Night, late at night.

Shen Canglang knelt in the ancestral hall of the Shen family, and the cold and hard blue brick floor hurt him.

Shen's mother was distressed on the side, but she couldn't help it, although she was very distressed, but the master implemented family law on him.

For a big family, family law is as big as a mountain.

The night is deep, and the dew is heavy.

The cold on the ground entered his body, and Shen Canglang still felt a faint pain from the whipping wound on his back, but fortunately, the chief manager Wang on the side quietly smeared some plasters on him, but it was still a hot pain.

In the ancestral hall, a lamp is like a bean, and the cigarette smoke is around.

The portraits and tablets of the ancestors of the Shen family are placed on the offering table layer by layer, giving people a gloomy feeling.

The events of the day were replayed over and over again in his mind, and Siyu's desperate eyes were still smashing his heart little by little like a sharp knife.

Compared with the physical pain, the wound in the heart is deeper and more painful, the tearing pain.

Even if the skin on his back is beaten open, it will not be relieved and transferred in the slightest.

The great sorrow, like a surging tide, flooded the ancestral hall, and he was like a man who was about to drown, struggling desperately in this great sorrow.

The portraits of the ancestors of the Shen family in the past dynasties were bright or dark in the flickering candle flames, and one face sometimes became distorted and stiffened.

His father said he was a bad son.

He didn't understand, among the Shen family in the past dynasties, would there be someone like him who fell in love with a woman who shouldn't have been loved?

And how did those ancestors choose?

But all they had left was the eerie portraits and the cold tablets, which he couldn't verify.

In fact, there is no need for him to figure it out, the answer must be obvious.

The descendants of the Shen family in the past generations will choose a woman they have never met, or even they don't love at all, for the continuation of the family, to live that miserable life.

In fact, not only the Shen family, but also those famous families, which one is not so.

It is very rare to be able to find your beloved woman according to your own wishes and in line with the interests of the family.

And he is just one of the unfortunate descendants of the family.

Sometimes he is very envious of his eldest brother, and he completely understands why he is reluctant to return to this home.

I'd rather go to the business world to fight, and I'd rather wander all over the world, sleep in the open air, and stay in a foreign land for a long time than return to this warm home.

At least his eldest brother still had a choice, but when it was his turn, he didn't have a choice.

He fully understands his father's painstaking efforts, and he understands why he did this, but that is the person he likes, so close, so close that he can reach it.

It's as far away as the sea.

The farthest distance in this world is not between heaven and earth, but between human hearts and hearts.

This time he decided to go, and how much damage he caused to Siyu, and when they met again in the future, they were afraid that they were separated by deep and cold walls.

And this wall is impassable.

But he is a human, not an animal, and can be at his mercy, even if it is a cat or a dog, he has his own preferences.

Thinking of this, he felt that he was not as good as a dog.

Everyone in the world says that the princes and nobles are good, but they don't know the suffering, and the princes and nobles also say that the common people are good.

At least be able to choose your other half according to your own wishes.

Although the tea is light and the clothes are ragged, they can live according to their own hearts and do not have so many entanglements.

Thinking of this, he really wanted to give up everything and escape from this dull ancestral hall, even if it was to become a monk.

His thoughts were chaotic, he couldn't figure it out, and he couldn't pull it apart, like countless hands, or countless vines, pulling him tightly and couldn't move a bit.

He felt that if he really married Zuo Mingzhu, he would be like a fish thrown on the shore for the rest of his life, lingering and breathing.

Just then, the door creaked open.

He thought it was a maid and a little maid, they must have been sent by his mother, and he didn't bother to look back.

He was thinking that he must have quietly sent him cotton pads, hot water, or the fat manager to deliver gold sore medicine.

His body was loose, and his long kneeling had stiffened his body.

However, an old, stern, and familiar voice sounded, "Kneel down!" ”

It's the father!

He hurriedly knelt down.

Shen Yi glanced at his son first, his face was expressionless, and he went straight to incense the ancestors and ancestors, his rickety figure, and his sideburns were already blooming.

couldn't help but make Shen Canglang's heart sour, his father was aging faster and faster.

In the end, his father turned his back to him and asked him a word, which made him feel inexplicable.

"Do you know why your eldest brother didn't come back?"

“……”

Shen Canglang thought about it and wanted to say to his father, wasn't that because he didn't want to come back?

But he couldn't help but say it, he was afraid that his father would be sad and sad, but he didn't expect his father to say a fact that he couldn't believe.

"That's me, don't let him come back!"

"This, although the eldest brother is debauched, but, why is this?" fifth

Shen Canglang asked puzzled.

But then his father's explanation was enough to make him thunder.

"I don't want him to come back, I want him to escape, don't let my Shen family mansion collapse at that time, when the family is ruined, so that your eldest brother can escape!"

The doubts in Shen Canglang's heart were raised, and he thought, isn't this case in the past?

He hurriedly asked his father, "Didn't you deduct the fold?" And even if you hand it over, I believe that the Holy One will not listen to it and believe it! ”

"The fold is deducted, and Taishi Zuo really didn't hand the fold over, but the saint knows!"

His father's back was torn and swayed in the candlelight, and it seemed that he could not sustain himself, and the whole family depended on him alone.

"Know?"

Shen Canglang was taken aback, and he didn't dare to imagine what the consequences would be.

"Know! Not only do I know, but I also know that it is in the hands of Taishi Zuo, and the result is better to hand it over to the emperor to know completely! ”

This tongue twister made him understand the sinister intentions at once, and it was better to tell them all than let the emperor guess out of thin air.

Such a kind of conjecture is impossible to verify, but it makes the emperor's heart more and more confused, and when today's son is murderous and suspicious, the consequences are unimaginable as time goes by.

Thinking of this, he suddenly felt a chill down his spine.

At the end, I heard my father say something that almost forced him into a corner, "Do you know, why did Shopkeeper Xiao pull you and didn't let you go upstairs to meet Siyu?" ”

As soon as his father mentioned that Na Xiao was in charge, he was not angry, and if he didn't let people stop him at the beginning, he would have met his sweetheart.

"Why?"

"I don't allow anyone to get close to Chen Siyu!"

Shen Canglang was shocked when he heard this, he couldn't believe how his father knew Siyu's name.

Could it be that Shopkeeper Xiao will even talk about this?

His father had never paid attention to Tianxianglou, which really surprised him.

As if to answer the doubts in his heart, his father said lightly: "You must wonder why I called the name of that Qinglian girl!" ”

"Yes, I remember that you never cared about the affairs of Tianxianglou!"

"I didn't care before, but now I have to care, and I will tell you one thing that shocks you, that is, what Siyu eats and drinks every day, and even what she uses, I choose it for her!"

Shen Canglang couldn't believe it when he heard this.

These were the words that came out of his father's mouth, and he really couldn't understand why he was doing this.

At this time, the old father finally turned around and looked at him with straight eyes, his expression full of sadness.

"That girl is indeed extraordinary, and it is also your blessing that you can marry her!"

Shen Canglang couldn't believe that his father would say such a thing, could it be that his father gave in, which made him very happy.

But as soon as his father's words changed, his heart gradually sank.

"It's a pity, even if you don't marry Zuo Mingzhu, you can't be with her!"

"Why?"

Shen Canglang roared loudly when he heard this, his voice was in the ancestral hall, buzzing and echoing, he was really angry.

However, his father's next sentence suddenly made his anger disappear invisibly, and it brought with it a deep pain.

"Son, you forgot about her, that girl was favored by the prince, you can only blame her talent, she is really good!"

"Prince? How is this possible? ”

"Shopkeeper Xiao didn't tell you that the prince had been here, and he really came here, you understand now, why do I know her name!"

Shen Canglang was speechless for a moment.

He became very weak at that moment.

But he soon thought of a problem, this was not like his father's style, all this was too abnormal.

"No, father, did you have any other plans and didn't tell me!"

At this time, Shen Yixian did not answer his son's question directly, but said expressionlessly: "I know you are muddy, but no matter how muddy you are, you will not run away from marriage like your eldest brother!" ”

Shen Canglang lowered his head, indeed, in the face of the rise and fall of the family, the lives of the whole family were tied to their own bodies, of course, it was impossible to do anything harmful to the Shen family.

"Father, you know that's not what I'm asking!"

Shen Yi first looked at his son's blood-red eyes and stroked his son's head with his hand.

He sighed: "I don't know that you are bitter in your heart, but there is really no way to do it right now, you can rest assured, your marriage to Zuo Mingzhu is the first step to stabilize our Shen family, and that Chen Siyu will eventually make our Shen family grow slowly!" ”

"No!"

Shen Canglang hurriedly grabbed his father's sleeve, "It can't be like this, she has nothing to do with this matter, don't let her get involved!" ”

Shen Canglang kept pleading, but his father always had a cold face.

"Barbarian, you are wrong, from the moment she was favored by the prince, she couldn't stay out of the world!"

When Shen Canglang heard this, he felt that his whole person had fallen into the ice cellar, he didn't want to believe that this was true, but unfortunately, it was a fact.

"Recently, the saint has often been dizzy, and it is only a matter of time before the crown prince succeeds to the throne!"

"Father, do you even count her?"

When Shen Canglang heard this, his heart broke into pieces.

But Shen Yixian didn't seem to hear his words, and continued: "She is the savior of our Shen family, and when the crown prince succeeds to the throne, I will eventually take the principal and interest and ask the Zuo family and the Huo family to return it, and your efforts will eventually be rewarded!" ”