Translator: Guy Gone Bad
“What is it?” Old Consort Jing hurriedly followed the source of the sound and saw a maidservant wearing a green waistcoat. She was called Lv’er, 15 or 16 years old, a second grade maidservant of the main courtyard.
She straightened up and then saluted, “My Lady, I heard someone has ever said that a Warding-off Wedding could cure any disease.”
“A Warding-off Wedding?!” Old Consort Jing’s eyes were shining: Right! A Warding-off Wedding could ward off all evil things and also bring someone who was dying back to life with a healthy body! She had ever seen someone who was dying of a serious old disease had recovered using this method!
If Yichen could hold a Warding-off Wedding, maybe her husband would soon recover…
Old Consort Jing turned to Ye Yichen then, while he was looking at Imperial Doctor Sun, “Doctor Sun, do you think it can save my father’s life?”
“Urgh…” Imperial Doctor Sun frowned, “It doesn’t belong to any medical skills. So I am not sure whether it really works. But I do hear someone has recovered using it…” Of course someone also died right after the wedding. So leave it to god to decide.
Ye Yichen nodded, lowered his eyes, saying nothing for quite a while.
Old Consort Jing became impatient, “Yichen, your father is still young. As long as there is a slice of hope, we should have a try, right?”
“I know you are the prince and deserve a grand and solemn wedding. It’d be hasty to make arranges in only a few days. And it won’t go with your status. But as your mother, I will spare all my effort to throw you a perfect wedding, which you won’t regret for…”
With his mother nagging by his ears, Ye Yichen knitted his eyebrows. He then looked up to Old Consort Jing, “But who do you think I should hold a Warding-off Wedding with?”
It should be the first wife of a Warding-off Wedding. But he hadn’t decided who his first wife would be…
She thought he didn’t want a Warding-off Wedding, but it turned out he was thinking whom to marry.
This made Old Consort Jing feel much relieved. She then smiled, “Of course it’s Yuyan!”
She already felt sorry for her son, of course she must select the one her son liked most.
On hearing her words, instead of feeling happy, he frowned instead, “Yuyan is a prince from Mo Bei. I’m afraid it’s inappropriate…”
Consort Jing was stunned. Suddenly she recalled that a Warding-off Wedding would do no harm to the man, but was really harsh to the woman. If the diseased one could recover, then people would say “this woman is a blessing’ or something like that as compliments…But if the diseased died right after the Warding-off Wedding, people would take the woman as a hoodoo, who would live a shameful life for all her life!
Qing Yuyan was Yichen’s beloved, so Yichen didn’t want her to take the risk…
“I am willing!” suddenly a soft woman’s voice was heard. Ye Yichen followed the sound and saw that Qin Yuyuan was sitting on a bamboo cling chair carried by the guards, moving slowly towards them.
She was wearing a loose light cyan long dress, covering those white strips of cloth bandaged around her body, with a glaze hairpin tying up her thick and black hair. Her complexionless face made her even more delicate and pitiful!
“You are badly injured. The doctor specially tipped you not to move. You should stay in your room. What are you doing here?” Ye Yichen walked towards her with a gloomy face.
Qin Yuyan knew he blamed her because he worried about her, so she still wore an unnoticeable smile and said, “Old Prince Jing’s illness is so serious. How can I not come?”
She raised her head and took a look at Old Prince Jing, saying, “I heard your talk. I’m willing to hold the Warding-off Wedding with you, to do something for your father…”
Wearing a complicated expression, Ye Yichen asked her, “Have you made up your mind? If we fail…”
“I will never regret it.” Qin Yuqin cut in and said word by word, “Because he is your father. For his health, I’m willing to take any consequences…”
“Yuyan, thank you!” Old Consort Jing cried with joys. She tried to wipe off her tears without others noticing: Yichen really had a good taste to like such a generous and soft-hearted woman.
Qin Yuyan smiled, “Auntie, no need for that. This is what I should do.”
Consort Jing grumbled, “Still call me auntie? We will be family soon.”
Qin Yuyan immediately blushed, she lowered her head and murmured, “Mother…”
“That’s it!” Old Consort Jing then laughed. When she took off the jade bracelet and was about to give it to Qin Yuyan as a gift, she saw Yichen knitting his brows, with his eyes looking down, thinking of something.
He was about to marry his beloved woman. Shouldn’t he be happy? Why did he look preoccupied as if he didn’t want it at all?
Pfff! Old Prince Jing suddenly spitted out another mouthful of blood. That sickly face seemed to be indicating he was gonna die.
Imperial Doctor Sun was startled. He took out a pile of long and thin silver needles and punctured them into all his vital acupoints…
Looking at the sick Old Prince Jing, Old Consort Jing came to herself after quite a while, “Oh…what am I gonna do?” He had been stable all the time. Why did he suddenly spit blood again?
“I’m afraid he doesn’t agree with the wedding thing.” Ye Yichen said in a low voice, with something flashing in his eyes.
Old Consort Jing was dumbfounded, “Then…what should we do?”
Ye Yichen narrowed his eyes a little bit, “Father always wishes that I could marry Murong Xue. If I do as what he wanted, maybe he would fully recover…”
Old Consort Jing put wrinkles in her brows lightly. Old Prince Jing was obsessed about the marriage between Prince Jing Mansion and Marquis Mansion. She knew that. But she never expected that he was still concerned about it when he was in coma. She then said, “But…what about Yuyan?”
Ye Yichen turned to Qin Yuyan and mumbled, “I’m sorry.”
“It’s…it’s all right,” Qin Yuyan tried to force a smile, “You should put your father in the first place. You choose Murong Xue to save him. So I don’t blame you.”
Ye Yichen blinked his eyes unnaturally, “Thank you!”
When he raised his head, he found that his father looked much better, and his face showed signs of a rise, which made him much relieved. He then raised his voice, “Father is a lot better now. I’m gonna go to the Marquis Mansion for Murong Xue. We’ll talk about the Warding-off Wedding date.”
“Sure!” Old Consort Jing nodded, “Hurry back!”
Ye Yichen responded and then rushed out.
Until he disappeared at the end of the black stone road, Old Consort Jing sidelong glanced at Qin Yuyan who looked quite sad with her eyes down.
Old Consort Jing heaved a long sigh and walked to Qin Yuyan. She lowered her voice, “Yuyan, don’t be sad. Even if Murong Xue marries Yichen first. I’ll only take you as my daughter-in-law. Yichen and I will treat you well…”
“Thank you, auntie.” said Qin Yuyan with gloomy eyes: So Old Consort Jing wanted her to only be one of Yichen’s wives. She was the noble Princess from Mo Bei! How could she be inferior to anyone? She wanted to be the consort, Yichen’s one and only wife!”
Qin Yuyan quietly looked at Old Prince Jing, with only resent in her eyes: He was half dead now and still tried to stand between her and her Yichen, and even wanted his son to hold a Warding-off Wedding with someone else to save his ass? He should directly go to hell now!
