Chapter 141 of Volume One: Suddenly Understand

  When the dishes were served, Luo Zheng and Wen Yan came out of the study room. The three brothers of the Wen family followed one after another. Luo Ye glanced at several people's expressions - nothing was unusual.

  "Come on over and sit down." Old Lady Wen pointed to the empty seat beside her.

  "Mom, I'm so sorry for not coming back to see you all these years." Luo Zheng said apologetically again.

  The old lady smiled and said, "Alright, now that you're back, let's just forget about the past. Although your father has a sharp tongue, he actually cares about you in his heart. If he says anything unpleasant, don't take it to heart."

  "Mom, I really took it to heart..." Seeing the old lady's smile stiffen, Luo Zheng quickly explained: "Dad taught me a few words that he has me in his heart. You said if I didn't take it to heart, wouldn't I be letting him down?"

  "You scared me half to death!" The old lady was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.

  "Hey, when did you become so annoying?"

  The three Wen brothers and the younger ones all burst out laughing, and their eldest maternal aunt came out of the kitchen to see everyone in stitches, so she also started laughing. Wen Nan poked his elbow at her: "Hey... hey, do you know what we're laughing about?"

  Li Niangying warmly patted Wen Nan's head: "Little South Gourd, seeing you laugh like this, I know it must be a happy thing. What does it matter what the matter is? Just follow along and be happy too."

  Wen Nan looked defeated: "Auntie, you're really good at sending people off, I admit defeat."

  The whole family was making a lively noise, and Old Master Wen came out of the study. The hall immediately fell silent. The old master frowned: "Sit down."

  Luoye suddenly came back to herself, "Don't we all sit down?" Wen Ke pulled up the dazed Luoye and Luofeng: "Grandpa means go sit at the dinner table."

  The dishes were all served, and the guests sat in two rows around the long, rectangular table in order of seniority. The arrangement of meat and vegetarian dishes was quite reasonable, but what made Luo Ye anxious was that the table was so long that some dishes couldn't be reached even when standing up, and there didn't seem to be any servants helping to change the dishes... Just as Luo Ye was secretly wondering about this, Old Master Wen pressed a protrusion on the head of the table, and the plates on the table began to move slowly. Upon closer inspection, it turned out that the tabletop was a rotating conveyor belt. This way, the people at the table only needed to sit obediently and they could eat all the dishes. Tsk tsk, she had been outsmarted.

  "Is it convenient? Let me tell you, this table is 76 years old this year, even older than Grandpa. The rotating thing on top can't be made now, Grandpa said it's purely handmade..." Wen Ke hurriedly shut her mouth as she felt the old man's gaze sweep over.

  After Old Master Wen picked up his chopsticks and started eating, the others followed suit. For a moment, except for the soft sounds of chewing, there was no other noise at the table.

  Lu Ye stole a glance at Old Master, coincidentally meeting his gaze. Lu Ye, who was used to joking with Old Master, instinctively made a silly face, then froze and quickly turned back to continue eating as if nothing had happened.

  Old Master Wen's eyes flashed with a hint of amusement, seeing the younger ones' faces flushed red, so he stood up: "I've finished eating, you all eat slowly." Almost to the study room, he added another sentence: "Today, make an exception once, if you want to talk, just say it."

  "Yè ér, you're too adorable." After the old man's figure disappeared, Wēn Kě hugged Luò Yè who was still lowering her head in contemplation, and it was a chaotic daze.

  Wen Er's uncle glared at his daughter: "Xiao Ke, Ye is eating now, be careful."

  Wen Ke spat out her tongue and quickly let go: "Ye Er, I'm just too excited. The times when our family's dinner table breaks the rules are countable on one hand. I really saw Grandpa smile earlier."

  "I also saw it," Wen Nan hastily confirmed.

  Lu Ye's discontented fist shook: "Don't dare to make fun of me, I'm used to arguing with Grandpa, it's a conditioned reflex. Whoever dares to make fun of me, be careful or I'll take care of him."

  Ye Er, Luo Zheng just frowned and stared at his daughter.

  The old lady smiled and waved her hand: "Alright, don't scold Ye Er, the Wen family hasn't been so lively in many years. Your dad is like that, cold on the surface but warm at heart. He wouldn't admit it even if he thought of you, let alone say it out loud."

  In the future, you should bring the kids back to visit often. When your dad and mom are busy, you two can come by yourselves to see Grandma and Grandpa, okay?

  "Grandma, don't worry, Ye and I will come visit you, Grandpa, Uncle, Auntie, Brother, and Sister often."

  "Aren't you going to look at your little brother?" Wen Nan stared at Luo Feng discontentedly.

  "Xiao Nan Gua likes to pick this thorn, if it's a hundred or so relatives, your brother will have to shout from head to toe! After shouting, I estimate that even what to say is forgotten." Li Nianying smiled and patted Wen Nan on the back, regarding this motherless nephew, she had always regarded him as her own.

  "Great Aunt, you always like to bully me."

  "Stop chatting and hurry up to eat, after finishing eating we'll go to the hall to chat." The old lady said while serving Wen Xin dishes: "Xin, eat more, look at how thin you are."

  Li Niangying smiled and said: "Xiao Xin, what mom means by 'just right' is my current appearance, 163 cm tall and 69 kg in weight. You'd better be mentally prepared."

  "It's better for a woman to be wealthy and look good, you just don't understand this principle, otherwise in those years..." The old lady suddenly choked up.

  "Mom, I'm sorry, it's all my fault." Wen Xin put down her chopsticks and hugged her mother, sobbing uncontrollably. Since coming back, everyone had been avoiding this matter, but it was inevitable that they would eventually get around to it.

  The originally lively atmosphere suddenly became depressed, and it was the old lady who came back first, patted her daughter: "Xiao Xin, I understand your temper best. Xiaoyu's affairs are not to be blamed on you, don't always carry the burden on your back. Mom didn't mention it earlier, just because she was afraid you would think too much."

  "Xiao Xin, listen," said Eldest Uncle Wen Song with a gentle sigh.

  "The deceased is gone, the living are like this. Xiaoxin, if you had understood this truth earlier, we wouldn't have been separated for so many years before reuniting. We can't be entangled again."

  "Sister, Second Brother said that if you think about it carefully, can you really be blamed for that matter? With your current state, Elder Sister wouldn't be at peace even in another world."

  The warm and excited younger brothers nodded, looking at the old lady: "Mom, I'll come back home more often to visit you and dad, and take on sister's share of filial piety too, okay?"

  "That's right, that's how it should be"

  "Mom, I want to go to my sister's grave today and pay my respects. It's been so many years, but I've always been afraid to face it...I really feel guilty towards her..." Seeing the old lady's worried expression again, Wen Xin quickly explained: "Don't worry, this time I really understand."

  The old lady nodded: "Okay, let Xiaotong accompany you."

  "Hey, sis, you guys must be pretty tired today too. I think it's better to go tomorrow afternoon instead, what do you think?"

  "Alright, then tomorrow it is." Wen Xin originally wanted to insist, but Luo Zheng had just given her a subtle signal, so she yielded to Wen Tong.

  "Think about it, Old Lady Wen said: "Xiao Tong, tomorrow take a detour to pick up Yu Miao on the way back, this is not a good thing, what do you think?"

  "Mom, forget it. She's not on the same wavelength as us, and forcing her to come aboard would be pointless. I'll take some time off to settle things with her, so don't worry about it anymore."

  ……

  Taking advantage of everyone's discussion about Little Uncle and Little Aunt in the hall, Luo Ye sneaked to the small lake where she had been that morning, staring hard at the distant Moon Mountain, until her eyes felt sour, but still didn't feel anything unusual.

  In the end, she sat by the lake, defeated. She couldn't go find someone and ask them to shoot her, could she?

  She was so anxious to verify this matter, of course, there is a reason. She had followed Xing Dong to the shooting range with Tang Luoyin before, and tried live ammunition shooting at that time. At that time, she didn't feel anything unusual, including when she was shooting.

  Tomorrow I'm going to pay respects at my aunt's grave, who knows if there will be any danger? With great difficulty, the tragedy that was supposed to happen in Luo's family was finally avoided, she didn't want anything unexpected to happen again.

  She admitted that she was also worried about her grandfather's family, but in her heart, the most important thing was naturally this family of hers. She didn't think there was anything wrong with what she did; it was just human nature.

  No way, she wants to persuade her mom to temporarily give up going to the grave of her eldest aunt, in this life, she absolutely cannot accept losing any one of her dad, mom or brother.

  "Ah"

  Lu Ye didn't notice Wen Yan had arrived until she stood up, and he had been quietly standing behind her the whole time.

  "Big... big brother, how did you come here? What if there's danger again?" Luo Ye said while looking in the direction of Yuè Shān, her face tense as she pushed Wēn Yán back.

  "Yèr, it's alright, they won't come again." Wēn Yán smiled and pulled Luò Yè down to sit: "I couldn't see you, I reckon you're still tangled up in this matter, so I came looking for you."

  Lu Ye looked at him with some concern: "How do you know they won't come again? Have you found out anything?"

  "People have been sent to investigate, Ye Er must believe that the Wen family has existed for so many years and is not a soft persimmon that can be easily pinched."

  Lu Ye curled up her mouth and secretly thought: "If I hadn't discovered it in time, this hard persimmon would have been opened by the flower thief."

  Wen Yan saw Luo Ye's expression and understood what she was thinking, smiling: "Indeed, if not for Ye's mighty divine power today, Big Brother might have become a corpse."

  "There are some things that I cannot say without Grandfather's consent, but I can promise Yè that going to pay respects at Big Aunt's grave tomorrow will be absolutely safe."

  "Big brother, if you don't tell me the truth about this matter, I won't be able to put my mind at ease. Second brother mentioned some things about you earlier, and Keke also expressed her suspicions, it's possible that it was Feng's family, but when I thought about it again just now, I feel that Feng's family would do such a thing?"

  "Ye Er is indeed clever, and Grandfather, Father, and the uncles also thought it was impossible that it was the Feng family..." Wen Yan Zheng said as he spoke, his eyes glanced at Liu Shu, the old butler who had walked over, and quickly pulled Luo Ye to stand up: "Ye Er, it should be Grandfather looking for me, let's go back together, I don't feel at ease leaving you here by yourself."

  Today is even better in the evening, but today was really stuck, it's a mood stuck, encountered some unpleasant things, when typing always distracted, and then constantly modifying, unfortunately until now only 3000+ words, ah!

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