Chapter 256: Marriage, Dowry
"It turns out that Junior Sister is really sick!"
The golden man's eyes showed enlightenment.
"No wonder Junior Sister was able to trick Master into taking her pulse so easily!"
As the saying goes, medicine and martial arts are inseparable. Master Yue Buqun, who has powerful internal skills, naturally also has good medical skills. Minor illnesses can't be hidden from him.
Thinking of this, a look of pity appeared on his face.
Not only did she catch a cold but she also had to struggle with him. Junior sister suffered a lot last night.
"Since Junior Sister is ill, you should lie down quickly."
The Golden Phoenix Road.
"Don't be too nervous, my illness is not serious, I just feel a little cold."
Yue Lingshan said softly,
"I think it was because of the cold wind and snow on the mountain road yesterday, and I almost fell down. I was so frightened that I got sick. I think I will be fine after a few days of rest."
"That won't do! This disease entering the body is no small matter."
"If it's not handled properly, it might cause a disease."
Jin Renfeng helped the girl lie down.
"Junior sister, please don't move yet. Let me treat you."
"Brother, can you cure diseases?"
Yue Lingshan was a little curious.
"When we travel around the world, it is inevitable that we will get injured or sick. Naturally, I have some knowledge of these methods of healing."
Jin Renfeng explained.
After hearing this, the girl no longer suspected anything.
Jin Renfeng raised his palm and used the Shuangquan Hand.
The red true energy rose from the palm of her hand, spread into the girl's body, and then swept around her.
After just a few breaths, the girl felt much more energetic.
"Brother, this move of yours is amazing. I feel warm now and I am not cold anymore."
Yue Lingshan said in surprise.
Seeing that the girl's illness was gone, Jin Renfeng withdrew his true energy and said with a smile,
"I learned this skill from a dream. It's not bad to say that it can bring back the dead to life. It's a waste of talent to use it to treat colds."
"Brother, you are just bragging!"
Yue Lingshan said coquettishly,
"You learned this from a deity in a dream. Brother, why don't you just say you are a deity who has descended to earth?"
Jin Renfeng did not argue, just smiled and said nothing.
The two chatted casually for a while, and seeing that there was still a space next to Lingshan, Jin Renfeng lay down beside the girl and held her in his arms.
His palm reached into her clothes and stroked the girl's curves, her smooth skin feeling soft to the touch.
"Brother, I can't give it to you today."
Feeling the man's breath, Yue Lingshan's cheeks blushed.
"Mother will definitely come to see me tomorrow morning."
"If I give it to you, she will definitely find out."
"When the time comes, it won't be clear."
"Don't worry, I'm not impatient, I just want to talk to you, Junior Sister."
Jin Renfeng said softly.
"Senior brother is always lying."
Feeling the big hand playing tricks on her, Yue Lingshan snorted softly.
"Why don't you believe me?
The golden phoenix leaned close to the girl's ear.
"Does Junior Sister think I'm the kind of person who is greedy for beauty?"
"Of course they didn't look alike before, but when I saw them last night, they really did look alike."
Yue Lingshan smiled sweetly.
"If I were to change my skin, I would be no different from those rapists."
"Great! Since you are criticizing me so much, it seems that I, a lecher, have to do what I should do."
As he spoke, Jin Renfeng pressed the girl under him and kissed her fair cheek affectionately.
Yue Lingshan giggled and kept dodging.
The two of them played around for a while before sticking together again.
"Brother, will you be nice to me in the future?"
Yue Lingshan murmured.
"Of course! You're my wife."
"Will you always be nice to me?"
"I will hold your hand and grow old with you, through life and death."
Jin Renfeng held the girl's hand, looked determined, and made a promise.
"Brother!"
Hearing the touching love words, Yue Lingshan couldn't help herself and kissed the man on the lips.
The entanglement between lips and teeth tells of endless love.
Because Lingshan was cautious, Jin Renfeng did not do anything out of line.
The two of them talked in private, and their hearts became closer and closer to each other.
An hour later, the girl's eyelids drooped and she slowly fell into a deep sleep.
Jin Renfeng gently stood up, tucked the quilt for the girl, and then turned and left.
. . . . . .
For more than ten days, Jin Renfeng went to accompany Yue Lingshan every night without missing a day.
After these days of recuperation, Yue Lingshan's figure gradually recovered, at least in the eyes of outsiders, there was no sign of anything wrong.
At noon, in the wooden house.
"Finally, I have integrated the Pure Yang Heart Sutra with the Dragon-Tiger Primordial Merit."
Jin Renfeng put down the brush and the book in his hand.
After more than ten days of thinking, he integrated the fire-controlling method of the Pure Yang Heart Sutra into the Dragon-Tiger Mixed Origin Technique and created a new technique.
Now, as long as it is successfully put into operation, this method will combine the strengths of Hunyuan Gong, Wulei Zhengfa, and Chunyang Heart Sutra, and at the same time possess the four major characteristics of self-operation, innate Qi, dual cultivation of sex and life, and control of divine fire.
"Mirror of Reincarnation, open the illusion of cause and effect!"
Thinking of this, Jin Renfeng summoned the Samsara Mirror.
Although the technique was becoming more and more perfect, it was only a theory after all, and even he himself was not clear about what mistakes and omissions were in it.
In order to avoid hurting yourself, you should still experiment with the skills in the reincarnation illusion.
[Received the command, currently 95 points of causal power remaining! ]
[It will consume points of causal power to activate the causal deduction function. Do you want to continue? ]
Jin Renfeng almost thought she had heard it wrong.
point of causal power? Wasn't it 1 point of causal power once before? Why is it discounted now?
Jin Renfeng was a little surprised.
A message came from the Samsara Mirror.
[The consumption when deducing cause and effect is proportional to the world level. 】
[The advanced world is of high level and has heavy causality, so it consumes more energy when deducing future causality! ]
[The low-level world is low-level, the cause and effect are light, the deduction is simpler, and the consumption is less. 】
[The cause and effect of the Laughing Proud World is only one tenth of that of the One Person World, so when deducing cause and effect, the causal power consumed is also reduced to points.]
"So that's it."
Jin Renfeng nodded and understood.
It’s not that the Samsara Mirror is intentionally discounted, but because the level of the Laughing Proud World is lower than that of the One-Man World, so the consumption during deduction is much less.
"It seems that I made the right decision to come to the World of Laughing Proudly this time!"
Jin Renfeng was smug,
"It's a great bargain to deduce the skills with only one tenth of the previous consumption!" "If I need to deduce the skills in the future, I can do it in the low-level world. This way I can save a lot of causal power."
After understanding the mechanism of the Samsara Mirror in deducing cause and effect, Jin Renfeng prepared to enter the illusion of cause and effect.
However, at this moment, a voice suddenly sounded outside the door.
"Big Brother! Master and his wife asked you to come down the mountain. They said they have something to discuss with you."
Jin Renfeng stopped moving, he could tell it was the voice of his sixth junior fellow apprentice Gao Genming.
"Master and mistress called me? I haven't been released from confinement yet, what's going on?"
He was a little puzzled, and after thinking for a moment, he suddenly realized.
"It seems that thing has arrived."
If you calculate carefully, it is now exactly one month's time, and it should be the time for his master and his mistress to come to him to inquire about his marriage.
Thinking of this, Jin Renfeng stood up and walked out of the room.
Outside the door, as expected, Sixth Junior Brother Gao Genming was waiting.
"Junior brother, I already know what you said. I will go down the mountain now!"
The Golden Phoenix Road.
"Sixth Junior Brother, did Master and his wife call me?"
Linghu Chong walked out of the wooden house next to him and asked.
"No! Master just asked Senior Brother to go over there."
Takane Akimitsu.
After hearing this, Linghu Chong couldn't help but feel depressed.
. . . . . .
Walking into a pavilion.
Master Yue Buqun and his wife Ning Zhongze sat on the left and right at the top seats.
Seeing the two familiar faces, Jin Renfeng couldn't help but feel a little nostalgic.
"Renfeng, you're here!"
Seeing him coming, Master's Wife Ning Zhongze called out to him.
"Disciple Jin Renfeng greets Master and his wife!"
Jin Renfeng walked forward and bowed.
"Okay, you don't have to be so polite with us.
Ning Zhongze spoke first.
"What do you think about what we told you last time?"
Jin Renfeng knew that he was talking about the marriage with Junior Sister, so he said without thinking,
"I am willing to marry my junior sister. I hope Master and his wife can preside over the wedding for me."
"what?"
Ning Zhongze looked surprised.
"You agreed so readily this time. I thought I would have to talk you through it again!"
"Master and his wife are willing to marry my little sister to me. This is a great fortune for me. How can I refuse?"
Jin Renfeng said calmly,
"I hesitated before because I have no roots and no property. If my junior sister marries me, I am worried that she will suffer."
"My child, I have watched you grow up over the years. Your master and I have always treated you as our own son. How can you be considered rootless?"
Ning Zhongze angrily reproached,
"As for Lingshan, if she marries a chicken, she follows the chicken; if she marries a dog, she follows the dog. If she follows you, she will be your wife. There is no question of whether she will suffer or not."
"Master's wife is right." Jin Renfeng responded. "It was me who was too worried and almost wasted Master's and Master's wife's efforts."
"It's not too late to understand now. Since you have agreed to the marriage, the wedding should indeed be put on the agenda."
Ning Zhongze said as he looked at Yue Buqun who was standing beside him.
"Brother, how do you think we should prepare for Lingshan and Renfeng's wedding?"
Yue Buqun did not answer, his eyes were blank, as if he was thinking about something.
"Senior brother?"
Ning Zhongze asked again, and at the same time stretched out his hand and pushed Yue Buqun.
"Oh! What do you want to ask me, Junior Sister?"
His body swayed before Yue Buqun came back to his senses.
"Brother, do you have any ideas about the marriage of Renfeng and the others that I just mentioned?"
Ning Zhongze was not surprised and repeated what he had said before.
"Junior sister, please let me make the decision on this matter. I am not very familiar with these things, so I will not interfere too much."
Yue Buqun said absentmindedly.
Looking down, Jin Renfeng could see that his master was unhappy.
In fact, the master punished him and Linghu Chong to go up the mountain in order to keep them away from Yue Lingshan and make room for Lin Pingzhi.
For this reason, the master specially asked Lingshan to teach Lin Pingzhi martial arts so that the two could spend more time together.
This move may seem insignificant, but it is actually extremely powerful.
In the original timeline, Yue Buqun did just that.
On the one hand, he used the marriage experience of Yue Lingshan and Lin Pingzhi in Fujian to bring them together in order to obtain the "Bixie Sword Technique".
At the same time, he separated Linghu Chong from meeting Yue Lingshan.
As a result, after only one year of not seeing each other, Yue Lingshan, who had been in a relationship with Linghu Chong for more than ten years, completely fell in love with Lin Pingzhi.
This is the terrible power of long-distance relationships. It also shows how well Master Yue Buqun knows people's hearts.
Now that the disciple who was close to Lingshan had changed from Linghu Chong to Jin Renfeng, he was naturally involved and became the main target of his master Yue Buqun.
However, he was not as honest as Linghu Chong. He obeyed his master's confinement order verbally but actually did not take it seriously at all.
In order to meet his junior sister, he often went down the mountain quietly.
In this way, the master's plan would fail.
Of course, the master should not know about this. Whether it is Qinggong or internal strength, he is better than the master, and his whereabouts are not something the master can discover.
The master's displeasure at this time was probably because his wife had pushed for his marriage with Lingshan.
After all, this meant that the plan to plunder the Exorcist Sword Technique had failed. It was normal for the old man to be unhappy.
"Since Senior Brother has entrusted this matter to me, then I will make the decision on this matter."
Ning Zhongze was completely unaware of what the two were thinking and was only focused on pushing for the marriage.
"Since ancient times, marriage has been a major event, and the parents' orders and matchmaker's words are indispensable. The three books and six ceremonies are indispensable."
"But this time our situation is a little special. Your master and I are not only Shan'er's parents, but also your teachers, Renfeng."
"The elders from both sides have come together, so the rules cannot be applied mechanically."
"The first gift, Nacai, is the ceremony of proposing marriage. It is of course indispensable for ordinary families. But it is not very applicable here. After all, no one proposes marriage to himself. In my opinion, it is better to skip it."
"It's all up to Master's Wife."
Jin Renfeng bowed.
"The second thing is the gift of betrothal."
Ning Zhongze picked up the teacup from the table, took a sip, and then continued,
"This ceremony is an engagement ceremony, which requires a written agreement, a betrothal gift, an engagement certificate, and the selection of an auspicious day for the wedding. It is a very important event and needs careful planning."
"Your master and I can arrange the engagement banquet for you, and we can also invite a matchmaker, but you still have to take care of the engagement letter, gift letter, and betrothal gifts yourself."
"Disciple understands." Jin Renfeng said.
The so-called betrothal gift is the bride price in later generations. When getting engaged, the man needs to prepare gold and silver jewelry, silks and satins, and a large sum of money as gifts to the woman.
Because there were so many items and many valuables, it cost a lot to purchase them.
However, the woman must also pay back a dowry of equal or even higher value.
In the Ming Dynasty, the betrothal gifts and dowries of both parties needed to be recorded and witnessed by the matchmaker.
Once the marriage certificate is signed, if someone regrets the marriage in the future, not only will the betrothal money have to be repaid, but the matchmaker and the person who regrets the marriage will also be punished.
"You don't have to worry about the betrothal gift."
Ning Zhongze warned,
"I have watched you grow up since you were a child, and Lingshan and I are childhood sweethearts. We were a family before, and we will be a family in the future."
"In my opinion, the engagement letter and gift book required for the engagement can be prepared according to the custom. As for the betrothal gift, it will be given to one's family anyway, so the thought is enough."
"If you are short of money, your master and I can help you out."
(End of this chapter)
