Volume 1 Chapter 35 (2/2)

She took small running steps towards the mansion, as I put on the clothes and thereafter stood in the middle of the courtyard.....while looking at the luminous moon hanging in the sky, my heart felt slightly unpleasant.

After just a short while, she had also changed a set of clothes as well, and it's still a purplish Han clothing; it was elegant yet exquisite, and it had extremely realistic tree leaves pattern on it, while the pattern on my clothes had strong firm large trees sewn on it.

Our clothes that we had on right now, is a matching pair.

She put on a little make-up, this made the original atmosphere around her become slightly more enchanting.

Gradually, she approached towards me.

”Zhang Childe, may I ask of you to have a tune of dance with this small womanhood?”

Yè Zǐ lifted her head, as she stared into my eyes and stretched both of her hands towards me.

But dancing........I had no idea how to......

”Umm......this.....I......”

If I had known about this then I would have registered for dancing cla.s.ses already! Damm it!

”It's alright, may Zhang Childe follow my pace along, I'll teach you.”

She grasped my hand, and at such a nice moment like this, a strong gust of wind deliberately blew past us.

”Rise~”

A clear distinct traditional chinese zither melody rang out, and resounded among the silent mountain-hills, while this seemingly naturalistic melody made my body subconsciously move about, dancing.

”Gentler with your feet movements~”

”Ease up the stiffness on your waist.”

”Be happier a little, and movements a little more graceful.”

”No need to purposely catch up to my pace, just follow the melody and dance freely about~”

As the melody kept playing, I recognized this song, it's Guang Ling San, it's a very famous piece of traditional music.

(TL: one of china's top ten famous traditional zither music)

Just like that, I momentarily forgot about everything else, and danced along with her in the courtyard; although my dance-steps were like garbage, and if there were a crowd in the courtyard right now, I would have been pelted with rotten eggs to death already.

She joyously laughed as she pulled my hands along, and happily danced among the fallen leaves that were blown afloat by the wind; I have completely no idea what kind of dance I was making at this point.

Looking at my body that was being reflected onto the pool surface, I was shocked to notice that I was actually doing the disco!

I'm must be crazy.....

”This set of dance moves is really wonderful, can you teach me please?”

Yè Zǐ became interested in my dance movements, and after I've explained to her a few important pointers for it, she already danced till it looked perfectly normal already.

Not far from the courtyard, stood two lone graves, and on the tombstones wrote ”Guard of the Ocean Yè Míng's grave and his beloved daughter Yè Zǐ's grave.”

What made me take notice of the tombstones are not anything else, but the situation I am in right now.

I'm actually, in the latest of nights, within an old worn out house, doing the disco with a spirit in front of her and her father's graves......

Wearing Han clothes, listening to the zither............disco......

”Hahahaa.......”

I suddenly burst out laughing vivaciously, which made her stop too as she looked at me strangely.

”What's wrong?”

”Nothing, it's just that I felt very happy when I'm with you only.......”

”Is it? I'm very happy too. After five hundred years, this is the first time I'm as happy as tonight.”

”Ai~yo......I'm a little tired, I'll rest awhile first.”

I sat onto the stone bench and looked at the moon, and felt that the moon tonight looked especially nice.

”Oh right, Zhang Jian.......when would you be leaving?”

”Tomorrow early in the morning, i guess.....”

Just like there won't be any unfinished banquets in the world, I'll eventually leave this place too.

”Really? That's great, the night, is still long.......”

Initially, I thought she would be very unwilling, but I didn't expect her to reply me just like that.

”Can you fulfill a wish of mine?”

”Any wish, just say it.”

”Even if it's a fake one, even if it's just only for tonight, I wish to be married to you.”

”Sure!”

I agreed to her wishes unhesitatingly, as this wish, I don't think anyone could bear to reject it..

Also, since it's merely just a charade, not a real marriage as well, so I didn't have that much mental pressure onto this situation as much as I would have.

Yè Zǐ, she's rather pitiful too, so it should be fine if it was to just slightly satisfy her wishes.

”Then it's settled! I'll go decorate the big hall, finally I can use the stuffs that Father had prepared for me!”

”Hold on, I'll accompany you as well, since it will be faster with more hands.”

From an old worn storage, she took out a lot of red colored cloths, red waxed candles, and a lot of ”喜” word paper cuttings; while I, carried a piece of red long carpet and many red colored lanterns....these things looked to be still rather new, even though these stuffs are from a few hundred years ago already.....she must have been maintaining it all along, just to wait for this day coming.

Waited for a total of five hundred years for this.

”You'll go decorate the big hall, I'll go decorate the bedroom*~”

(TL: the bedroom referred in this context is the traditional chinese bedroom that a couple would compulsory go to on their night of marriage where they would have baby-making throughout)

The shadow of her figure disappeared in a flash, by the way about the bedroom and whatnot..............it should be just a charade only, right?

After I've finished laying the big hall with red carpet, I hung red lanterns by the doorsides, plastered '喜' cuttings around the walls, and lastly, lit up the red waxed candles; the big hall right now looked rather joyously festive.

”Zhang Jian, I'm done with my side, how about yours?”

She hid behind the door as she asked me, but why must she hide behind the door.......

”Also done!”

-ch 35 done-

(3147 words to tl)

TL: If I was to do 2 more chapters, I would hit vol 2 of LDD by then!! -fire raging-

Footnotes:

”Father” = Yè Zǐ referred to her father in a formal tone.

喜 = A chinese charcter that stands for ”joy”, ”happiness”, and it's paper cuttings decorated usually demonstrates the atmosphere around the house.

Glossary:

-xiaojie = an appendix placebo behind a name, it meant ”young lady”, usually referred to of an influential or wealthy family's young daughter.

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