At night, the wind blew and the wind bell rang gently.

Gu Yunxi and her Brother sat on the wooden porch in front of the building and talked all night.

"All right, your hair is done. Look! Am I as good at it as Huanan He is?"

Yu Xuanji put down the horn comb and said with a relaxed breath.

Gu Yunxi sat on the low stool, raised the bronze mirror, looked at herself inside, turned around in surprise, and asked,

"Brother, I'm going to bed soon. Others are taking off their makeup. Why are you combing my hair?"

Yu Xuanji smiled silently and touched the girl's smooth and soft cheek with his fingers. He was gentle, with strong care and reluctance,

"I've never done anything for you before. Let me comb your hair before I leave tomorrow morning."

"What?"

The girl was surprised and her eyelashes agitated, "Why are you leaving? No, I won't allow you to leave!"

She stubbornly pulled up Yu Xuanji's sleeve and begged,

"Why do you want to leave suddenly? Didn't you say you wanted to see me and the Master get married? If you leave, I'll miss you. I don't want you to leave. I still want to hear more about our parents!"

Yu Xuanji raised his lips, smiled bitterly, held the girl's hand, and warmed it carefully,

"I don't want to leave. It's Huanan Xian who wants me to leave."

"Is Brother Xian leaving, too?"

In a hurry, Gu Yunxi jumped up from the stool and opened her eyes wide,

"What did I do wrong to make him unhappy?"

Yu Xuanji stood up, looked at her intently, and explained,

"It's not that you're bad. Just because you're so good, he knows he shouldn't stay any longer and disturb you and Brother He."

Gu Yunxi was silent for a moment and frowned sadly.

Yu Xuanji held her hands to persuade her,

"Yunxi, Huanan Xian was disfigured to save you. Only Xiangyu Powder can eliminate the scar. Now the recipe is short of snow lotus from the northwest polar region."

"He decides to find the snow lotus and then go to Jiang Huaian to make medicine. I want to go with him. If I'm bored, I can compete Kung Fu with him. "

"Brother!"

Gu Yunxi suddenly felt sad and choked on the man's chest on her side head,

"Then, when will you be back?"

"Three or five years at most. I'll come back to see you when I've traveled all over the mountains and rivers. I think you and Brother He will have babies by then."

Yu Xuanji patted the girl in his arms, as if to cheer her up.

When he looked up at the stars, his eyes were clear,

"In the past, we were all living for others and for our mission. Now things change. It's time to enjoy our own lives."

"Ruo, my only wish is that you and Brother He can love each other and grow old together. "

...

"What? Are you going to leave?"

In the guest room on the first floor of the loft, Leng Qingtang stared at Gu Di's black and blue face, looking confused.

After a smile, Gu Di felt a deep pain tear his whole face. He grinned and muttered,

"Hiss, that damn beautiful priest is really vicious."

Turning back to get the tungsten flute on the long case, Gu Di said,

"I'm just worried about you and Yunxi, so I stay here to wait for you. Now you're settled, so I have no reason to stay."

Quietly glancing at the man's uneven left face, Leng Qingtang understood his sudden decision to leave.

"Brother, I owe you..."

His eyes softened and he confided to the man.

Gu Di smiled softly and waved his hand,

"We are brothers. You don't have to say that. Come on, look here."

He placed the flute horizontally in front of him, held one end of the flute with one hand, and twisted it several times in the opposite direction.

The flute was divided into two sections, with another white and transparent dragon-head flute exposed in the hollow.

Leng Qingtang's eyes narrowed suddenly and looked at the dragon-head flute with unspeakable pain.

Gu Di nodded and sighed,

"It seems that you still remember it."

Leng Qingtang recovered his look and took a few deep breaths,

"Of course, this is our Father's white jade flute. In the past few years in the western tribes, I often saw him playing the flute under the slanting sunset."

As if indulging in the memory of the past, Gu Di continued in a dull voice,

"Ten years ago, when I learned Kung Fu well and returned to Da Yi, my master gave it to me. Now I pass it to you."

"Brother."

"You don't need to refuse it."

Gu Di looked directly at Leng Qingtang and said solemnly,

"You have contributed more for our Father, our Mother, and Da Yi than I do. I was blinded by my selfishness, and I resented our parents and you. Now I finally wake up and realize my narrowness. You are more qualified to have this white jade flute than I am. Take it!"

After saying that, Gu Di handed the flute to Leng Qingtang again.

"Thank you, Brother."

Leng Qingtang no longer refused and held the flute in his hand.

When Gu Di thought of something, he frowned,

"Before leaving, I have to tell you a few more words. Even if you are on the border of the western tribes, you and Yunxi should be careful. I'm still worried that Huanan Xin will go back on his word."

Leng Qingtang did not argue with him, but nodded and smiled.

"You can rest assured, Brother."

-

The rooster broke dawn and another sunrise rose in the East.

The sky was clear, windless, and cloudless. The sun inside and outside the mountains was as bright as gold.

Early in the morning, the small loft at the foot of Mountain Ping was tiled with red carpets and colored lights. The usual bedrooms and huts were covered with cherry red brocade gauze curtains, and the whole loft was decorated with joy everywhere.

In the courtyard where flowers were in full bloom, Huanan Jiyan's unique loud voice spread out,

"Yunxi, where are you?"

On this happy day, it was time for the wedding ceremony, but the bride was missing. What should she do?

Getting no response, Huanan Jiyan muttered with her hands crossed her waist. A smell of rice came from the corner gate.

Huanan Jiyan smelled the smell of rice, and she suddenly understood. She picked up her red brocade skirt of flying butterflies and trotted all the way into the kitchen.

The kitchen was bustling with people.

The chefs invited by Lu Qiange were very busy.

The sound of chopping the kitchen knife to the chopping board was neat. The vibration of the dough thrown on the wooden table was powerful and sonorous.

When the vegetables were put into the oil pot, the smoke billowed, and the tempting meat fragrance rose in the air.

Huanan Jiyan had never seen such a grand scene where so many people worked together to cook. She was a little stunned.

She walked in slowly, her eyes searched constantly, and sure enough, she found the target next to the innermost stove.

The careless girl was now facing the iron pot, frying happily, and the heavy spoon in her hand was waving up and down the wall. She reminded the people around her,

"Master Liu, the chicken breast must be scored with a knife. Master Haida, it's almost time to open the steamer."

The light of the sun shone through the window arch, and a thread fell on her graceful body.

On the soft and thin satin of the red wedding dress, there were hundreds of bird patterns of pomegranate flowers with thousands of leaves and branches woven with more than ten color silk threads, such as bright red, pink, yellow, light yellow, turquoise, azure, light crimson, dark purple, dark gray, and light silver. Under the sunshine, it was glittering and the color is changing.

This bride was really unusual!

It was annoying and funny that when she got married, she didn't stay in the wedding room but ran to the kitchen to help with the cooking.

Facing the pungent oil smoke, Huanan Jiyan frowned and walked over. She reluctantly grabbed the bride and complained,

"Yunxi, the wedding ceremony is coming up soon. Why are you doing here? There's so much oil smoke here that it may mess up your wedding clothes. Find someone to replace her. Yunxi, follow me."

Huanan Jiyan pointed to a cook and let him come to replace Yunxi. Then she turned and dragged Gu Yunxi out of the busy kitchen.

In the yard, Huanan Jiyan straightened the colorful tassel shawl for Gu Yunxi, and stroked the long tassel of red coral beads on the golden crown with the pearls. She pouted and complained,

"You are getting married soon. How can you do things so casually?"

Gu Yunxi smiled and shook Huanan Jiyan's sleeve to please her,

"Just now I went into the kitchen and saw that the chefs were busy, so I helped them. Besides, the Master likes to eat the drunken chicken of the lotus I made. I'm worried that if I don't do cook, they can't make the taste that he likes."

"Oh, come on, it's getting late. Come with me into the building."

When they pushed the door in, the huge reception hall had taken on an entirely new look.

The lotus pattern curtains of double-leaves acacia were overlapped again, just like the blooming of red clouds.

The vase, the fumigation stove, and the screen were all in pairs, with the word "Happiness" pasted on them.

On the window lattice, there were red paper cuts of dragons and phoenix, eight immortals crossing the sea, peonies, pines, bamboos and plum blossoms, mandarin ducks, and reed geese, which were particularly festive and lively.

Leng Qingtang had already been waiting in front of the hall, with Lu Qiange and the chaperon on both sides.

He was dressed in a red bridegroom's robe. The dark patterns and words "Happiness" were embroidered on the front and back of the robe made of a small circle pattern. The cross collar and cuffs were cloud patterns with gold thread. There were exquisite cloud patterns at the hem of the robe.

Looking at Gu Yunxi, he was amazed by her light makeup.

The young girl was originally charming and beautiful. She was even more beautiful with a wedding dress and a luxurious phoenix crown.

She approached gently, the small beads on her temples shaking and twinkling, which caught people's eyes.

Her beautiful face glowed slightly against the red silk. He looked at her with soft eyes.

Gu Yunxi's heart beat faster immediately. She slowly bowed her head with a shy smile, and watched him coming close to her.

Her hands were folded by his warm hands, and she leaned against his broad chest. The man's dark and trembling voice whispered in her ear with a trace of uncontrollable emotion,

"Yunxi, raise your head. Today is our wedding day."

Gu Yunxi obeyed, slowly looked up at her husband, and smiled.

In the courtyard, firecrackers rang one after another. As time passed, wine and dishes were served one after another, but no one came to congratulate them.

Because of their seclusion from the world, Leng Qingtang and Gu Yunxi didn't want to organize the wedding in a big way. They only set up two tables of banquets for six people.

But now it seemed that there were only five of them, including the chaperon, Lu Qiange, and Huanan Jiyan. Even one table was enough for them.

The quiet scene embarrassed the chaperon, and Huanan Jiyan was also a little angry. After scanning the empty seats, she pulled Lu Qiange aside and scolded in a low voice,

"What's the matter? Didn't you say that Mother would come?"

Lu Qiange was sweating with anxiety,

"I don't think Mother will break her promise, but the good occasion is drawing near and we don't even have an emcee right now. What should we do?"

Gu Yunxi stood at the table at a loss, confused and wronged, looking at the gradually cool food on the table.

Her heart was gloomy. She didn't expect that the most important day in her life would be so embarrassing.

Leng Qingtang was distressed by her frowning and melancholy appearance. He scolded himself,

"Yunxi, I'm sorry, it's my fault."

"It's okay."

Gu Yunxi tried to cheer up, looked up, and squeezed out a light smile.

"I'll ask the chefs to come over and eat together. It doesn't matter."

She didn't want much. She had experienced too many departures before. She knew more than anyone how precious the time with her beloved man was.

How could she blame the Master?

What she wanted was to be with him and not be separated anymore. The form of the wedding did not matter.

Her generosity, understanding, and smile made Leng Qingtang immensely moved. He put her in his arms and hugged her as if he were afraid of losing her.

There was noise in the yard, and a loud laugh came in,

"Ha-ha, are the Ninth Younger brothers and Yunxi worried? Look who I brought!"