Chapter 221: Substitute
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
‘Do you think you can fool everyone with just a little trick?!”
Gu Jian let everyone in the family see this girl’s true colors.
Madam Wang supported him, feeling uneasy. She couldn’t help but look at the
Old Marquis’s memorial tablet.
She wanted to advise him to stop, in case he fell again.
The children were so frightened by this cursing that they cried non-stop. The sharp cries made the others feel even more flustered. Fourth Master Gu and Fifth Master Gu gave their wives and children a look and slowly took a step back, then another.
Madam Gu seemed indifferent to all of this. She stared at the Old Marquis’s memorial tablet without moving, as if she was missing something or looking at someone who wasn’t here.
Her old and turbid eyes darkened in the heavy candlelight and her body stiffened.
After the initial panic, Madam Gu gradually calmed down.
When the Old Marquis was alive, she wasn’t afraid of him. Now that he was dead, there was even less need to be afraid of him.
In the blink of an eye, 14 years had passed!
She was the only one left alive...
Madam Gu sighed deeply.
Her gaze gently swept across Gu Yanfei and she didn’t say anything. To her, it didn’t matter if the abnormality caused by the memorial tablet was Gu Yanfei’s doing.
The important thing was—
‘Zhen’er, stop fooling around.”
Madam Gu slowly turned to look at Gu Yunzhen, who was two steps away. She stared into her eyes and said in an unquestionable tone, ‘You have to marry today!”
She slowly twisted the prayer beads in her hand with her usual kind smile.
But at this moment, this smile was chilling. It felt as if she was wearing a mask.
“Tuk, tuk.”
As soon as Madam Gu finished speaking, the Old Marquis’s memorial tablet trembled even more, as if it had been provoked.
In the next moment, the memorial tablet lost its balance and fell forward, falling off the high incense table and toward the ground..
‘Ah!”
Everyone from the Gu family gasped in unison. Several women exclaimed with pale faces.
The memorial tablet was only made of wood. If it fell from this height, it would most likely break.
“Father-in-law has appeared...” Fourth Madam Gu’s legs went weak and she almost fell weakly. Fortunately, her two daughters caught her in time.
Madam Gu naturally saw this scene and her eyes almost popped out.
She leaped toward the fallen memorial tablet and thrust her hands forward with all her might. Even her chin came up unconsciously and she caught it in an extremely strange and twisted manner.
She couldn’t care less about her bearing. She no longer had her usual elegance and poise.
Madam Wang’s jaw almost dropped.
Gu Yunrong originally wanted to watch coldly and see what Gu Yanfei and the others were up to.
At this moment, seeing that Madam Gu had almost fallen to catch her grandfather’s memorial tablet, Gu Yunrong quickly stepped forward and asked with concern, ‘Grandma, are you alright?”
‘Grandfather’s memorial tablet..
Gu Yunrong held Madam Gu’s arm with one hand and wanted to help her. Her other hand reached out to the memorial tablet in her hand, wanting to take it.
And yet—
Before Gu Yunrong’s fingers could touch the memorial tablet, she felt a strong push on her shoulder.
Gu Yunrong was caught off guard and staggered back. She grabbed the incense table with her left hand and tried to steady herself.
When she bumped into the incense table, the memorial tablets on it swayed a few times, making even more chaotic thuds.
Madam Gu was like a frightened rabbit. She carefully held the memorial tablet with both hands and looked around in fear. She felt that the ancestral hall was eerie this time.
Madam Gu’s heart was beating wildly, and her face was pale. She vented her anger on Gu Yunrong and reprimanded, “How can a girl be so rash!!”
‘Grandma?” Gu Yunrong had just stabilized herself when Madam Gu scolded her. She was a little stunned and in disbelief.
This was the first time she had been scolded like this by her grandmother and the first time she had been pushed away by her.
Gu Yunrong felt hurt, but at the same time, she acutely sensed that Madam Guts loss of composure came from the fear in her heart.
Was Grandma afraid?
Looking at Madam Guis uncertain eyes and trembling fingertips, Gu Yunrong couldn’t help but have a question.
What was Grandma afraid of...
Gu Yanfei stood three to four steps away from Madam Gu and watched this scene calmly. Even the corners of her eyes didn’t move..