Pei Heng looked at Uncle Sun who had come in. Uncle Sun had worked for his family for many years and was an old man in the Pei family since Pei Heng's father was still alive.
When he saw Uncle Sun, his expression relaxed a bit. "What's the matter?"
Sun Bo hesitated for only a moment before telling Cen Yu everything he had said, including the matter of Pei Baijun that the other party had mentioned.
Upon hearing his uncle's name again, Pei Heng paused, looking at Uncle Sun, "So Cen Yuzhen said that?"
Pei Heng was usually expressionless, but perhaps because he hadn't slept for a long time, his voice was a little lower than before, giving people the illusion that he was hiding anger.
Uncle Sun nodded hurriedly, "That's what he said." He added, "He also just said the bathroom is haunted."
Knowing what had happened at the funeral hall last night, Pei Heng couldn't help but sigh in his heart... Especially when he learned that Cen Yu's marriage certificate with his uncle was written by his own hand and burned, Pei Heng felt a surge of guilt.
After all, he hadn't expected that this thing was actually real... Pei Heng felt somewhat guilty towards Cen Yu.
"Have him come over," Pei Heng said, rubbing his forehead. "Don't make a fuss about it yet." He added.
...
When Cen Yu entered Pei Heng's room wrapped in a bathrobe with her half-dry hair, she even sneezed.
Pei Heng had told Cen Yu to come over, but he hadn't expected her to come in wearing a bathrobe... He immediately felt a little uncomfortable, but he didn't know why he felt uncomfortable, so he could only ask awkwardly, "Why did you come in wearing a bathrobe?"
"Where are your clothes? Didn't Uncle Sun give them to you?"
“The clothes are clean…” Cen Yu said, then asked Pei Heng where the bathroom was.
Although Pei Heng didn't understand what he meant, he still pointed out the direction, and then watched as Cen Yu rushed into the bathroom without stopping, saying, "Let me take a shower."
"?" Pei Heng was a little puzzled.
He was about to lean closer to ask Cen Yu what she meant when he heard the sound of water coming from the closed bathroom, which made him stop in his tracks.
"You can't take a shower in your bathroom?" he asked, raising his voice slightly.
"Ask your uncle," Cen Yu shouted at the top of his lungs.
The bathwater in Pei Heng's bathroom was normal; there was no prank from Pei Baijun. Cen Yu closed his eyes and buried himself in the shower water.
Pei Heng was a little puzzled, but guessed that Cen Yu had probably encountered something in the bathroom... He decided to wait for the other party to come out before asking, so he took the book in his hand and returned to the reading chair.
It was only 9 a.m., and because the curtains were not drawn, the room was only warmly lit.
Pei Heng sat in the reading chair, looking at the words in the book in his hands, at the names that almost filled a line on the page and the long paragraphs on a whole page. Reading, which was usually very immersive for him, was now somewhat difficult to absorb into his mind.
The room was too quiet, which made the sound of water in the bathroom stand out even more.
Pei Heng let out a final sigh, closed the book in his hand, put it aside, and waited attentively for Cen Yu to come out of the bathroom.
Fortunately, Cen Yu took a quick shower, and after a while, he came out of the bathroom wearing a new bathrobe and towel.
"May I borrow it?" Cen Yu said.
Pei Heng couldn't bear to look at Cen Yu's casual appearance in a bathrobe, so he went to the dressing room, found a set of clothes he hadn't worn before, and handed them to Cen Yu, saying, "Put these on first."
Cen Yu took the clothes without saying anything, and only came out after changing in the bathroom.
Pei Heng has a large frame and is taller than Cen Yu. The clothes he handed him were loose-fitting sportswear, which looked a bit baggy on Cen Yu.
Cen Yu roughly dried his wet hair with a bath towel a few times, then threw the towel into Pei Heng's laundry basket in the bathroom.
"Did you come to me just to borrow the bathroom?" Pei Heng asked.
He realized that Cen Yu's purpose seemed to be to borrow his bathroom.
“I think you should keep an eye on your uncle,” Cen Yu said.
Pei Heng showed an expression that indicated he was willing to hear more.
Cen Yu recounted everything Pei Baijun had done, and finally expressed his doubts—
"Where did Pei Baijun get the money?"
Pei Heng didn't know where his uncle got the money, but when he heard that the money for Cen Yu's college education came from Pei Baijun's betrothal gifts, he fell silent for a while.
He hasn't accepted the fact that he found himself an aunt.
“I don’t know,” Pei Heng said. “...They might have their own trading channels.”
Anyway, Pei Baijun was never short of money, either before or after his death.
Pei Heng was also somewhat troubled; he really didn't know how to tell Pei Baijun about this.
You can't exactly say he was just fooling around with the ghosts back then, and then actually the ghosts believed him, right?
Even Cen Yu, that unlucky fellow, was dragged into it.
If Pei Heng had known that the marriage certificate he wrote would become real, he would never have written it.
“I saw Xiao Le in my dream, but when I called his name just now, he didn’t appear,” Cen Yu said.
Pei Heng certainly remembered the scene Cen Yu described in the mourning hall. According to what Cen Yu said, Pei Leyun seemed to have also become a spirit... but he didn't know why Pei Baijun could appear in front of Cen Yu, but Xiao Leyun couldn't.
But he didn't think too much about it. After all, in his opinion, Pei Leyun had only recently died, and even if she became a ghost, it probably wouldn't last as long as Pei Baijun's ghosthood.
Thinking of this, Pei Heng decided to find some time to have a chat with the expert he knew.
Both Pei Leyun's and her uncle's affairs have exceeded the scope of scientific explanation.
As for Cen Yu's matter—
“I will take full responsibility for your matter,” Pei Heng said.
Before today, he would most likely have found a chance to kick Cen Yu out of the Pei family, but after realizing that the other party had entered into a ghost marriage because of his mistake, Pei Heng would never abandon him.
He thought for a moment and then said to Cen Yu, "I will arrange a meeting with that expert and see if there is any chance for this matter to change."
In his view, burning the marriage certificate back then was such a trivial matter... Although he didn't understand these things very well, he knew that there were quite a few steps and things that needed to be prepared. How could it be so easy to complete the matter?
Of course, when Pei Heng later recalled this thought of his, he could only laugh at his own naiveté.
If a ghost truly desires something, how could it possibly be bound by the rules of the human world?
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