Songjiang Mansion, West City Gate.

With a "squeak" sound, several gatekeepers yawned and pushed the gate open. There were many carriages in the distance, and there were many horseback servants beside them.

The young soldier who was transferred from one side stood on the city wall, looked at the convoy not far away, and gasped: "Mother, there are many cars, this is Lord Fuzun's trip."

Before he could speak, he was hit on the door of his head, and a middle-aged soldier next to him said: "Don't want Lord Hu Fuzun to come out, even if you put up a full set of honor guards, you haven't heard of using a carriage?" looks like a memory, and it makes people laugh. Looking at the situation, this is a big family in the city that will follow these people when they go far away. ”

The young soldier rubbed his head and said, "Who's it?" It's so loud, and I see that there are more than a dozen carriages......"

The middle-aged soldier looked at it carefully for a while and said, "It's not Shen, He, Lu, and Xu on the left and right, and the others can't get together these carriages......"

When they got out of the city gate, a group of chariots, horses, and servants followed the official road and headed west.

Half a mile behind them, a carriage was followed, accompanied by several sturdy male servants on horseback.

After a while, the horse chased after him, and when he reached the carriage, he grabbed the reins.

The curtain of the car was opened, and it was no one else sitting inside, it was He Nansheng, the second master of He, who frowned and asked, "Can you inquire clearly, where are these cars and horses of the Shen family going?" ”

The person who came came sideways and replied: "Back to the old man, it is the eldest wife of the second room of the Shen family who returned to Beijing with the nephews of the various families, and I heard that she boarded the ship from Suzhou, and she should go to Suzhou Mansion first." ”

"Suzhou, ah......" He Nansheng nodded, instructed the coachman to continue to follow, and then lowered the curtain, but he was not in a hurry.

A few days ago, a wealthy businessman came to Shanxi, ordered a few boats of cloth, and loaded the ship in Suzhou a few days later, because it was the first time to buy and sell, he thought about being careful and thoughtful, so he planned to go to Suzhou in person. Unexpectedly, before he left the city, he saw the Shen family's mighty convoy, and he was puzzled, so he asked someone to inquire about it.

Mrs. Shilang is provincial, this is not a matter of the Shen family's family and one surname, these days, big families and officials in the city have paid more attention to the movements of the Shen family. There are also those who give gifts and pay tribute.

The Xu family has an old relationship with the late Sun family, and rumors such as having personally visited the prefect's wife have also come out. As for the second room to break the heir, and when he came back to choose an heir, there was a lot of rumors in the Shen family's rooms, and the Songjiang families also got the news.

He Nansheng is not worried about the Xu family's trouble with the He family, there is the master of the sect to protect the media, so that the He family and the Shen family are married, it cannot be said that the previous dislike is abandoned, and the old grudge is also erased. Mrs. Shilang turned over the past again, and it was a lot of things. It not only swept the face of the He family, but also slapped the face of the eldest master of the sect and Shen Juren of the fourth room.

Sure enough, Mrs. Shilang's stay in Songjiang Mansion for a few days had no intention of settling accounts for what happened three years ago.

It's just that I didn't expect Mrs. Shilang to bring so many people back to Beijing, is this really to choose an heir?

The He family and the Shen family are in the same Songjiang area, and they have been married for generations, so they know the origin of the Shen family's houses.

Like others, He Nansheng also thought of Shen Jue, frowning for a while, and letting go for a while.

Although Shen Jue is his nephew, he has never been close to the He family. Shen, who was closest to his uncle's family, is old, and he has already married a wife and had children, so he will not be a candidate for heir

Thinking of Shen Rui by Shen Jue, He Nansheng looked stunned, picked the curtain, and the other party came to humane: "Catch up with the convoy in front and inquire, can there be children in the fourth room to follow into Beijing?" If so, ask which one? ”

The knight answered his promise and rode his horse.

He Nansheng lowered the curtain and touched his chin, this lady Lang has an old relationship with the Sun family, so she will not choose Shen Rui as her heir under the pretext that Shen Juren's remarriage is imminent and her son-in-law is expected?

In the front convoy, in a new carriage, Shen Jue looked at the spacious carriage, touched two of them, and said in a slurp: "The third brother's carriage is really bright, and the younger brother has come over to mingle with the third brother and Brother Rui in the past three days."

Suzhou Prefecture is 200 miles away from Songjiang, and it takes three days to get to the fastest, and four or five days to the slow. Because Xu planned to arrive in Beijing before the end of the year, he arranged the trip according to the three-day journey, and then left the city as soon as the city gate was opened.

Shen Quan smiled: "Isn't it thanks to Brother Rui?" When my second brother went back and forth to Jinling, my mother didn't say that he would get such a spacious and stable carriage. ”

Shen Jue knew that this was the carriage that Shen Rui had been in before going to school, and he put his hand on Shen Rui's shoulder and said: "I was loved by Aunt Hong before, and now there is another Aunt Cang, Brother Rui is really painful."

Shen Rui saw that he was sour again, rolled his eyes, and didn't care about him.

Guo's and Xu's treat him differently because of Sun's sake, and Guo's treats him as a parent and daughter and treats him in all aspects because he pities him for losing his mother, and his biological father and grandmother can't count on him.

Shen Jue's father and mother are all complete, even if he is liked, there will be no aunt in the next room to take care of anything for him. This envy is also white envy.

Shen Jue just said something casually, and then thought of something else: "Isn't the third room too laborious?" Boxing was loaded with three carts, and there were more than a dozen servants and servants who followed Zhu Jiuge into Beijing, and I heard that two of them were still relatives of the Sanfang Yuan clan. Fortunately, they all stayed, and they didn't all follow, or they would have been louder. It's really, but when you go out, scholars, maids, maids, and mothers-in-law are all available, and it's really arrogant."

Shen Rui listened, but blushed a little.

After the group arrived at the Zongfang in the morning, more than twenty or thirty cars gathered in the Zongfang one after another, and the accompanying family members arranged at the head of each room added up to more than dozens of people.

When the patriarch saw it, he sent a message to leave all the cars for the festival gifts, and set off directly from Songjiang to Beijing by land. The brothers of each house only brought close service personnel, just because after arriving in Suzhou, in order to rush to Beijing at the end of the year, the Xu family had to borrow an official ship to go north, and it was inconvenient to have too many followers.

Everyone was reduced to one or two, only Shen Rui was here, except for Zhao Qing who stayed, he still brought five people.

Shen Rui originally wanted to leave the Liu Ya sisters and brothers first, let them go home for the New Year, and then follow the people from the sect to Beijing after the New Year, but the patriarch said that he was too young to bring two more people.

With Shen Jue here, how can Shen Rui be embarrassed to say that he is small? But the patriarch's wife spoke, and in front of all the clansmen, Shen Juren responded, and Shen Rui could only accept the arrangement

After Shen Jue finished speaking, he reacted wrongly, and hurriedly said to Shen Rui: "Hey, Brother Rui, I didn't mean that you are young and can't do without people to serve, Brother Zhu Jiu is seventeen years old......

Shen Rui gritted his teeth and said, "I'm young? Regco is a day younger than me."

Speaking of this, Shen Rui glanced at Shen Quan resentfully, Shen Quan brought a servant, but only one person, and another scholar There were only two people.

Yesterday, Guo's speech was so strong that Shen Rui thought that Shen Quan would bring a few more people here, so he decided to bring Dongxi and Liu Ya without any burden. Fortunately, there is a wealthy third room in front of him, otherwise Shen Rui would have made a joke this morning.

Shen Quan stretched out his hand and touched Shen Rui's head, and said, "Brother Rui is embarrassed, Brother Jue and I don't bring many people, and there are also people who call when we get to the capital; If you bring less, then you will not be able to call the people of your relatives' house. ”

Shen Rui moved Shen Quan's arm and said helplessly: "Third brother, I'm not a child anymore......"

Thinking that Shen Jue's eldest brother was also a Beijing official and had a mansion in the capital, Shen Rui hesitated and asked, "When Brother Jue arrives in Beijing, will he live in Shilang's mansion, or will he go to Brother Ji's house."

"Of course they all lived," Shen Jue replied without hesitation: "Since you are a guest in Beijing with Aunt Cang, you will definitely stay in the Shilang Mansion for a few days." But the eldest brother and sister-in-law are here, and I don't want to live outside all the time, so I still have to go back there...... Brother Rui can rest assured, I won't leave you behind, and when the time comes, you will go with me......"

Speaking of this, Shen Jue said excitedly: "I don't think I think this is going on, when I talk about it, there are really a lot of people in the two houses in Beijing, not to mention the elders of the second room, my eldest brother is here, and the two brothers of the third brother's family are also there, and the third room has a cloth village in the capital, it seems that the second brother Ling is taking care of it in Beijing, and there are six brothers in the ninth room." ”

Seeing that he began to count the heads, Shen Rui remembered something and said curiously: "Did Brother Jue pass the word to Uncle Cang on behalf of Shen?" What did the eldest aunt say? ”

Hearing this, Shen Jue's expression was a little strange.

Shen Quan was beside him, and he was also curious: "What did Brother Shen Rangjue say?" ”

Shen Rui said what Shen asked his father and ancestors to return to the sect and bury in the second-room cemetery.

Shen Quan shook his head and said, "I didn't even enter the genealogy, so I mentioned the ancestral graveyard?" There is the death of the late second master, and it is strange that the eldest aunt should answer him. ”

Shen Jue nodded: "Let the third brother say it, but the eldest aunt not only didn't respond, but also said" Speaking of this, she wanted to stop talking.

"What the hell are you talking about?" Shen Quan asked.

Shen Jue sighed and said: "It is said that if someone arbitrarily pretends to be a descendant of the second room, the sect will come forward to punish if the sect does not find out the lesson丨 the second room." ”

This is not only not at Shen's request, but also does not recognize the identity of the descendants of their mother and son.

Thinking of Shen Yan and Brother Shen, there was silence in the carriage for a while.

Shen Jue muttered: "Aunt Cang is too unkind, Shen Yan and Shen brothers are the descendants of the Shen family, even if the ancestors are at fault, after a few generations, what is the hindrance of returning to the clan with a house?" ”

Shen Rui was silent for a while and said, "People's hearts are greedy, and their desires are difficult to fill. The eldest uncle's move is not to accumulate grudges, but to prevent the slightest. ”

Shen Jue was still puzzled, Shen Quan had already thought of it, nodded and said, "That's exactly why." If Brother Erfang Luo hadn't had an accident, Shen Yan and Shen Guizong might still have some hope. Brother Luo is gone, and the blood of the second room is cut off, if you recognize this branch of the house and come back, I am afraid that I will not be able to tell it in the future. ”

"What's so hard to tell?" Shen Jue was still covered by clouds and mountains, and he only felt that Shen Quan and Shen Rui's words were quite meaningful.

Shen Quandao: "Today, their brothers just want to return to the sect as a concubine, and tomorrow they want to ask for the identity of a side branch if they can't say it, and if they can't say it the day after tomorrow, they will claim to be the main branch of the second room." ”

"Huh?" Shen Jue was surprised: "No, look at Shen Yan doesn't look like that shameless person?" ”

Shen Quan snorted lightly and said, "Isn't Shen a self-proclaimed descendant of the second room?" If his parents didn't talk about it, how could he feel so? Shen Yan and he are siblings, looking humble and polite, but who knows what to think in their hearts. What Brother Rui said is right, people's hearts are greedy, and their desires are difficult to fill......"