Chapter 23: The Decline of the Xia Family

I have to say that the Xia family is without Xia Changchang, which is really getting worse and worse.

The pillars of the Xia family are Xia Xiangwen and Xia Xiangwu.

Xia Xiangwen has an elm head all over the place, he likes to follow the rules in everything, and he is unwilling to make money when he is an official, and he has offended many people.

And Xia Xiangwu is not to mention, the whole family is a loser.

He is a big loser, and his two sons are small losers.

However, for his younger brother, Xia Xiangwen has no way at all, after all, he can't fight, at most he scolds twice.

But over time, his angry scolding was also regarded as wind in the ears of the other party, and he continued to do what he had to do.

Fortunately at first, Xia Xiangwu still fantasized that he could become the head of the Xia family, so he would relent.

When he reacted, Xia Luo had been playing tricks on him all along, and after not thinking about making him the head of the house, he completely let himself go.

Spending money every day is like running water, and one person spends more than a large family.

Whenever someone says that he is a loser, he still has a lot of words.

"Am I a loser? I gave up the position of the head of the family to my brother, even if I am a loser, he has to support me! ”

As the saying goes, people are shameless and invincible in the world, and he may be talking about him.

As the family background became thinner and thinner, the Xia family first dismissed more than half of the maids and miscellaneous servants, and then reduced the expenditure on food.

But despite this, the monthly turnover still seems to be a bit stretched.

One day, a group of people with sticks in their hands broke into Xia's house, claiming to be guys from a gambling house and came to Xia Xiangwu to collect debts.

After understanding, Xia Xiangwu was actually gambling, and he lost a full 200,000 taels of silver.

And people have IOUs, written in black and white.

Not only that, Xia Xiangwu may have borrowed too much money and people didn't lend it to him, so he borrowed a lot of money in the name of the Xia family.

When the Xia family wanted to find Xia Xiangwu, they heard from the car dealer in Kyoto that Xia Xiangwu had already left the city with his own group.

Helpless, the honest Xia Xiangwen had no choice but to wipe his younger brother's buttocks.

But he did the math, but he really couldn't take out the two hundred thousand taels of silver, and just when he didn't know what to do, the owner of the gambling hall found him.

In fact, ordinary people really don't dare to collect debts to the Xia family, because although the old man is dead, the influence is there, and not everyone dares to move.

But this person is different, his name is Ye Qinghan, and he is the brother-in-law of the emperor of the dynasty!

That's right, it's the emperor who is only ten years old this year.

Although he is not very old, he always wants to make a queen, so he found a girl younger than him to be the queen.

As the saying goes, one person attains the Tao, the chicken and the dog ascend to heaven, and all those who are related to this little queen are promoted.

And this brother-in-law opened a gambling house in Kyoto, and monopolized as a relative of the emperor, and made a lot of money for a while.

As soon as he saw Xia Xiangwen, he arched his hand, and then looked at the big courtyard by himself.

"I have long heard that in the whole of Kyoto, the largest mansion is the mansion that the first emperor of the emperor rewarded the Xia family, so it really deserves its name."

"What do you mean by that?"

"Now that your Xia family has fallen to this point, what's the use of having such a big mansion? It's better to use this yard to pay off the debt, as long as you agree, in addition to the full exemption of the debt, you can also give you a house that is not much worse than this. ”

Although Xia Xiangwen is honest, he is not stupid.

Hearing what the other party said, I immediately thought that the other party's goal from the beginning was this house.

"You...... You mean! ”

"Say whatever you want, according to what is written on this IOU, the interest is not low, and there is not much time left for you to think about it."

Later, Xia Xiangwen came to discuss this matter with Xia Luo, but the answer given by Xia Luo was that people must learn to let go.

After all, the Xia family is really too big, and the big one is not something that he can protect with Xia Xiangwen.

If you keep occupying this place, even if you finish dealing with this Ye Qinghan, there will be a second Ye Qinghan.

Xia Xiangwu is gone, and sooner or later there will be a second Xia Xiangwu in the Xia family.

Are you done?

With all that said, Xia Xiangwen understood what he should do, but at the end he asked Xia Luo.

"Are you willing to give up this little yard of your own?"

Xia Luo looked back at the courtyard where he had lived for more than thirty years and shook his head.

"What do you say?"

After that, Xia Xiangwen didn't speak much.

He still transferred the Xia family's compound to Ye Qinghan, on the one hand, because there are not many people in the Xia family now, and living in such a big mansion seems deserted.

Another reason is that I know I can't keep it.

But fortunately, Ye Qinghan was not as despicable as he imagined, and the new courtyard for the Xia family was also very spacious.

It is more than enough for the current family of the Xia family to live in.

As for Xia Luo, he still stayed in the original courtyard, because Xia Xiangwen specifically asked Ye Qinghan about it.

Ye Qinghan is also bold, after all, the outer courtyard is just a place for the subordinates to live, and a courtyard in the outer courtyard is just for Xia Luo to live in.

also said that he wanted to treat Xia Luo as his own person or something.

At first, Xia Luo thought that if this family was too noisy, he would make this place a murderous house.

But unexpectedly, this family seems to be very friendly, and it is more polite to see Xia Luo occasionally.

It was also later that Xia Luo learned that Ye Qinghan's family came from a small place.

There was almost no influence from the idea of emphasizing literature over martial arts, and after the death of Emperor Chi Kite, no one deliberately belittled the warrior anymore, and the status of the warrior slowly rose.

I heard that Xia Lu is a martial artist in the innate realm, how can they be disrespectful.

On this day, Xia Luo was meditating in the courtyard, and suddenly opened his eyes after half an hour.

"Huh? Taoist? ”

In front of him, a Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe and dragging a whisk of dust stood there, looking at him for a long time.

"In Xia Tianlong Mountain, Qingyang Dao Chief, I have heard about the Five Tigers and Hidden Dragons in Kyoto, and I still have some doubts, but today I really slapped the old man in the face."

Xia Luo narrowed his eyes and looked at the other party's panel.

[Name: Li Buchun]

[Nickname: Kiyo Michicho]

[Strength: Innate internal strength]

【Exercises: Xuantian Tao Sutra】

I didn't expect it to be a mid-congenital martial artist.

So he sat up and arched his hand.

"I heard from the Ye family that today I want to invite a master to arrest the evil cult in the courtyard, you must be that master, right?"

"Hahaha, it took me a lifetime to learn some talisman techniques, and I can't be considered a master, at least I don't dare to be a master in front of you, brother."

Somehow, lately, this house has been haunted.

It is not uncommon for women and children to wake up in the middle of the night, saying that they have seen strange dark shadows.

Xia Luo also paid attention to it for a few days, but he didn't see anything.

In the end, the people of the Ye family went to ask a Taoist leader from their hometown to take a look.

However, in Xia Luo's opinion, those Taoist elders are nothing more than deceptions.

However, when he saw this Taoist priest, especially the other party, who claimed to know the art of talismans, it made him interested.

I have a lot of talismans that I can't use, and this strength is not as good as my own, and I actually said that I could use it.

Maybe you'll find a way to use it this time.

So he followed behind this Taoist leader, wanting to see how the other party used the talisman.