Chapter 71: Cross me (Chongyang Festival ancestor worship (3)...)

Chapter 71 Chongyang Festival Ancestor Ceremony (3)
The Luo family's ancestor worship process is complicated and lengthy.
Seeing the sun outside the floor-to-ceiling windows sinking all the way to the west, hanging on the horizon, there was still no news of the end of the ancestor worship.
Gu Nian tensed strongly for two or three hours. In the end, before the sun went down, she still couldn't beat Zhou Gong’s invitation. I didn’t know which breath relaxed her vigilance, so she fell into the bed in Luo Xiu’s room and fell asleep sweetly. Passed.
The resurrection of consciousness is in the knock on the door.
With the sound of "boom", Gu Nian suddenly awakened, and it was hard for her to remember in a second that she was still in Luo's house. When he was about to get up from the bed in shock, Gu Nian saw the scene in front of him clearly.
After being blocked by the black quilt on the bed, the light from the floor lamp is soft, and the beauty wearing thin-frame glasses with gold chains is leaning in the chair, turning the pages of the book in the chair by the window. To halfway.
Obviously, when he heard the knock on the door, Luo Xiu's originally unmotivated side face was obviously stretched out. He closed his book and got up and was about to walk outside the door.
As soon as he turned around, he met a pair of people hiding in the quilt and gazed at him.
When Luo Xiu stopped unexpectedly, the corner of his eye was gently pressed: "When did you wake up?"
"...Just woke up."
Gu Nian didn't feel embarrassed to pretend to sleep anymore. She picked up the thin quilt that was obviously pulled by Luo Xiu to cover her body.
Luo Xiu helped her take the slippers from the end of the bed and put them at the girl's feet. Gu Nian asked embarrassedly, "Have I slept for a long time?"
"Not bad. Are you hungry?"
Gu Nian felt it, "It seems a little bit."
"that……"
Before Luo Xiu spoke, the door of the room was knocked again. This time, the servant heard carefully and softly: "Young Master?"
Luo Xiu said to Gu Nian, "I'll go there first."
"Hmm."
The door opened.
A faint voice came from outside the door: "Master, the old man asked me to invite you and Miss Gu to have a meal downstairs."
"..."
Gu Nian walked around the bedroom and turned to the outside of the suite. The door was half closed. Luo Xiu happened to turn around and saw her footsteps stopped: "Do you want to go downstairs?"
Gu Nian didn't react, and let out a blank "ah".
"You will see my grandfather when you eat downstairs. If you don't want to meet, then I will ask them to bring dinner up."
Gu Nian hurriedly shook her head: "That's too rude."
Luo Xiu smiled faintly: "I said before I came here, you don't need to worry so much."
"No way, no way," Gu Nian sullen his face seriously, "If I really do this, it will be you who are secretly talking and making fun of."
"What are you talking about?"
"Well, it's the same, saying you found a girlfriend who doesn't know manners at all?"
"..."
Luo Xiu lifted his eyes, and the thin light dangled over his lenses, and the thin lips under the bridge of his nose curled up with a gentle smile: "They dare."
Gu Nian: "..."
Gu Nian stepped forward and approached Luo Xiu with a weird expression: "Do you think..."
"What?" Luo Xiu lowered his eyes gently.
Gu Nian: "Are you less and less concealing your nature in front of me?"
Luo Xiu paused slightly and asked with a smile, "If you want, I can hide."
Gu Nian shook his head without even thinking: "That's fine."
Luo Xiu's eyes flickered: "Don't you hate it?"
Gu Nian: "What do you hate?"
"It wasn't the one you liked before," Luo Xiu paused, repeating her words along the memory, "The gentle and kind angel, Luo Xiu?"
"..."
Gu Nian thought for two seconds, then shook his head: "It's you that I like, not the attributives added in front of you."
This answer called Luo Xiu startled.
After Gu Nian finished speaking, he took Luo Xiu's hand naturally and pulled him around and walked out, "I will like you anyway, no need to hide. Let's go down and say hello to your grandpa?"
After a long silence, Luo Xiu sighed and smiled.
"it is good."
The main restaurant of the Luo family.
When Luo Xiu and Gu Nian entered the dining room, there happened to be a figure beside the long table when Luo Zhan opened the high-back chair with one hand, and carefully used the other hand as a walking stick for the girl in front of him, helping her sit down.
Hearing the movement, Luo Zhan waited for Tang Ran to sit down before raising his eyes.
"Isn't that who is the dog?" Luo Zhan's eyes slightly mocked.
"..."
Luo Xiu calmly led Gu Nian in, and stopped when he was opposite Luo Zhan and Tang Ran.
Rejecting the servant who wanted to come forward, Luo Xiu pulled the chair away for Gu Nian, and then looked back slowly: "That was what you said. And, are you standing here now an illusion?"
Luo Zhan: "Danran was secretly taken down by the old man by tricks. Can I still let her be here?"
Luo Xiu nodded indifferently: "So it was not me who broke the contract first, it was you."
Luo Zhan's eyes were indifferent.
The two brothers stood behind Gu Nian one by one, and the back of the armchair stood beside Tang Ran. Their eyes exchanged fiercely, and the scene was very "friendly".
Sitting is more awkward.
Gu Nian and the very young girl who looked pretty Bai Xue looked at each other with an awkward smile for several seconds, and finally couldn't help it. She turned back and whispered, "Luo Xiu, who is...?"
Luo Xiu's eyes moved and his attention fell.
Looking at Gu Nian, Luo Xiu's sharp eyes faded into gentleness, "This is Tang Ran, Luo Zhan's..."
Gu Nian waited for a "girlfriend".
But did not wait.
"Master."
Luo Xiu smiled and concluded.
Gu Nian: "..."
Gu Nian: "?"
Did she crash into some weird play scene?
Or is there any weird and weird hobby of the rumored Luo Family Young Master?
Gu Nianqing couldn't help turning back, blankly looking at the two people who were standing and sitting opposite each other. The snow-white complexion of the girl sitting opposite had been dyed red in the past few seconds, holding a knife and fork nervously and did not speak.
As for the one next to her...
It is worthy of the same line as Luo Xiu, as if he hadn't heard Luo Xiu's introduction, the young man's eyes were lazy and unruly, with an expression of "Yes, she is what you can do with me".
Being able to raise two strange and opposing brothers like Luo Xiu and Luo Zhan, and to keep the family prosperous...
Gu Nian immediately showed sincere admiration for the Luo family.
In this moment, the girl with her blushing face on the other side finally spoke: "Hello, this is Tang Ran."
"Ah hello," Gu Nian returned to his senses and smiled kindly at the girl, "I am Gu Nian."
Tang Ran hesitated, and said softly, "I have just finished the operation on my eyes, and I still don't see things very clearly... If there is something wrong, please don't mind."
Gu Nianran: Just when she met her eyes, she felt that the eyes of the girl opposite had a little bit different from that of ordinary people. It turned out to be an eye surgery.
After recovering, Gu Nian smiled: "No. And your eyes are very beautiful, I look forward to your recovery soon."
Opposite Tang Ran paused for two seconds, lowered his head with a blushing face, and his voice became softer: "Thank you..."
"..."
Gu Nian stayed for a while.
Oh my god, is this shy? Is such a cute, beautiful, soft, well-behaved and a little poor baby actually real?
Gu Nianzheng wanted to communicate with Tang Ran again, and heard that the double-opening door facing the long table in the restaurant was opened from the outside, and an old man with a cane walked in from the door.
Behind him was Lin Yi, the butler who had previously taken over Gu Nian and Luo Xiu.
Gu Nian got up again
Obviously, this old man would not be someone else, he must be Luo Jingyuan, the old husband of the Luo family now.
Gu Nian heard that Lin Nantian shared some of the great achievements of Old Luo with her in science. Although she was psychologically prepared, at first she felt the vicissitudes of the old man's vicissitudes but not muddy eyes, and she still felt guilty.
Fortunately, the old man's eyes didn't stop too much on her, and he quickly moved away with his steps.
"Grandpa Luo."
The girl opposite said hello softly.
The two brothers of the Luo family didn't react much, but Gu Nian hesitated: it was the first time she saw Mr. Luo. It was too rude not to greet him, but what to call her address was a big problem.
Gu Nianzheng was entangled. He heard the old man Luo stop next to the main seat and responded with the crutches landing. Then he turned around and his eyes fell on her.
"Miss Gu?"
Gu Nian immediately pulled back the thought of running away: "Hello, I am Gu Nian."
"Well, I heard Luo Xiu mentioned you, don't be embarrassed, just call me like Xiaoran."
"Okay, Luo," Gu Nianka paused, "Hello, Grandpa Luo."
"..."
Standing beside her, Luo Xiu looked down, smiling lightly.
Gu Nian noticed it and took a sneaky look.
Half of Luo Xiu's body was blocked in front of her. He probably felt Gu Nian's gaze. He didn't turn around, but his hand slightly raised her, soothing her palm.
On a serious occasion when the elders were still there, Gu Nianzhao had a guilty conscience on her face, and immediately took her hand back seriously.
At this moment, Father Luo had already said: "You don't have to stand up, sit down."
"..."
The main seat of the long table is seated, the corridor door connecting the kitchen and the kitchen is opened, and the dinner is served in the order of serving. The dinner was very peaceful at first, except that it was too rich, and it was not so different from an ordinary family dinner, and it was not as surging as Gu Nian imagined.
The old man Luo and the housekeeper Lin Yi seemed to be talking about business affairs, and occasionally chatting with Luo Xiu and Luo Zhan seemed to only care about the daily lives of their two grandsons.
When Gu Nian thought that maybe today would be so peaceful, and dinner was approaching the end, when the last dessert was served, the master Luo who was on the main seat suddenly spoke.
"Your father will be in his 50s next year."
These words were clearly addressed to Luo Xiu and Luo Zhan. The two brothers were in a tacit understanding. They probably also smelled some subtext, and stopped each other's actions by coincidence, raising their eyes to the theme.
The old man seemed to say casually: "I am getting old, and the ancestor worship process is too long to survive. I gave the position of the chief priest to your father when I was over fifty."
"..."
The dining room fell silent, and the sound of knives and forks slightly hitting the plates was gone.
Gu Nian didn't understand the meaning of these words too much, but just looking at the expressions in Luo Xiu and Luo Zhan's eyes, she also guessed that it was definitely not the elders and juniors who complained about fatigue.
Sure enough, the old man slowly wiped his hands with the soft cloth that the steward Lin handed over, put it aside, and calmly raised his eyes: "It is your turn for the ancestor worship beginning next year. The two of you brothers should discuss it. Discuss, who will come?"
""
As the last sentence began, an invisible string seemed to be tightened suddenly in the restaurant.
After each word sounded, it was a trembling of "　".
Gu Nian dare not come out.
This silence lasted about five seconds.
There was a cold, lazy sneer across the long table: "I know there is no good feast."
"..."
On the main seat, the old man Luo had a dark face and looked like he wanted to get angry, but he was worried about Gu Nian and Tang Ran and endured it again.
Luo Jingyuan touched the head of the cane and asked sternly, "You mean you are coming to be the chief priest?"
Luo Zhan: "I don't have time. The int laboratory's project this year will be busy until the middle of next year. If you are not afraid that the priest will run away on Ching Ming Festival, then you can let me come."
Elder Luo gave him a fierce look.
Luo Zhan dumped the pot in time: "I don't have time, my brother has time. He is the eldest grandson, and his company has been on the right track at the end of last year, and he doesn't need to be reasonable in person.
"..."
Like Mr. Luo, Gu Nian moved her gaze to her side.
After the old man Luo spoke, Luo Xiu didn't say a word, half-casting his eyes to play with the desserts on the plate, as if completely out of the way.
What came up to him was a piece of white chocolate mousse, frozen to the right hardness, before it melted, he cut it into slices with a dessert knife and fork, and fiddled with it on the snow-white plate, seeming to be a pattern.
Gu Nian was purely curious, glanced at his plate, and then choked.
That pattern is exactly a word.
"Read".
Gu Nian: "..."
Gu Nian raised her head with a guilty conscience, and happened to raise her head to the master, and looked at her like an old face that was choked.
Gu Nian became even more guilty.
Mr. Luo said in a very complicated mood: "Luo Xiu, what do you think?"
Luo Xiu adjusted the last point of his heart under the word "Nian" before putting down his knife and fork, raising his eyes lightly.
He seems to be in a very good mood, and his eyes are as soft as a spring lake, and the ripples are shallow:
"I won't clean up the mess for Luo Zhan."
It's a pity that a mouthful has frozen the lake.
On the opposite side of the long table, Luo Zhan raised his eyebrows: "What does it mean to clean up the mess for me?"
Luo Xiu said mildly: "Where is the position of the chief priest and what identity it represents, we know each other well, and there is no need to pretend to be confused."
Luo Zhan's eyes moved slightly and did not speak.
Luo Xiu: "Accepting the position of the chief priest is equivalent to telling everyone that this is the next power holder and heir in the family."
Luo Zhan did not refute. He leaned back in the chair and made a lazy voice. He seemed to be smiling but not smiling: "Did you not have good palms during the time when Grandpa was unwell? I think many people think that this position belongs to you?"
Luo Xiu dazzled and smiled gently: "There is a comparison to make a judgment. If you are not allowed to try it, how do you know that you are not good?"
Luo Zhan: "I don't have to rely on testing if I can do it, but unfortunately I don't have time. You still have to come for this kind of beautiful task."
Luo Xiu: "If you have time to make trouble, you don't have time to finish?"
Luo Zhan knocked on the desktop and snorted lazily: "You have been slandering me since just now. What mess did I leave?"
"..."
Luo Xiu did not speak immediately this time, but slowly turned his eyes.
His focus passed Luo Zhan and fell on Tang Ran.
Tang Ran's eyes are not good, she still doesn't know what to see at this moment, and she doesn't understand those things. She probably lost her mind early on hearing them. At this time, her eyes were foggy, and her expression was a little confused and quiet.
Probably a sequelae of the failure to raise goose, Gu Nian saw that maternal love overflowed in her heart for a while.
The long table was quiet for a few seconds.
Luo Zhan's expression changed slightly. He seemed to think of something, and he no longer leaned back in the chair lazily, but slightly stretched his shoulders, like a large carnivore only stepped on the edge of the territory, looking at Luo Xiu vigilantly and sharply.
Luo Xiu lowered his eyes and held down his glasses, smiling mildly and harmlessly: "Before you intervened in family business in order to deal with the old lady of the Tang family. Did you forget?"
Luo Zhan frowned.
Next to him, Tang Ran, who was finally called back to God by the keywords of "Tang Family" and "Old Lady Hang" turned her head, as if she wanted to say something, but Luo Zhan turned to his side and said something, calming down.
"A few of them may not come slowly in three or five years," Luo Xiu said vaguely, his tone of voice was not erratic, "this mess, you don't clean up by yourself, do you want me to come?"
"..."
Luo Zhan didn't speak, his eyes were cold.
Gu Nian didn’t understand what was going on in the two words of their brothers, but she could keenly perceive the essence of things with her instinct as a screenwriter.
Luo Zhan had lost his handle because of what Tang Ran had done before. Luo Xiu was using this handle to make it inconvenient for Luo Zhan to speak in front of Tang Ran.
Sure enough, the dragon.
Gu Nian thought in her heart, calmly decided to stay out of the matter, ignore it and not participate, and be a good passerby who quietly eats melons.
The two brothers confronted each other in the air, and the picture was like an invisible battlefield of gunpowder.
Elder Luo narrowed his eyes slightly, and after a moment of silence, he knocked on the faucet in his hand.
"Lin Yi, it's late, you can send Tang Ran and Gu Nian upstairs to rest first."
"it is good."
Lin Yi answered clearly.
Obviously the following part is not suitable for Gu Nian and Tang Ran to listen to. Gu Nian is also willing not to participate, and stands up very cooperatively.
Luo Xiu next to him asked: "I will send you up."
"Be careful." The opposite Luo Zhan also went to serve Tang Ran as a humanoid cane.
The brothers were able to withdraw from their previous confrontation in almost one second.
On the main seat, Mr. Luo had a dark face, but the butler Lin Yi stood behind with a smile. The old man turned his head dissatisfiedly and said in a low voice: "Let you send it."
Lin Yi: "How dare I control the two young masters?"
Unable to borrow the knife, Mr. Luo turned back angrily, and struck harder on the crutches: "Just send it upstairs, you can't get out of the three-acre area of ​​the Luo family! You two sit down!"
"..."
Luo Xiu and Luo Zhan frowned at the same time. At this moment, they couldn't see the dreadful appearance of the confrontation.
Seeing that the atmosphere of the three grandparents was stiff, Gu Nian only felt a headache.
Simply speaking of the conflict at this time, the three grandparents may not be more than ten years old, right?
Gu Nian sighed in his heart, and first withdrew his hand from Luo Xiu: "It's good for me to help Tang dye upstairs. It just so happens that we get acquainted and make friends."
Luo Xiu turned his head: "Are you going up alone?"
Gu Nian murmured, "I'm not a three-year-old kid, now I can go up with my eyes closed."
Luo Xiu could not violate Gu Nian's meaning, so he had to agree.
However, Luo Zhan chose Gu Nian without much hesitation between Gu Nian and the servants who looked particularly shaggy in comparison.
Gu Nian went around the long table to lead Tang Ran, and after thanking her, the two left the restaurant.
"It's not early" that Old Master Luo said was a totally unconcerned excuse. When Gu Nian led Tang Ran to the third floor, the hour hand was just past the midpoint between 8 and 9.
Gu Nian thought for a while, then turned around and asked the obedient and quiet girl beside her: "It should be boring to be alone in the room. Should we find a place to chat?"
Tang Ran nodded: "Okay."
"..."
Gu Nian shed tears of maternal love.
Raising female geese should be more heart-warming than raising geese? Moreover, it is 10,000 times cute, and there is no risk of a mother's love deteriorating and a half-raised cutie suddenly turning into a dragon.
So, an hour later, when Luo Xiu and Luo Zhan finally ended the tripartite talks and went upstairs, they found that their little girls were gone.
Under the cold and warm eyes with knives, the servant tremblingly confessed where Gu Nian and Tang Ran were going.
When Luo Xiu and Luo Zhan hurried away, the two girls smiled and huddled together. One looked brighter than the other, and they were very close.
Especially after Luo Xiu and Luo Zhan appeared, Gu Nian and Tang Ran were interrupted to talk over there, and they were very disappointed after they got up.
Gu Nian asked Luo Xiu: "Are we going back tonight?"
Luo Xiu took Gu Nian's hand: "Come back tomorrow, it's almost ten o'clock, it's too late."
"Good." Gu Nianchu's eyes lit up.
Luo Xiu noticed something and squinted slightly.
Sure enough, in the next second, I listened to Gu Nian happily asking, "Then I want to sleep in a room with Xiaoran today, okay?"
Luo Xiu: "...?"
To make matters worse, Luo Zhan just frowned and wanted to refuse, when he saw the girl in front of him rarely showed obvious joy. Tang Ran also nodded vigorously, "Okay."
Luo Zhan: "...?"
Two seconds later.
Luo Zhan pretended to be ferocious and lowered his head to "warn" Tang Ran, "Well, what is it, you are going with me tonight."
Luo Xiu gently raised his hand and touched Gu Nian's head: "No, you don't want to."
Tang Ran: "?"
Gu Nian: "."
Owing to the force of the dragon, Gu Nian had to say goodbye to the little cutie who had just turned her hand in tears tonight, and then was taken back to the room by the dragon like the cat whose neck was caught by fate.
The brothers’ respective suites are on the same floor, but one is in the east and the other is in the west. At the last parting, Luo Zhan looked uncomfortably at the girls over there who had forgotten to leave contact information because they had chatted so happily before.
Then he turned his head and said to Luo Xiu, "Can you take a good look at your family and let her stay away from the infection?"
Luo Xiu turned back: "Return the original words."
After Gu Nian reluctantly bid farewell to Little Cutie, what she just turned back and saw was such a scene of brothers and friends respecting each other and greeting each other with their eyes.
Helpless, Gu Nian stepped in to take Luo Xiu away.
When they returned to the room, only the two of them were left, and Gu Nian asked with concern, "Your chief priest, is there a result?"
"No." Luo Xiu smiled softly, "Don't worry."
Gu Nian nodded: "I thought Luo Zhan was going to plant you this time."
Luo Xiu regrets: "If Tang Ran is not distracted, it will probably end tonight."
"..."
A few seconds later, Luo Xiu noticed something, raised his eyes, and saw Gu Nianzheng looking at him with emotion: "...what's wrong?"
Gu Nian: "If it's in the script, then you must be the villain of the biggest boss behind the scenes."
Luo Xiu had a meal: "If you don't like this, then I can change it."
"?"
Gu Nian was stunned.
She turned her head and saw that Luo Xiu's eyes were not joking but serious emotions. Gu Nian bends the corner of her eyes, stepped forward and hugged his waist.
Luo Xiu reached out to catch her and lowered his eyes: "I like villains, aren't you afraid?"
"Not afraid."
Gu Nian stood on tiptoe and kissed his cool lips.
"You are my hero alone."