The old lady had come to her senses. She looked at Meng Sheng, who had suddenly rushed in, and asked, "Sheng Sheng, what happened to you..."
Hearing the sound, Meng Sheng turned around to look at her, and breathed a sigh of relief, saying, "Grandma, thank goodness you're alright."
The old lady waved her hand, signaling for A-Juan to close the door to the Buddhist hall, and pulled Meng Sheng to sit down. "What's wrong? What happened?"
While Meng Sheng and the old lady were talking in the Buddhist hall, Gu Ci had already gone back to her room to pack her things, and then the Gu family's driver came to pick her up.
On her way out of the Pei family's house, only the Pei family's butler saw her off, and his attitude towards her remained unchanged, just like before.
Upon reaching the door, he respectfully nodded and said gently, "Miss Gu, please take care. Welcome to visit again next time."
Gu Ci paused, feeling as if the housekeeper's words had slapped her hard across the face, causing that burning pain to return.
The Gu family's driver came forward, took the things from her hands, and nodded, "Third Miss."
"go home."
Gu Ci gritted her teeth, gave the order in a low voice, and then opened the back door and got in.
As the car slowly started moving and the buildings of the Pei family's old residence disappeared from view, she bit her lip and clenched her fists.
All her pride, dignity, and self-respect were brutally trampled and rubbed into the ground by Meng Sheng and the Pei family.
From today onwards, she will no longer show mercy to anyone in the Pei family.
She had truly had enough of this humiliation.
She wants Meng Sheng dead!
This thought was stronger than ever before.
In her previous life, when Meng Sheng committed suicide, she had sympathized with her and felt sorry for her.
Even after returning in this life, she felt more sympathy than resentment towards Meng Sheng; otherwise, she wouldn't have so harshly belittled Shang Boyu when he wanted to collaborate with her before.
At that time, she hoped that Shang Boyu and Meng Sheng would be bound together, since she knew that the two of them still had feelings for each other.
But Shang Boyu wanted to recruit her, which was undoubtedly an insult to her.
How could she, who always considered herself superior, collude with Shang Boyu?
But when exactly did it change?
She forgot that she was willing to use everyone to achieve her goals.
But... she was kind once too. The fact that she's become like this is all their fault. They didn't give her a chance, they didn't give her a way to survive.
What did she do wrong?!
Once the car had completely left the section of road where the Pei family's old residence was, she looked up at the driver in front of her, her voice still gentle, but lacking warmth, "Find someone to check on Cheng Jie's whereabouts and help me contact him."
The driver was taken aback, not knowing who Cheng Jie, the young lady was talking about, was. After thinking for a moment, he asked again, and only after getting a clear clue did he nod and reply, "Yes."
The Pei family returned to the Pei residence around 3 PM.
Cui Xueheng's funeral came to an end. The group discussed in the old lady's courtyard when to go to Los Angeles to sort out Cui Xueheng's belongings, transfer the case back to Beijing, and bring back the remaining servants.
It's better to do this sooner rather than later. After discussing it, they decided that Pei Yu and Pei Huan would go to Los Angeles together the next morning.
As for Cui Xueheng's belongings in the fifth courtyard, let's leave them there for now and sort them out when they return.
Pei Sui didn't participate in the discussion about sorting out the deceased's belongings. At the end of the conversation, he only said that he was going back to the south of the city the next morning.
His uncle, Cui Zhengqing, glanced at him several times, but he refrained from saying anything.
She was actually quite dissatisfied with Pei Sui's behavior these past few days, feeling that he showed no respect for his mother, Ah Heng, but Ah Yu had already spoken to him about it.
There's no problem with respecting the dead, but no one can force him to forgive the psychological harm his mother inflicted on him during his childhood.
These wounds cannot be healed, and he has done his best to send his mother off on her final journey.
Even though Asui didn't participate in the funeral, people outside had a lot of complaints about his actions, but Asui wasn't the kind of person who would care.
Ayu also said that he and Xueying should treat Asui fairly.
Thinking of this, he finally suppressed his dissatisfaction.
However, he still felt that Xueheng's death was related to him. If he hadn't insisted on sending his mother abroad, this wouldn't have happened.
Pei Sui didn't care at all that the Cui family had such ideas.
He didn't care about the Cui family's thoughts at all. He had never intended to have any dealings with anyone from the Cui family before, and he certainly wouldn't in the future.
Dinner was again eaten in the old lady's courtyard.
Meng Sheng showed Pei Sui the text message from this morning only after they returned to Zhishui Residence.
Pei Sui's pupils suddenly contracted, his body stiffened, and he looked up at Meng Sheng in horror, "Grandma..."
Meng Sheng quickly reassured him, "It's alright, I got there in time."
Recalling Gu Ci's expression at the time, she frowned slightly, "Perhaps... if I had arrived two minutes later... no, half a minute, or even a minute later, she would have attacked Grandma."
Pei Sui breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that his grandmother seemed to be in good spirits that afternoon.
His mood fluctuated wildly, almost causing him to experience a sudden heart palpitation.
The old lady was the one who raised him, and he always respected and was grateful to her. If she was really killed by Gu Ci, he would live with endless guilt for the rest of his life.
After he recovered, he pursed his lips, his eyes filled with a chilling coldness. "I need to tell my brother about this."
As if he had just remembered something, he added, "My brother... can be trusted."
Meng Sheng was taken aback for a moment, then met her gaze and immediately understood what he was thinking.
I'd heard him say before that he was collecting some kind of evidence about the Gu family, but it kept getting delayed. Now that Gu Ci is even thinking of killing the old lady, there's really no need to be merciful anymore.
He wanted to tell Pei Yu about the text message that predicted the future.
Meng Sheng also felt that Pei Yu was quite trustworthy, and she had no objection to it, nodding, "Okay."
Pei Sui returned around 10 p.m. that night, carrying another exquisite ceramic tea set from the Autumn Lotus Pond series.
Meng Sheng stared at the thing in his hand, speechless. "You...you went to your brother's place for a freebie? Your brother hasn't blacklisted you from his teahouse yet?"
How could they let him in?
There were a few kinds of tea on that cabinet, which he said he got from Pei Yu a few days ago.
Low IQ: Robbery.
High IQ: Zero Yuan Purchase.
Pei Sui put the things down. "Your dad likes to drink tea, so you can give it to him. It's inconvenient to have tea leaves but no teaware."
Meng Sheng: "..."
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