Everyone followed Ouyang Zhi back to the mansion, and all the way the children stayed quietly in their mother's arms, without making a sound.

"Alright, you guys go back first, and we can dine together tonight."

Seeing Ouyang Zhijing carrying Chen Yan upstairs by himself, ignoring the people who followed him all the way, Lang Lang had to raise his trademark smiling face and play a round field.

"Okay, we'll come back tonight." Ouyang Jun, an old man of the same generation as Ouyang Xiaoren, replied. He is currently the oldest person in the Ouyang family, and he is a full 85 years old this year. It stands to reason that no matter in terms of generation or age, his voice in the family will not be small. But in fact, he really has no authority in the Ouyang family. It's not that the Ouyang family doesn't have a culture of respecting the elderly, but that he hasn't held any real power position in the Ouyang Group since he was young, and he is a side branch. However, because of his own free and easy temperament, he is quite appreciated by Ouyang Xiaoren, and he is relatively close to Ouyang Xiaoren. Therefore, Ouyang Zhi is respectful to him on weekdays.

Even if Ouyang Zhi didn't say a word, as if it was like a joke for everyone to greet him from the city gate to follow him all the way back, Ouyang Jun didn't show any dissatisfaction. was the first person to respond to him after Lang Lang came forward to play a round. And even if the others were originally dissatisfied, after Ouyang Jun, the oldest and oldest, spoke out, they had to swallow their inner opinions and look happy.

"Okay, see you in the evening." Others also greeted Lang Lang one after another, and the originally crowded hall was empty in an instant.

The old butler also silently withdrew and prepared for the dinner party in the evening. Although Lang Lang didn't explicitly say that those people could come to the mansion to dine, the old housekeeper had been serving in Ouyang's house for decades, and he didn't know how many times he had prepared a family dinner like this, so he didn't need to ask again to know how to prepare.

"Let's go get some rest first, we have to get some time in the evening." Lang Lang and Qin Qin looked at each other, and the tiredness on their faces could not be hidden.

"It's enough for you to show up in the evening, and I won't come."

Qin Qin yawned a few times regardless of his image, waved his hand at Lang Lang, and took the lead to walk upstairs. He couldn't get sick of dealing with these people in his family. The dozens of people in the hall just now were all surnamed "Ouyang". And the four of them who have followed Ouyang Zhi since they were children are people with foreign surnames, and even decades ago, their family was still a servant belonging to the Ouyang family. Including Ouyang Fu. Although he and Ouyang's old housekeeper have the surname "Ouyang", this is the surname that Ouyang Xiaoren changed to his grandfather when he was young, or the surname "given". But they themselves did not have any blood relationship with the Ouyang family.

However, the status of the four of them in the Ouyang Group and even the Ouyang Family was only subordinate to Ouyang Zhi, above all the other Ouyang Family members. It's not that no one has an opinion, it's just that for various reasons, they don't dare to say it clearly. So usually, the four of them don't have a good relationship with the people of the Ouyang family in private, of course, Lang Lang and Ouyang Fu are better than Qin Qin and Guan Jie. It also has to do with their personality and the work they are responsible for.

"Go, go, and you'll know to call me." said that it was a complaint, but in fact, Lang Lang also knew that Qin Qin was going to go all out to study the work next, so it was better to leave it to him if there was such a meaningless "communication".

This is the situation in the hall. Ouyang Zhi carried Chen Yan back to the room, adjusted the water temperature, and gave Chen Yan and himself a good wash. Chen Yan never woke up, but when he was lying on the bed in the bath, the expression on his face relaxed a little, revealing a comfortable look. Don't look at Ouyang Zhi carrying her all the way, but in fact, this feeling is not pleasant. Now that she can lie on a comfortable bed, even if she is asleep, she will involuntarily relax.

"Rest well."

After leaning down and kissing Chen Yan's forehead, Ouyang Zhi walked out of the room. After passing through the corridors and through the garden, Ouyang Zhi came to a quiet house made of large stones. This is the place where the ancestral tablets of the Ouyang family are enshrined, and it is also the ancestral hall of the Ouyang family.

On weekdays, there are very few people here. Even the cleaning work can only be taken care of by a few qualified people such as the old housekeeper. And anyone who wants to enter the ancestral hall, including the clansmen of the Ouyang family, must also get the consent of the patriarch before entering.

At this moment, Ouyang Zhi pushed open the heavy mahogany gate, without the strong historical precipitation and serious atmosphere of the past, after all, this place was only established more than a year ago, and it cannot be compared with the old mansion that has been in Kyoto for nearly a hundred years. However, hundreds of tablets were placed on the high platform, surrounded by everlasting lamps and swirling sandalwood, and Ouyang Zhi's mood calmed down instantly.

"Unfilial descendant Ouyang Zhi greets the ancestors."

The kneel is sturdy, and the ground is paved with bluestone. Ouyang Zhi's kneeling, if it was a person with a slightly worse physique, maybe the kneecaps would be shattered, but even so, it was enough for Ouyang Zhi to eat a pot. And after Ouyang Zhi knelt down, he also kowtowed three times seriously. The skin on his forehead suddenly broke, red and swollen.

After saying this, Ouyang Zhi didn't say anything more, but he didn't get up either. In fact, at the gate of the city, even if Mrs. Jiang didn't say that, he planned to come back and kneel in the ancestral hall. After Ouyang Liren was ordained a monk, he was ashamed to have such a father. Although he didn't say it explicitly, he swore in his heart that he would not repeat his father's path. All the while, he did. If he had to choose between Chen Yan and the Ouyang family, he would definitely choose the latter, and such a choice would remain unchanged until the end of the world broke out.

So when did it start to change? When he saw his father for the first and last time after more than a decade of separation? After he arrived at the Kyoto base, when he confessed to his relatives outside the Jiang family, but learned about the grievances and hatred of his parents in the previous generation? When he announced Chen Yan's existence and officially recognized her status? Or when he learned that Chen Yan was captured by the Kyoto base and disappeared?

Ouyang Zhi couldn't tell, but he knew that if there was a next time, his choice would have become Chen Yan. Therefore, this kneeling, he is pious. He is indeed sorry for the family, sorry for his grandfather who worked to death because of his father's heavy "affection", and sorry for the expectations of the people who shouldered the heavy responsibility of the patriarch. Guilt, pain, dilemma...... A lot of negative emotions have always covered him, and since he left the Ouyang family, he has been tightly entangled in his heart when he wandered on the edge of danger as Ouyang Zhi's personal identity. Only now could he release it a little. (To be continued.) )