Chapter 75: Chapter 75: Her Man Just Has a Way!_1 Chapter 75: Chapter 75: Her Man Just Has a Way!_1 Firecrackers crackled and popped, landing right in the middle of those gossiping women, who immediately clutched their heads and scattered in all directions.
“Ah—,” the women screamed in terror.
An Jing listened, feeling thoroughly pleased. Her man really knew how to handle things.
Those villagers who were still at home heard the noise of the firecrackers and rushed over to see what was happening, only to find their wives, mothers, or daughters all with faces filled with fright.
Everyone was stunned and confused. After asking around, they finally understood what had happened, then, all of them turned their angry stares toward Xiao Changyi.
One old woman snapped back to reality and started berating Xiao Changyi furiously, “You can’t kill us through curse so you want to blow us up, is that it?”
“Xiao Changyi, you black-hearted man! I’ve never seen anyone with a heart as black as yours!” another woman’s voice chimed in with scorn.
Xiao Changyi simply ignored everyone, and after the firecrackers had finished, he walked over to An Jing and stood face to face with her.
She looked at him, and he looked at her.
No matter how noisy the outside world was, in her eyes, there was only him, and in his eyes, there was only her.
In their eyes, there was only each other.
Both were dressed in red, standing tall and straight. They just stood there quietly, facing each other and smiling. The breeze fluttered their garments, creating a beautiful scene that somehow made the onlookers outside the courtyard shrink back in fear.
Everyone felt that An Jing and Xiao Changyi didn’t resemble ordinary farmer’s children at all but rather looked like a Great General returning from a victorious battle, with an impressive and suffocating presence that made it hard to breathe.
Although An Jing and Xiao Changyi were merely standing there and not doing anything to them, they were breaking out in cold sweats.
“This is absolutely surreal!” That was the true reflection of everyone’s feelings at the moment, with some being more vocal and cursing softly.
An Jing and Xiao Changyi only had each other in their sights until An Jing playfully winked at Xiao Changyi, prompting him to call out loudly, “First bow to the heavens and the earth.”
An Jing and Xiao Changyi then turned and knelt in the direction of the heavens and Earth, bowing once.
Both were military in bearing. No farmer’s child could compare to the precision with which they knelt and bowed together. Every movement was pleasing to the eye and perfectly synchronized.
Not only by the standard of An Jing and Xiao Changyi’s bowing which could not have been more scrupulously executed, but also by the way they disregarded the onlookers to such an extent, as if those who came to mock were nonexistent, openly conducting their wedding ceremony with absolute composure.
After the shock, anger set in among the crowd.
There were so many of them, yet they were completely ignored!
Someone, unable to contain their anger and forgetting the inexplicable cold sweat from before, laughed out loud: “Ha ha, Mrs. Chen has not attended, let’s see how they can proceed with the ceremony.”
“The second bow to the high hall,” Xiao Changyi shouted again.
Then, Xiao Changyi and An Jing turned once more, faced the sky again, knelt down, and bowed a second time.
The villagers watching from the outside: “…”
After a moment, one villager, not quite certain, whispered: “This means Mrs. Chen is considered dead, right?”
“It should be,” someone else whispered in agreement.
Some were actually pleased: “Hehe… It’s good that Mrs. Chen didn’t come to see this. Otherwise, she would’ve been infuriated to death on the spot!”
Xiao Changyi, as if deaf to all this, shouted for the third time: “The husband and wife bow to each other.”
Xiao Changyi and An Jing first stood face to face, calmly looking at one another, before kneeling together. This time, both had smiles on their faces, albeit one’s smile was extremely subtle and the other’s quite evident.
They bowed to each other.
When we rise, we will be husband and wife.