Reborn as the Weakest Heiress, I Gave My Inheritance to the Enemy's Daughter novel · Chapter 24 of 24
Chapter 24: Two Halls
They were married on the first day of autumn, in the courtyard where the black banners had stood.
Nine-crest banners hung along the east wall, black with white waves.
Beside each one hung a pine-green banner of Cloud Pine.
The two kinds of flag alternated all the way to the gate.
Nobody had ordered it.
The disciples of both halls had done it together, in the night, and quarrelled cheerfully over the knots.
The gate stood open.
Beyond it, the road to the coast was crowded with wagons.
The Seven Peaks sat in their silks on the cushions with every pipe lit.
The Master of the Third Peak had brought a gift of a hundred jars of her own wine.
"Don't thank me," she said to Zhaoxue. "I have still not decided to believe you."
"You told every sect in the east before dawn."
"I decided to believe the girl with the sword."
Two old men stood at the head of the steps, in matching robes of green and black.
A new plaque hung over the door of the Pine Hall.
CLOUD PINE AND SALT TIDE, it said in clean gold letters, and under it, in smaller ones, two names.
Master Feng had written it himself.
His hand had shaken on every stroke, and a disciple had held the brush, and the line came out crooked and beautiful.
"The spring is shared," Mo Zhenhai announced to the yard, in the voice of a man making a grand pronouncement over wine. "The ford is free. The toll is abolished. If anyone wants to quarrel about a ford, he may quarrel with me, and I will lose."
A cheer rose, and somebody threw a handful of dried pine needles.
Then the gong sounded, and the courtyard quieted.
Zhaoxue came down from the Quiet Courtyard in a long red robe stitched with green pine branches.
Her black hair was pinned up, with no ribbon in it.
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