It is July, when the four seasons are distinct in E. It is the season when all the flowers bloom, and it is also the longest and grandest festival of the year in E, except for the Golden Autumn Red Maple Festival.
The streets are lined with stone houses, painted in rich blue, and the windows of every house are surrounded by flowers of all colors, draped with vines that sweep past everyone who passes by.
But this year, the main city is even more lively than in previous years, because the biggest joy of the Mars family is about to be ushered in, the wedding of Chu Yao, the heir of the Mars family.
E is a polygamous system since ancient times, a hundred years ago when the World War E because of the special geographical location to escape a catastrophe, in the world under the pattern of chaos, E quietly developed, whether it is humanities or science and technology have the world’s mainstream level, so the sparrow is small and all the guts.
The Mars family, as the most prestigious church family in the area, the heir’s wedding was destined to receive national attention, and although the family did not show up, they also took the opportunity of the wedding to hold a grand Flower Festival fireworks event in the main city.
From a week before the wedding, the fireworks in the main city did not stop once night fell.
The courtyard is deep–
“You go to …”
“You go.”
“I was the one who went yesterday.”
“What ah, yesterday you sent in was thrown out, later is not I went again?”
The two maids pushed and shoved a plate of snacks on the stone table of the pavilion, deadlocked, not even noticing that someone was coming.
“What’s all the noise?” The woman’s voice was extraordinarily clear.
When the two maids turned around, they were busy bending low and making a respectful face, “Second Miss.”
Chu Jing swept the dinner plate on the stone table, “For my brother?”
“Yes.”
“He still won’t eat? How many days has this been going on?”
The maid was careful, “the master said, if the young master does not eat again today, let Dr. McCall come over to give him an infusion, said it is always starvation can not die, Second Miss, you persuade the young master, hunger strike protest this is not with the master against it, the master’s temper and you do not know.”
“My brother is not on a hunger strike,” Chu rolled her eyes speechlessly, “You people really don’t understand my brother at all, he has a delicate body since he was a child, and he is dead arrogant.”
“That’s?”
“He is just too sad to eat, the young master sick, only one person can cure.”
“Who is it?”
Chu glanced at them meaningfully, “Not Dr. McCall anyway.”
When he entered the house, Chu Yao, in a wide beige robe, was lying flat on the bed looking at the bed curtain above his head.
From France back three days, he has not left this room, every day to maintain such a posture, almost not even drive a little, as if petrified.
Hearing someone come in, not even a glance, as if everything around him can not affect him anymore.
“Brother, have something to eat, freshly made snacks from the kitchen.”
Chu Jing put the plate on the table and turned her head towards the bed behind the screen.
Chu Yao said indifferently, “Leave it, I’m not hungry.”
“Of course you’re not hungry when you’re lying around like that and you don’t need to exert your strength, but are you sure you really don’t need to replenish some of your strength? Are you going to just get married to Eliza straight away?”
Chu Yao’s tone was indifferent, “Marriage is just a formality, if I don’t want to touch her, she’s not the person I want to marry.”
“But Danna Keller sister does not know that you think so, you said she already resent our polygamy here, this if you know that you are married and still haunt her, certainly will not care about you.”
“She never bothered me either.”
Chu Jing froze, sighed half-heartedly and sat down, “Brother, you just give up?”
“Five years, almost,” Chu Yao’s voice was a bit muffled, “when Michael said she would never wake up again, I swore that as long as she woke up, I would stop bothering her, she could do whatever she wanted to do, I wouldn’t force her to come back to China with me, nor would I force her to marry me, she would live well. Just live.”
The whole five years, he chased Danna Keller ran all over the world, this time even if Danna Keller was sent to space, afraid that Chu Yao can build a spaceship to catch up, but people do not appreciate, do more feel that he is in the bad, heartfelt disdain for him.
Looking at her own brother so a disheveled look, always heartless Chu Jing also some heartache pro brother.
Three days later, the Mars family hosted a wedding reception.
Here, although the country’s armed forces are strong, but the family is very conservative, do the wedding are the most traditional rituals, the bride and groom wearing intricate patterned dress, in the elders sitting around the banquet hall, kneeling together to worship the elders, to accept the blessing of the elders forehead sprinkled with water.
The bride covers her face with a muslin veil, which is only removed after the ceremony is completed.
Early in the morning, Chu Yao was changed into a navy blue wedding robe, a disgusted face and the courtyard full of joyful atmosphere out of place, Jerry and two bodyguards to support him, “Young master, really sorry, this is all the master’s orders.”
Chu Yao angry words can not say, a face iron blue iron blue, morning he rarely had the appetite to eat a bite of breakfast, but actually still drugged, this moment half a little strength.
“Young master, after a while to the place anyway you are sitting on the carpet without moving, just cooperate, you no longer like Miss Eliza, this wedding can not be pushed off anyway.”
“You … you dogs …” Chu Yao said, out of breath, “Wait, all of you… … not a single one will escape.”
Jerry’s face was bitter, “If I didn’t say yes to the lord here, my head and neck would be separated now.”
The two bodyguards next to him even nodded their heads all the way.
When they arrived at the wedding banquet hall, the elders of the Mars family were all there, starting with the eldest backup, the great-grandmother, and on the left and right were Chu Yao’s father, Lefebvre Mars and the second wife, the uncle and the original wife, the aunt’s family and so on.
Those who came are closer in blood relations, the family of respected relatives elders.
Chu Yao half strength is not, after being helped in by Jerry, fell to sit on the carpet, barely straighten up just, the scene in front of you completely helpless.
Following him in was the veiled bride, Eliza.
Eliza and he were betrothed from childhood, also considered a childhood friend.
There is the officiating wedding festival Olson on the side with a water, while sprinkling water to guide the wedding, “the bride and groom like a great grandmother kneeling, hands palms up, to receive the blessing.”
Eliza crept down with a smile in her eyes.
And Chu Yao but half a reaction, sacrifice Olson repeated, he is still a stubborn look, half do not cooperate.
The elders on the scene looked at each other.
“What are you doing?” The one who spoke was the man sitting beside the great grandmother with white temples, his face was serious at the moment and his voice was terribly cold, “Chu Yao, if you continue to play temper and not cooperate, that woman you like will die in the middle of nowhere in Philia, and there will be no one to collect the corpse.”
Chu Yao’s face changed, “What did you say?”
“I’ll do what I say.”