CH 291

The news of Gu Shouzhuo inviting Wang Ning'an's family of three to dinner at the ancestral house quickly spread to the ears of other Gu family members, leaving them all shocked. The Gu family's ancestral house was built over 40 years ago to Gu Shouzhuo’s specifications. When he inherited the Gu family's property, he immediately built this retro mansion on it to move into. However, he didn’t like inviting guests to the ancestral house, even when it came to his own family. Two situations left an especially deep impression of this on the Gu family.

It was over ten years ago. At the time, Gu Shouzhuo hadn't set this rule yet, so every New Years, Gu Shouzhuo's nephews would bring their families over to the ancestral house to celebrate. One year, the granddaughter of the first family was dissatisfied that a maid accidentally touched her and smashed a corner vase onto the ground. The floor was made of real wood, so that incident left many small indentations which can still be seen to this day.

That was one situation.

The second happened when a few juniors were playing around in a room. They had taken out some pointy stones and left traces on the floor of the room, and even threatened the servants not to tell Gu Shouzhuo. However, Gu Shouzhuo still found out.

Since then, Gu Shouzhuo never let them come to the ancestral house. No matter how young the children were, these incidents could not be shrugged off; not to mention, some of the juniors were not seven or eight-year-old children, they were already in their teens.

At the time, they didn’t take Gu Shouzhuo seriously, and thought that things would pass after a while. However, when they went back to the ancestral house next year, they couldn't even get in the door. So, the location of the New Year's party rotated between the other three houses. Although Gu Shouzhuo also went, he often only stayed for a while before leaving. It took a while for the other family members to realize that those past incidents had violated Gu Shouzhuo's bottom line. Unfortunately, they never had a chance to make up for it.

"Father, is it true what you said earlier, about my third great uncle entertaining guests in the ancestral house?"

As soon as Gu Ping got the news, he rushed home to see his father, Gu Jiaqing. Gu Jiaqing was the son of Gu Shouzhuo's second eldest brother, and he also had two younger sisters. However, the Gu family acted as if they were late on the technology*, and the siblings rarely contacted each other.

[T/N: *originally: the Gu family was backwards]

Gu Jiaqing was just a few years older than Papa Wang. Ever since Gu Shouzhuo's son died, he had been planning on taking over the Gu Group. So, he was paying attention to the ancestral house, afraid that a descendant of Gu Shouzhuo would suddenly appear at the door. Their cautiousness turned out to be in vain. Gu Jiaqing soon received news that a family had entered the door, and immediately called his son to come back home.