diskusbooks Chapter 113 Pei Family Ancestral Hall, Life and Death
Chapter 113 Pei Family Ancestral Hall, Life and Death
Pei Yuning smiled coquettishly and tried to hold Xu Nanyin's arm in a familiar manner.
Xu Nanyin avoided her calmly and took the gift bag she handed over with a smile: "Thank you, cousin."
Then he politely took the initiative to greet the other two: "Aunt, sister-in-law."
Qin Shuang narrowed his eyes and glanced at her, smiling politely and warmly: "What a beautiful lady! No wonder she is so lucky to be chosen by Jing Mo."
It seemed like a compliment, but also like Xu Nanyin had become an inferior cabbage that was picked and chosen.
Xu Nanyin's smile faded a little.
Pei Jingmo stood up from the sofa, smiling casually: "What are you saying, aunt? Is it my turn to pick on her? I'll be lucky if she doesn't pick on me."
Qin Shuang was stunned for a second, then smiled and said, "You two young couples have such a good relationship."
Nanya, who had been silent the whole time, spoke softly, "Cousin, sister-in-law, do you have any preferences or dietary restrictions for dinner? I'll tell the kitchen."
Although Nan Ya has ordinary facial features, she has a gentle and dignified temperament. However, she has a slender figure, and her six-month-old belly makes her look even thinner.
Xu Nanyin, a newcomer, wanted to be easygoing. "Don't bother, it's a popular choice."
Pei Jingmo, however, behaved like a prince wherever he went, with no taboos. "Squirrel mandarin fish, crystal shrimp dumplings, and an old duck soup." The dishes he ordered were all her favorites.
Xu Nanyin glanced at him with amusement.
Nanya nodded softly and said, "Cousin, sister-in-law, why don't you go to the guest room and settle down first?"
Xu Nanyin frowned slightly. They didn't have a wedding, so now she was just his fiancée. Naturally, she could live in the guest room, but Pei Jingmo would definitely live in the main house when he returned to the old house.
"I always live on the third floor when I come back, and it's the same this time." Pei Jingmo said expressionlessly.
Nanya suddenly looked embarrassed, "Pei Han is living in the room on the third floor now..."
"Cousin, then notify him to move out before tonight." Pei Jingmo's tone was light, but revealed a decisiveness that brooked no room for questioning.
What they are fighting for is not a room, but the right to speak in the Pei family.
How can he be considered the next generation leader of the Pei family if he can’t even live in the main house?
Qin Shuang scolded, "Nanya, why did you arrange it this way? Jing Mo will naturally live in the main house when he comes back."
Nanya was stunned. This was clearly arranged by Qin Shuang himself...
"I'll ask Ah Han to come back and move to the bedroom." Qin Shuang said.
Pei Jingmo said with a forced smile: "Thank you very much, Auntie."
Then he put his arm around Xu Nanyin's shoulders and walked out, "Let's go check on your room."
After watching them leave, Nanya went to the kitchen to give some instructions. Pei Yuning walked up to Qin Shuang with a look of disdain on her face: "Mom, did you see that? He actually treats a woman of that background as a treasure. How stupid! He's far worse than my eldest brother..."
Qin Shuang smiled proudly: "It's good to be a treasure. It's because of her background that she can't get in the way of your eldest brother."
Pei Yuning pondered: "Then she is Pei Jingmo's biggest weakness now..."
The mother and daughter smiled at each other, with a hint of calculation in their eyes.
Xu Nanyin was arranged to live in the building next door, on the same floor with Pei Yuning and her fourth uncle's granddaughter Pei Yunjiang.
After entering the room, Pei Jingmo took a small black machine and carefully explored it. He found no hidden cameras or the like, and then asked the housekeeper to change the password lock for the room.
Seeing him so cautious, Xu Nanyin couldn't help but get nervous: "This is also considered your own home, is it really that scary?"
Pei Jingmo lazily leaned against the door, watching the workers change the locks without blinking. He whispered in her ear, half jokingly and half seriously, "It can't be helped. My family, our family, really has the throne to inherit. Look through history and see how terrifying the open and covert struggles for that position were."
"Oh."
After all, the biggest struggle in her life was the fight with Shabi for the millions of shares in Jinyifang. Xu Nanyin really lacked understanding of the struggles among wealthy families like theirs.
Perhaps seeing her confusion, Pei Jingmo pinched her face and scolded her softly, "Stupid."
"Be more careful, you don't really think my second uncle's family is very kind, do you?"
Xu Nanyin snorted coldly: "I'm not that stupid."
Pei Yuning and her daughter look kind on the surface, but who knows what is hidden behind their smiles? Only Nanyang gives people a really gentle feeling.
After the worker changed the lock.
Pei Jingmo tried it several times himself and made sure there was no problem before he led her into the house and closed the door.
He pressed her down on the bed and kissed her earlobe, "What should I do? I may not be able to serve my wife at night during this period."
There are two unmarried cousins living in this building, so it is not convenient for him to come over at any time.
Xu Nanyin pushed him away with a red face, "Then I feel relieved."
"Little liar." Pei Jingmo narrowed his dark eyes slightly, a wicked look etched between his pretty brows. He grasped her slender waist with his large hands, tightly gripping them. "Don't you know the consequences of saying one thing and thinking another?"
Her heart started beating wildly when she met his dark and burning eyes. She buried her face in his chest and asked, "Why are you so mean?"
He chuckled in her ear, his voice a little harsh: "Do you want me to show you how bad I am now..."
Xu Nanyin tilted her head slightly, and in a trance, she saw his handsome and deep face, which was extremely charming and bewitching...
Sisi's description of him as a male vixen was really accurate.
But, I didn’t bring the small box.
It was naturally impossible for Pei Jingmo to really touch her.
"I'll take you to the ancestral hall."
Pei Jingmo led her downstairs and went straight to the Pei family ancestral hall.
Although the quaint courtyard is old, it is spotless. Offerings and incense are constantly burning in front of the neatly arranged tablets. It is obvious that this is a family with a profound heritage.
Pei Jingmo knelt on the mat and bowed, and Xu Nanyin followed suit.
Then he stood up and walked towards another small ancestral hall next to him, which was dedicated to the female ancestors of the Pei family.
He picked up a tablet and gently wiped it with a gray handkerchief, showing a rare look of respect and obedience, like a lion whose fur was suddenly smoothed over. "Grandma, I've brought your granddaughter-in-law to see you."
When he was a child, Master Pei felt that his father didn't love him and his mother didn't care about him. Only his grandmother treated him like a precious gold nugget, who held it in her palm for fear of dropping it, and held it in her mouth for fear of melting it.
When Grandma Pei was seriously ill and hospitalized, she sneaked out of the hospital two days before her death. She dragged her sick body and used a cane to climb up to the temple on the top of the mountain to ask for a peace talisman for him: praying to God to protect her grandson from illness and disaster, and to grow up safely.
So even though they had never met, Xu Nanyin felt very close to the old lady and said softly and sweetly, "Hello, grandma, I'm Yinyin."
Pei Jingmo put his ear to the tablet, nodded as if listening to something, and said, "My grandma calls you a good grandson-in-law and says she likes you."
Xu Nanyin chuckled, "Then please tell grandma thank you for liking me."
Pei Jingmo nodded seriously, and put his ear to the tablet to listen. "But she said your dumplings are too unpalatable. She wants to teach you when she has time, so that her grandson won't be poisoned by you one day."
"Don't talk nonsense!" Xu Nanyin twisted his arm angrily and amusedly.
Pei Jingmo solemnly put the tablet back, clasped his hands together and bowed, a smile on his fair and clear face, "My grandma likes everything I say. She will definitely like the person I like."
"Xu Nanyin, from now on you will follow me into the Pei family ancestral hall."
Pei Jingmo pointed to the large ancestral hall, then to the small ancestral hall, "I'm there, you're here. Even in death, we'll be together, never apart."
After a moment of hesitation, Xu Nanyin slowly clenched her hands.
The light in the ancestral hall was dim and so quiet that you could hear a pin drop. She could clearly feel her heartbeat getting faster and faster.
As my eyes swept over the layers of memorial tablets and the burning incense, my eyes couldn't help but feel hot.
She had a home in life, and she also had a home after death. From now on, she and he would be together in life and death...
She couldn't help but stretch out her two slender arms and hugged him tightly. She wanted to say something, but she choked with sobs.
"What are you doing?" Master Pei pushed her away modestly. "My grandma is still here, and you're already hitting me. Be careful, or she'll jump out and take care of you."
Xu Nanyin finally came back to her senses, immediately stepped back, and buried her head in rubbing the red corners of her eyes.
With a sigh, Pei Jingmo said casually, "Grandma, I'll go comfort this little crybaby first. I'll come see you next time. If you have any problems down there, remember to come find me, or your good granddaughter-in-law."
Xu Nanyin couldn't help laughing, so she took his arm and walked out of the ancestral hall together.
Pei Jingmo took her around the mansion.
On the way, Huang Liu received an emergency call and he sat on the bench in the pavilion to answer it.
Seeing a beautiful rockery with layers of rocks and a grand lotus pond not far away, Xu Nanyin walked down from the pavilion to take a look.
The lotus leaves in the lotus pond are emerald green and the flowers are pink and white. Although it is autumn already, these clusters of lotus flowers have not withered at all. The red and white goldfish in the pond are also swimming happily.
She stood by the pond, watching intently, when suddenly she heard a dog barking from behind the rockery.
Two "woof woof" sounds, sounding very fierce.