Chapter 1441
That night, for the New Year’s Eve banquet at the Huo family’s old residence, not only was the young couple, Qiao Shiqian, late, but even Huo Sijiu’s family at Repulse Bay, arrived quite late.
In the end, the Huo family had to wait for a long time.
When they finally all arrived, it was almost eight o’clock. Seeing this, Huo Sen, the eldest member of the family, hurriedly made arrangements for people to bring out the prepared offerings of roast meat, pig’s head, and roast chicken.
“Sir, then let’s go to the attic first now.”
“Mm.”
Huo Siji, who was in particularly good spirits, nodded his head before glancing towards the back.
With a glance, Qiao Shiqian, who was also watching from the side, immediately understood.
Subsequently, he also followed behind.
The ancestral hall of the Huo family is indeed not for ordinary people to enter, before when Huo Yanying was around, his three brothers, also only allowed to enter one per family, this, is also the rule left by the ancestors of the Huo family.
Huo Sen led the two to this attic.
“Let’s wash your hands first.”
He looked at a wooden basin placed outside the loft and gestured for the two men who had followed him to wash first before going in.
Huoshen was used to it and casually fiddled his hands in it twice before he went in. Qiao Shiqian followed, looked in and did put his hands in and washed them carefully in it.
Waiting to follow in.
He found that the ancestral hall, which was filled with the Huo family tablets inside, was already lit by candlelight, and in the patio outside the ancestral hall, an incense altar, which was as thick as a basin, was also there with a fresh layer of incense ash laid on it.
Qiao Shiqian paused in his steps.
He was a little uncomfortable.
Because, ever since he was a child, he had never been in a place like this.
It was as if, a soul that had been wandering outside for a long time, suddenly came to a solemn church, with a sense of belonging, but at the same time, it would make him nervous and uncomfortable.
But soon, the people inside sensed him.
“Tokiyan, come here, this is your incense.”
Huo Sen greeted from inside.
Only then did Qiao Shiqian lift his feet and hurry inside.
They took the incense, went to the candle flame and lit it. The two of them went to the incense altar in the patio and inserted it under Huo Sen’s arrangement, before returning to the ancestral hall and kneeling down on the laid out futon.
“Grandpa, dad, second uncle, today is New Year’s Eve, we’ve all come back to see you, this is Sijiu, this is Shiqian.”
Huo Sen also knelt down, then looked at the tablets offered on the hearth and introduced them.
Huo Sijiu was the one who grew up here, every year on New Year’s Eve, so he didn’t feel much when this cousin said this.
Only Qiao Shiqian, he was after hearing such a grand introduction of himself.
His eyes wavered and suddenly, they landed on the tablet placed at the bottom of the offering table.
His late father – Huo Yanying!
“Second Uncle, are you particularly happy? I’ve brought this youngest son of yours over here today, don’t worry, he’s all right and has a daughter-in-law, just outside.”
Huo Sen spoke up again.
Presumably, it was also because he had seen this cousin come in for the first time and had deliberately made the topic of conversation about him prevail.
Qiao Shiqian clenched his knuckles again.
Huo Sijiu: “Are you ready? It’s time to eat.”
“……”
This person really, after so many years, actually this stinky temper still hasn’t changed at all, a ancestral ritual, every year impatient, every year haunted to go out first.
Huo Sen bitterly laughed.
At that moment, after grabbing the time to finish, the three of them stood up from the futon and prepared to go out.
But at that moment, Huo Siji, who had previously taken a step to get up, suddenly tripped over something, and as a result, he stumbled and fell down on his knees with a “thud”.
Huo Sen: “……”
Qiao Shiqian: “……”
As the two men watched this scene, they were both dumbfounded.
This was because they realized that the place where the man was kneeling happened to be the same futon that Qiao Shiqian had just been kneeling on, and in front of the futon was precisely Huo Yanying’s pagoda.
Absolutely!
Huo Sijiu was so angry that the corners of his forehead were jumping with veins.
“D*mn old man, what do you want? Not worshipping you, and you’re still mad at me?”
“Er ……”
As soon as Huo Sen saw this, he hurried over and pulled him up.
“No, no, second uncle will certainly not be angry with you, it’s all my fault, this futon is not set up properly and the light is not bright enough, I’m sorry.”
He had to hurry to advise, afraid that this man would get angry.
Qiao Shiqian did not say anything.
Because, I don’t know if it was his illusion, but he saw that the candle flame next to the tablet at this time really wavered just a little, as if it was really angry.
But soon, as this person was pulled up, that candle flame, however, became even brighter.
How could Huo Yanying be angry with this man?
Back then, when he was threatened by Nakajima Yuu, the other man threatened him with his life, but still, he did not let him get away with it, but ended up losing his own life to protect him.
Therefore, it was impossible for him to lose his temper with him.
Even if he did have something, it would have been just to play with him, because, in the past two years, the man hadn’t been back in the Gods’ house for a really long, long time.
He had even almost gotten himself killed as well.
Qiao Shiqian took one last look at this brighter and brighter candle flame and came out of the attic as well.
Chapter 1442
That night, the old mansion finally returned to its former lively state.
Apart from Huo Sixing, who was at the Gods’ house after his distant marriage, basically everyone was there, so the whole night was spent mingling, the men drinking to their heart’s content, and the women, chattering away at their seats.
Only, when the meal was over, everyone was dumbfounded.
“Sir, where are you going?”
“Where’s my wife?”
Great President Huo, who looked normal and still maintained his usual noble and cold demeanour even when he stood up, suddenly became angry after hearing people ask, and frowned as he asked.
The crowd was stunned!
Gosh darn it, is this …… drunk?!!!
That’s really a groundbreaking first.
Everyone started to get excited, because from the moment this man was born, the entire Huo family had never seen him drunk, this man, really disciplined to the point of being ridiculous.
Huo Sen: “Sister-in-law, ah, sister-in-law has gone to take the baby and will be back later.”
“What?”
The words fell, and the man was really even angrier.
“How can she leave halfway through? We’re not even done yet.”
“……”
“！！！！”
For a second, the entire courtyard of the old mansion was dead silent.
It was awful.
The man who had never been drunk in his life.
Luckily, at this time, Wen Shuxu came back, and after seeing this scene, she rushed over and covered the guy’s mouth under her red face.
“Huo Sijiu, what are you talking about? You’re drunk, let’s go back first.”
“What’s the point of going back? You haven’t even finished making your dumplings yet, I bought you all the glutinous rice flour, I want to eat it, don’t leave.”
“……”
There was another burst of silence.
But this time, because everyone was thinking wrongly, there was no sound, it was silently lowering their heads and going to pick their toes.
Only Qiao Shiqian, on the other side of this table, stood up and wobbled over to this side.
“Soup dumplings? I can make it, come on, I’ll go make it for you.”
“What do I need you to go for? You’re not my wife, oh yes, I’ve bought a projector to come, go and organise it, get them to sing some songs to listen to, you guys sing while my wife and I go and make the dumplings.”
Then the man finally stood up.
Only, just as soon as he got up, people pressed down towards the little woman in front of him, if it wasn’t just that there was a Huo Sen standing here.
I’m only afraid that Wen Shuxu was directly pressed down on the ground.
“Sister-in-law, he’s really drunk, otherwise, I’ll send him to bed first, I’ve asked your sister-in-law to make your bed, or the room you used to live in.”
Huo Sen suggested as he supported the man who couldn’t stand up at all.
Wen Shuxu had no choice but to do the same.
So before it was time to set off the fireworks, this man was sent back to his room.
However, after he was sent back, the banquet did not stop yet, because there was another drunk one.
“Honey, you’re drunk.”
“No!”
Qiao Shiqian, who was burying his head in the projector, simply denied it.
Moreover, what made the gla*ses fall off even more was that he was usually such a mild-tempered person, but when he was drunk, he actually acted like a completely different person.
“You go and get the projector!”
“……”
“Also, get them all over here and sit down, I’m going to sing.”
Then he literally took a handful of chopsticks to the patio of this courtyard, ripped out his voice and sang, “I want to live in anger! Just like flying in the vast sky ……”
(From the singer Wang Feng’s “A Life in Rage”)
The crowd was thunderstruck outwardly.
But soon, Chigen Lea, who is also not one to follow reason, actually felt a different kind of atmosphere after seeing her husband like this.
So, the little girl joined in.
“Angry and wild life, Hirota and the air are flying towards ……”
She actually sang in her native language.
But the rhythm was perfectly in tune with her husband’s, and it was playing in harmony.
This couple, more absolutely!
As a result, everyone ended up getting in on the mood with these two, especially at the end after Howson was surprised to find that there was actually a projector in the room.
He brought it out and there was even more singing and dancing in this old mansion.
It really was as lively as it had ever been.
When it finally quieted down, it was Qiao Shiqian who was so exhausted that he fell asleep and was also carried back to his room by Huo Sen, with Qian Yuan Lai Ye following behind.
“Thank you, big brother.”
“No, it’s all family, sleep well here tonight, this is your home too, don’t treat yourselves as outsiders.”
Huo Sen took the role of an older brother and admonished the youngest sibling.
Hearing this, of course, Chien Yuan Lai Ye was moved again.
Right then, when this brother had left, she went and fetched hot water to prepare to wash her drunken husband’s face and feet.
He was, really, the most spontaneous she had ever seen him tonight, and probably, that was also his character, it was just the misfortune of his childhood, and his upbringing, that made him suppress that side.
The little girl climbed up very distressed with a towel.
“Honey, let me wipe your face oh.”
She gently took off his gla*ses and then prepared to wash his face.
But at that moment, the drunken man, not knowing whether it was because he had touched him after taking off his gla*ses, suddenly opened his eyes.
“Leahy, let’s have a baby.”
“Huh?”
The little girl was on top of this man’s head in a flash, her big ebony eyes all round.