Chapter 310 - Huang Yueying (1/2)

In the Eight Diagram Tactics, above a sea of flowers, Zhao Yun and Zhuge Liang sat opposite each other and had a tea talk. The stories about Huang Yueying and Zhuge Kongming made Zhao Yun deeply moved.

That year, Zhuge Liang prepared to choose a spouse. Huang Chengyan, a local celebrity known for upright character and personality, proposed to him. He wanted Zhuge Liang to marry his ugly daughter.

He said that although his daughter was ugly, her talent was certainly worthy of marrying Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang didn’t refuse, agreeing to marry her. So Huang Chengyan sent Huang Yueying to him in a cart.

But as a peerless talented woman of the generation, Huang Yueying wanted to test whether Zhuge Liang really had superhuman talents.

One month before the marriage, she asked her father to propose the “three noes” condition to Zhuge Liang. When they got married, she would not ride on a sedan chair, ride on a horse, or ride in a boat.

This “three noes” condition really troubled Zhuge Liang for days. He thought hard and couldn’t sleep at night.

“Not ride on the sedan chair, ride on the horse, or ride in the boat… Make the bride walk?”

It would be such a joke if he let the bride walk, and it would lose the bride’s face as well. How to deal with this matter? It was really a headache.

It was getting closer to the wedding on the eighth day of the 12th lunar month. So restless and anxious, Zhuge Liang was wandering around in the yard and on the hillside. He then ran to a chess mountain and stepped on the stone to meditate.

Suddenly, he heard someone exclaiming at the foot of the mountain, “The buffalo is frightened! The buffalo is frightened!”

Zhuge Liang took a closer look, finding that a buffalo rolling the rice with a stone roller was frightened, and it had broken the pile in the center of the roller.

The buffalo was running on the ground with the roller. Zhuge Liang stared at the roller. Suddenly, he slapped himself in the back of his head, shouting with ecstasy, “I got it!”

Then, he hurried home. It turned out that he came up with an idea to put a shelf on the roller, so that it could carry people. In this way, it was not a sedan chair, nor a horse.

Without hesitation, he and his servant got some local materials. One of them chopped down the trees, and the other cut wood. They had been working hard for three days and three nights.

The eighth day of the 12th lunar month was the wedding day. Huang Chengyan’s courtyard was packed with congratulatory guests.

Of course, there were many on-lookers among them. They wanted to see how Huang Yueying would go to her husband’s house. They wanted to see the idea that Zhuge Liang came up with in order to get his marriage successfully.

At about noon, a colorful shadow appeared at the foot of Huangjia Mountain near Longzhong. From small to large, it got more and more clear.

“Here comes the bridegroom!”

Along with this loud shout, the on-lookers rushed out from the Huang Family’s courtyard. In the procession, Zhuge Liang and his servant sat one by one on a “platform” surrounded by a red cloth.

Under the “platform”, there were two rolling things like the large rollers, and something like a buffalo or a horse was dragging it in front.

It was not a sedan chair, because no one carried it. It was not a horse, because it was not a living thing. It was not a boat, either, because it walked on the ground.

“Hey, what’s this?”

“Amazing!”

“It’s not a horse, nor a sedan chair, not a boat. Zhuge Liang really came up with an idea?!”

Everyone went around to see with curiosity! Some touched here, some touched there, and some patted the thing that looked like a buffalo or a horse.

“Hey, guy, what’s this?”

“Yeah, quickly tell us.”

They asked the little boy in white. But he just wiped his nose happily and answered, “This is the Buffalo and Horse, which was created by my master for the bride!”

“Wooden Ox?”

Everyone was shocked. They had never seen such a magic machine.

At this time, Zhuge Liang got off the Wooden Ox and walked to Huang Chengyan, saying, “Father-in-law, have I met Yueying’s requirements?”

Gratified, Huang Chengyan looked at Huang Yueying, who was wearing a red veil. Seeing her nodding slowly, he smiled and said, “Yueying has already approved. You can take her home.”

When he finished, Zhuge Liang bid farewell to him and left with Huang Yueying. On the wedding night, he slowly removed her red veil.

“Oh!”

Zhuge Liang, who had always been calm, was surprised by the girl in front of him. He thought the reason why Huang Yueying wore such a red veil was to cover up her ugliness. He was ready to comfort her with a few words.

Unexpectedly, the girl in front of him was so beautiful. Her hair was yellow, and her face was not as dark as Huang Chengyan said, but very tender and white.

“Miss, please tell me where Yueying is,” Zhuge Liang immediately said with a holding fist salute.