Chapter 1001: The Story of Ling and Heng (264)
The Li family, the ancestral hall.
The ancestral hall was all quiet and Li Nanheng hadn’t experienced the idle feeling for a long time.
He promised to the Feng family that after marrying their second daughter’s clothes, he would place her memorial tablet on the ancestral hall to formally admit her as the granddaughter-in-law of the Li family and stayed three days with the memorial table of this poor girl who was buried in the sea at the age of one.
He didn’t know much about the girl. He didn’t know everything about her from Grandmother Feng until the day before his marriage.
Dead at the age of one, she was indeed a poor kid. He could imagine how cute she was. Otherwise, the feng Family people wouldn’t have been missing her so much.
Li Nanheng sat on a straw mat in the ancestral hall and looked at the two baby clothes that the Feng family had brought over, which were pink and small. Although they were carefully kept, they still slightly yellowed.
He had never been so sentimental before.
Perhaps it was because of the marriage that he suddenly had compa.s.sion for a kid who had pa.s.sed away at the age of one.
So he was willing to stay with her memorial tablet for three days here without touching his cell phone or any electronic products as the elders of his family required.
Li Nanheng got up, picked up the fruit plate next to him, slowly peeled an apple, then cut it into a small piece that fitted a baby’s mouth, and put them on the plate.
Then, staring at the apple pieces on the plate, he smiled.
He didn’t know whether a one-year-old child could eat apples. Perhaps she could, perhaps not.
Or shall he mash it?
What could a baby eat?
Just as Li Nanheng was thinking about whether to put two bottles of milk here, someone walked in.
Li Jinse, the granddaughter of the Elder Three of the Li family.
“Nanheng.” Before Li Jinse entered the door, she looked around and then stepped into the ancestral hall.
Li Nanheng looked back at her. “What’s up?”
Li Jinse walked in, took out a black cell phone from the pocket behind her jeans, and handed it to him.
It was his phone! Li Nanheng raised his eyebrows and suddenly smiled. “Good girl. Thank you for bringing me my phone.”
After Li Jinse handed the phone to him, she took a step back and looked vigilantly at the surveillance camera. Then she walked around in the ancestral hall and said disapprovingly, “This ancestral hall has been existent for many years. Although there are many Chinese in Los Angeles, only our family has an ancestral hall. The old men of our family are really a bunch of old fogies. Come on, it’s already the 21st century!”
Li Nanheng smiled and turned on the phone, saying indifferently, “There is nothing wrong with the continuation of tradition. We young people are not interested in these things, but they are very important to them.”
“I can’t believe these words were said by you.” Li Jinse turned her eyes to him. “This is really a strange marriage. What did you think? Why did you reject Feng Mingzhu, a beautiful living woman but chose to marry the clothes of a baby who died at the age of one? Are you going to bring her some toys as a meeting gift when you meet her after you die?”
Li Nanheng didn’t answer but looked down at the black screen of the phone. “Before you brought the phone to me, didn’t you think about charging it or bringing me a charger too?”
“Ah, I forgot it.” Li Jinse walked over, took the phone and looked at it, saying, “But you can’t blame me. If your phone hadn’t been vibrating in the drawer, I wouldn’t have noticed it. The people of XI Base seemed to be keeping calling you. Hey, you should be glad that you still have a phone to use. If the elders hadn’t suddenly gone out this morning, I wouldn’t have had the chance to bring you your phone.”
Li Nanheng took a look at her. “Were they all out? The four of them?”
“Yes, I don’t know what they have been up to recently. Just a few days before you got married, Miss Feng, Feng Mingzhu, was in our home several times. Although I don’t know what she said to the grandpas, I did notice that they looked strange recently, especially when they look at you. Haven’t you noticed it? They seem to be dissatisfied with something. Did you do anything to p.i.s.s them off? Otherwise, why do they lock you up here for three days? That’s insane.”
Li Nanheng: “…Um, you made a point.”
“I will bring you the charger in a while. I just came back from the Li’s Corporation today. Now I know why you refuse to take it over. There is tons of work to do there. If I were you, I would also rather live a more exciting life in the XI base than deal with those smiling foxes in the company.”
Li Nanheng grunted and flipped the phone in his hand casually. “Cut the c.r.a.p. Go get the charger.”
“Ok, but how will you repay me?”
“I will ask Sister Li Lin to manage the company for you for some time so that you can go travelling with your new boyfriend for a month, OK? You know, only I can make Li Lin agree to do this.”
Li Jinse raised her eyebrows. “Deal!”
Ten minutes later.
Li Jinse hurriedly walked into the ancestral hall and brought him the cell phone charger.
Li Nanheng glanced at the two small clothes and the fruit plate next to him, walked to the other side, connected the phone to electricity, and finally turned on the phone