The Road Home

Chapter 42

The little one, Lu Chuyang, had blood tests taken when she was one month old, and also half a year old. Everything was normal.

Their wedding ceremony and banquet were set for the day little Lu Chuyang was to turn one and a half. It was not that Lu Yanchen and Gui Xiao did not want to have the wedding on her first birthday; it could only be blamed on the fact that the little one was born in the winter, when the weather was simply too unsuitable for her mommy to wear a wedding dress. Therefore, they could only postpone the event to the early summer.

Regarding the choice of the wedding location, Gui Xiao and Lu Yanchen discussed and decided that they would hold two weddings.

The first one would be relatively grand and traditional and would be held where the groom's family was, so they would need to go back to the town. The second wedding would be more casual; it was mainly to treat all of Gui Xiao's and Lu Yanchen's colleagues to a meal, and that would be enough. The first time Gui Xiao went to Lu Yanchen's family home, the Meng family and Qin family accompanied her on the visit. Although this wife of the eldest son was not viewed as having any importance, because her "backers" were strong and powerful, she did not suffer any ill treatment. Lu Yanchen stated clearly that he did not need his dad to buy a house or car for him. Hence, his dad, not needing to lose anything out of his own pocket, did not give them a hard time. Nobody really mentioned anything about Gui Xiao's family's background and financial situation. Moreover, both Gui Xiao's mother and father currently were not in Beijing, so that saved a lot of trouble. Only Lu Yanchen's mother muttered a few words, saying that the two families were joining in marriage and they should at least all meet and have a dinner, but Lu Yanchen's younger sister shot back a retort at her. Lu Yanchen's mother, bearing in mind that she only had this one son and one daughter and she would need to rely on them when she was old , thus did not say anything more.

The night prior to the big day that Lu Yanchen was to go fetch his bride[1], Gui Xiao went to her gugu's home, using it as her "bride's family home," to stay the night and wait for the groom to come with his groomsmen to fetch her.

The sound of rain came in droves. On the bed, Gui Xiao shifted on her knees over to the window.

She saw large raindrops knock against the glass, forming splatter after splatter of water suffused with a white hue.

"This heavy rain is such a bother. If it's still coming down like this tomorrow, your wedding shoes will be a write-off." Yawning, Meng Xiaoshan leaned back on top of the heaped quilt, one palm propping up her head while the other hand flipped over that wedding invitation.

The invitations were all handwritten by Lu Yanchen. On the bottom of the front side were the words Dawn's light illuminates the road home[2] [Chen xiao, zhao gui lu].

When the invitation was turned over, there on the back was another sentence, one that Gui Xiao had added onto each one the night before they were all sent out: There is a dream for every inch of our Motherland, and so clearly it shines in the hearts of the pure and loyal.

"My hubby especially likes this sentence of yours. He even pulled it out and used it to lecture me," Meng Xiaoshan griped. "He says you understand Lu Chen particularly well, but I don't understand him..."

"Let's not talk about the invites... I'm so ridiculously nervous. What should I do?" Gui Xiao was about to have an anxiety attack.

She had never had a wedding before, so she could only be extremely anxious.

"What's there to be nervous about?" Meng Xiaoshan soothed her. As she tidied up the bed, she recapped, "At any rate, just remember what I said to you. After you're married, you and Lu Chen just live a sound life out in the city. Don't come back here often. I asked Lu Chen about this in private, and he has the same thought. Since he was a kid, his existence in his family has been dispensable, and if he doesn't need to, he won't come back. You two just live your own sound life together. That's good enough."