My father has been eating sashimi for many years, and his mouth has long faded away.
Suddenly a pot of bear paws was stewed, and so many mountain delicacies were added to it. Before the meat was cooked, people were already attracted by the aroma wafting from the pot. No, as soon as it was served, I ate three large bowls in succession.
With the help of the thousand-year-old Ganoderma lucidum and the five-hundred-year-old ginseng, my father's face suddenly flushed. He changed from his usual morbid appearance. He looked full of energy and a bit excited.
"Good boy! Let's see how you perform tonight!"
Master Bai patted his father's shoulder and poured him a large bowl of wine.
"Bai...Uncle Bai, I really can't, can't drink anymore!"
"How much wine is this? Can't you drink it? You'd better drink more, otherwise, I'm afraid you will be frightened by that woman at night. To be honest, that woman is probably not a living person..."
"Uncle, you said...what did you say?"
"Nothing! Drink more!"
Young Master Bai looked like an old man at first glance, and under his "kind words", his father accidentally drank too much.
In the blink of an eye, it was midnight, and my father, who was sleeping, was woken up by Master Bai.
As soon as I walked out of the room in a daze, I saw a group of women wearing sackcloth and mourning standing in the yard. These women all covered their faces with white gauze scarves, and my father could not see their faces clearly.
"Please invite the groom to come into the sedan chair!"
Master Bai held a whisk-shaped thing in his hand, and like a eunuch in the palace, he shouted in a long voice. Before he finished speaking, a woman immediately opened the sedan curtain and let her father get in.
When my father took a look, the sedan in front of him looked strange. After careful consideration, he realized that the color was wrong.
It stands to reason that all sedans used for weddings should be red. But the sedan in front of me was not only black, but also looked light and airy, as if it were made of paper.
"Uncle, can this... seat be occupied?"
My father staggered to the front of the sedan, reached out and touched the curtain to make sure it was made of paper.
"You kid! Just go up if I ask you to. Why are you talking so much nonsense?"
Seeing Master Bai's angry look, his father had no choice but to climb up. The strange thing is that when I climbed into the sedan, it felt very stable. What's even more amazing is that the thing suddenly started to fly.
The father stretched out his head to take a look and found that the sedan he was riding in was being carried by four women in white and flying forward. He was so frightened that he shrank back into the sedan and did not dare to look out.
I don’t know how long it flew before the sedan stopped steadily at the edge of Longtan.
However, when my father got out of the sedan, he realized that the Longtan in front of him was not in the village. When I looked up, I saw towering mountains all around. It was deserted and not even a light could be seen...
"Uncle, where are we?" my father asked.
Master Bai came over, showed a look of contempt, stretched out his hand and slapped his father on the back of the head.
"How many times have I told you not to call me uncle? Am I that old?"
"Bai...Master Bai!"
"Yeah! That's pretty much it!"
Master Bai took out a mirror and looked around, looking narcissistic.
"Master Bai, are we going the wrong way?" Father asked uneasily.
Master Bai said calmly: "No! The water here is connected to the Longtan in your village. In order to avoid disturbing the villagers, your father asked me to pick up the bride here. It's the same anyway!"
"Is it really the same?"
My father always felt that these people in front of him were very strange, but he didn't have any skills at all, so he didn't dare to do anything.
In this way, under Master Bai's arrangement, my father and the others waited by Longtan for more than half an hour before they saw two rows of white figures floating towards Longtan from a distance.
Just as the crowd was about to approach Longtan, a series of lanterns suddenly flew into the air.
There was a green flame burning in the lantern, with a big word "Dian" written on it. Following closely behind was a group of carriages and horses. The carriages and horses were also surrounded by dozens of women in white, and the cries of a man and a woman could be heard in the distance.
"Ma'am, take care! Today is your special day, madam, don't be too sad."
"Master, there is Longtan ahead."
"Hey! Stop the car."
The carriage and horses soon stopped at the edge of Longtan.
A middle-aged couple got out of the carriage with the support of two girls.
Under the night, the green Longtan is glowing with waves.
My father stood stupidly on the edge of Longtan. At this time, Master Bai came over, holding a scroll in his hand.
"Is this the boy from the Long family?"
The middle-aged man walked to his father's side and circled him twice. The father looked up at the other person and saw that he was very gorgeously dressed, slightly fat, and exuding an aura of wealth.
"Laishun, this is your father-in-law, and that is your mother-in-law!" Master Bai introduced.
The father quickly knelt in front of the couple.
"My son, Long Laishun, has met my father-in-law and mother-in-law. Father-in-law and mother-in-law, please accept my respects!"
The two of them looked at their father for a long time before the middle-aged man sighed: "I'm a good boy, but a bit dull. He's not as smart as your father. May I ask, what kind of magic do you know? Show me your hands?"
The father lowered his head in embarrassment.
"Back to my father-in-law, I don't understand Feng Shui."
"Oh? The general has no son. Your father is the king of southwestern feng shui. Are you sure you don't know anything?"
Young Master Bai immediately came to his father's rescue and laughed, "This boy is born stupid. Not to mention the Feng Shui method, he has never even been outside the village. His father is afraid that he will get lost."
"But he... really has a way to resurrect my precious daughter?"
Young Master Bai smiled and said: "Why, Boss Shen can't even trust our five great immortals? Otherwise, take a look at Bai's two songs."
After saying that, he pulled the scroll in his hand, and several girls in white immediately rolled out of it.
The girl landed and immediately turned into a hedgehog!
A group of white little hedgehogs were chattering around Boss Shen and his wife.
"Ouch! Stop it! Stop it!"
"It turns out that it is really Bai Daxian. Since it is the Five Immortals who personally act as matchmakers, our Shen family has nothing to worry about. I will leave the garden to you. The mountains are high and the roads are far away. When will she wake up? Can Bai Daxian notify her? One sound."
"Bai will be of service to you!"
After a few people said this, the carriages and horses moved out of the way, and a group of people behind them came over carrying a coffin.
Seeing the big red coffin on the carriage, my father almost fainted from fright.
We agreed to marry a wife, what is this for?
"You kid! Stand firm, is this all you have to offer? Boss Shen, if there is nothing else, you can go back!"
"Then...what about the bride price?"
"Here's the bride price!"
Master Bai opened the scroll and muttered to the characters on the scroll.
Suddenly, the sound of rushing water began to come from the Longtan.
Someone used a flashlight to shine on the swaying water, and suddenly saw round things popping up from the water. After a while, they appeared densely in front of everyone's eyes.
"Human head! Human head!" Mrs. Shen was frightened and fainted on the spot.
