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Qingming (Three Hours): Wooden Ox Welcomes A Chou

Zhuge Liang was thinking about what Huang Chengyan said during the day all night. He kept asking himself what he was holding for Huang Yueying until the fence door of the thatched hut was gently pushed open.

"Miss Yueying?"

When Zhuge Liang saw Huang Yueying standing at the door, he was surprised not only that she appeared here in the middle of the night, but more importantly, Huang Yueying did not cover her face with white gauze and white silk as usual, but showed her in front of Zhuge Liang with a complete face. Against the backdrop of the candlelight in the house, Zhuge Liang finally saw that her appearance was indeed as Huang Chengyan said, with an extraordinary human characteristic of black skin and yellow hair.

Seeing that Zhuge Liang didn't speak for a long time, Huang Yueying hesitated for a long time before speaking:

"This is my true face. Do you have anything to say when you see this now?"

It is difficult for ordinary people to accept Huang Yueying's appearance, let alone treat her as a wife and she has been together all day long.

Zhuge Liang finally understood why Huang Yueying refused when facing the proposals from the Jingzhou gentry, because what they valued was not her appearance or talent, but the power of her uncle Liu Biao.

It is precisely because of this that Zhuge Liang did not easily agree to Huang Chengyan’s proposal:

"If I just married a girl like this, then people will think that I, Zhuge Liang, is a despicable villain who is competing with dragons and phoenixes and tempting the flames and powers. At that time, not only me, but even the girl will be ridiculed by the world. I don't want to see you suffer any harm..."

Huang Yueying smiled miserably: "If you say so, are you unwilling to marry me?"

Even though she understood the facts of what Zhuge Liang said, Huang Yueying still felt a little sad. In her opinion, no matter what reasons Zhuge Liang gave, it could only mean that she was an ugly woman with a deep background.

"I understand, you have a good rest and just pretend that this has not happened..."

As Huang Yueying said that, a drop of bitter tears flowed from her bright eyes as bright as the moon. She turned around and left the thatched house quietly. After seeing this, Zhuge Liang found that she suddenly felt very painful in her heart for some reason. This feeling had never been done before.

For some reason, at this time his mind was blank, and he was chasing out of the house with crutches with instinct, but when he walked out of the courtyard, he found that Huang Yueying was gone.

Unlimited loss and self-blame emerged from Zhuge Liang's heart, and he began to regret what he had just said.

In the next five days, Huang Yueying did not appear in front of Zhuge Liang.

It was not until Pang Tong came that he learned from him that Huang Yueying had returned to Xiangyang and had agreed to the proposal of Liu Yang, a genius in Jingzhou. Zhuge Liang's eldest brother-in-law Kuai Qi was at the time of being the prefect of Zhangling under Liu Biao's tent. He happened to learn the news when he was reporting his duties in Xiangyang, so Zhuge Liang's sister quickly told Pang Tong the news.

During her several conversations with Huang Yueying, Zhuge Liang heard from her words that she was disdain and worried about the increasingly decadent gentry of Jingzhou, especially Liu Biao's far-fledged nephew Liu Yang was even more ignorant and flirted with labor. How could such a person make Huang Yueying, who was deeply averse to her, marry her?

After hearing the news from Pang Tong, Zhuge Liang could see that Huang Yueying was disappointed with him.

"I don't know what you think. Yueying looks different from an ordinary person, but what is there in addition to that she is not worthy of you, Zhuge Liang. In order to take care of you, she sacrifices her reputation and stays under the same roof as you for two or three months. Don't tell me that Zhuge Liang, who will become famous for all the time in the future, doesn't even have the courage to fight for a woman!"

Faced with Pang Tong's merciless rebuke, he had no refutation, or he thought he had no right to refute, he didn't know what was going on during this period, and he didn't even know what he was doing or thinking about, but Pang Tong's words made him sober. He knew that he had no need to think about his current hatred, great ambitions, and a thousand miles of worlds. Only Huang Yueying... is what he must fight for, and he is also the only beloved woman!

Seeing that Zhuge Liang finally made up his mind, Pang Tong smiled. He rushed back to Xiangyang and personally told Huang Yueying that Zhuge Liang's original words. However, Huang Yueying seemed to have completely become disheartened to Zhuge Liang. No matter how Pang Tong persuaded him, he would not change his mind, and even refused to see Zhuge Liang again.

Huang Yueying, who was standing by the pond, twisted the fish food in her left palm with her right hand and sprinkled it on the water surface bit by bit, but her mind seemed not to be on the fish floating back and forth on the water surface of the fish pond. Until the fish food was gone, she was quietly dazed and repeated every move.

"How can you feed them with such a little fish food?"

Huang Chengyan walked to her side, and Huang Yueying realized that her hands were already empty. She clapped her palms and said to Huang Chengyan: "Father, I have given fish food before, but it doesn't need it, so why waste it?"

Looking at his daughter's sad look, Huang Chengyan felt a little unbearable, and he explained to his daughter:

"Martial wife is not formed casually. Some may go smoothly, and some may encounter some twists and turns, just like between you and Zhuge Liang. You just expressed your feelings but did not give him a chance to talk. Isn't this unfair to him?"

Huang Yueying looked up at Huang Chengyan, as if her heart had begun to shake:

"But if you like it, if you don't like it, you don't like it. Why can't it be simpler and easier?"

Huang Chengyan smiled and said, "Silly daughter, you understand everything like Zhuge Liang, but you just don't understand the love between men and women. I think after you have been with him for so long, what kind of feelings he has to do to you, can you really not feel it?"

As she asked herself, Huang Yueying could feel from Zhuge Liang's words and deeds that he should have some feelings for him, but when she thought of her appearance, she would mistake these feelings for sympathy, respect and even appreciate.

After pondering for a long time, she said to Huang Chengyan:

"Father, I can marry Zhuge Liang, but please tell him my conditions, that is, I will not get on the sedan chair, nor on the horse, nor on the boat. If Zhuge Liang really takes care of me, let him think about coming to greet the bride again."

After hearing Huang Yueying's three conditions from Pang Tong again, Zhuge Liang fell into deep thought. He thought that Huang Yueying had basically cut off all his retreat. The purpose of giving out these conditions was nothing more than to see Zhuge Liang's ability and test Zhuge Liang's level of attentiveness to him.

Zhuge Liang, sitting next to the bed, thought of the little things he and Huang Yueying had studied together. He opened his eyes and looked at the wooden man who was automatically pushing the millstone in the courtyard. He had an idea in his mind...

On the day of the wedding, Zhuge Liang drove a wooden cow and pulled a square table covered with red cloth where he and his younger brother Zhuge Jun were sitting. Under the square table were huge wheels similar to millstones. With the marriage team Pang Tong and Zhuge Liang were looking for, the group passed through the streets and alleys of Xiangyang City in a mighty way.

Everyone was curious about the rare thing Zhuge Liang was riding on. Children playing on the road reached out to caress the wooden cow. Some people with good things asked Zhuge Liang who was sitting on it what he was going to do. Zhuge Jun smiled and replied, "My second brother is going to marry Miss Huang..."

When the team arrived at the gate of Huang Chengyan's mansion, Mrs. Cai told Zhuge Liang to drive away the wooden ox to pull a cart to welcome the bride. Huang Yueying, who had already put on a wedding dress and a red cover, couldn't help but smile when she knew it:

"Not a horse, no ship, no sedan chair, he really thought of a bad idea..."

Mrs. Cai helped Huang Yueying out the door. When she walked past Pang Tong, he was surprised to find a detail that ordinary people were not easy to pay attention to: Huang Yueying's hands on her chest were actually fair...

When meeting Huang Chengyan, Zhuge Liang formally bowed to him:

"Son-in-law Zhuge Liang, pay homage to my father-in-law..."

Huang Chengyan helped him up and said earnestly:

"I am very pleased that you and Yueying have reached this point today. I hope that you and your wife will be respectful to each other in the future."

After saying that, Huang Chengyan also came to Zhuge Liang's ear and whispered to him in a low voice:

"I'm afraid you will be scared when you are having a wedding banquet at night. Let me tell you first, Yueying will give you a surprise..."

Before Zhuge Liang could react to what was going on, Mrs. Cai had already brought Huang Yueying to the gate. She put her hand on Yueying's back and gently pushed towards Zhuge Liang:

"Go...your husband is waiting for you..."

Mrs. Cai was filled with reluctance in her words. She looked at Huang Yueying step by step and walked down the steps step by step. Zhuge Liang also came up step by step and reached out to hold Huang Yueying's hand. At this time, joy sounded again, and everyone was happy for their union. Zhuge Liang did not notice at all in the crowd, and there was a pair of eyes watching him...

After bidding farewell to his parents, Huang Yueying sat on the square platform with the help of Zhuge Jun and left with everyone's farewell.

In the middle of the night, Zhuge Liang gently pushed open the door. He looked at Huang Yueying, who was sitting on the bed without moving, and felt a little inexplicably excited and nervous. He never knew that this was the way he felt when getting married.

He gently came to Huang Yueying, slowly stretched out his hand to lift the red cover. When he saw the appearance of the person in front of him, he was shocked and the veil in his hand quickly slid to the ground.

"You..." Zhuge Liang couldn't believe his eyes as a part-time job, because the person in front of him was too different from the Huang Yueying he knew. His fair and delicate skin, his eyes as clear as water, and his charming figure were as gentle as a fairy. He didn't dare to look at him face him. In Zhuge Liang's eyes, this was completely another person.

"Who are you?"

Faced with Zhuge Liang's question, the woman couldn't help but smile:

"What? Huang Yueying is too ugly to marry you. Now that such a beautiful beauty is replaced by her, you will never have to face the Chou of the Huang family again. Is there anything else that is dissatisfied with?"

"I sincerely want to stay with her for life, why did she do this?"

Zhuge Liang felt that he had been teased by Huang Yueying, and he said to the woman in front of him very seriously:

"If she doesn't want to marry me, you can tell me directly. Am I her Huang Yueying's doll? I will send you back to Xiangyang tomorrow. Please tell her that I, Zhuge Liang, is not someone she can tease at will."

Just as Zhuge Liang turned around and opened the door to leave, the woman hugged Zhuge Liang's waist from behind. Zhuge Liang could feel her crying. This atmosphere was very similar to the scene where Huang Yueying showed her true face...

"Silly... can't you even hear my voice?"

Only then did Zhuge Liang carefully listen to the woman's voice exactly the same as Huang Yueying's previous voice, which made him puzzled. He turned around and looked at the woman who had already burst into tears, and asked in skepticism:

"Are you... really Yueying?"

In Huang Chengyan's home in Xiangyang City, Pang Degong, Pang Tong, Sima Hui and Huang Chengyan sat around the pavilion and drank. When Pang Tong heard from Huang Chengyan that Huang Yueying actually had two extreme appearances, he couldn't help but say:

"No wonder I saw Miss Yueying's hands' skin was as white as jade today, but this was incredible..."

Huang Chengyan picked up the wine cup and said to Pang Tong: "This is what Yueying was born. Every fifteen days, the color of her skin and hair will reverse. The original yellow and black skin will be converted into the black and yellow hair of normal people. Rather than saying this, it is better to say that her skin is whiter and tenderer than normal people, and her hair is also darker and brighter."

"But...why not ask someone to treat it?"

Pang Tong’s problem aroused Huang Chengyan’s sadness:

"I asked my brother Zhongjing to diagnose Yueying before, but after using all kinds of methods, she still failed to completely cure her skin and hair color, so that she can have the most beautiful and ugliest appearance in the world. This is God's will..."

Sima Hui also knew about this, and he said to Pang Tong: "Actually, this is the reason why Yueying chose to marry today, because today is when her hair color transformed into an ordinary person. I believe Kong Ming must be shocked now..."

Huang Yueying, who was nestled in Zhuge Liang's arms, told her husband about his physical condition. Zhuge Liang's first reaction after hearing this was almost the same as Pang Tong, but he quickly accepted this fact.

He held Huang Yueying's hand and said, "You have worked hard in the past. No matter whether you are beautiful or ugly, you are the only one in my Zhuge Liang's eyes from now on. You Huang Yueying are my only wife in my life..."

Later, Zhuge Liang and Huang Yueying and Zhuge Jun lived in seclusion in Longzhong's thatched cottage. They refused Liu Biao's multiple recruitment and chose to stay in the mountains and fields as a pair of fairy couples. They also developed excellent irrigation systems such as water trucks, which helped the people of Longzhong do a lot of good things and were highly praised by the people.

Zhuge Liang had almost forgotten his deep hatred and lofty ambitions until a sudden visit by himself...

Zhuge Liang looked at the handsome young man in front of him and listened to him introducing himself:
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