Gasp! She's a Time Traveler Using Modern Tech to Improve Ancient Life-Chapter 727 - 722: Cousin Is Getting Married (Bonus - - Please Vote)

Chapter 727: Chapter 722: Cousin Is Getting Married (Bonus Chapter - Please Vote)

In the blink of an eye, it was the eve of Xiao Xianghua’s wedding day.

Lin Wanwan spent most of her time in the Great Tang, only calculating the time in the modern world. Two days would pass in the Great Tang, and she’d return to the modern world for a few minutes to check daily reports, reply to emails and messages, to show she hadn’t disappeared from the face of the earth.

Most of the time, Lin Wanwan stayed in the Great Tang, reciting poems and playing music with a few sisters from the Xiao Family, occasionally playing with poisons and studying sedatives with Xiao Yixun.

Medicine and poison are one family; every medicine has some poison in it, so those skilled in medicine and well-versed in herbs are usually not too bad at playing with poison. It’s just a matter of dosage; when appropriate, it’s a life-saving medicine, when not, it’s a deadly poison.

Apart from enhancing her poison-using skills with Xiao Yixun, Lin Wanwan also took some time to practice shooting.

Because the sound of the gun is loud, Lin Wanwan often chooses to practice in the mountains, startling countless birds.

She had practically used up all the bullets Lu Shouyue gave her, leaving only a few in the gun itself.

Her shooting skills had improved somewhat, showing some marksman talent.

That afternoon, Xiao Xianghua sat in her courtyard, watching her mother, Mrs. Yuan, organize her dowry chests for her.

Tomorrow she would leave the Xiao Family in Qiantang. In the future, with mountains and rivers between them, it wouldn’t be easy to return to her maternal home.

Though Mao County is only a day’s journey by boat from Qiantang, for people of the Great Tang, crossing waters isn’t considered near. Unlike the modern day, where it’s a little over two hours by car on the highway.

But Lin Wanwan was quite happy that Xiao Xianghua was marrying to Mao County because it brought her closer, making visits between them easier in the future.

The Xiao family’s main branch had a total of three daughters, and the engagement of the twin sisters happened before that of Xiao Xianghua. However, in the Great Tang, they valued seniority, so the wedding date adhered to the eldest daughter, Xiao Xianghua, first.

Lin Wanwan generously gifted each of the sisters at their bridal gift-giving ceremonies with a Glazed Mirror, which was already quite generous. However, she had a good friendship with Xiao Xianghua and liked her elegance, grace, and courtesy the most among the sisters, so she naturally gave her some extra gifts in private.

Lin Wanwan brought back not only many precious herbs from Chang’an but also a lot of fine silk, gifting Xiao Xianghua several bolts.

She also gave Xiao Xianghua several sets of ready-made clothes and everyday wear from her own Silk Shop, filling Xiao Xianghua’s hands with gifts.

To Lin Wanwan, the mirror was just a few hundred a piece, and the silk was exchanged for pepper, costing her not much according to modern exchange rates, not really reflecting her friendship with Xiao Xianghua.

But to Xiao Xianghua, the gifts Lin Wanwan gave almost outweighed the monetary value at the bottom of her dowry chest, making her feel unworthy of receiving them.

Today, Xiao Xianghua’s place was particularly crowded, with a few sisters coming to help her tidy up.

Everyone wore faces filled with joy, except for the bride-to-be, Xiao Xianghua, who had the most subdued expression.

Amidst their busyness, a maid came to report the arrival of Xiao Xianghua’s aunt and a distant cousin. Both were considered blessed women, that is, those with a harmonious family life, living parents, and children of their own.

They came to help arrange Xiao Xianghua’s bridal chamber bed, as per the customs in Qiantang and Mao County. The groom’s side invites blessed women from their side to prepare the marital bed; if conditions permit, families valuing their daughters’ homes do the same for the bridal chamber on the bride’s side.

Mrs. Yuan, being the de facto matron of the Xiao Family in Qiantang, naturally had to arrange everything properly for the marriage of her legitimate daughter. Fearing any negligence that would lead to her daughter’s discomfort, these auspicious beddings could not be omitted.

Xiao Xianghua, as a shy bride, remained quietly acquiescent to her mother Mrs. Yuan’s arrangements, following along without any complaint.

Lin Wanwan, observing from the side, found all this new and fresh. The customs of the Great Tang were much more complex than in modern times, and the sense of ceremony far more pronounced.

As someone without parents and already not young, unmarried, considered a jinxed star, Lin Wanwan was the least capable of helping. Just being allowed to stand in the bridal chamber showed the Xiao Family’s open-mindedness, treating her as an honored guest.

A more traditional family might not even let someone like Lin Wanwan near the bride.

Lin Wanwan was self-conscious about this, as she now had many palace maids around her with better manners than the maids of the Xiao Family’s collateral branch, which naturally made her seem more knowledgeable in etiquette.

Little Qingyu, much like Lin Wanwan, also had the fate of a jinxed star. Yet neither the mother nor the daughter considered themselves pitiable, standing joyously in the bridal chamber to watch the festive commotion.

All the bedding laid today was new, and there were even cotton quilts from the Lin Family Manor’s workshop!

This wasn’t a gift from Lin Wanwan but rather a gift from the Lin Clan Leader on behalf of the Lin family to the Xiao Family.

The direct lineage of the Lin had perished in the chaos of war, but the branch that had taken refuge on the remote coast still survived, naturally taking over these kinds of gifts.

In the bridal chamber, Xiao Xianghua’s sisters and cousins had already begun discussing the tests for the Wang Family’s bridegroom tomorrow.

Apart from couplets and songs, there were various dances, sword fights, and even fight routines.

The Great Tang’s wedding ceremony happened at dusk, and since the journey from Qiantang to Mao County took a day, the groom’s party had to come over early in the morning.

Bringing along strong clansmen and relatives, they had to pass many trials at the bride’s house to "snatch" the bride, quickly turning back to catch the auspicious time at dusk. The timing was very tight.

Lin Wanwan would join the wedding procession the next day, which meant by the latest, at dusk the next day, she would return to Mao County!

She now had a double anticipation: one to witness the Great Tang’s wedding procession from the bride’s side, and the other to return to her own home.

The day passed exceedingly fast.

Dinner was a banquet with family and friends who came to send off the bride, with music, dance, and song in full swing—there was nothing the people of Great Tang appreciated more than singing and dancing, more so than poetry.

After all, poetry had its threshold; singing and dancing did not. Regardless of the circumstance, when it came to singing and dancing, everyone was the same.

Lin Wanwan pulled Xiao Xianghua to join in the wild dancing, while Xiao Yixun sat bored in a corner, leisurely sipping on a milky drink, watching others sing and dance wildly.

Little Qingyu, along with a few playmates, darted in and out among the adults’ dancing skirts, having a blast and breaking out in a sweat.

Lin Wanwan only sneaked back to the modern world for a few minutes to call Lu Shouyue, then returned to the Great Tang.

Lu Shouyue had grown accustomed to Lin Wanwan not answering the phone often, and he gently tapped a box of new bullets, ready to give her next time they met.

Due to the difficulty of acquiring such items within Huaxia, Lu Shouyue, whenever he got the chance, would gather some for Lin Wanwan to store. 𝙧𝙚𝙚𝔀𝒆𝓫𝓷𝙤𝓿𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝙤𝓶

After all, she was hiding a thousand years ago. No matter how powerful real-time investigation is, it couldn’t catch her traces.

As for himself, if he couldn’t handle such minor matters, he wouldn’t be able to manage the auction house his grandfather left him to its current position.