An ugly girl starts off, then becomes a beauty

As expected, Gao Heng failed to return from Putian on the wedding day.

My cousin only asked someone to bring back a scroll of silk book, which contained blessings for the marriage of Sang Ling and Nie Ce.

Every word was read to Sang Ling by Sang Feng'e herself. In the two days before the wedding, she, the new bride, was very busy. She was either dragged to try on clothes, or dragged to match jewelry, or she was held in front of a bronze mirror by several old women and maids to try on clothes. She was like a puppet, being fiddled with by a group of people.

Sang Feng'e played the role of her mother throughout the whole process, taking over Ma's position and taking care of things beside Sang Ling. It was not known whether Sang Feng'e first mentioned this matter or Sang Wu said it, but in short, Sang Ling was very quiet these two days, and no longer saw Ma and the people around her, nor did she hear any harsh gossip.

But even so, she didn't have the energy to think about it anymore. She had been living in a daze for the past two days, with a blank mind. She just did whatever people asked her to do, and when people asked her for her opinion, she just said "all good".

Later, perhaps Sang Feng'e also noticed something was wrong, so she stopped asking anyone and took the initiative to prepare everything for the wedding.

Before the auspicious time that day, people from the Marquis's Mansion came to pick up the bride. They didn't know what the rules of marriage in the imperial court were. They came from Qiu Garden to Langxiang Pavilion without seeing Nie Ce. Sang Ling couldn't help but look up from behind her scarlet veil and saw mockery written all over the faces of Ma and the women beside her.

When the bride enters the house, the groom should come to greet her, right?

"Get in the car." Sang Feng'e said in a deep voice.

She looked around the room, and except for Ma, everyone else's face looked unhappy, even Sang Wu had a gloomy face.

It seems that Nie Ce did not come in person to pick up the bride, and everyone knew that this was wrong.

She could only look back stiffly and focus her gaze on the hand that Sang Feng'e had extended to her. Since the Nie family had broken the rules first, the people in the Sang Mansion could still swallow their anger and send her over, and even Sang Feng'e had not raised any objections. It seemed that her family could no longer be used as a backer in the future.

She couldn't help but exhale and close her eyes.

On the way to the Marquis Muwu's residence, after passing Changting Avenue, through the curtains of the carriage, one could vaguely see people gathered on both sides of the street. The long crowd stretched all the way to the city gate, and there was no end in sight. The discussion was also endless - I'm afraid that today's incident will become a laughing stock for everyone's after-dinner talk. It was unheard of that the bride went alone without the groom on the way to pick up the bride.

As the bride's mother's family member, Sang Feng'e followed into the Marquis Mu Wu's mansion, and the servants in the mansion led the bride to the wedding room in Wuyuan first. Two hours before the auspicious time, two old women came over and talked to her about the rules of worship and the bridal chamber, and briefly talked about the relatives living in the mansion. She listened in silence and just nodded.

Only when she and Ya Nu were the only ones left in the bridal chamber did she lift the veil and said, "Nie Ce is missing, isn't he?"

Since entering the mansion, everyone inside has had different expressions. The atmosphere is really weird. Sang Ling's scattered thoughts of the past few days suddenly disappeared. Ya Nu nodded, "I heard on the way to the bathroom just now, it seems that they said - they said -" She hesitated, her face was terrified, "The Marquis is missing, and they said that he had not been seen last night. The Grand Master and the First Madam have been looking for him, but they haven't found him yet."

"Madam?"

"Yes, it's Madam Zhaoyu. People in the mansion seem to call her the eldest madam."

The two old ladies had just said that Nie Ce's biological father, Nie Bozhe, was the eldest, and there were three uncles from the Nie family living here, so I guess they should be called by their seniority. Sang Ling was not too anxious, and after thinking about it, he couldn't help but smile ridiculously.

"Young lady?" Yanu's expression seemed to be saying: How could she still laugh at a time like this?

On the wedding day, the groom disappeared, but as a bride, she didn't get anxious but smiled instead?

Sang Ling changed her kneeling position and stretched her legs straight, just feeling funny. Although she was still confused and didn't know how this matter would end, she felt it was ironic, and then she felt fresh. Even she herself couldn't understand why she suddenly relaxed. Maybe it was because she was too sad, and the sadness and joy were born together.

It was dark when they sat in the bridal chamber. The copper ball in the fire clock rang several times. Calculating the time, it should have passed the auspicious hour. The noise outside had not stopped, and Sang Ling kept watching the figures coming and going outside the window.

It seems that Nie Ce has not been found yet.

Ya Nu was so anxious that she paced back and forth, and she felt like she wanted to tear a hole in her sleeves. Sang Ling glanced at her and wanted to add a glass of water to himself, but found that there was no water in the copper jar, so he asked Ya Nu to get some water.

Ya Nu just walked out with the kettle in her arms. This was the first time she showed emotion. She couldn't help but mutter angrily, "This family is really ridiculous."

"How can you do things this way!"

Although the atmosphere was very depressed just now, Sang Ling couldn't help laughing when these words came out. Even a good-tempered girl like Ya Nu complained like this, which showed how serious the matter was. But it was true that since Nie Ce had disappeared since yesterday, the Nie family could still come to pick her up as if nothing had happened, which was somewhat inappropriate.

Perhaps she felt that this marriage was just a joke. She raised her eyes, looked around the bridal chamber, and let out a long sigh.

The flame floated on the goose and fish lantern. Unconsciously, the copper ball in the fire clock rang again. An incense stick of time passed. The noise of people outside gradually weakened from no one knew when. Sang Ling leaned back to stretch his muscles and bones, and glanced at the Boshan stove in the corner, wondering why Ya Nu had been gone for so long.

She stood up and walked to the corridor, but halfway through she felt it was troublesome and took off the red silk flower on her chest.

The hairpins on her head jingled with every step she took. Even if her movements were light, the bride was wearing so many things that the noise would be loud. She had just shown half of her head when she was spotted. However, the person glanced at her with a displeased look on his face and ran away.

Out of curiosity, I followed her out as if possessed. I didn't know since when there was no one outside the bridal chamber.

Faint voices were heard from the direction of the backyard, and a group of people were seen holding torches, sitting in a circle and discussing something.

"A Ling." Sang Feng'e's voice suddenly came from behind.

She didn't look back, she could only hear her own rapid breathing in her ears, and then she stepped forward and pushed through the crowd.

The night wind blew up the shadows of the trees in the courtyard, and the firelight swayed like a ghost in the back garden of the Marquis's mansion. The dry grass beside the well swayed slightly in the cool breeze, and a corpse that had just been salvaged lay on the grass, with a high bun on his head and a pair of green tassel rings on his ears -

That was what Sang Ling brought for her personally the month before.

She fell to the ground suddenly, her waist and abdomen twitched, and she vomited out all the food she had eaten.