Anxi took two steps forward and approached the pond.
"What are you doing!" Abe by the pond immediately looked at her warily, his fish tail flapping underwater.
"It's nothing, I'm just curious." Anxi stared at her fish tail flapping underwater, "What kind of fish is your fish tail? Can it be eaten?"
"ah!"
Abe screamed when he heard Anxi's question, hugged his tail, and sternly condemned: "You are sick!"
"I just asked if I could eat it, but I didn't say I wanted to eat it." Anxi shrugged, feeling that the fish-tailed ghost was a bit fussy.
"Crazy!" Abe didn't waste any time talking to Anxi and got back into the water with a curse.
Abe leaves.
The ghosts around who originally wanted to watch the show also found it boring and scattered.
An Qian looked around the yard and saw nothing special, so she entered the third room to the east pointed out to her by the paper man.
The furnishings in the room are very simple, with a set of pear wood tables and chairs, and a large bed with green gauze hanging on top of it.
There was also a set of clear lotus-colored lace cotton-padded jackets on the bed. It seemed that these were the clothes the paper man wanted her to change into.
"This family has so many rules. Even if my own family is old and feudal, I still force others to follow suit."
Anxi reluctantly changed into clothes.
There was nothing to do after that.
She leaned against the window and looked into the yard. Near sunset, the paper man came again.
The two girls it brought this time all had bad expressions. It looked like they had been forced to bring them here.
One of them is a human like Anxi, and the other is a flower demon with flowers on her face. She is crying, and her tears fall on the petals on both sides, making the flowers bloom more beautifully.
The two of them were taken into the remaining two rooms to change clothes.
The sun sets over the western mountains.
A moment after the last two rooms were filled, several paper figures walked into the yard, holding bright red lanterns in their hands, which made their white faces reflect a strange red light.
"Dingling~Dingling~"
The paper figurine at the front held a long stick and a bell similar to the paper figurine outside the sedan chair. It knocked twice on the ground with the bell and long stick, and said in a high-pitched voice:
"Young hour has arrived. Ladies, please come with me to the dining hall for dinner."
"Tonight is the first day of the official start of the Underworld Banquet. It is a dinner specially prepared by our old lady. Please don't be rude."
The paper man finished speaking.
"Creak - creak - creak -"
The doors of the fifteen rooms opened automatically, calling them to go out.
Several ghosts walked out of the house one after another. They lined up in a row according to the paper man's request and waited in the center of the yard.
Anxi checked the props she had hidden in her arms, straightened the skirt of her cotton robe, walked out of the room with her head lowered, and joined the second half of the queue.
Fifteen people have gathered.
The paper man holding a bell walked at the front, and several other paper men were scattered on the left and right sides of the team and at the end.
"Dingling~Dingling~"
With the ethereal bell sound.
The entire long queue silently shuttled through the corridor in the courtyard. The fog in the courtyard was very thick, winding around the red pillars on the side of the corridor.
The condensation of moisture brought a chill through the cotton robe, and Anxi couldn't help but shiver.
The paper figure on the side suddenly turned to look at her, took out a pen and paper from its thin clothes and quickly recorded it.
What is this for? What about writing an observation diary?
An Qian secretly glanced at the paper in the hand of the paper man, and could only see a few words: "No. 13, note, once."
It seems that No. 13 is her nickname here, and this paper figure is probably recording her irregularities.
It's such a great official authority. The emperor may not have so many rules when choosing his concubine.
Anxi rolled her eyes silently and lowered her head as the team advanced slowly.
"Dingling~"
The bell stopped ringing.
They arrived at their destination.
In front of him is a sandalwood door carved with images of auspicious birds and auspicious clouds. The wooden door is very high, more than a foot taller than the ones in the ancient houses Anxi had seen during her travels.
The paper figures stood on both sides of the sandalwood door and pushed inward.
The whole house has an unobstructed view.
The golden jade curtain foil, the bright moon bead wall, the curtains are flying everywhere, and a huge human head is embedded in the wall. The wrinkles on the face are very deep, the eyebrows are cold and the eyes are calm, not angry and intimidating.
He was at the top of the list, frowning and staring at the fifteen people at the door.
Sitting next to the person's head was a young woman with a pretty face and crimson eyes. When she saw the person coming, she raised her sleeves to cover her face and laughed, her eyes narrowed like a fox that had just swallowed a wild sparrow.
On the other side sat a white-haired old woman. She raised her head and squinted at the door, as if she was selecting goods, her eyes full of contempt and dissatisfaction.
Next to the old woman, there was a young man sitting, wearing a light blue brocade gown, and holding a folding fan in his hand. His eyes had not left the woman outside the door since the door opened. She looked like a woman with oily hair and a pink face. appearance.
This should be the Geng family living in this compound.
"salute----"
The paper man standing next to the human face suddenly raised his voice and shouted.
Several ghosts in the team reacted first and leaned forward slightly to salute the people sitting at the main table.
Anxi reacted immediately and followed their example and bowed.
For those who haven't realized what to do, the paper man has already marked them down one by one.
"Take a seat————"
The paper man shouted again.
The paper man who led them to the dining room immediately walked up to everyone and led them to the arranged seats.
Naturally, they would not sit at the main table with the Geng family.
Three round tables were set up in the hall, allowing five people to sit at each table.
Anxi was at the back of the queue, so she waited for a while before it was the paper man's turn to take her to her seat.
As soon as she sat down.
"Have a banquet——" The paper man next to the head spoke again.
This shout.
More paper figures came out. They were all dressed in uniform gray clothes. Each paper figure held a plate in their hands and filed in to place the dishes on each table.
The dishes served at the beginning were quite normal, and could even be said to be delicious, including Sixi meatballs, braised pork trotters, braised prawns...
Most of the wishes Anxi made in the small town of Lison came true.
But the paper man went back and forth twice.
When the last three paper figures appeared, they were holding a bloody bowl.
There are several gray-white translucent round pieces of meat stacked in the bowl, one side is smooth and the other is rough, covered with a thin film and with bulging veins like tree branches.
"What is this...um..."
The flower demon and An Qian were sitting at the same table, and the smell of blood in the bowl was overwhelming. The flower demon couldn't help but retching, and could only cover his nose with his hands as far away as possible.
Anxi had never seen this kind of strange meat before, and she noticed that there was a translucent rope-like thing on the edge of the meat.
"This, this is the umbilical cord!"
Someone at the next table shouted.
The whole place was in an uproar.
If this rope-like object is an umbilical cord, this disc-shaped piece of flesh would be self-evident.
This whole bowl was filled with placenta!
"The most important thing for a woman is to provide her husband with children." The old lady at the main table spoke in a hoarse voice.
She squinted her eyes and looked at the people below her arrogantly: "Eat all these and replenish your body so that you can continue the lineage of the Geng family."
As the old lady spoke, the system also spoke:
[The Underworld Red Banquet Challenge Begins]
[Challenge 1: Placenta Superstition]
[It is said in ancient times that the placenta is a great tonic. If you want to flourish the Geng family, this flavor is indispensable. 】
