Songjiang Mansion, Shenjiafang, four-bedroom house.

A little maid in a green shirt stood at the door, her face full of embarrassment: "Big brother, Lao Anren is resting......"

The elderly feel light, Zhang Lao'an people wake up every day at four o'clock in the morning, and at noon the spirit is insufficient, always have to rest for half an hour to an hour.

Shen Rui has already set a return date, and he will return to Beijing by boat tomorrow morning. It's okay to go somewhere else, but the elders of the four rooms need to say goodbye here.

The "coincidence" that came today happened to be Zhang Laoan's lunch break.

Shen Jin listened to the little maid's words, turned his head to Shen Rui and said, "Second brother Rui......"

"It's not good to disturb Lao Anren's rest, just kowtow a few heads outside......" Shen Rui said happily.

Not only is Shen Jin worried about Zhang Laoanren, but he himself is also impatient to deal with Zhang Laoanren, last time he quickly escaped because Zhang Laoanren didn't pay attention, and if he was caught this farewell, it would be a bit of a wordy conversation.

Therefore, after Shen Jin "unintentionally" said Zhang Lao'an's work and rest habits, Shen Rui pinched the door to say goodbye.

Even if no one was staring, Shen Rui still knelt down and kowtowed in the courtyard of Zhang Lao'anren unequivocally. No matter what he thinks about Zhang Lao'an in his heart, what he should do is still to be done, this is "filial piety", filial piety is a loss, virtue is flawed, and he is despised.

Shen Jin looked at Shen Rui with a little reluctance on his face.

The brothers got together for a few days, and the Ming Dynasty faced parting again.

Shen Rui finished kowtowing, stood up, and returned to the front yard with Shen Jin.

Shen Jin thought of Chang Sui Wanning, and hesitated: "Wouldn't it be too troublesome for Second Brother Rui to let Wan Ning return to Beijing with Second Brother Rui?" ”

Shen Rui shook his head and said, "What's the trouble?" Just drop by......"

Although for Shen Rui, even if Shen Jin didn't send a long entourage to Beijing, he would directly help Shen Jin in the capital or rent or buy a house, but he didn't open his mouth to ask for it.

Even if Shen Jin is successful, it is not a matter of one or two days to prepare for the exam in Beijing, and there is also the matter of the Zheng family, Shen Rui is unwilling to mix too much. If that really happens, if he doesn't say anything about the trouble, the elders of the second room will feel uncomfortable.

Shen Jin still said solemnly: "Thank you to the second brother in this way......"

In addition to the fourth room, Shen Rui from the sect room also has to go.

Three years ago, when the Xu family returned to Songjiang Province, he left a sum of money in the Zongfang in order to buy property in Songjiang. Now the land property has already been placed, and the master of the sect has made someone manage it on his behalf, and the relevant land deeds have already been sent to Beijing, Shen Rui has passed today, in addition to saying goodbye to the sect, he also has to count a sum of money, which is the benefit of Zhuang Tian in recent years.

Because of this, Shen Rui did not continue to stay in the fourth room, anyway, they had to meet tonight, and the clan brothers would come to the fifth room tonight to practice for Shen Quan, Shen Rui and others, and Shen Jin was naturally among them.

Shen Jue was taken back to the sect room by Shen yesterday for the Mid-Autumn Festival, and he was originally going to pick it up with Shen Rui, but Shen Rui refused.

Except for Shen Jue, Shen Rui was not very familiar with the rest of the sect, so he was naturally willing to stay in the fifth room for the festival

The sect has filial piety, and the festival is deserted, so he did not force Shen Rui.

When Shen Rui came to the sect's room, it happened that Shen Jue was talking to the master of the sect in the study.

"What's going on with the second lady over there?" There are only father and son, and there are no outsiders, so the eldest master of the sect said bluntly.

Shen Ji learned the news that the second wife of the second room was not in good health, and she began to be sick after returning to Beijing for the funeral, and she was moved to Zhuangzi to recuperate this year.

To say that there is no greasy in this, the master of the sect does not believe it. But after all, Qiao's is Shen Jue's mother, if it is really bad, the eldest master of the sect is afraid that it will affect Shen Jue, so he took the initiative to ask.

When asked by others, Shen Jue knew that "family ugliness should not be publicized" and would hide the matter, but when his father asked, he hesitated for a moment, and then said: "The second wife wants to drug the fourth brother to make a bureau, and wants to use the third old man's punishment of relatives to support the fourth brother......"

As for punishing him for kneeling in the snow, Shen Jue didn't want the eldest master of the sect to worry, so he skipped it and didn't mention it.

Even so, the eldest master of the sect still had a black face: "Embrace the fourth brother? With you as an heir, you are not satisfied, so what is it? ”

"The fourth brother's birthday is the day of Brother Luo's sacrifice, and I heard that the fourth brother's appearance is similar to that of Brother Luo when he was a child...... The second wife has this knot, and it is not a day or two...... When I went south, I wanted to go back to Beijing halfway, so that I couldn't bear to ...... fourth brother who had just landed," Shen Jue said.

Shen Jue didn't have much resentment towards Qiao's family, but felt a little pity for her in his heart.

If Shen Luo was still there, Qiao's would not be almost crazy. In the final analysis, the pain of losing a child is too deeply affected, and I have lost my mind and become more and more confused.

The eldest lord of the sect had no good impression of Qiao's family, and frowned: "Unvirtuous woman, not very clear, and the eldest lady of the second room is really worlds apart...... His maiden brother is also a fool, and he actually wants Shen Yan to be his son-in-law, isn't this causing trouble for you? In the future, when relatives come and go, do they move around, or don't they move around? ”

Even if the eldest master of the sect had no dislike for Shen Yan's brothers in the past, but now that he is standing in Shen Jue's position, he naturally hopes that the two brothers will stay away from the second room.

"Master, don't worry about this, now the two Shen Yan brothers are in Beijing, and I met their brothers with Second Brother Rui a few months ago...... Looking at the meaning of the eldest uncle, I am not close to the two brothers, but I did not forbid the second brother to communicate with them. Shen Jue said.

When the eldest master of the sect heard this, he was quite surprised: "The attitude of the eldest lady of the second room was very resolute that year, why did she change her mind again?" ”

Shen Jue said disapprerovingly: "Do you want to kill them all?" In the end, it's not their brothers' business. ”

The eldest master of the sect still felt a little strange, but he couldn't guess the reason for it for a while.

Thinking of another matter, the eldest master of the sect hesitated and said: "Your second brother has done a foolish thing, I have already punished him, is Brother Jue annoyed?" ”

Shen Jue picked the corners of his mouth and said sarcastically: "I'm not annoyed, it's nothing, the master is still thinking about how to explain it to Brother Rui......"

The eldest master of the sect sighed and said: "The son does not teach, the father's fault, when Brother Rui comes, I will personally make amends with Brother Rui."

Shen Jue frowned and said: "The second brother is already a thirty-year-old person, since he dares to send someone to quietly go to the guest house to rummage through the box, he doesn't dare to apologize a little?" Can the master protect him once or twice, but can he protect him for the rest of his life? ”

The eldest master of the sect had a bit of decadence on his face: "Back then, I saw that your eldest brother was a square person, and your second brother was clever and transparent, but now it's only been a few years of hard work, why are they all out of shape?" If I had known that your two brothers were like this, I wouldn't have taken you out of the country no matter what......"

Shen Ji's temperament is self-righteous and indifferent; Shen was smart again, only focusing on the interests and benefits, neither of them was the temperament of a patriarch.

As the patriarch, you must be fair and open-minded in order to reconcile the relationship between the clans, otherwise who will be convinced? The head of each house is out of the relationship of five rooms, the Shen family is already loose, and if the patriarch who is not convinced by each room cannot maintain the clan relationship, the Shen family will have to divide the clan sooner or later.

On the contrary, it is Shen Jue, who seems to be arrogant and willful, but is actually the most distracted and soft-hearted child.

Shen Jue didn't answer the words of the eldest master of the sect, these afterthoughts were meaningless, if he really wanted to say that he wanted to return to the sect, the first one to jump out and oppose it was the eldest master of the sect.

Thinking of this, Shen Jue lowered his head and smiled bitterly.

Speaking of which, it only took him three years to go from Songjiang to the capital, and it seemed like half a lifetime had passed. Now that he has returned to the sect, not only is he uncomfortable, but also the rest of the sect is uncomfortable.

When Mrs. Zongfang saw him, she didn't seem to have a second expression except for a forced smile. Shen Yin looked at it earnestly, Shen Ji was a little picky in his seriousness, and the two sisters-in-law were polite and not like they were family.

The father and son were relatively speechless, and the study was silent and the atmosphere was depressing.

The voice of the little guy at the door broke the depression: "Master, Young Master Rui is here......"

The eldest master of the sect said busily: "Please come in quickly......"

Shen Jue was beside him and had already stood up.

Seeing this, the eldest master of the sect was broken. If Shen Rui was a few years older than Shen Jue, then he wouldn't say anything, only one day away from the two brothers, Shen Rui would occupy the position of cousin, and Shen Jue also sincerely respected Shen Rui.

Shen Rui's face was a little ugly.

He is not a temperament that is full of joy and anger, and putting it on his face like this is also to express his dissatisfaction with the sect.

Even though he went to live in the fifth room in the past few days, the big luggage was still on the side of the Zongfang guest room. After coming over, he went to the guest room first, but he didn't want to hear that the guest house didn't know the rules and broke into the guest room in the morning. Among the suitcases he had brought with him was one of three hundred taels of gold and three hundred taels of silver, which he had with him in case of need. The box, which had been locked, had been pried open.

Although the sect's side later found a subordinate who was not clean and chased back all the gold and silver, this thing was too disgusting.

Seeing that Shen Rui was annoyed, Shen Jue was a little embarrassed.

Although Shen Rui is not there, he has been there for the past two days, but he has let people enter the house and rummage through the cabinets, which is really too wasteful.

Shen Rui glanced at Shen Jue, and then looked at the eldest master of the sect.

The eldest master of the sect said with a little unease on his face: "Brother Rui is here......

Shen Rui said with a straight face: "Uncle Hai doesn't want to say anything about the hands and feet of his subordinates, he will be a thief without telling him, who will do such a thing, who has the courage to act like this, Uncle Hai knows it in his heart." I just want to ask how to punish it

The eldest master of the sect sighed: "According to the family law, you should play thirty boards...... Brother Rui rest assured, there is no loss of ......"

Shen's ambition and arrogance are not formed in a day or two, but there are only two sons left in Zongfang now, and Shen Ji is in his official career, so he can't always be in Songjiang, and there is only one Shen in front of the eldest man and his wife in Zongfang, so naturally they are relying on it day by day.

If it weren't for this, Shen would dare to be so presumptuous and sit down like this.

is so mercenary, but it really looks like the temperament of the people on the He family's side.

Shen Rui was a little sympathetic to the eldest master of the sect.

But if you really want to let a person like Shen succeed the clan, who knows what trouble it will cause to the Shen family.

Shen Rui thought for a while and said, "Although Uncle Hai only has two sons under his name, his grandchildren are flourishing...... Brother Xiaodong's generation has also reached the age of talking about marriage, why doesn't Uncle Hai choose two grandchildren to stay by his side to fulfill his filial piety......"

When the eldest lord of the sect heard this, his heart moved, he twisted his beard, was silent for a while, and nodded after the most reluctant: "Brother Rui has a point......

Although Shen Jian is the son of the sect, he is an official and has no time to take care of clan affairs, and the eldest lord of the sect originally wanted to hand over the position of clansman to Shen, but now he sees that the second son is inappropriate.

Seeing that the grandchildren are growing up one after another, it is also a good way to choose one of the grandchildren from the small house to teach, take over the affairs of the clan, and directly succeed the patriarch over Shen Ji's generation in the future......