The surroundings suddenly became quiet.

Everyone knows that the old marquis Gu Xuan had been dead for fourteen years, and the old marquis' tablets were placed in this Gu Clan Ancestral Hall.

How can the dead make the decision 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 this did not prevent him from listening to his sister.

When facing outsiders, Gu Yuan is a lonely wolf, with a sharpness that is enough to tear apart people's hearts.

But when he faces Gu Yanfei, he will put away his sharp claws and become her most gentle and reliable brother.

He lowered his eyes and smiled gently at Gu Yanfei, doting and tolerant.

My sister never aimlessly. She must have reason for her to say this.

The room was quiet for another moment, and the air became more and more depressing, solemn, so heavy that it seemed like water was dripping.

An old woman swallowed her saliva, carefully walked closer to Mrs. Gu, and reported, "Mrs. Grandpa, Marquis, the auspicious time has come."

The old lady didn't dare to look directly at Mrs. Gu and Gu Jian's faces.

Mrs. Gu with a dark face and withdrew her gaze from Gu Yuan and Gu Yanfei, with extremely intense emotions surging in her eyes, including anger, depression, shame, embarrassment, and hard to hold back, but in the end she was suppressed.

She cleared her throat, looked serious, and said lightly as if nothing had happened: "Mr. Marquis, let's go."

She took the lead and walked slowly towards the sacrificial hall.

At first glance, his expression was majestic and inviolable.

Everyone pressed down the complicated emotions in their hearts and followed closely.

But after the episode just now, several people were a little restless and uneasy, and their eyes glanced at Gu Yuan and Gu Yanfei from time to time.

Soon, everyone surrounded the Grandma and Gu Jian across the front hall and entered the sacrificial hall behind. The team of ancestor worship was in a vast and powerful way.

As for those aunts, nannies, maids, and mothers who were not qualified to enter the Gu family temple, they all stood quietly outside waiting, with their eyebrows down and eyes pleasing.

In the previous dynasty, men were superior to women and had clear status. Women could not enter the ancestral hall. Whenever worshiping ancestors, the female family members in the family could only kowtow outside the ancestral hall. Only men could enter the ancestral hall to worship ancestors and incense.

It was not until this dynasty that the phenomenon of men being superior to women was slightly improved. Emperor Taizu believed that women may not be inferior to men, and insisted on changing women's status, not only allowed women to run women's households and open girls' schools, but also allowed women to enter ancestral halls, and women's names were recorded in the genealogy, etc.

Everyone soon stood in the sacrificial hall according to their seniority and order. Gu Yanfei stood in the last row, looking up at the numerous tablets standing tall in front of them.

Unlike last night, only one candle was lit here, all the candles on the two rows of candle holders on the east and west sides of the sacrificial lobby were lit, and the candle fires illuminated the entire high and spacious room brightly and transparently.

The air filled with faint sandalwood, and the atmosphere was solemn, making the restless hearts gradually calm down.

Gu Jian, who was in front, knelt down on the cushion with three incense sticks in his left hand, and began to burn incense to pray to the ancestral tablets, saying that what happened in the mansion this year was looking forward to the future, and then begged his ancestors to bless their descendants.

On the stepped incense table, tablets cast heavy shadows between each other, and sandalwood lingered in shadows.

After a moment, Gu Jian respectfully inserted the incense into the three-legged incense burner.

This action represents the completion of the sacrificial ceremony.

Everyone stood up from the cushion and surrounded Mrs. Gu, and Gu Jian and his son walked out.

The atmosphere relaxed, and the slightest laughter echoed.

The juniors gathered together in groups of three or three, whispered, and had already started planning their trip tomorrow.

While walking, Mrs. Gu called Yan and Gu Yunzhen and her daughter to her side, and said in a gossiping tone: "Sister Zhen, Mrs. Murong is in a bad health. The Murong family has asked the Shangqing Zhenren to calculate the wedding date. The wedding date must be in advance."

"After the Murong family has calculated the auspicious time, they will come to welcome the bride. You can prepare quickly."

Her expression was as calm as water, as if it was just a trivial matter. She just asked Gu Yunzhen to change into a new dress.

Everyone else behind also heard it and was shocked.

The third wife Yan widened her eyes in disbelief, unable to believe her ears, and she didn't even realize that the veil in her hand fell to the ground.

Yan's family has been widowed for many years, and their only concern is their daughter.

She endured it again and again, thinking that after her daughter married into the Murong family in the future, the Murong family would definitely not treat her badly, but now, can this be called marriage?!

Even if someone else takes concubines, they are more decent than this!

Yan's heart thrust in pain, and he turned his head with difficulty and looked at Gu Yunzhen beside him.

The girl's face was coated with a layer of bright light by candlelight. Her skin was as calm as porcelain and jade.

Faced with the Murong family's almost humiliating behavior, it was hard for me to let go of myself, let alone the person involved, her daughter, who was only sixteen years old, but she was forced to have a calm heart that was only 60 years old... her heart was ashamed.

This is not what her daughter should be like!

Her daughter raised like a pearl or a treasure should not be treated like this!

This thought was like a dagger that penetrated Yan's heart, making her feel even more painful.

Yan's eyes were sore and he blurted out: "Zheng, if you really don't want to, you won't marry."

After the voice was released, she realized that there was a bit of choking and a bit of hoarseness in her voice.

"Mom?" Gu Yunzhen looked at Yan in shock, and circles of water seemed to sway in the gentle willow leaves's eyes.

In addition to shock, there is more emotion and joy.

Obviously yesterday, my mother helped her grandmother persuade her to cheer her up...

But now, my mother chose to stand on her side. The reason why she did not hesitate to face her grandmother was naturally for herself!

The mother and daughter looked at each other, and tears flashed in their eyes.

The others around me subconsciously held their breath, and the families of several soft-hearted girls did not dare to look at Mrs. Gu's face.

Mrs. Gu's face instantly became ugly, with blue, purple, purple and black, and colorful.

Anger in his heart surged out again, and his graceful face slightly distorted.

"Enough!" Mrs. Gu said sternly, her voice pressing very low and heavy.

"If she doesn't marry, she will be her sister-in-law."

Her eyes looked at Yan with cold eyes, word by word, word by word, and ice slags were falling out.

His daughter was Yan's life gate. Yan's face turned pale and wilted like an eggplant made from frost, and he couldn't say anything.

With Yan's understanding of Mrs. Gu, she dares to do it if she dares to say it.

How dare Yan take risks with his daughter's future? How can he bear to watch his daughter become a sister-in-law at a young age?

Yan's body was trembling slightly, while Gu Yunzhen beside her was as tall as Qingzhu in the cold wind. She didn't care about Mrs. Gu's coercion, and her expression was still calm.

With the support of her mother, elder brother and second sister, her relatives are all by her side, so why are she afraid?

"Mom, I..." Gu Yunzhen opened her lips slightly. She originally wanted to say that even if she was a sister-in-law, she felt her cuffs tight.

She looked down and saw Gu Yanfei quietly pulling her sleeve and shaking it. Gu Yunlan in front of her just blocked Gu Yanfei's small movement.

"Madam, didn't I just say it?" Gu Yanfei walked to Gu Yunzhen with a smile, "The eldest sister's marriage will be decided by grandfather."

The others next to her subconsciously took a step back to both sides and gave way to her.

"Grandfather is here, let's ask about his meaning."

Gu Yanfei's voice was cold and his tone was not high, but it resounded throughout the sacrificial hall and clearly reached everyone present.

Gu Yanfei looked up at the tablet directly in front of him with the old Marquis Gu Xuan's name, and said seriously: "Grandfather, I am your granddaughter Yan Fei. I greeted you last night."

"The Grandma and the Marquis want to make the eldest sister happy. Grandfather, do you agree?" Gu Yanfei asked seriously.

"Nothing." Gu Jian couldn't help but scold.

“Tu tuk…”

As soon as he finished speaking, a strange sound came from ahead, as if refuting Gu Jian's words.

"Tu tuk, tuk..."

The sound continued to be miserable and became louder and louder.

Everyone was silent, their eyes surged like a tide, and they looked at the tablet of Gu Xuan, the old Dingyuan Hou in the second row of the incense table.

In the heavy candlelight, the dark red tablet shaking like a sieve on the incense table, making repeated "tuk-tuk" sounds, and the sound became heavier and heavier.

In this sacrificial hall with many tablets, the sound seemed extremely strange.

Gu Yanfei sighed quietly, spread his hands and sighed, "Did you see, am I right? Grandfather is here to make the decision for his elder sister."

After she said this, everyone felt weak in their hearts and subconsciously looked around.

A few young girls looked around, and the hairs on their necks stood up, as if the old marquis was secretly staring at them all in another way of existence.

Gu Yuan sang and said tacitly with Gu Yanfei: "I think my grandfather should be angry when he looks like this!"

"Yes, the mansion robbed my errand to Murong Yong. It would be fine, but I would also like to cheer for Zhen Jie'er on their house!"

"No wonder my grandfather got angry."

While Gu Yuan was speaking, the "tuk-tuk" sound was endless.

The old Marquis Gu Xuan's tablet continued to ring, shaking back and forth, and the rhythm became more and more rapid, forming a sharp contrast with the other tablets around him that remained motionless.

There was obviously no wind in the room, but the clusters of candlelight on the candlesticks on both sides were swaying slightly, and the light and shadow were intertwined.

This scene is so ghostly.

Gu Jian's face turned pale, his facial features flashed and darkened in the light and shadow of the candlelight, and he seemed anxious and uneasy. He couldn't help but have a thought in his heart: Could it be that my father is really in heaven and has a spirit and wants to say something to them?

"The tablet moves without wind." Gu Yanfei sighed, the quiet voice seemed to be as cool as the autumn wind.

"Grandfather disagreed."

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Chapter completed!