Chapter 101
Chapter 101
Li Guang looked at Deaf Granny, whose face was full of sincerity, then at the spirit medium’s Immortal Spirits, who were staring at him with grave expressions. For a moment, he wavered.
Just then, a faint sigh seemed to drift from the Little Pine Tree in the courtyard.
Li Guang’s heart jolted. He looked up toward the courtyard, then made up his mind.
“Very well. Then it’s settled!”
As soon as he finished speaking, the soul of a little boy wearing nothing but a red bellyband stepped out from behind Li Guang.
Giggling, he attached himself to the Dough Doll.
Only then did Deaf Granny finally relax completely.
She turned to Zhao Fei and said, “What are you standing there for like an idiot? Hurry up and pick up your child!”
Zhao Fei hastily got to his feet and hugged the Dough Doll tightly in his arms.
At the same time, he said shakily, “Uh… what do you want to eat? Dad will-”
Before Zhao Fei could finish, the furious glares from the Warrior Spirits made him quickly change his wording.
“Whatever you would like to eat, honored elder, this lowly one will go buy it for you…”
Chen Daji, being the reckless fool he was, burst into loud laughter at Zhao Fei’s pathetic display.
“Fatty Zhao, you’re really useless!”
“You had the chance to be a dad and didn’t cherish it. Well, great, now you’ve been demoted to grandson!”
Chen Daji’s words once again drew angry glares from the Hundred-Battle Warrior Spirits.
Chen Daji instinctively shrank his neck back, but immediately glared right back.
“What are you looking at? Am I wrong?!”
Li Guang was clearly quite satisfied with how things had turned out.
Even so, he still spoke up. “My brother’s matter is settled, but there is another wronged party. You will have to plead with her yourselves.”
A female ghost in white drifted miserably out from among the Warrior Spirits, her tear-streaked face fixed on Zhao Fei.
Zhao Fei was obviously terrified, but he still said in a trembling voice, “Fengmei, is it really you?”
The female ghost Zhao Fengmei spoke, her voice ethereal and distant.
“Zhao Fei, do you know? It really hurt. I was so scared, and I truly didn’t want to leave you!”
Seeing her like this, Zhao Fei could not hold back his tears.
“I wronged you. I never thought things would turn out like this!”
“I deserve to die. I failed you and the child!”
Deaf Granny sighed and reached out to take the female ghost’s hand.
“You poor, foolish girl.”
“Today, this old woman will make the decision and let you and Zhao Fei complete your wedding. Are you willing?”
Joy appeared on Zhao Fengmei’s face, and she nodded again and again.
“Granny, I am! I am!”
After saying that, she looked toward Zhao Fei, her face full of shy sweetness.
Hu Fei’er, obedient and sensible as ever, picked up the bright red wedding robe that had been prepared in advance from red paper and lit it with a candle.
Once the flames passed, the red robe immediately appeared on Zhao Fengmei.
Even the red bridal veil was complete.
Deaf Granny took out the betrothal document and read it aloud once, then lit it with the candle as well.
The moment the betrothal document on this side burned to ash, it appeared in Zhao Fengmei’s hands on the other side.
Light shimmered across it.
The brightest parts were Elder Pine’s pine needles and Hua Jiunan’s written characters.
When General Li Guang saw this strange phenomenon, the way he looked at Hua Jiunan changed.
Deaf Granny turned gently and tapped a finger against Zhao Fei’s brow.
Zhao Fei immediately closed his eyes, his body swaying nonstop.
Deaf Granny took out three sticks of incense, lit them, and inserted them into Zhao Fei’s tightly closed mouth.
His soul instantly left his body and appeared beside Zhao Fengmei, dressed in wedding robes.
A red cord connected their souls, with a large red flower tied at its center.
Deaf Granny said softly to Zhao Fengmei, “This was arranged in a bit of a rush. I’m sorry you’ve been wronged, child!”
Zhao Fengmei’s voice trembled with emotion, tinged with sobs.
“I haven’t been wronged. Not at all!”
“Thank you, Granny, for granting us this!”
After Zhao Fengmei finished speaking, she bowed to Zhao Aiguo as well.
Timidly, she called, “Dad!”
Zhao Aiguo’s feelings were extremely complicated: guilt, shame, remorse.
“Good girl. Our family is the one that wronged you!”
“If you ever need anything in the future, just come to me in a dream!”
“Also, I’ll have Zhao Fei acknowledge your parents as his godfather and godmother. From now on, he’ll care for them in their old age and see them off at the end!”
Hearing this, Zhao Fengmei threw herself into Zhao Aiguo’s arms and broke down sobbing.
Hu Fei’er’s eyes turned red with emotion at the scene before her.
She walked over to Zhao Fengmei in a few steps and gently took her hand.
“Sister, today is your wedding day. Don’t cry anymore.”
Chen Daji also came over in his usual bullheaded way to offer congratulations.
“Congratulations! Wishing you two an early son-”
Hemp-clad Grandmother laughed and scolded, “You little brat, are you asking for a beating?! Why would you bring up the one thing you shouldn’t?!”