It wasn't until the evening that the black carriage of the Shen family drove back to the compound, and Shen Shuyi sang honestly for a day at the age of four to alleviate the blame that had not fallen on his head for a long time, and he couldn't help but tremble when he heard the advice of his subordinates.

As the old saying goes, what should come will always come.

Shen Shuyi looked at the four-year-old Hong who was sitting in a rocking chair and drinking tea, and he didn't ask about the strangeness of the whole day. Master Zhou passed away on the night he left Xingzhen, according to the number of seven days, the four-year-old Honglai Quyun was really early, and he didn't see the shadow of the troupe in the past two days.

I guess he already had, but he couldn't be sure. Four-year-old Hong has worked hard for the troupe for half of his life, so he has never left the Red Courtyard for many years. As far as he knew, four-year-old Hong had no relatives in this world for a long time, and there were few friends, so it was really suspicious to come to Quyun and settle in his house alone under the banner of white affairs.

Shen Shuyi has always wondered if his father is conspiring with four-year-old Hong, especially since Master Shen has been busy with something in the past two days, not only has he no time to control him, but he also rarely goes out early in the morning.

There are especially many scruples in doing their business, and the yin qi is the heaviest in the early morning, which is not good for the Shen family. Therefore, unless you go to the grave or deal with ghosts, you have to wait for the sun to rise before you start doing things.

But it's better to hunt ghosts in the evening, could it be that his father went to the ancestral grave?

The more Shen Shuyi thought about it, the more wrong it became, but he couldn't say what was wrong, since he came back from Xingzhen, he felt that Qu Yun had a lot more gloomy aura, which was neither visible nor audible, only because of his intuition as a descendant of the Shen family in Lingxi, but this intuition was the most terrifying.

I heard that Guangzhou and the capital have not been peaceful recently, and there is a plague in the north, and the country will be in chaos, this chaos may still be far away from them, but Shen Shuyi feels that Quyun will also become turbulent, but he doesn't know why it's chaotic yet.

Halfway through his thoughts, another subordinate ran in and bent down eagerly in front of him.

"Young master, the master asked you to go to the ancestral hall." He said.

Shen Shuyi's feet shook, and his face became fast.

"Ancestral hall? Did you hear it right? He was amazed.

The ancestral hall can be called the forbidden place of the Shen family, except for special times, you can't go in, except for Master Shen and Shen Shuyi, you can't go in, the cleaning tasks inside are all done by Master Shen himself, and he had to kneel to read when he was a child. Let him go to the ancestral hall, the severity can be imagined.

The subordinates who came were very eager: "The little one must have heard it right, the master also called the lady and the second master!" ”

This was enough to gasp, and he had a vague doubt in his mind, would his father expel him from the ancestral hall because he was too unmotivated, and then let Shen Qiu replace him? Others don't believe this, but he knows that it is completely possible, there is a thin son in the ancestral hall of the Shen family, who specially records some major events in the family, Shen Shuyi once peeked at it, and there is one in it that he buried in his heart until today.

Shen Qiu is also a person of the Four Pillars of Quanyin, and he is qualified to be the patriarch of the next generation of the Shen family.

He was only eight or nine years old at the time, but he knew the seriousness of it, so he never told anyone. Whether Shen Qiu understands this matter or not doesn't know him, but I'm afraid even his mother doesn't know about it except for himself.

The Shen family has always had a lot of secrets, and he only knows one or two of them, the position of patriarch is just a name today, and he is not uncommon, but if he really wants to eliminate his clan, it still makes him feel a huge shock in his heart.

But in love, there are only these three people left in the Shen family, although Shen Qiu loves to toss him, he has always been very good to him.

Yu Li, his most undeniable point is that Shen Qiu is more suitable than him to enter the ancestral hall in all aspects. During the time when he lived in the ancestral hall, all he thought about was how to get out, and he only memorized the knowledge in the hundreds of ancient books.

He is a person who does not seek progress, but Shen Qiu is different, he can bear the burden of the Shen family, and he can do better than him.

Seeing that his face had turned pale, the servant asked carefully, "Young Master, are you ...... You okay? ”

Shen Shuyi came back to his senses in an instant.

"It's okay, I'll go." He said with a laugh.

The next person had already gone in a hurry, and Shen Shuyi sorted out his thoughts and turned to the four-year-old red.

"Master, I'll go first!" He said, grinning at the same old age.

Four-year-old red nodded, and said with a hum voice: "Go, come tomorrow morning, I have something to say to you." ”

Shen Shuyi raised his head, four-year-old red has always said the same, tomorrow morning will be tomorrow morning, so he answered and ran to the ancestral hall. It's really not a joke for his dad to get angry, hitting the board is a light punishment, after all, it's just a body, last year he accidentally broke the magic weapon in the ancestral hall, and as a result, he was tied up and thrown in the ghost room all night!

Even if the ghosts inside were sealed, but the ghosts were still ghosts, and in the same room with a group of floating ghosts, Shen Shuyi felt that it was better to die.

The ancestral hall of the Shen family is built in the east of the Shen family, it is the heaviest place in the courtyard, the courtyard wall is a dark black, the tiles are engraved with many ghost-like patterns, and the courtyard gate is also dark and heavy, much wider than the usual. The door was open, and no one could enter, only Lin and Shen Qiu, one person and one chair, sat in the open space outside the ancestral hall.

Master Shen stood at the door of the ancestral hall with a gloomy face, and when he saw him coming, he turned around and walked inside.

How dare Shen Shuyi delay, he didn't even have time to look at the faces of Shen Qiu and his mother, and hurriedly followed in.

The inside of the ancestral hall was dim, there was not a single window in this big house, and it was lit by candles when he came in during the day, but now his father didn't light a single candle.

Shen Shuyi didn't have much resistance to touching the dark, and there were no ghosts in the ancestral hall, so he followed boldly with confidence, and when he reached the position almost in front of the spirit card, Master Shen stopped, and he hurriedly stopped.

"What are the three souls of a man?" Master Shen asked him.

Shen Shuyi slowly adapted to the extremely faint light in the ancestral hall, and replied familiarly: "Heavenly soul, earth soul, life soul." ”

After answering, Master Shen didn't speak again, he thought that he would ask some real knowledge, but he didn't expect his father to just say it casually, and after asking, he started to move his hand on the spirit case, and in the darkness, he could only hear the sound of pouring water.

After a long time, Master Shen stopped, picked up a sea bowl from the case and handed it to Shen Shuyi.

It can be seen that it is a bowl that has reached its limit, Shen Shuyi took it, the bowl was very full, but he couldn't see what it was at all.

"Dad, this is ......," he couldn't help but ask.

But there was no answer to this, Shen Shuyi felt extremely weird, and the bowl in his hand suddenly became hot, but his father's intention was obviously to let him drink it, and the stalemate was meaningless.

Is it too late to kneel now...... Shen Shuyi was silent for a long time, he was not mentally prepared for this situation at all, what was in the bowl? What happens if you drink it? Normal people have a fear of the unknown about things they don't understand, and so does he.

Taking a deep breath, Shen Shuyi raised his head and wanted to drink it in one gulp, but halfway through the drink, he choked on the impurities mixed in it.

Shen Shuyi was taken aback, and he had already reacted in his heart, the water was soil, and the water mixed with the soil! When he contacted Master Shen who went out early in the morning, he immediately understood that it was not ordinary soil, but fresh grave soil from his ancestral grave.

The grave soil of ordinary people is extremely yin and taboo, not to mention that the ancestor is the ancestral grave of the Shen family who does ghost business.

I'm afraid that drinking this water will invite disaster, right? In particular, if you drink the soil of your own grave, you will not be disrespectful to your ancestors and will be punished.

Shen Shuyi's mind quickly skimmed over all kinds of knowledge in the ancient books, but he couldn't find an idea that was completely suitable for the situation, but in any case, he wouldn't drink the remaining half bowl.

If you drink too much of this thing, you will die.

What he didn't expect was that Master Shen then took the sea bowl from his hand and didn't force him to drink it all.

"I hope you come out." Master Shen said in a low voice.

Shen Shuyi suddenly had a bad premonition, and after eating the grave soil, the yang energy on his body would be minimized in a short period of time, so he was afraid that there would be symptoms of leaving the soul.

He remembered that it was rumored that the Xiangxi Array family had a secret technique, called Soul Transmission, and the essence of the truth was to use things containing ancestral energy to channel spirits. However, it was all from more than a hundred years ago, and even the Array Family would probably not be able to do it now.

The most important step in the spirit transmission is to expel the soul from the body, and the slightest mistake will end up in ashes, and the underworld may not have a chance to go.

This is just an analogy, his family's secret techniques are honestly written in books, and there is no need for such an impractical method as spirit transmission, but what his father is doing at present is clearly to force him to leave his soul.

What does it mean to hope that he will come out? The soul is already a matter of life and death when it leaves the body, and the soul still needs to be guarded and assisted by many people, does he have to come back on his own?

Shen Shuyi was full of questions but didn't have time to ask, the light in front of him was disappearing little by little, and it was not obvious in the darkness, but he felt it clearly.

If you insist on feelings, it is estimated that it is similar to when you are about to die, there is a strange feeling of breaking through the ground and flying above the body, and then the realization fades.

Master Shen calmly watched him fall to the ground, and slowly walked out of the ancestral hall. Closing the door, the Lin family in the courtyard was already pale, and Shen Qiu lowered his eyes and didn't know what he was thinking.

"You, did you really give him a drink?" Lin asked in a trembling voice.

Master Shen nodded and sat down on the third chair.

"You're not afraid?" Lin asked again.

Master Shen straightened the hem of his clothes expressionlessly, and said: "If you can't get out, just treat it as if you never had this son, such a waste, how will I meet my ancestors and ancestors when I go in the future?" ”

He also said: "This is his life, the life of the Shen family, and it can't be changed." ”

Hearing this, the Lin family seemed to have been suddenly drained of energy, but she had already made a lot of mental preparations for so many years in the Shen family, and the look on her face slowly disappeared, no longer asking, nor refutating, and sitting quietly and waiting.

February is already the beginning of spring, and the little warmth of the sun gathered during the day dissipates very quickly at night, and there is no wind at night, sitting without words, and it is difficult to sleep all night.