Chapter 37: Rite of Passage

"It's infuriating!"

The old lady of the Shen family sat on the chair angrily, facing the second master of the Shen family who was kneeling in front of her, her face was full of gloom.

"Mother, I've already taught her a lesson, but I didn't expect it to be Luo'er!"

The second master of the Shen family seems to be very sad, after all, he is his own daughter who has been raised for sixteen years and is regarded as a pearl in the palm of his hand, and now he has seen her die with his own eyes, and he can't make a noise, but it is also a real heartache.

"Weak!" The old lady of the Shen family did not speak this time, the old lady of the Shen family's crutches were heavily crutched on the ground, compared to his wife, he seemed to be more majestic, "Seeing that Hao'er and Hu'er will be sixteen years old, if even you look like this, shocking them with this responsibility, who can bear it?"

The weight of these words must not be known if the person in the middle of the sentence will not know, no matter how the second master of the Shen family is, he will not dare to make a mistake, so he has to kowtow obediently and whisper, "Don't dare, don't dare."

"Dad, it's rare for a man to be born at the right time this time, so he must be more high-grade than the previous woman, right?"

The third master of the Shen family, who was allowed to enter the house, had an extremely happy smile on his face, and the huge black mole at the corner of his eye almost disappeared into the wrinkles at the corner of his eye.

The face of the old lady of the Shen family, who was holding the long silver hair, also showed a faint smile, and a sly light flashed from his eyes, and a greedy look appeared on his face covered with old age spots.

"It should be my generation's glory ancestor, how many years has my Shen family waited to get a man, it must be God blessed!"

His smile makes people shudder, and what does the "rare man" in their mouth mean?

"Brother, it's time for our coming-of-age ceremony in a few days, I heard grandma say that because you were born a little earlier than me, and you had a marriage contract with a young lady from a big family in Luoyang, but the head of his family passed away at the beginning of the year!" Shen Hu flattened his mouth dissatisfied, sat on the edge of the pond, staring at the moon in the sky with his head held high, "Does this mean that you will marry that young lady after your coming-of-age ceremony, we will not see each other in the future, you are going to Luoyang!"

She is well aware of the ancestral rules of the Shen family, no matter whether a man or a woman marries or marries someone else, they are not allowed to return home, let alone see each other again, although these rules are extremely strange, but they have been passed down from generation to generation, everyone abides by them, and no one has ever broken them.

Gently put his sister over and put it on his shoulder, and the corners of Shen Hao's good-looking mouth pulled up a warm smile.

"Don't worry, brother promises you, I will come to see you secretly, and don't let anyone know, I'm afraid that if you get married, I won't be able to find you again!"

Leaning on his shoulder obediently, Shen Hu's smile added a little tears, and before he could speak, it turned into a small sob.

Although the brother and sister are the eldest grandson and eldest granddaughter of the Shen family, they were born later than any in the family, so the peers in the family are all brothers and sisters, and they also love the two of them well, and so do the elders.

Since childhood, he has had no worries about food and clothing, and has a good life, but he feels sad and lonely because of the early death of his parents. Fortunately, there are still people who depend on each other, and they feel that God treats them well.

Now that Shen Hao is about to marry someone else, the reluctance and uneasiness in Shen Hu's heart can be imagined.

The moon in the sky suddenly brightened with silver, and the huge circle of light blurred one by one, as if there were ripples in the night.

"May my lake be happy forever and carefree!"

Shen Hao suddenly folded his hands and made a wish on this vision.

Shen Hu beside him was stunned for a moment, then folded his hands together, and silently repeated in his heart: I just want to be with my brother forever and not separated!

"Little ghost, what are you asking for?" When Shen Hao opened his eyes, he found that she was still religiously closed, so he raised his hand and poked her head, "Being too greedy will be blamed by the gods!"

Smiled sweetly and opened his eyes, Shen Hu lowered his head and said nothing, still thinking in his heart: I just hope that I will never be separated from my brother, this is not greedy, right?

The brother and sister in this room are pitying each other, and the scene is full of warmth, but in the dark pavilion in the other room, a formidable inheritance is terrifying.

"Tan'er, do you know what you did the day before yesterday?"

The third master of the Shen family had a solemn face, and after receiving the consent of the old lady of the Shen family and the old lady of the Shen family, he asked his son Shen Tan who was kneeling in the hall in a serious voice.

After his throat tumbled for a long time, Shen Tan stabilized his mind and opened his mouth helplessly.

"Killed my cousin Luo'er, who turned into a nine-tailed fox!"

At that time, he was really unwilling, but for some reason he was so ruthless, if it weren't for the fact that his father said that his cousin was going to marry to another province and broke his oath with himself, he would never have done this killer, however, it seems that all this is not a strange ritual carried out by the family pretending to be his own hands.

Now he is entangled and complicated in his heart, but he doesn't dare to say a word of dissatisfaction.

Nodding with satisfaction, the third master of the Shen family took the golden wine glass on the tray in the hand of the family and handed it to Shen Tan.

"This wine glass is called 'Fairy Fox Tears', which is made from the blood of the nine-tailed fox and the tears shed when he was dying and looking at the moon, and when the man in charge of my Shen family in the future reaches the age of twenty, he will personally turn the fox into a daughter, and drink this wine to show that he will take over forever and work hard for the prosperity of the family!"

Taking the wine glass, looking at the dark red wine with a slight purple and bewitching purple in the golden color, Shen Tan's tears almost fell, that was once the woman he loved deeply, but now he turned into a fox and died, and he still had to drink his blood and tears.

"Tan'er doesn't understand, if it's the son in charge, it should be Hao'er, he is the eldest son and eldest grandson of the lineage, why did this matter fall on me?"

It's not that he doesn't want to take over such a huge amount of furniture, just because he killed Shen Luo with his own hands the day before yesterday, for fear that there will always be such a thing in the future, and he will not be able to bear it.

"Don't say more!" Seeing the increasingly gloomy face of the old father beside him, the third master of the Shen family hurriedly scolded, "How can the major affairs of the family be up to you, you can take this errand, quickly drink the 'fairy fox tears'!"

In the face of such strong oppression and extreme temptation, Shen Tan felt that the wine in his hand seemed to have some magical power, and he was so fascinated that his mind rippled slightly, and he unconsciously raised his glass and drank it all.

"Brother Tan, Brother Tan, can you help me take off the paper kite?"

Shen Hu stood under the tree with an anxious face, and shouted coquettishly to Shen Tanjiao, who was passing by outside the courtyard.

"Okay!" Shen Tan turned around, only to see the sunlight shining from behind her, making her as beautiful as a fairy, "Uh!" However, just as he ran a few steps towards her, he was so frightened that he fell to the ground.

Rubbing his eyes vigorously, he knew that he had an illusion, maybe it was the relationship of the sun, and only then did he see his dead cousin Shen Luo standing behind Shen Hu with a grudge.

"Brother Tan, what's wrong with you?"

Shen Hao didn't know where to run, and as soon as he saw him fall, he quickly threw down the long pole in his hand and helped him up.

Shen Hu also ran over with a light blue skirt, the expression on his face was like a frightened bird, full of innocence and panic that could not be hidden.

While slapping the dust off his body, he grinned awkwardly.

"No, it's okay, hehe, hehe, I'll help Hu'er take off the paper kite!"

If it is said that among the men of the same generation in this family, Shen Tan's martial arts are definitely top-notch, and this light skill is even better. Therefore, before his words fell, he tiptoed and twisted his waist and ran up the tree, took the paper kite stuck on the branch and easily fell back to the ground.

The three children with paper kites were smiling brightly, but no one knew that behind the harmony and happiness, there was an irreversible undercurrent.

The emperor was sitting in the hall, and the ministers below were lined up on both sides, but everyone's eyes were focused on the vermilion lacquer brocade box and a handful of silver white fur held by the old lady of the Shen family and the old lady of the Shen family who were kneeling on it.

The vermilion lacquer brocade box contained a pair of two orbs that were full of brilliance and color like water gushing into it, and like two pearls without light, and the handful of fur was clearly a complete tail of a white fox.

Shen Hu, who was lying on the bed, couldn't sleep somehow, and Shen Luo's appearance kept appearing in her mind, so she put on a coat and tiptoed out of the room, originally wanting to wake up her brother Shen Hao, but she was afraid of startling others.

"We are always not allowed to go to the other courtyard, but today I want to see what is hidden there!"

The night breeze was slightly cool, and Shen Hu sat on the edge of the pond thinking about it, so he really stood up and quickly moved in the direction he wanted in his heart.

Tonight, she only felt that she was lucky, and she didn't even meet a house slave along the way, and she came to the other courtyard that had been secretly sealed and forbidden to enter after three orders and five trials.

All the way to the deepest room, where there seemed to be a lamp, Shen Hu's heart was full of curiosity, and he sneaked to the front.

Through the window paper, it seems that only a silhouette can be seen, and there is only one person in the room, as if he is busy with something.

Driven by curiosity, Shen Hu put a tender white and slender index finger like a shallot peeling white into his mouth, slightly swallowed it and turned it into the window paper, and after a slight "pounce", a hole the size of a finger appeared.

Naughty put her eyes together, her smiling eyes instantly condensed into fear, that terrifying picture, maybe it was the first time she had seen it in her life-

There was an old silver-haired woman with an ugly face and a withered face, who happened to hold a dagger with strange inscriptions on it, and hung a huge white fox with several huge tails upside down, and quickly and skillfully skinned it.

And on the wall behind her, there were countless stripped fox corpses that had been turned into dried flesh, not only that, but their faces did not have eyes, but only two black holes.

His eyes moved back to the fox that was being skinned again, and he saw that the upside-down fox head somehow twisted, and the eye socket that had lost its eyeballs was actually a black hole staring straight at him.

"Hmm!"

Shen Hu's scream didn't come out as she wanted, and a big hand covered her mouth in time!