On weekdays, unless there are special circumstances, the Pei family's dinner is always held at 18:30, imperial time.
This is formulated according to the most authoritative nutrition experts.
Eating at this time is most beneficial to human health.
But today is New Year's Eve.
According to the Pei family's rules, a series of tedious ancestor worship rituals must be performed before dinner, so dinner will be moved back an hour.
In the Pei family ancestral hall.
The housekeeper of Pei's residence had prepared all the supplies for ancestor worship long ago, and led twenty-four male servants to stand in an orderly manner in the ancestral hall, waiting for Pei Yucheng to come and worship the ancestors.
But after waiting for a long time, the time for ancestor worship was almost over, but there was still no sign of Pei Yucheng.
The Pei family’s ancestor worship culture is very strict.
Except on the day of sacrifice, when all members of the Pei family can offer sacrifices, at other times, only the legitimate male members of the Pei family can participate in the ancestor worship.
The main hall of the ancestral hall is composed of an inner hall and an outer hall.
The inner hall is dedicated to enshrining the tablets of Pei family ancestors.
According to the rules of the Pei family: the inner hall is where the head of the Pei family kneels and worships his ancestors.
As for the other legitimate male members of the Pei family, they could only kneel in the outer hall during ancestor worship and were not allowed to step into the inner hall.
The outer hall at this moment.
Pei Quyan's handsome face had become dark and gloomy the moment Pei Huaijin stepped into the outer hall.
The expression was extremely gloomy.
"Pei Huaijin, how can you kneel in front of our ancestors with this look on your face? Aren't you afraid of polluting their eyes?!" Pei Quyan's eyes were red.
Pei Huaijin, who had been beaten for an hour for no apparent reason, was already feeling aggrieved. The moment he heard Pei Quyan's disgusted words of criticism, he felt even worse.
My mentality has collapsed.
"Why should I be embarrassed to kneel in front of our ancestors?! I just want to use my miserable appearance at this moment to kneel in front of the Pei family ancestors and accuse my brother of his atrocities. It's obviously all Ji Yuqi's fault, why did he beat me up for a disagreement?! Just because I'm younger than him and have a lower status in the family, do I have to endure his bullying?!" Pei Huaijin was extremely indignant.
It was clearly his wife's fault, why should he be punished? !
To be more precise: punish only him? !
It's so unfair.
Just because he has a low status, does that mean he has to shoulder everything alone?!
The more he thought about it, the more unbalanced Pei Huaijin felt, and the more aggrieved he felt.
Pei Huaijin, with a bruised face and nose, looked like a pig head. Pei Quyan couldn't bear to look at his face.
It's too eye-catching.
Pei Quyan scolded him in a bad tone: "Get out of here right now. Forget about today's ancestral worship. Don't scare our ancestors."
Pei Huaijin refused to give in. He knelt in the outer hall, looking through the carved patterns on the wooden door at the ancestral tablets in the inner hall, and cried out, "Grandfather, great-grandfather, great-great-grandfather... Look carefully at how my brother bullied me. He beat me so hard that I'm no longer a human being. It's so miserable. Ever since Ji Yuqi entered our Pei family, I've been living a life that's not a human being. You must make the decision for me. You must punish my brother and teach him a lesson. You must make him..."
How?!
For men, the cruelest punishment is: poor health, inability to find a wife, bad luck, poverty...
But, does he have to make his brother get seriously ill, his wife run away, get hit by a car when he goes out, and go bankrupt?!
Pei Huaijin, who was kneeling in the outer hall with snot and tears streaming down his face, couldn't help sobbing several times when his thoughts turned to this.
After a few seconds of silence, he continued to sob and said, "You must punish my brother by making him live a hundred years, be stronger than iron, and have an obedient wife. You must also punish him by making money vigorously and counting it so that the whole family is afraid of the sight of money..."
“…” Pei Quyan.
Isn't this curse so touching?!
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