Chapter Twenty-Three: He's My Father-in-Law!
In the middle of the night, the two woke up slowly, and when they opened their eyes, they smelled a very tempting aroma of meat......
"Are you awake?"
Li Wuchen didn't look back, the skin of the rabbit meat on the dry wood in the fire was roasted golden, and a little oil stain overflowed, dripping onto the fire, crackling.
"Where is this?"
Zhu Yu rubbed his somewhat swollen head and asked Li Wuchen.
"Do you want to eat?"
On the ground next to the fire, two rabbits that had been roasted were stuck with sticks.
Zhu Yu and the two glanced at each other, staggered to the fire, picked up the wooden stick and tore it.
"Aren't we at the inn?"
Feng Yuan's appetite was not very good, so he simply ate a few bites and stopped.
Hearing Feng Yuan's words, Zhu Yu also stopped, and the blank period in the middle made them a little panicked, whether the person they met for the first time in front of them was good or bad.
"It was a black shop, you were stunned, I saved you. ”
Li Wuchen raised his eyebrows, reluctant to continue, this kind of thing, if it is said, I am afraid that these two people will have a shadow on meat in their lives.
Zhu Yu was about to ask, but was stopped by Feng Yuan, only to see him arch his hand towards Li Wuchen and say, "Thank you Dao Chang for saving me, the two of us still have to go to Beijing to take the exam, so I won't bother anymore." ”
Li Wuchen didn't speak, and continued to roast the rabbit meat in front of him, making a gesture of please.
After that, the two men did not linger any longer, and hurriedly packed their bags and left.
Running all the way, Feng Yuan pulled Zhu Yu and ran straight out of the two miles.
"What are you running? I haven't finished eating yet!"
Zhu Yu was a little unhappy, because of the drugging in the inn, after waking up, his mouth was even more dry, and his stomach was hungry, and now he had just eaten two mouthfuls of rabbit meat and was thrown to the same place by him, and now it is even more unbearable.
"The man was so weird, he said it was the black shop that stunned us, but why was he okay, we ate the same thing. ”
Feng Yuan swallowed his saliva, he was also hungry, and continued, "Even if he is fine, then how did he save us from those guys with big shoulders and round waists, with his small body?"
Zhu Yu listened, sighed, and asked, "Then what should I do now?"
Feng Yuan pointed ahead, "Let's go first, it's not good to say that there is a store in front." ”
In fact, even he didn't believe what he said, deep mountains and dense forests, few people, how could there be people, but in order to comfort the 'brothers' he met halfway, he could only say so.
But sometimes it was as if there was a blessing from heaven, and before the two of them had traveled a mile, they heard the faint sound of singing not far away.
"Brother Feng, someone is singing. ”
Zhu Yu is a little happy, which means that there must be someone in front of him, so he can ask the owner for a steamed bun to eat.
"......"
Feng Yuan was a little worried, and before he finished speaking, he quickly slapped him on the shoulder, turned his head back to the gray-clothed old man with a rickety figure and a lewd face, and followed behind him more than a dozen short people carrying large mahogany boxes.
"Are the two sons also here to pay their birthday to Grandma Bai?"
The old man was very polite and asked the two of them.
Feng Yuan didn't speak, but Zhu Yu spoke first, "Yes, but the two of us got lost, so we came late." ”
The old man smiled, revealing a pair of thick buckteeth, and pointed forward, "If you don't dislike it, let's go together." ”
"Then thank you, uncle. ”
Feng Yuan was helpless, so he had to bow down and salute.
"Call me the old grey man, and let me go. ”
After the gray old man finished speaking, he took the lead and walked away, and the dozen or so little men carrying large mahogany boxes behind him walked a little shaky, as if they had just learned to walk.
Listening to the sound of the play, it seemed not far away, but the two followed the gray old man out of a mile before they saw the big mansion with gray walls and blue tiles.
The door of the house is open, and many guests at the door are holding gift boxes or carrying boxes on their backs to give gifts under the guidance of the housekeeper.
"What should I do, I want to give gifts! We are two poor and two white, and we have nothing. ”
It was Feng Yuan who spoke, and he looked at these strange-looking guests in front of him with a headache.
"Don't talk!"
Zhu Yu gently pulled Feng Yuan's hand, lowered his head, and followed behind the gray old man.
As soon as the group arrived at the gate, the housekeeper left aside the other guests and greeted them, "The gray boss is here to welcome you, please come here." ”
The housekeeper beckoned the gray old man into the mansion, and Feng Yuan and the others also entered it through the gray old man's tiger skin.
"This is really rich!" Zhu Yu couldn't help but be a little surprised when he looked at this luxurious courtyard.
Pavilions, water pavilions, gardens, and jade embellishments on the road are even more gorgeous, and after walking through the winding jade road, the two of them officially entered the White Mansion.
Feng Yuan didn't talk much, and after coming in, he always felt that something was wrong, but he couldn't say it, so he felt quite depressed.
In the end, the two of them found a remote place at the end, and saluted a few dozing old men next to them before taking a seat.
The opera on the high platform is still singing, and it is the story of Zhao Zilong riding seven in and seven out......
"The two of you are born in the face, where did you come from?"
Said a fat old man with a bloated figure at the same table, occasionally licking his lips as he spoke.
"Both of my brothers are from Fuyong City. ”
Feng Yuan saluted the fat old man with a little restraint and said.
"Fukunaga Castle...... It doesn't seem to be a famous person. ”
The old man pondered for a long time, then looked at his companion beside him, and then stopped talking.
While a few people were talking, the dishes were served by a little girl like flowing water, and the dishes were rich, all of them were mountain delicacies, but there was not much meat.
After the dishes were ready, a white-haired old lady on the main seat stood up, slowly raised her glass and said to everyone, "Thank you for coming thousands of miles to my old woman's birthday banquet. ”
As soon as Mrs. Bai's words were finished, the guests at the table all stood up and raised their glasses to Mrs. Bai.
After drinking a cup, Mrs. Bai beckoned everyone to sit down, and said with a smile, "There is one more thing today, my granddaughter Bai Ling has also reached the age of marriage, you are all heroes, and it is difficult for the old body to decide, so it is better to throw the hydrangea to decide." ”
Hearing Mrs. Bai's words, Zhu Yu smiled softly at Feng Yuan, "Brother Feng, you see that this main family is also interesting, his granddaughter will be hated by him, and he wants to choose a son-in-law here, you see that it is all old men." ”
"Be cautious!" Feng Yuan cautiously looked at the guests around him, and only after finding that no one was paying attention to his side, he breathed a sigh of relief.
Not long after, in the applause of everyone, a woman in a white dress holding a hydrangea came out, her hair hung down her shoulders, her eyes were bright, and her body was delicate and petite.
"Ladies and gentlemen, this is my granddaughter who has not been out of the cabinet, today's hydrangea cannot be snatched, and look at where the hydrangea is thrown, it is whose it is. ”
Mrs. Bai smiled, and the wrinkles on her extremely old face seemed to disappear in an instant.
Bai Lingqiao's face was red, and after looking around, she finally took a fancy to a wishful Lang Jun, and the hydrangea in her hand was thrown out in a very graceful parabola and landed steadily in a corner of the garden.
"This ......"
Feng Yuan looked at the hydrangea in front of him a little dumbfounded, and around him, the guests led by the fat old man from before got up to toast, and the entire garden resounded with a burst of congratulations.
"Young man, congratulations, if you can get Miss Bai's favor, you will definitely rise in the future. ”
The gray old man also walked over from the main table with a wine glass, and after toasting Feng Yuan, he said that he was going to take him to the main table to meet Mrs. Bai.
"No!!"
Zhu Yu tore the gray old man's hand away, his voice was sharp, like a female voice, and the entire originally noisy manor suddenly quieted down, and even the face of the white lady on the throne was a little unsightly.
"Brother Zhu, you ......"
Feng Yuan was shocked, but then, the next scene in front of him made his heart almost stop.
I saw Zhu Yu slowly take off the copper crown on his head, and his long black and bright hair slowly fell to his waist against the backdrop of the bright moon.
"You're a woman?"
Feng Yuan never thought that the fellow countryman who had been getting along with him day and night and treating him like a brother turned out to be a woman, and after ten years of hard study, she had a feeling of reading in vain at this moment.
He was about to speak, but was interrupted by Zhu Yu.
"He's my father-in-law, I can't marry you!"
Zhu Yu pulled Feng Yuan, who was still in shock, behind him, and stared at Bai Ling on the high platform with big eyes.