and grasped the quilt tightly, but his legs, which could not move, made his blood flow chaotic again.

At this moment, a leg suddenly crossed the obstacle in the middle and was directly placed on him.

The snow-white feet under the long underpants shook proudly, followed by a soft chuckle as if someone was having a sweet dream.

"hehe..."