“No one is trying to kick you out of the Xie family.” Xie Zian followed over and saw this scene, feeling a slight pang in his heart.
"Really?" Xie Ziyuan gave a wry smile and tucked a stray hair behind her ear.
"Zi'an, thank you for comforting me, but there are some things you don't understand."
Xie Zian looked at her quietly, "But why do you keep organizing people to pressure Grandpa?"
Xie Ziyuan looked at Xie Zian with some surprise, as if she didn't recognize him at all.
She thought Xie Zian had come to comfort her, but she never expected him to come to question her!
Xie Ziyuan could barely maintain her gentle demeanor; she had to exert all her strength to prevent her features from contorting and revealing an ugly expression.
"Zi'an, I don't know what you're talking about..."
"Really?" Xie Ziyuan was observing Xie Zi'an, and Xie Zi'an was also observing Xie Ziyuan. Seeing her denial, he felt an indescribable disappointment.
The boy was wearing a custom-made long trench coat. He was already quite thin, and now that he was standing there with his long arms and legs, his figure seemed even more frail.
He looked down at his toes. "In that case, put down what you're holding. You can't take anything from the ancestral hall."
Xie Ziyuan's fingers clenched suddenly, she was somewhat annoyed, "Zian, do you doubt me?"
Xie Zian didn't answer, but Xie Lin was getting impatient. He had never liked Xie Ziyuan, and the two of them barely had any relationship.
He stepped forward, his gaze sharp: "Hand it over, and we'll pretend this never happened."
Xie Ziyuan looked humiliated, but finally let go with a bitter smile. "I went in to get something—I took my jade slip. Since Grandpa doesn't intend for me to be the eldest daughter of the Xie family anymore, there's no need to keep this jade slip in the ancestral hall."
The Xie family has a custom of placing jade slips in the ancestral hall for worship, in order to pray for the blessings of their ancestors and for a long and healthy life. However, only children need to make offerings to them.
Many people take the jade slip with them after reaching adulthood and wear it on their person. The jade slip, imbued with the incense offerings of their ancestors, is a talisman for warding off evil and bringing good fortune.
Xie Zian didn't believe in these things. He moved away from the Xie family with his mother when he was young, and rarely participated in ancestral worship activities afterward. He didn't even remember whether he had let go of the jade slip.
However, he was somewhat surprised that Xie Ziyuan's jade slip had been kept inside all along.
I took it and looked at it; Xie Ziyuan's name was indeed engraved on it.
Xie Zian was a little embarrassed; he hadn't expected that he had actually misunderstood Xie Ziyuan.
"My mother secretly put this jade slip in with me when I was a child." At that time, she was only three years old, and the Xie family had not fully accepted her yet. Logically speaking, she was not qualified to enter the ancestral hall, but Ding Huizhu believed in these things.
Xie Ziyuan's eyes turned slightly cold, and she smiled bitterly, "Forget it, my mother and I are completely outsiders."
When she left, her figure was shrouded in desolation.
Xie Lin stared at her back with a sharp look in his eyes. Suddenly, he turned to Xie Zi'an and said, "We need to tell Grandpa about this right away."
Grandpa Xie only found out about this in the evening.
The ancestral worship ceremony was solemn and complicated. The conflict was resolved in half an hour, as no one dared to delay the ceremony and affect the ancestral worship.
In the end, Xie Li's name was recorded in the family genealogy as the eldest granddaughter of Xie Buyun and the eldest daughter of the Xie family.
After pondering for a moment, Grandpa Xie was still worried, so he took Xie Li to the ancestral hall again.
The ancestral hall looked somewhat eerie and terrifying at night, but Xie Li felt a special sense of warmth and familiarity with it.
When she was young, Ding Huizhu didn't really care about her. She was taken in by Master Xie to be raised, but Master Xie was very busy, so she would sneak off to play in the ancestral hall.
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