Chapter 364: Performing the Wedding Ceremony

The slanting sun set in the west; it was already evening.

Shui Wu sat in the small courtyard, lowering her head to mend clothes while lost in thought; she pricked her hand with the needle several times, yet felt no pain.

From time to time, she would lift her head and gaze toward the small path at the foot of the hillside.

But each time, her eyes were filled with disappointment and loneliness.

Soon, the setting sun plunged into the sea and vanished; the boundless curtain of night descended coldly.

An oil lamp was lit inside the small cottage.

The dim, yellow light shone upon the somewhat gloomy face of Shui Nan, yet the look he cast toward the young girl outside the house was so gentle.

"Aw u, no need to wait anymore, come inside."

He called out in a warm voice.

After a pause, he added: "It doesn't matter; Father said he cannot escape."

Outside the house, the young girl's expression was lonely as she slowly stood up.

When she lifted her head to look one last time at the small path at the foot of the hillside, her previously dim eyes suddenly brightened like stars.

On the small path, that figure had suddenly appeared.

The night was dark, but her gaze saw with extraordinary clarity.

That was him.

He had come.

Inside the cottage, Shui Nan seemed to have sensed her abnormality; he stood up, came to the small courtyard, and looked toward the small path at the foot of the hillside, a trace of a smile appearing at the corner of his mouth involuntarily.

"Go on, take a bath, and prepare yourself."

"Father needs to have a talk with him first."

The young girl's face flushed; she picked up her needlework, lowered her head, and turned to enter the house.

A crescent moon climbed onto the tips of the branches.

When Luo Zijun arrived on the hillside, he found that Shui Ye was sitting at the stone table in the small courtyard waiting for him, as if he had long expected him to come.

"You have come."

"I have come."

"You came after all."

"I came after all."

"You originally did not want to come."

"But I have already come."

"What did you come for?"

"I came to perform the wedding ceremony."

"Perform the wedding ceremony with whom?"

"Perform the wedding ceremony with the person who should perform the wedding ceremony."

"What kind of person should perform the wedding ceremony?"

"In any case, not you."

"..."

Shui Nan stood up and said: "Fine, since you have already thought it through, let us talk about things after the wedding ceremony."

Luo Zijun stated his conditions: "First, release my friends. Second, take us to see Red Bird. Third, you cannot imprison my freedom; I need to cross the sea to search for my wife. Fourth, you cannot force me to abandon the person I like. Fifth..."

"I cannot agree to the third condition."

Shui Nan interrupted him: "I can agree to the first and second conditions, but not the third. After you and Aw u perform the wedding ceremony, you must stay here to accompany her, and I will go help you search for your wife. I can also reluctantly agree to the fourth. As for the fifth, sixth, and other conditions, I am sorry, I do not want to hear them, and I will not agree to them. You must understand, it is you begging me now, not me begging you."

The courtyard was silent for a while.

Luo Zijun suddenly said: "Then what if I get your daughter pregnant? Who will be begging whom then?"

Shui Nan's originally calm expression suddenly became somewhat gloomy and ferocious: "You want to try?"

Luo Zijun said: "Uncle Shui, I came tonight just to try, and furthermore, it was you who forced me to come and try."

The courtyard fell into silence once again.

Luo Zijun clearly felt a cold, murderous aura, from head to toe, from inside to out, as if it had already pierced through his skin and flesh, and even his bones.

"Father..."

At this moment, Shui Wu's voice came from the window.

Under the moonlight, the young girl's long hair was loose, her appearance charming, and her azure eyes flashed with a clear and resolute gaze: "Daughter has already promised him that I will accompany him to search for his wife. Daughter also told him that no matter where he goes in the future, daughter will follow him, no matter the ends of the earth, no matter... life or death."

Luo Zijun's gaze, looking at the young girl in the window, was dazed for a moment.

In the small courtyard, there was not a sound.

The murderous aura on Shui Nan's body had vanished without a trace the moment the young girl spoke; hearing her words now, he fell into a long silence.

"Uncle Shui..."

At this time, Luo Zijun no longer had any hesitation: "I can swear..."

"Prepare for the wedding ceremony."

Shui Nan did not let him continue, waved his hand, and walked toward the outside of the courtyard, saying: "I am going to find some witnesses."

Soon, his figure, leaning on a cane, disappeared onto the small path at the foot of the hillside.

Luo Zijun's gaze looked toward the window.

The gaze of the young girl in the window was also looking at him.

"Miss Shui Wu..."

"Call me Aw u."

"Aw u..."

"Creak..."

The window closed, and Aw u's voice came from inside: "I am going to bathe, do not come in yet."

Luo Zijun said: "Then when can I come in?"

"When you are allowed to come in, I will naturally tell you."

"Oh."

"And you are not allowed to peek."

"Then when can I peek?"

There was no reply from inside.

Luo Zijun sat down at the stone table in the small courtyard, thought for a moment, took out the Copper Mirror, and sent a message to Bai Daxiaojie: 【Daxiaojie, I have bad news to tell you; I am going to sell my body tonight. The other party is not a bearded pirate, nor those messy crew members, but an eighteen-year-old girl who is as beautiful as a flower with a charming figure. However, rest assured, although my body may temporarily belong to someone else, my heart will always belong to you.】

He had assumed Bai Daxiaojie would not reply to such a message, but to his surprise, less than a minute after the message was sent, the other party replied.

There were only two words: 【Disgusting.】

Luo Zijun sighed and replied: 【I also know this is very disgusting, but in order to find you, I have to sell my body. But fortunately, although my body may be dirty, my heart is still clean. I know that what Daxiaojie cares about is not my physical body, but my soul.】

This time, the other party did not reply again.

Luo Zijun waited for a while longer, put away the Copper Mirror, and his gaze pierced through the dark night, looking toward the distant sea.

"Hurry up and go back, Senior Sister is still waiting for me at home."

He said secretly in his heart.

Thinking of Senior Sister, a small wave of guilt could not help but surge in his heart; he wondered what her reaction would be if she learned of this news.

Sigh, he could imagine it.

That girl would definitely take out that thick Rolling Pin, give him a blow to the head, and then pinch him hard, right? She might even pinch his most fragile yet most powerful place.

Just as a smile unconsciously appeared on the corners of his mouth while he was thinking of that girl, several figures suddenly appeared on the small path below the hillside.