The next day.
Gu Cheng was still asleep in bed when Gu Sihai woke him up.
"What is it, Dad? You look so frantic. Did Mom find your secret stash of money?"
Gu Sihai dragged Gu Cheng all the way to the basement.
Then Gu Cheng was stunned by the bottles and jars filling the entire basement.
"Well? I've already collected a hundred different fine liquors! I handpicked every one. Some might not be famous, but they're definitely good."
Gu Sihai stood with his hands on his hips, brimming with confidence.
Gu Cheng gave his dad a thumbs-up!
He was impressed.
He knew his dad had no major hobbies. He liked playing chess, tasting tea, handling walnuts, and keeping birds, flowers, fish, and insects. He seemed to have every hobby a retired old man could have.
But those were all for show.
Gu Cheng knew perfectly well that his dad's greatest and only real hobby was drinking.
That was why he had given his dad the task of collecting a hundred different liquors.
He had never expected his dad to surprise him so quickly.
"Dad, you're incredible."
Gu Cheng sighed in admiration.
Gu Sihai rubbed his hands together. "Hurry up and take out that Immortal-Brew Gourd. I want to taste what's so magical about the Hundred Immortals' Brew made from a hundred different liquors."
"All right. Call me when you're done, and I'll come take a look."
Not knowing whether to laugh or cry, Gu Cheng handed the gourd to his dad, explained how to use it, and returned to the first-floor living room.
He heated a glass of milk in the kitchen and brought it back to the couch, getting ready to sort through his thoughts from the past two days.
Commonly known as spacing out.
Then the doorbell