207 Seductive
The Murong couple looked at the cat’s elegant back in a daze. Madam Murong sighed softly. “It’s really beautiful!”
The swaying branches outside the window seemed to respond to her.
As the night deepened, the capital became quieter. The lights were extinguished one by one, and only the stars and moon in the sky were still shining.
The cat ignored the night and carried the talisman through the ink-black night, unaffected.
“Swish, swish, swish…”
In a few light leaps, it returned to the Marquis Mansion and quietly jumped into the sacrificial hall of the ancestral hall. It saw Gu Yunzhen and Gu Yanfei standing side by side in front of the memorial tablets.
Gu Yunzhen looked at Gu Ce and Madam Xie’s memorial tablets and said in a low voice, “… My mother told me that Uncle and Aunt are a real immortal couple. They’re each other’s only one.”
“In the years after Aunt passed away, countless matchmakers persuaded Uncle to remarry. They said that Eldest Brother and Third Sister needed the care of a mother, but Uncle never thought of remarrying.”
“Mother said that men like Uncle are too rare. Most men are like Father and Grandfather…”
Gu Yunzhen lowered her eyes and sighed.
Gu Yanfei stared deeply at her parents’ memorial tablets. Her eyes were gentle, and her expression was quiet.
The candle beside her had burned down to two inches. The yellow flame flickered.
“Meow!”
Realizing that neither of them had noticed her arrival, the cat meowed unhappily.
Gu Yunzhen’s attention was immediately attracted by the cat. She smiled happily and said, “Qing Guang, you’re back!”
The cat raised its tail proudly again and walked up to Gu Yanfei with its head held high. It handed the talisman in its mouth to her.
Then, it squatted proudly on another futon beside it, raising its small chin and waiting for praise.
The talisman had been in the cat’s mouth for a while, and a third of it was soaked with saliva.
Gu Yanfei swung the wet talisman and flicked it between its eyebrows in disdain. She teased, “It’s all your saliva!”
“Meow, meow, meow!”
The cat was furious and barked several times in dissatisfaction.
Gu Yanfei chuckled. She lowered her head and gently bent down to hook the cat’s chin with her finger.
The cat instinctively rubbed back against her palm, meowing at her like a spoiled child.
However, Gu Yanfei only said calmly, “I don’t understand.”
The cat’s eyes widened, and its long tail exploded again!
Gu Yanfei couldn’t help but smile. She casually took out a piece of chicken jerky from her pouch and threw it to the cat.
The cat swallowed the chicken jerky in a few bites and licked its claws. It still felt unsatisfactory, but it would gain weight if it ate too much supper.
As the cat thought about it, Gu Yanfei pinched the talisman and studied it carefully, concentrating.
The runes on the talisman paper were black.
Gu Yanfei brought the talisman close to her nose and sniffed it. She raised her eyebrows.
This rune should have been drawn by cinnabar mixed with blood and dark gray stone powder.
It was a talisman drawn by mortals in this small world. It was very different from what Gu Yanfei had learned in the Bright Spirit Realm.
However, nothing changed.
As long as it was a talisman, there must be a pattern to it…
“Meow!” The cat leaned over again and meowed pitifully.
It had worked hard to cross half of the capitol at night, but it was actually sent away by a mere piece of chicken jerky. It was really too perfunctory for the cat.
Hence, Gu Yanfei took out a bell ball from her sleeve and casually threw it out.
Qing Guang meowed and happily chased after the bell ball.
Gu Yunzhen finally came back to her senses and continued, “Grandpa and Grandma used to be an immortal couple. Unfortunately, it was only for less than two years.”
Gu Yunzhen noticed a little candle oil on her grandfather’s memorial tablet.
She took out a square of handkerchief and gently wiped the memorial tablet. The memorial tablet accidentally bumped into the incense table with a thud.
Gu Yunzhen carefully adjusted her grandfather’s memorial tablet and said faintly, “When my grandfather passed away, I was only two years old. I don’t have a deep impression of him. Many things about my grandfather were told to me by my ancestral concubine mother and birth mother.”
The “ancestral concubine mother” Gu Yunzhen was referring to was Third Master’s biological mother, Old Aunt Sun.
Gu Yanfei silently moved the candle to the side.
Gu Yunzhen looked at Gu Yanfei beside her and thought that her second sister had just returned to the Marquis Mansion and probably did not know much about the residence. Especially since her eldest cousin was a man and was not so meticulous, he probably would not tell her too much.
Gu Yunzhen sorted out her thoughts and said tirelessly, “Our Dingyuan Marquis Household is only the fourth generation in this generation. My great-grandfather only got his only son at the age of 40. He naturally raised him carefully.”
Although there were so many ancestral tablets in the Gu family’s ancestral hall, the Gu family was actually not an ordinary farmer in the previous dynasty. It was only because their great-grandfather, Gu Yao, rebelled with Emperor Taizu and established illustrious military merits that the Dingyuan Marquis Household came to be.
The memorial tablets above were all unknown people. Even their names were not presentable. Even the memorial tablets of many relatives were offered in this ancestral hall.
“Grandpa didn’t disappoint my great-grandfather. He made a lot of contributions to the imperial court.”
“My great-grandfather was even more concerned about my grandfather’s marriage. He chose the daughter of the Qi family of Yingchuan, Yuzhou… which is my grandmother. Back then, my great-grandfather even asked Emperor Taizu to issue a decree to betroth her to me. This marriage was considered glorious and praiseworthy.”
At that time, the nobles who had followed Emperor Taizu to establish unparalleled merits were basically low-born generals.
After the new dynasty was established, they would either divorce their wives and marry other women, or marry the daughters of aristocratic families for their children and grandchildren. They hoped that the next generation would have the nobility of the “high-class families”.
Yingchuan’s Qi family was not considered a noble family and could only be considered a scholarly family. It was also because his great-grandfather felt that it was not a coincidence that he chose the Qi family’s daughter-in-law.
