Chapter 356 Shen Family

  This person seems to be calm, but in fact he has a deep mind. Even when facing his own woman, he maintains a cautious style, which makes it difficult to understand what is in his heart.

  After Zhao Meiren finished speaking, Luo Qinghan said indifferently.

   "You are doing a good job. You can get in touch with Chu Ji more in the future. It's best to find out. Is Qiu Yuan's face different from before?"

  Zhao Meiren felt that the prince asked this strangely.

   But seeing that he didn't mean to explain more, Zhao Meiren didn't dare to ask further, she lowered her head and responded: "Here."

  After Zhao Meiren left, Luo Qinghan turned to look at Xiao Xixi, only to see that she was still reading, holding the Diamond Sutra in her hand, but her eyes were closed.

  This woman actually fell asleep looking at it!

  Luo Qinghan walked over, took away the scriptures in her hand, then picked her up and put it on the bed.

  Xiao Xixi woke up, seeing that the person in front of her was the prince, she closed her eyes with confidence and fell asleep again.

  ……

  The next morning.

  According to the Prince's order, the Royal Kitchen prepared a vegan breakfast.

  Xiao Xixi is not picky about eating, even if she is a vegetarian, she still eats cleanly.

  It’s just that after eating, she still has some ideas.

  She smashed her mouth and said with emotion: "Without meat, I always feel that something is missing when I eat."

  The snow outside has stopped, and the snow in the courtyard has been swept clean by the attendants.

  Luo Qinghan decided to go out. He was going to the ancestral hall of the Shen family and offering incense to the ancestors and ancestors of the Shen family.

  Xiao Xixi, as a conscientious leg pendant, naturally also goes with it.

  She sat lazily in the carriage, holding the stove in one hand and the Buddhist scriptures in the other, recite the scriptures weakly.

  Luo Qinghan listened to her mosquito hum, and frowned slightly: "Either you don't read it out loud, or you say it louder, don't make this hum, it sounds like a pig scream."

  Xiao Xixi: "..."

  Xiao Xixi raised her head angrily and stared at him angrily: "You can insult your concubine, but you can't insult your concubine's pig!"

  Luo Qinghan: "..."

  There are so many slots!

  Xiao Xixi saw that he stopped talking, and felt that he had won the battle.

  She smiled triumphantly, revealing the two small pears at the corners of her mouth.

  Shen's ancestral hall is located outside the city and its location is quite remote.

  The carriage passed through most of Panyun City, and then drove outside the city for a short half an hour before finding Shen's ancestral hall.

  Along with the car, there are Zhao Xian and two hundred Yulinwei.

  Before the prince got off the car, Zhao Xian commanded the Yulin guards to surround the ancestral hall and keep no one near the place.

  Xiao Xixi followed the prince out of the car and walked into the ancestral hall.

  The Shen family, as a local distinguished family in Chenliu County, also had a glorious history. Unfortunately, because of the decline of talents in the family, there were fewer and fewer juniors who could enter the court as officials, and the Shen family gradually declined.

  There are many memorial tablets quietly placed in the ancestral hall.

  These are the ancestors of the Shen family.

  Although Luo Qinghan is not surnamed Shen, he has half of the Shen family's blood on his body, which can be regarded as half of the Shen family.

  He took three ignited incense sticks from Grandpa Chang, gave a big gift to the ancestors of the Shen family, and then inserted the incense into the incense burner.

  Luo Qinghan looked at Xiao Xixi sideways, and motioned for her to come over and kowtow.

  Xiao Xixi did as he said, knelt on the futon, and respectfully knocked three heads.

  Luo Qinghan looked around and found that the tablets and the incense table were covered with dust, the floor tiles had cracked, there were spider webs at the corners, and a few tiles were missing from the roof. Through those small holes, one could see the sky outside.

  If it rains or snows, this ancestral hall must be leaking.

  The air was filled with a faint musty smell, and there was an unspeakable sadness.

  The aristocratic family once flourished, but now they have not fallen to this point.

  Luo Qinghan asked: "Is this place usually no one takes care of?"

  Father-in-law Chang is not very clear about this, he said: "His Royal Highness, please wait a moment, the servant will go and let people inquire."

  A moment later, Grandpa Chang returned with an old man.

  The old man knew that the Prince was standing in front of him. He was very frightened. As soon as he entered the door, he knelt down, his forehead pressed to the ground, his voice trembling with tension.

   "Caomin Liu Huo pays respects to His Royal Highness!"

  President Chang introduced next to him: “This Liu Huo is the person who takes care of the Shen's ancestral hall. His family lives nearby.”

  Because the Shen family has no descendants, they can only let people with foreign surnames come to help take care of the ancestral hall.

  Luo Qinghan motioned Liu Huo to get up and speak.

   Liu Huo stood up, but did not dare to raise his head. He looked like a very ordinary farmer. Because he worked in the sun all the year round, his skin was dark and rough, and he was wearing a short coat of coarse cloth with patches.

  Luo Qinghan asked: "Have you always been in charge of this ancestral hall?"

   Liu Huo did not dare to conceal it, and truthfully replied: “Since the fire, the Shen family has no descendants, and this ancestral hall has been taken care of by the grassroots.”

  "How long have you not been here?"

When the prince asked this, his tone was cold and indifferent, without any ups and downs, but Xiao Xixi was keenly aware that he was not in a good mood at this time.

   Liu Huo said tremblingly: “Recently, there have been a lot of things at home, and the grassroots have not been able to take care of it here.”

  Luo Qinghan asked again: "Who arranged you to take care of Shen's ancestral hall?"

  Liu Huo: "Yes, it is the chief steward of the Chenliu Palace."

Although the Shen family has fallen, his family still has a bit of local prestige. In addition, Shen Zhaoyi's son became a prince. Even in the face of the prince, Chen Liu did not dare to let the Shen family's ancestral hall be completely deserted, so Wang Chen Liu deliberately asked the butler to find a reliable person to help take care of the ancestral hall, but he did not expect to invite such an unreliable thing.

  Luo Qinghan was too lazy to look at Liu Huo again, and said faintly: "Pull it down."

  Immediately two Yu Linwei walked in, grabbed Liu Huo's arm, and dragged him out.

  Liu Huo was terrified and wanted to shout, but Yu Linwei gagged his mouth and couldn't make a sound.

  Soon Liu Huo was dragged away.

  Luo Qinghan made people call the local Lizheng.

  Ri Zhengcheng bowed down to the prince in fear.

Luo Qinghan didn't go around with him, and said straight to the door: "You go back to find a few masons to renovate this ancestral hall, and build it as hard as possible. In addition, you can find someone who is reliable to help take care of the ancestral hall. How much is it? You make a list, and the lone will let someone hand you over."

  Li was hurriedly responding: "Here!"

   Then Luo Qinghan went to the old house of Shen's house again.

  However, the old house of the Shen family has long since disappeared. Instead, it is a newly built Bodhisattva temple.

  The incense of this temple is quite vigorous, and there are constant pilgrims coming in and out.

  Xiao Xixi looked out through the car window. From here, you can see the gate of the Bodhisattva Temple.

  Xiao Xixi curiously asked, "This is the Shen's house? It doesn't look like it."

  Luo Qinghan did not explain, and said lightly: "Let's go in and take a look."

  (End of this chapter)