NOVEL SIMPLE Chapter 149
Chapter 149: Call The Shots (Two More)
Chapter 149 Call the Master (two more)
The surroundings were silent for a moment.
Everyone knows that the old marquis Gu Xuan has been dead for fourteen years, and in this Gu clan’s ancestral hall, the old marquis’s tablet is enshrined.
How can the dead decide for Gu Yunzhen? !
Gu Jian frowned, feeling that the brother and sister were simply inexplicable.
Gu Yuan actually didn’t understand what his sister meant, but that didn’t prevent him from listening to her sister’s words.
When facing outsiders, Gu Yuan is an arrogant wolf, with a sharpness that can tear people’s hearts.
But when he faced Gu Yanfei, he would retract his claws and become her most gentle and reliable brother.
He lowered his eyes and smiled softly at Gu Yanfei, loving and tolerant.
Sister never aims at nothing, she must have her reasons for saying so.
The room was quiet for a while, the air became more oppressive and dignified, and it seemed to be dripping with water.
A woman swallowed her saliva, took a step cautiously towards Mrs. Gu Tai’s direction, and said, “Mrs. Tai, Lord Hou, the auspicious time has come.”
The old lady didn’t dare to look directly at Mrs. Gu Tai and Gu Jian’s faces.
Mrs. Gu Tai turned her eyes away from Gu Yuan and Gu Yanfei with a dark face, her eyes were full of extremely intense emotions, some were anger, some were sullen, some were embarrassed, and they were turbulent, but in the end, she was forced down.
She cleared her throat, made a serious look, and said indifferently, “Master Hou, let’s go.”
She took the lead and walked in the direction of the sacrificial hall.
At first glance, his expression is majestic, awe-inspiring and inviolable.
Everyone pressed the complicated emotions in their hearts and followed closely.
Just after the little episode just now, several people were a little restless and uneasy, and they glanced at Gu Yuan and Gu Yanfei brothers and sisters from time to time.
Soon, everyone surrounded Mrs. Tai and Gu Jianheng through the front hall and entered the sacrificial hall at the back.
As for those aunts, maids, maids, and wives who are not qualified to enter the Gu family’s main temple, they all stood quietly outside waiting, with low eyebrows pleasing to the eye.
In the previous dynasties, men were superior to women, and their status was distinct. Women were not allowed to enter the ancestral hall. When worshipping ancestors, female relatives could only kowtow outside the ancestral hall, and only men could enter the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors and offer incense.
It was not until this dynasty that the phenomenon of men being superior to women was slightly improved. Emperor Taizu believed that women were not necessarily inferior to men, and insisted on changing the status of women. Not only women were allowed to run women’s households and schools, but also women were allowed to enter ancestral halls. Recorded in genealogy and so on.
Everyone quickly stood up in the sacrificial hall according to their seniority and order. Gu Yanfei stood in the last row, looking up at the many tablets standing high in front of him.
Unlike last night, where only one candle was lit, all the candles on the two rows of candlesticks on the east and west sides of the sacrificial hall were all lit, and the twinkling candles illuminated the entire tall, spacious room brightly and transparently.
The faint sandalwood incense filled the air, and the atmosphere was solemn, making the impetuous hearts gradually calm down.
Gu Jian, who was at the forefront, knelt down on the futon with three incense sticks in his left hand, and began to burn incense and pray to the ancestral tablet.
On the stepped incense table, the tablets cast shadows on each other, and the sandalwood incense is surrounded by shadows.
After a while, Gu Jian respectfully inserted the incense stick into the three-legged incense burner.
This action represents the end of the sacrificial ceremony.
Everyone got up from the futon one after another, and surrounded Mrs. Gu Tai, Gu Jian’s mother and son and went out.
The atmosphere was relaxed, and there were small chatter and laughter.
The juniors got together in twos and threes, whispered, and started planning for tomorrow’s trip.
While walking, Mrs. Gu brought Yan Shi and Gu Yunzhen’s mother and daughter to her side, and said in a gossip and homely tone: “True sister, Mrs. Murong’s health is a little bad, and the Murong family has asked the Qingren to consider it. The wedding date must be brought forward.”
“The Murong family will come to welcome the relatives when the Murong family calculates the auspiciousness in a while, so hurry up and prepare.”
Her expression was as calm as water, as if this was just a trivial matter, she just asked Gu Yunzhen to change into new clothes.
The other people behind also heard it, and they were all surprised.
Mrs. Yan’s eyes widened in disbelief, she couldn’t believe her ears, and she didn’t even notice the handkerchief falling to the ground.
Yan has been a widow for many years, and her only concern is her daughter.
She endured it again and again, thinking that after her daughter was married to the Murong family in the future, the Murong family would not treat her badly after thinking of her, but now, can this be called marriage? !
is someone else’s concubine, it is more decent than this!
Yan’s heart throbbed, and turned to look at Gu Yunzhen beside him with difficulty.
The girl’s face was covered with a layer of radiance by candlelight, her skin was like porcelain and jade, and her face was unbelievably calm.
In the face of the almost humiliating behavior of the Murong family, it was difficult for him to let go, let alone his daughter, who was only 16 years old, but she was forced out of her 60-year-old heart like water… her heart was ashes.
Her daughter should not be like this!
Her daughter, who was raised like a jewel, should not be abused like this!
This thought was like a dagger stabbed into Yan Shi’s heart, making her heart hurt even more.
Yan’s eyes were sore, and she blurted out: “True sister, if you really don’t want to, you won’t marry.”
After the voice came out, she realized that there was a bit of choking in her voice, a bit of an uncontrollable hoarseness.
“Mother?” Gu Yunzhen looked at the Yan family in astonishment, and there seemed to be waves of water in the gentle Liu Ye’s eyes.
Besides the shock, it is more touching and joyful.
Obviously yesterday, my mother helped my grandmother to persuade her to celebrate…
But now, my mother chose to stand by her side, and the reason why she did not hesitate to confront her grandmother was naturally for herself!
The mother and daughter looked at each other, tears welling up in their eyes.
The others around held their breath subconsciously, and a few soft-hearted girls didn’t dare to look at Mrs. Gu Tai’s face at all.
Mrs. Gu Tai’s face instantly became ugly, blue and white, white and purple, purple and black, and the colors were varied.
The anger in my heart surged out again, and even the graceful face was slightly distorted.
“Enough!” Mrs. Gu Tai said sharply, her voice very low and deep.
“If she doesn’t marry, she will become a sister-in-law.”
She looked directly at Mrs. Yan with cold eyes, every word and sentence was so cold that it almost fell out of ice.
Daughter is the life of Yan’s family. Yan’s face turned pale immediately, and she wilted like an eggplant beaten by frost, and she couldn’t say anything.
Based on Mrs. Yan’s understanding of Mrs. Gu Tai, she dared to speak and act.
How dare the Yan family take risks with her daughter’s future, and how can she bear to watch her daughter become a sister-in-law at such a young age.
Yan’s body was trembling slightly, while Gu Yunzhen beside her was as tall and straight as a green bamboo in the cold wind.
With the support of her mother, eldest brother and second sister, and her relatives are by her side, what is she afraid of!
“Mother, I…” Gu Yunzhen slightly opened his lips, originally wanting to say that she would not marry even if she became a sister-in-law, but she felt her cuffs tighten.
She looked down, and saw Gu Yanfei quietly pulling her sleeve and shaking it, Gu Yunlan in front just blocked Gu Yanfei’s small movements.
“Mrs. Tai, didn’t I just say it?” Gu Yanfei walked to Gu Yunzhen’s side with a smile, “Big sister’s marriage will be decided by her grandfather.”
The others next to subconsciously took a step back to the sides and made way for her.
“It happens that grandfather is here, let’s ask what grandfather means.”
Gu Yanfei’s voice was cold and low-pitched, but it rang through the entire sacrificial hall and clearly reached the ears of everyone present.
Gu Yanfei raised his eyes and looked at the tablet in front of him with the name of the old marquis Gu Xuan, and said solemnly: “Grandfather, I am your granddaughter Yanfei. I greeted you last night.”
“Mrs. Tai and Marquis want to make big sister happy, grandfather, do you agree?” Gu Yanfei asked seriously.
“Nonsense.” Gu Jian couldn’t help scolding.
“Tuk Tuk…”
As soon as he finished speaking, a strange sound came from the front, as if refuting Gu Jian’s words.
“Tuk Tuk, Tuk Tuk…”
The sound continued and became louder.
Everyone was silent, their eyes rushed over like a tide, and Xunsheng looked at the tablet of the old Dingyuan Hou Gu Xuan in the second row of the incense case.
In the heavy candlelight, the dark red tablet swayed like a sieve on the incense table, making a “tuk-tuk” sound repeatedly, and the sound became heavier.
In this sacrificial hall lined with tablets, the sound was very strange.
Gu Yanfei sighed faintly, spread his hands, and sighed: “See, I’m right, my grandfather has come to call the shots for eldest sister.”
When she said this, everyone felt that their hearts were empty, and they looked around subconsciously.
The young girls looked around, the hairs on their necks stood upright, as if the old man was watching them all secretly in another way of existence.
Gu Yuan tacitly sang with Gu Yanfei and said, “I think my grandfather must be angry at this!”
“That’s right, the manor robbed me of my job and gave it to Murong Yong, that’s all, I have to give my real sister to their family to celebrate!”
“No wonder grandfather is angry.”
At the same time as Gu Yuan spoke, the voice of “tuk-tuk-tuk” could be heard incessantly.
The tablet of the old Marquis Gu Xuan continued to sound, swaying back and forth, the rhythm was getting faster and faster, which formed a sharp contrast with the other tablets around him that remained motionless.
It was clear that there was no wind in the room, but the clusters of candles on the candle holders on both sides were swaying slightly, and the light and shadow were interlaced.
This scene is really too ghostly.
Gu Jian’s face turned pale, and her facial features flickered and dimmed in the light and shadow of the candlelight. She looked uneasy. She couldn’t help but have a thought in her heart: Could it be that it’s really my father who has a spirit in the sky and wants to say something to them. ?
“The tablet is moving without the wind.” Gu Yanfei sighed, and the quiet voice seemed to have a hint of coolness like the autumn wind.
“Grandfather disagrees.”
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