GBP Chapter 374 Negotiation is possible
Chapter 374 Negotiation is possible
"Did anyone see you that night?" Yan Xun asked.
He suspected that Gawain might have stumbled upon a place he shouldn't have seen and witnessed a secret, which was why he lost that memory.
“It is said that a servant said that the last place I was seen was near the ancestral hall.”
"Perhaps I'm looking for that mysterious person," Gao Wen guessed.
"You two know each other?" Yan Xun asked.
He felt that the scarred man didn't seem to have a good impression of any of them.
Gao Wen thought for a moment and shook his head.
After thinking for a moment, Yan Xun decided to go to the ancestral hall first.
The Gao family's strangeness is all related to the things they secretly worship.
Gao Wen naturally listened to Yan Xun in everything, and the two of them walked straight towards the Gao family ancestral hall without hesitation.
But for some reason, they had only walked a few steps when they saw the well at the end of the corridor.
Abruptly, a well with moss-covered opening appeared at the end of the corridor—a place where there should absolutely be no well.
When Gawain saw the well, he remembered the rumors the maids had told him, and what they had said: the best thing to do when you see a well in such an odd location is to pretend you didn't see it and walk around it.
He quietly tugged at Yan Xun's sleeve, signaling him to walk with him.
Yan Xun stared at the well without moving.
He wasn't afraid; he was just thinking about what caused these wells to appear.
He remembered the last time he saw these wells was on the way to the ancestral hall with Li Wu. The wells appeared to prevent them from going to the ancestral hall.
The maids said that this was a secret passed down among the servants, and Master Gao was not very clear about it.
—Of course, this was also the maids' version of events.
They said the Gao family had many rules, so many that they were terrifying. Avoiding wells was just one of them, and few people bothered to find out the reason. Besides, Master Gao was busy with his affairs and in poor health, so it was not worth bothering him with such a trivial matter.
Yan Xun looked at the well that blocked their way and asked, "Did you encounter this well that night?"
Gawain didn't remember the details of his escape that day, so he naturally couldn't answer that question.
Yan Xun looked at the well and said, "We won't go inside the ancestral hall; we'll just take a look from the outside."
Upon hearing this, Gao Wen gave him a look that said, "Brother, are you crazy? You're actually discussing this with a well?"
The well was still at the end of the corridor, and it seemed unable to understand what Yan Xun was saying. Yan Xun gestured for Gao Wen to turn around and walk in another direction.
Gao Wen scratched his head and had only taken a couple of steps with Yan Xun when he noticed that Yan Xun had stopped and then turned around... Gao Wen could only turn around as well.
The well that had been blocking the end of the corridor was now nowhere to be seen.
"…Holy crap." Gawain couldn't help but exclaim, "Can it really understand what we're saying?"
He looked at Yan Xun again, "So it really doesn't want us to go to the ancestral hall?"
"Perhaps," Yan Xun said. "We should go back and ask the maids..."
But then he remembered that Li Wu's maid had seen the well both outside the door and inside the room—she had found that her companion was not in the room and wanted to go look for her, but when she opened the door, she found that there was a well in the courtyard.
When she closed the door and returned to her room, she discovered that there was also a well in the room.
Something even crawled out of both wells. Although the maid didn't see what it looked like, the footprints by the well and the mess in the house proved that something had been there.
The maid certainly wouldn't have thought of going to the ancestral hall at night, so what was the reason for the appearance of the well?
The more I thought about it, the more I realized how strange the Gao family was.
Having promised about the well, Yan Xun could not go back on his word.
He and Gao Wen arrived at the entrance of the ancestral hall and took a special look at the leaves in the porcelain bowl. They found that the leaves were floating, which meant that the ancestral hall allowed them to enter.
There were servants who were responsible for cleaning the entrance of the ancestral hall all year round, and Yan Xun called one over.
"Are the leaves in this porcelain bowl usually like this?" he asked, pointing to the floating leaves.
The maid hurriedly shook her head, "This leaf is usually at the bottom of the bowl..."
He seemed to remember that Yan Xun was the newlywed seventh concubine, who seemed to be very favored. He hurriedly said some flattering words, the gist of which was that Yan Xun was a lucky star. After marrying him, not only did the master's health improve a lot, but even the old ancestors in the ancestral hall also favored Yan Xun.
Yan Xun really couldn't see anything about Gao Ruiyun's health that was any better.
Seeing that the servant was about to continue talking, he could only wave his hand and let her leave first.
Once only the two of them remained in the courtyard, Gao Wen glanced at the ancestral hall gate... the scene he had witnessed that day flashed through his mind as he asked Yan Xun, "Are we really not going in?"
“There must be a reason why it’s preventing us from going to the ancestral hall,” Yan Xun said, gesturing for Gao Wen to step back before approaching the tightly closed entrance of the ancestral hall himself.
The closer you get, the stronger the dizzying aroma becomes.
Yan Xun could only hold his breath slightly and then peek through the crack in the door to see everything inside the ancestral hall.
Unlike the scene described by Gao Wen, the view Yan Xun saw through the crack in the door was basically the same as what he had seen when he entered the room yesterday.
The enormous statues stretch as far as the eye can see, and the offerings on the altar are all new, but upon closer inspection, you can see that they have all been replaced.
Yan Xun only left the crack in the door when he could no longer hold his breath.
Gao Wen immediately leaned over, "How is it?"
"Did you see that?!"
Yan Xun looked at Gao Wen, who had a nervous expression, and slowly shook his head. "No."
"That's normal."
"Impossible!" Gawain cried out. "I really saw it!"
"Could it be that I was able to see that scene because there were people inside yesterday?" Gao Wen muttered to himself.