The prince is very cruel

"I'll give you an explanation later, but today, my friend is still here, so please don't be angry, Second Uncle."

Pei Xingwen stared at him intently, suppressing his anger. After all, he was a renowned academician, so he still had some self-cultivation. He gritted his teeth and said, "Go back immediately!"

"Kneel down in the ancestral temple and wait for my return!"

Hearing this, Guan Ning became suspicious. Although Pei Nan was dressed casually and low-key, he shouldn't be so angry, right?

And Pei Nan himself looked like he had done something wrong. Wasn't he just dressed a little more casually? Are the rules of a big family so strict?

But this is the Pei family's family affair after all, and it is not appropriate for him, an outsider, to interfere.

Pei Nan was embarrassed: "Second uncle."

"I promised Guan Ning that I would accompany him to see Shang Yin..."

"That's enough!" Pei Xingwen became even more furious upon hearing this, and shouted again, "Are you trying to rebel? You dare not listen to me? You are simply lawless! Get back here right now!"

"Second uncle..."

"Go back!" Pei Xingwen's stern square face turned red, his hair stood on end with anger, and he stood up directly, as if he had eaten more than ten pounds of gunpowder.

Guan Ning was completely confused. Is it really that serious?

Pei Nan bit his lip, his face showing an embarrassment, but he was his second uncle after all, and within the system of the big family, he couldn't disobey, not to mention that he was a prestigious university scholar, so in the end he could only say: "Yes!"

After saying that, he had no choice but to look at Guan Ning, with a hint of guilt and embarrassment on his face, as if to say, Brother, it seems you can only go to the poetry meeting alone and find He Zhijie.

Guan Ning understood very well and secretly made an OK gesture to him.

Although Pei Nan had never seen this gesture before, he roughly guessed it, pursed his lips and nodded, to avoid Pei Xingwen getting angry again, he deserved to leave.

Only Guan Ning and Pei Xingwen were left in the hall, and the atmosphere was awkward for a while.

"Are you the only child of the Guan family?" Pei Xingwen suddenly broke the silence. His voice was neither bad nor good. He never even looked at Guan Ning, but had the arrogance of a scholar.

Guan Ning usually ignores such an attitude.

But because he was Pei Nan's second uncle, Guan Ning still gave him face and said, "Master Pei, yes."

"call……"

Pei Xingwen blew on the hot tea in his hand and glanced at Guan Ning out of the corner of his eye.

"I've met your father. He was a big shot back then." His voice was so magnetic that it was hard to tell what he was thinking.

"Thank you." Guan Ning bowed.

"But..." Pei Xingwen changed the subject and said in a mentoring tone, "But times have changed. The Guan family today is no longer the prominent Guan family it once was. I hope you can put yourself in the right place, recognize your own identity, and stop having any contact with her."

The cold voice was devoid of warmth and even carried a hint of contempt.

Guan Ning's face instantly darkened, and his previous good impression and respect were completely lost. He stopped being polite and stood up straight with neither servility nor arrogance: "It seems that the Grand Secretary has something else to say."

"As long as you understand." Pei Xingwen said lightly.

Guan Ning sneered, full of youthful energy, in stark contrast to Pei Xingwen's pedantic temperament of a scholar and official. He said calmly, "I thought the Grand Secretary was well-read and open-minded, but I didn't expect the result to be otherwise."

Pei Xingwen was obviously unhappy when he heard this.

"But I still have to say that Brother Pei and I are of the same mind and are close friends. We are not the kind of clinging people that you think we are."

"No matter how good your Pei family is, or how poor my Guan family is, I won't plot anything against them."

Pei Xingwen sneered, "I've lived for forty or fifty years and have seen more people than you've eaten salt. Do you think I don't understand?"

"You think she's a good match, don't you? She's different in status, profitable, and can provide shelter for your Guan family?"

"Don't try that! She's young and can't see through people, but I can!"

Hearing this, Guan Ning shook his head and said nothing more. To reason with such a self-righteous and pedantic Confucian scholar would be to bring trouble upon himself.

"If you don't agree, there's no need to talk too much."