"Miss Mu Ning, the old lady hasn't gotten up yet. You can't just barge in. You will disturb the old lady. Stop quickly, Miss Mu Ning..."
Mu Ning ignored the servant's obstruction and reached the door of the old lady's room.
An old voice came from inside.
"Let her in."
The old lady spoke, and the servant had no choice but to let her in.
Mu Ning walked into the room and saw Mrs. Gu leaning on the bed, still looking very weak. She must have been angry about what happened yesterday.
"Grandma, I'm sorry. I didn't take care of Xiaomi and let her run into the ancestral hall and cause a big disaster."
Mu Ning stood by the bed, lowering his head, "Please let Uncle Gu get up. This is my fault and I will bear it myself."
Mrs. Gu glanced at her lightly, "Do you know why I punished Ayin so hard?"
Mu Ning lowered his eyebrows, "Because he let me go."
The old lady hummed, "Teaching him a lesson is just a small aspect. The most important thing is to wait for you to come."
Mu Ning raised his head in confusion.
The old lady's eyes showed sharpness, "If you don't come, Ayin will have to kneel there all the time."
Mu Ning clenched his fists when he heard this, "You made him kneel just to force me to go back to my old house?"
Gu Zhiyin sent her out of the old house just to keep her away from these disputes.
In order to make her come back obediently, the old lady asked Gu Zhiyin to kneel in the ancestral hall.
If Mu Ning doesn't come to see the old lady, then Gu Zhiyin will keep kneeling.
So cruel...
Just because he is not your biological child, do you have to be so cruel to him?
Mu Ning looked at Mrs. Gu, her eyes a little scarlet.
Mrs. Gu smiled slyly, "I knew you wouldn't leave A Yin alone. You would definitely come back and come to me."
"What do you want to do?"
"Leave Ayin."
Mu Ning froze and looked sharply at Mrs. Gu. It turned out that this wife already knew.
She took a deep breath, lowered her eyes and gritted her teeth, "No."
Unless Gu Zhiyin personally asked her to leave, she wouldn't leave at all.
At this time, she would never leave him.
With her gone, Uncle Gu has nothing to rely on.
"I guess you won't agree. Humph, you two are so brave! You dare to get together without telling everyone! I shouldn't have agreed to adopt you in the first place. A Yin is a fool, so you are shameless. What's wrong with the Gu family? There are evil beasts like you two, you really have no moral shame at all!"
"You can scold me, but you are not allowed to scold him." Mu Ning tried to restrain himself, "Except for this matter, you can punish me however you want."
Mrs. Gu chuckled, "Penalize you? That beast destroyed the ancestral hall, so punishing you is inevitable."
"But I only have one request now. If you leave Ayin, I won't hold you accountable for burning down the ancestral hall."
Mu Ning was expressionless, "I also said, I will not leave him."
Mrs. Gu's face showed anger, "Can you bear to let Ayin kneel there all the time?"
"I can't bear it, so I'm here to beg you."
Mu Ning's face was determined, "Grandma, even if you don't care about Uncle Gu's life or death, you still have to consider the Gu family."
"If he falls, no one in the Gu family can support him. Even if you push someone to the top again, the people below him will not obey."
"Mu Ning, are you warning me?!" Mrs. Gu's face was ashen.
"No, I'm just reminding you that if you haven't found a suitable candidate to take his place, you'd better not torture him like this, otherwise Gu's losses will be even greater."
"You...you are just adopted by the Gu family. Who do you have to talk to me like this! I asked you to leave the Gu family and leave Gu Zhiyin, and how dare you shamelessly pester him?! What the Gu family has given you for so many years is still less. ?!"
Mrs. Gu was very angry, but Mu Ning was very calm.
"Grandma, you are wrong. I was adopted by Uncle Gu, not the Gu family. I don't owe the Gu family anything. You don't need to kidnap me morally."
Mu Ning said indifferently, "It's useless even if you threaten me with Uncle Gu. He raised me and I only listen to him. If he doesn't let me go, even if you break my legs, I will Don’t leave.”
Mrs. Gu covered her heart angrily, her face pale.
"Grandma, please don't be angry. It won't be good if you get angry like this."
The old lady pointed at her, "You...you..."
Mu Ning suspected that he was going to piss off the old lady to death.
Although she really wanted this old woman who bullied Uncle Gu to disappear.
But the old woman couldn't die at this time, otherwise she wouldn't be able to explain clearly.
Mu Ning went to the door and called the nanny Li's sister-in-law to come in. Li's sister-in-law immediately gave Mrs. Gu medicine.
Mrs. Gu took a breath and said, "You are a powerful girl. OK, I promise you, I will let him get up, but your punishment will be inevitable."
"How do you want to punish me?"
"I want you to go to Anling Temple to pray for the Gu family, and you are not allowed to come down until after the Lantern Festival."
Mu Ning frowned, "It's okay to pray, but why does it take so long?"
"This is my last concession! Mu Ning, instead of asking so many questions, why don't you think about it, Gu Zhiyin is still kneeling there!"
Mu Ning was stunned, took a deep breath, and nodded, "Okay, I'll go. Please do what you say and don't embarrass him again."
…
The door of the ancestral hall slowly opened.
"Master Gu, the old lady said you can get up."
Gu Zhiyin was quiet for a moment, took a breath, and slowly stood up.
After kneeling for too long, his legs were almost numb. Gu Zhiyin gritted his teeth. When he stood up, his calves suddenly cramped. His slender figure staggered and almost fell, but a pair of white hands caught him in time.
Gu Zhiyin followed the hands and saw Mu Ning's worried face, "Be careful."
He opened his mouth and said, "Why haven't you left yet?"
Seeing his pale face, Mu Ning didn't want to argue with him, "Don't drive me away."
After saying that, she hugged his waist, buried her face in his arms and rubbed her, raised her head, her eyes were a little red, "I want to wait until Uncle Gu comes out and see you before I leave."
The girl was delicate and soft, a little aggrieved, and her warm little body pressed tightly against Gu Zhiyin's body that was soaked in cold air.
Gu Zhiyin was stiff for a moment and sighed softly, "Silly girl."
He touched Mu Ning's head, bent down, held her tightly in his arms, rested his chin on top of her head, and whispered hoarsely, "Don't do this next time."
Mu Ning poked his head out of his arms, "Isn't Uncle Gu unhappy to see me?"
Gu Zhiyin closed her eyes and admitted, "Happy."
Mu Ning suddenly felt a sense of suffocation and restraint. He said "Hmm" and stretched out his little hand to touch his back, "Let's go, Uncle Gu, I will help you back to the room."
Mu Ning helped him out of the ancestral hall, and Gu Zhiyin suddenly stopped.
"What's wrong?"
Gu Zhiyin looked at the snowy yard, a little stunned, "It's snowing."
Mu Ning stood beside him, "Yes, it's snowing."
She saw a snowman made by someone in the yard. It was dirty and a bit ugly. She smiled and said, "It's rare to see snow in the capital. Auspicious snow heralds a good year. This year must be an auspicious year."
Gu Zhiyin said nothing.
It also snowed on the day Jiang Shuhui died.
It was a heavy snowfall that was rare in Beijing in a hundred years.
Doing the math, it's almost twenty years.
After twenty years, he still couldn't make her wish.
Mu Ning saw him staring at Xue in a daze, "Did Uncle Gu remember something?"
Gu Zhiyin looked away and said, "It's nothing, let's go."
Back in the room, Mu Ning asked him to sit down on the bed and began to undress him.
Gu Zhiyin raised his eyebrows slightly and looked at her frivolously, "What is Ning Ning doing?"
