Chapter Thirty-Four: The Crowd Competes for Beauty

That night, the candles in Liu Yunniang's house were lit all night, and the mother and son talked all night.

In the end, Liu Yunniang got her wish, and Su Jiudong promised to go back to Su's house with Liu Yunniang to sweep the tomb and worship her ancestors during the Qingming Festival, and then send Su Tingan and Ah Rong to the neighbor's house next door to take care of them.

As for Wen Yiheng, he was not in Su Jiudong's consideration.

Su Jiudong thought retaliatingly, Wen Yiheng is an outsider, he can go wherever he wants, but he is never allowed to follow him to the Su family's ancestral house.

If it weren't for Wen Yiheng's indiscriminate persuasion yesterday, maybe she and Liu Yunniang wouldn't have had a small conflict.

But it was also because of this small contradiction that Su Jiudong and Liu Yunniang had a one-night conversation, but they talked about many things, and the relationship between the two became closer and closer.

It was for Liu Yunniang and the adoptive father of the original owner that Su Jiudong agreed to go to the Su family to worship his ancestors.

But by then, the Su family will definitely be in the same room, and in order not to cause any extraneous branches, Su Jiudong decided to leave Su Ting'an and not take him with him.

Qingming was approaching, Su Jiudong and Liu Yunniang began to talk about returning to the Su family's ancestral house, Wen Yiheng was deliberately excluded by Su Jiudong, and never mentioned returning to the Su family in front of him.

The eight sides are as clear as temperature, how could they not notice Su Jiudong's deliberate rejection?

He chose to live as usual as if nothing happened, making tea and drinking medicine leisurely every day, and playing with Su Ting'an.

The night before leaving, Wen Yiheng finally took action, taking advantage of the gap between Su Jiudong and Su Ting'an to play, he asked Liu Yunniang about the time to leave for the Su family's ancestral house tomorrow, the destination and how long he stayed at the Su family.

At the end of the next day, Wen Yiheng got up earlier than anyone else, wore a plain ink robe, and waited by the courtyard gate with only a small burden on his back.

Su Jiudong and Liu Yunniang set a good time before setting off, Wen Yiheng got up so early, but he was worried that Su Jiudong would let Liu Yunniang get up early and rush to the Su family's ancestral house and leave him alone.

Liu Yunniang didn't get up until the hour of sleep, and saw Wen Yiheng guarding the courtyard gate like a door god, she was startled at first, and then smiled and invited Wen Yiheng into the house to have breakfast before leaving.

As soon as Liu Yunniang moved into the small kitchen to prepare breakfast, Su Jiudong got up and woke up Su Tingan and Ah Rong, and took the two of them to start washing.

Wen Yiheng sat at the square table and became an idler calmly.

After a few people had breakfast, Su Jiudong sent Su Tingan and Ah Rong to the neighbor's house where they had a good relationship on weekdays, and then came back and set off to the Su family's ancestral house with the incense, candles, and paper money prepared in advance.

During the Qingming Festival, it rains a lot, and pedestrians on the road want to break their souls. Where is the restaurant? The shepherd boy refers to the apricot blossoms.

Qingming tomb sweeping has been a long time, and there are few people in the village, and every family has embarked on a memorial journey of thinking about the time.

The three of them were silent along the way, all in a hurry.

The ancestral house of the Su family is located in a relatively remote place three miles away from the end of the village, and only a few elderly people are stationed on weekdays, and a few people have already moved into the village and the town to live permanently.

When it came to Qingming, several people in the Su family rushed back to sweep the tomb and worship their ancestors.

Su Jiudong and his entourage arrived relatively late, and when they came to the door of the ancestral house, a bunch of people had already gathered in the house, and they could only hear the noise in the courtyard.

Su Jiudong took a look and saw the men of the Su family who came home from work talking and chatting in twos and threes; The women who became married were busy arranging tablets, tables, seats, and so on in the main hall.

Su Dayou, the old lady of the Su family, that is, the grandfather of Su Jiudong's original owner, sat quietly in the main hall; The old lady of the Su family, Li, and a group of grandchildren were waiting in the side hall.

Liu Yunniang took the lead and advanced into the courtyard, saluted the Li family in a proper manner, and explained that this time she went back to the ancestral house to sacrifice her ancestors for her dead husband, and did her filial piety to the younger generation.

Before Liu Yunniang introduced Su Jiudong and Wen Yiheng, who were waiting outside the door, into the side hall, Su Jiudong came in first.

As soon as Su Jiudong stepped into the courtyard, the courtyard gradually became quiet.

Then the birds and doves gathered together.

"Why is she here? Didn't they split up earlier? ”

"That's right, it's no longer the Su family, how dare you come?"

Liu Yunniang didn't know in the side hall, she could only hear the noise outside, like the sound of people shouting horses neighing, and gradually rushed to the side hall.

Liu Yunniang fixed her eyes and saw that it was Su Jiudong who was so gentle and contemptuous, and hurriedly brought the two of them into the side hall.

Different from the noise when Su Jiudong entered the house, as soon as Wen Yihengfu entered the house, the room was quiet, and more than a dozen pairs of eyes stared at him in unison.

Wen Yiheng is tall in an ink robe, without ornaments, with a chic and solemn demeanor, clear and refined, like a tall jade mountain.

Facing such a handsome gentleman as Wen Yiheng, several young girls of the Su family present were all excited.

Especially Su Xiaoshan, who is the same generation as Su Jiudong in the third room of the Su family, and Su Xinglian, the daughter of the Li family, couldn't take their eyes off Wen Yiheng.

Su Xiaoshan is the daughter of Su Xingwang, the third son of Mrs. Su's Li, and lives in the town with her father and mother on weekdays, and also studies in the school in the town.

He boasted that he did not have a common language with the villagers who were wallowing in the mud, and he did not often return to the village with his father and mother to visit the Li family.

Su Xinglian Li's youngest daughter, who is idle at home all day long, has been unmarried for more than 20 years, just because she is ugly and lazy. The men in the village also avoided her.

However, Su Xinglian feels good about herself, and she thinks that she is a strange woman who is lonely and self-admiring, and she dislikes the laypeople next to her who are not worthy of her.

Su Miaoling of the Su family's big house had already learned Wen Yiheng's power earlier, so she didn't dare to look at him anymore, so she hid beside her sisters of the same generation, hoping that Su Jiudong and Wen Yiheng didn't notice her.

"It's coming. The day of ancestor worship is still so late...... Thankfully, the ceremony hasn't started yet, so sit down. ”

The Li family was not surprised by Liu Yunniang's arrival, and Liu Yunniang had already invited someone to report to the Li family before coming.

But for Su Jiudong, an uninvited guest, the Li family didn't like it after all, but because of Wen Yiheng's identity, he could only endure it.

"Grandma, this son looks at Miansheng, he has never seen it before, it should be the first time he came to our Su family this year, right?"

Su Xiaoshan secretly cleared her throat, opened her mouth crisply, and swayed her willow waist lightly, trying to attract Wen Yiheng's attention.

"Xiaoshan, you live in the town and don't come back often, this is Wen Yiheng's son, the grandson of the county Xiucai master, who only came to the village at the end of last year."

Li paused meaningfully before continuing: "He is also the husband of your sister Jiudong and the biological father of Ting An. ”

"What? is actually Su Jiudong's husband? Isn't that barely my niece-in-law......" Su Xinglian, who was sitting beside the Li family, couldn't hide her sigh of loss.

Su Xiaoshan remained silent, held the teacup in her hand and raised it in front of Wen Yi, and said slowly: "Son, please sit, I haven't paid my salary for so long, I'm slacking off, Son, please use tea." ”

Su Xinglian couldn't see Su Xiaoshan's elegant appearance, chewing the words as if she was the only one in the whole room who was everyone's lady, so she snorted coldly: "What kind of words, pretend!" ”

Su Jiudong quietly watched the excitement on the side, and actually saw the fun, and also wanted to know how Wen Yiheng should deal with the group of strange women of the Su family.

The ghost envoy sighed that Wen Yiheng followed them to the Su family's ancestral house this time, and it was not bad, maybe they could blow up a lot of interesting stories.

Wen Yiheng was accustomed to seeing Qunfang's dedication in the capital, and then looked at Su Xiaoshan's unskilled compliments, and only felt naΓ―ve and boring.

Then he refused: "Su ...... Miss Su, you have drunk this cup of tea, and you never touch the tea that others have drunk...... I mean, I don't like people, this cup of tea, Miss Su should enjoy it by herself. ”

After speaking, he sat back next to Su Jiudong and secretly glanced at Su Jiudong, who was smiling next to him.

"I forgot to introduce you first, my name is Xiaoshan. Just now I took my own cup to offer tea to Childe, which is really rude, and I ask Childe to forgive me. ”

Su Xiaoshan concealed her embarrassment, withdrew the teacup, and stood back to Li's right hand side with a curling smile, and separated from Su Xinglian.

Su Xiaoshan refused to call Wen Yiheng her "brother-in-law", just because she had just heard others say that Wen Yiheng and Su Jiudong were born out of wedlock, and although the two were already husband and wife, they were not married.

Since she is not married, she Su Xiaoshan still has a chance.

Su Xinglian stood up and shook off the goose-yellow shawl that was quite eye-catching and out of place in a crowd of dark and elegant colors, and exaggerated curtsy to Wen Yiheng, learning from Su Xiaoshan's beautiful appearance, and said awkwardly: "Hello son, my girlfriend's name is Xinglian, you can also call me Lian'er." ”

Su Xinglian's "Lian'er" not only woke up Su Jiudong's goosebumps, but also made the granddaughters present speechless.

Later, several granddaughters of the Su family came out to introduce themselves to Wen Yiheng one by one, and when Su Miaoling arrived, she only hurriedly returned to Wen Yiheng and returned behind the Jin family.

There were several granddaughters who lived in the village, and when they heard about the humiliating incident that happened in the big house some time ago, they all stayed away from Su Miaoling and avoided her like a plague god.

"Sister Ah Ling, why do you talk so little today, this is not like you usually."

The person who talked to Su Miaoling was a distant cousin of the Su family, and she didn't often go back to the ancestral house on weekdays, so she didn't know what happened to Su Miaoling some time ago.

Su Miaoling said that she was sick and her throat was not very comfortable, so the doctor told her to talk less.

Looking at the display of several sisters and sisters in front of Wen Yiheng, Su Miaoling couldn't help but sneer at them in her heart.

It is estimated that they have learned Wen Yiheng's power in the future, but they are afraid that they will not dare to appear in front of Wen Yiheng.

Jin gritted his teeth and glared at Su Jiudong and Wen Yiheng, but it was not easy to attack, and he was glared at by Li, so he had to keep to himself.

At noon, the old lady Su Dayou sent Su Xingping, the son of the Su family, to come to the side hall to ask people to gather in the main hall, and the ancestor worship ceremony was ready to begin.

The main hall has been arranged in the venue, the tablet of the ancestors of the Su family is enshrined in the center of the offering table, the candles and candles are placed on both sides, water cups, melons and fruits, and snacks are all available, and the yellow incense inserted in the incense burner burns a faint light smoke.

The master of ceremonies announced the official start of the ancestor worship ceremony, and Su Dayou and Li led everyone in the Su family to bow their heads and bow.

Su Jiudong and Wen Yiheng also knelt down with the general stream, but they only felt awkward, and muttered in their hearts, this kneeling worship is all for Liu Yunniang and for the adoptive father.