Kunlun Mountain Part 4 - The Return

Chapter 68 - On Tenterhooks

The final three days before the wedding, Mo Yuan could barely function.  Every time someone entered the hall or his chamber or his study, his head would raise far too quickly.  Snickering in the corner, Zhe Yan was having a ball at his expense, because not only had he ordered Gaogui back to Qing Qiu so Mo Yuan could not talk to him, he also order Ye Hua back to the Palace to assist with the security arrangements.

Now watching Mo Yuan squirm as his Disciples raced through the final touches to their wedding day, Zhe Yan was having the time of his life.  Tables and chairs which had been dragged up from the depths of Mountain, which hadn't been used in centuries were being scrubbed down and re-polished before being carried out towards the large clearing that several of his Disciples had been working on all week.

And while the seating arrangements were being organized, enormous floral arrangements were being carried onto the Mountain, gifts from Di Jun which the Palace maids had arranged.  Also arriving, was the wine that Mo Yuan had dug up which Zi Lan and Xiang Ru had cleaned down and decorated with ribbon and a small sprig of peach blossoms.

Mo Yuan on the other hand was wandering around the mountain fretting over Bai Qian and what their son had told her.  And the closer to the day they got, the more he began to worry.  The three days soon became two.

"What if she refuses me when we arrive to claim her?" he asked forlornly.  

"Mo Yuan, you know her better than I do.  If Gaogui told her, wouldn't she be baying for your blood right about now?" he asked while inflicting as much empathy as he could into each word.

"If anything, she will completely cut me out." he groaned.  He was desperate to get to Qing Qiu, but he knew well enough, if he did that, there definitely would be no wedding.  Stuck between a rock and a hard place, he instead stressed himself out so much that Zhe Yan was beginning to feel a little guilty.  But with only two days left before the wedding, he figured the man could sweat it out a little longer.

"Look, why not help me with the decorating.  We still have to hang the lanterns and the boys have almost finished the alter.  And you have yet to choose your bathing oils, Ping has created a whole new range for you to choose from." Zhe Yan suggested with a small smile.

It really was the last thing on his mind, because he was beginning to wonder if there would even be a wedding.  With Gaogui in Qing Qiu and the only one who could put his mind at ease, he struggled through the entire to day just to choose one bathing oil, which ended up being the one he always wore and that was sandalwood with a hint of lemongrass.

"Wrap the rest of these in ribbon.  They can be added to the wedding favors." he said without a lot of enthusiasm, but to Zhe Yan, at least he was putting some thought into the celebrations that had everyone else around him excited.

And excited they were.  The jokes and laughter rang out all around him.

"Hey Shifu!" Zi Lan called out while carrying a bundle of vegetables in his arms and heading for the kitchen.

Overlooking the casual tone, he merely raised his eyes at him.

"What's long and hard and has cum in it?" he asked straight faced while Die Feng desperately shook his head and waved his hands to stop him.

"Zi Lan!  Take care of who you are talking to." Mo Yuan growled in his full Shifu tone.

Looking back at him as if he were from a different planet, Zi Lan merely gave him a small shrug of his shoulders.

"I don't know where you're heads at Shifu, but I was only going to say cucumber." he said as he eyeballed the vegetables in his arms before scurrying off to the kitchen to a round of laughter from Zhe Yan.