The time when this adoptive mother entered and left the Shen Mansion was not far away, but the porter remembered it clearly.

The second wife returned to Beijing in a hurry, and she didn't care about the second house, she didn't have to have a banker ticket in her hand, and if she really wanted to spend money, she had to take cash.

Whether it's a vase or a dresser, there's a place to put things.

For Shen Luo's death, Qiao's family hated Zhao Yangniang back then, and now they are called into the mansion one after another, and they reward things, which is abnormal.

Xu didn't have the heart to interrogate the second wife, so he directly called the housekeeper over and ordered: "Go to the old house of the second master in Nancheng and take the adoptive mother's family, interrogate her carefully, see what she has done this month to plot against the master's family, tell her, if you dare to be hard-mouthed, you will be sent to the official according to the crime of stealing the master's property."

The Shen family's life was not extravagant, but there was only one single seedling in the third room back then, and the elders in each room were naturally eager to pick the stars and the moon for him.

Shen Luo's house is the most exquisite.

This adoptive mother has taken care of and served Shen Luo for more than ten years, and treats the little master loyally, more carefully than her own flesh and blood, otherwise Qiao's family would not keep her. However, the wealth is moving, and this Zhao Yangniang is not innocent.

Xu Shi opened his eyes and closed his eyes, but he didn't deal with it because he took into account Shen Luo's importance to this adoptive mother and Qiao's face.

When Shen Luo was gone, the adoptive mother was driven away, and Xu thought that she had breasted Brother Luo, and she didn't want to ask for a few silver coins.

However, if the adoptive mother and Qiao's family are involved together and plan for the three rooms and four brothers, then the new and old accounts must be calculated together

It is true that this adoptive mother is Qiao's dowry, and the deed is not in the Shen family, but her men and children are all descendants of the Shen family, and whether she wants to live or die is really a matter of the Shen family's family.

The third old man looked at the Xu family with gray sideburns, thinking that he would let her worry about the third room again, and he couldn't help feeling guilty, but his heart was also steady.

For most of the month, the husband and wife were so worried that they couldn't even sleep......

In the afternoon, Shen Jue finally woke up.

Although he looked weak and hoarse, he sat up and said that the first thing he said was to eat.

"I'm really going to starve to death, don't worry about anything, the second brother will bring me food first" Shen Jue looked at Shen Rui with a puppy-like look in his eyes.

"It's so beautiful that you haven't eaten, the doctor will clean your stomach," Shen Rui snorted coldly.

Shen Jue immediately pleaded with a pleading face: "Don't, second brother, I can eat ten bowls of rice now."

Shen Rui was annoyed that he didn't know how to resist last night, and said hatefully: "I don't know how to cherish myself, let everyone worry about it, do you still have the face to eat?" I didn't eat, I endured it when I was hungry."

Shen Jue wailed, lay on the kang again, and said pitifully: "But I'm really going to starve to death, the Five Organs Temple is like a fight...... Second brother, listen to ......"

Although he had just woken up, he was dazed and poured two bowls of antipyretic medicine in the middle.

I didn't wake up before, but when I woke up, in addition to being hungry, I also felt panicked in my lower abdomen.

He was limp and struggled to get up, but he was top-heavy.

Shen Rui couldn't look at it, so he had to step forward and help him to "release water" behind the screen.

Shen Jue lifted his pants, rubbed his stomach and said, "If you don't give you food, you can drink porridge, this stomach is deflated...

In order to prevent him from being hungry when he woke up, the small kitchen had already warmed the porridge.

Shen Rui just said a few cruel words, where did he really not give him food?

When Chun Yu served Shen Jue to wash his hands and clean his face, Chun He also brought a little maid and brought the kang table in.

The porridge is pumpkin and lily porridge, a plain white porridge, and a four-color side dish with porridge.

Shen Jue was obviously hungry, and he swallowed violently when he smelled the porridge.

Shen Rui was half relieved to see that he still had the appetite to eat.

People who are sick are most afraid of having no appetite and not being able to eat anything; If you can eat in your mouth, your body can inhale nutrients, and the disease will heal faster.

Seeing the porridge and vegetables, Shen Jue's pale face immediately added a little bit of rub, and his eyes brightened up a lot.

Seeing that there was only one pair of bowls and chopsticks, he did not let Shen Rui be in vain, and directly took the porridge bowl and ate two bites first.

Looking at the sweet look on that little face, it looks like he hasn't eaten in a few lifetimes.

"Let's eat porridge in these two days, I can order a few good dishes to satisfy my hunger, I want to eat chicken legs, whole, and fried meatballs......" Shen Jue was full of cravings, but there were porridge and side dishes in front of him, and he couldn't satisfy his hunger, so he could only babble and get over his mouth.

Shen Rui watched from the side, and the more he looked at it, the more he felt that something was wrong.

For a patient who woke up after a night of fever, Shen Jue's appetite was too good.

"But you didn't eat two meals, and you were hungry like this?" Shen Rui asked casually.

Shen Jue replied smoothly: "Where are the two meals?" Counting from yesterday morning, it's been four meals."

After he finished speaking, he noticed that something was wrong, and looked at Shen Rui busily.

Shen Rui looked at him coldly, Shen Jue put down the porridge bowl, and said with a forced smile: "I was worried about the delicious food at noon yesterday morning, and I didn't eat it if I didn't have an appetite." ”

Shen Rui ignored him either, and asked the spring parrot standing next to him with a straight face: "Third brother often skips meals these days?" ”

Chun Yu glanced at Shen Jue, a little hesitant.

"Isn't that what you serve?" Shen Rui's tone was not good: "Why don't I call someone else to ask?" ”

The spring parrot shuddered for a while, and whispered: "It's not much when you don't eat at all, but it's a lot when the amount of food is halved......"

"How many times? How long has it been? Shen Rui asked.

The spring parrot thought for a while and said, "There are three or four times, and it's been more than half a month......

"He's not sensible, you're still not sensible? He doesn't eat properly, and you just look at it? Shen Rui said angrily.

The spring parrot was indisputable, and immediately bowed his head and knelt.

Chun He was standing outside, but he was a real person, and he refused to hide out, hearing Shen Rui getting angry in the inner room, he came in and knelt next to the spring parrot, and whispered: "Second brother, the maids are also anxious when they see that the third brother is not fragrant to eat, but I don't know who to tell to ......."

Shen Jue sneered: "This winter is short, other people's families have two meals, only our family has three meals from the old habit of Songjiang, I sit and read all day long, what is it to eat more and eat less?" Second brother, don't blame the two of them, the two of them are not less verbose, and they can't clean my ears for a few mouthfuls of rice. ”

These days, seeing Shen Jue's reduction, Shen Rui only thought it was because of his hard work, but he didn't expect that there would be such a thing as not eating.

The two servants made it clear, but there was nowhere to go.

Shen Jue is the heir of the second room, and his living should have been asked by Qiao's mother. With Qiao's presence, Xu's can't interfere. But Qiao's cold heart and lungs, except for last night's "teaching", he has ignored Shen Jue these days.

Shen Rui felt a fire in his chest.

is also the heir of the Shen family, if he eats less, the Xu family will send someone to ask; Shen Jue was hungry and full for most of the month, but except for his personal maid, no one knew.

He can pretend to be on the top, and he doesn't show it every time he eats with himself. Shen Rui has to go to school by himself, he can't be at home all day, and the number of times the two brothers have been at the same table is only a handful, and he didn't know about it for so long.

I only thought that Shen Jue was because he wanted his relatives in the south to be in poor spirits, but he didn't expect him to spoil himself like this.

No wonder he is getting thinner and thinner, his complexion is getting darker and darker, and he can faint after kneeling for an hour.

Shen Rui looked at Shen Jue, he really didn't know what to say.

Shen Jue also lost his appetite, and when he saw that the spring parrot and the spring crane were still kneeling, he hurriedly said, "So blind? Why don't you go down to the dinner table? ”

Hearing this, Chun Yu and Chun He glanced at Shen Rui, got up and carried the kang table down.

Shen Rui sighed, a little at a loss for what to say.

No matter how Shen Jue misses Songjiang's relatives, this patriarchal succession is not child's play. Shen Jue is the heir of the second house, and it is also delusional to want to return to the sect. Even on the side of the sect, in order to show justice in front of the clan, Shen Jue will not be allowed to return to the sect.

But Xiao Erfang's heirs and heirs are also worried.

Shen Jue thought that Shen Rui was going to reprimand himself, and he was ready to admit his mistakes, but he didn't expect that he was just blindly silent, which made Shen Jue feel bottomless.

"I used to estimate that I was tired from the journey and lost my appetite, so I didn't eat anything fragrant, but now I'm hungry this time, I can be regarded as a taste of wheels, what is the taste, and I will definitely eat three meals in the future" Shen Jue said "hehe" twice.

Shen Rui raised his eyelids, glanced at him, and said, "Before you came out of Nanchang Mansion, did the second uncle take a concubine?"

Shen Jue was stunned when he heard this, and he didn't know how Shen Rui remembered to ask this without a head or a tail.

He shook his head and said, "There are people who send maids, but the second master is outside, and all his thoughts are on government affairs, so he politely refuses......"

Shen Rui said: "What about the room that the second uncle took with him when he left?" ”

Shen Jue glanced at Shen Rui with a strange expression, and said bluntly: "How can the second brother sound about these elders' internal affairs?" When the second master's room reached the south, he served the second wife......" Speaking of this, he hesitated: "But over there, the second master has not been placed in the main house, he has been in the study, and there are also two maids who serve the living room......"

Shen Rui listened, although he was a little disappointed, but he was not surprised.

Shen Zhou is an orthodox scholar, in his eyes, a wife is a wife, a concubine is a concubine, and a maid is a maid. Maybe he also thinks that his wife Fangling is not there, and not adding a new concubine is affectionate and gentlemanly. As for the bed warmer, she didn't treat it as a family member at all.

"The second uncle is not yet the year of knowing the destiny of heaven, is it possible to add another concubine?" Shen Rui asked softly.

Shen Jue raised his head sharply as if he had been struck by lightning.

Shen Rui looked at Shen Jue, Shen Jue's face was full of pain, struggle, and expectation, and finally turned into despair.

He drooped his head and said, "When I went south last year and passed by Songjiang, I also asked my grandfather...... In the market news, it is also common for a fifty-year-old man to marry a concubine and have children, not to mention that the second master is younger, and his body is not as weak as the uncle and the third uncle...... My grandfather warned me not to have this thought. The second room is thin, there is only one second master, and the wives and concubines in the back house are complete, if the children are strong, they will not have a pair of children; Even if the second master accepts a new concubine in the future and gives birth to a concubine by luck, since I am here, it will not be the turn of the concubine to inherit the house, otherwise the succession will become a joke. ”

Because Shen Rui's current identity is the heir, he has also heard about various civil heir disputes.

There are few heirs who return to the sect, and the most important thing is that the patriarchy is not child's play, and the property rights of each head cannot be confused.

The heir is here to inherit the bloodline, and this heir family has biological flesh and blood, and it is normal for people to want their biological flesh and blood to inherit the family business. But for celebrities who have had heirs before, it is extremely unfair to recruit them and leave them.

In order to protect the rights and interests of heirs, the law has long clearly stipulated that the offspring cannot replace the identity of heirs, and the family property is still divided equally among all sons......