Chapter 92: Decline
Huan Yin took another deep look at Sister Jiujiu's room, and then he turned around and walked out.
"My sister must have gone out. He told himself.
Walking out of Huan Jiujiu's room, Huan Yin hid his figure again and walked in the direction of his room in his memory.
Huan Yin's room was not far from Huan Jiujiu's room, and soon Huan Yin came here. At this moment, the door of this room was locked, and there were no servants standing outside the door. This room should be cleaned frequently, at least from the outside, the doors and windows are spotless.
Huan Yin walked into his room, thinking that he could see the scenes he had seen countless times in his childhood, and he thought that he could find the most memories here, but he didn't expect that the appearance of the room had already changed greatly.
Now, Huan Yin's room looks like it's for a toddler, and the room is littered with children's playthings, and there is even a small space next to the master bedroom, which seems to be for the child nurse to rest.
Could it be that the Huan family already has another generation? If this is the case, then it is a natural arrangement to give his own room to his children, after all, he is afraid that he has long since faded in the hearts of his family, who will keep the room for himself?
Huan Yin walked over to the desk and picked up a somewhat worn book from the floor.
"The fairy is strange. Huan Yin gently read out the title of the book. This book is the one he took to ask his father when he was a child, saying that he wanted to cultivate immortals. The first time Huan Yin knew about "immortals" was from this book. Unexpectedly, the scene in my house has changed greatly, and this book is still there.
Huan Yin finally found some memories of his own in the house, and then, his eyes swept back and forth in the room, trying to find more traces of the past. In this way, Huan Yin picked up several old books on the ground and in the corners of the house one after another, which were the books he had read when he was young.
"The new owner of this house seems to like to read. Huan Yin looked at the books he had packed up and smiled slightly. I don't know whose child lives in this house, but it looks a little like when I was younger, and if my father could see this child, he would like him very much.
"Still, it's not enough to cherish it. Huan Yin muttered to himself as he straightened the bent footers of these books one by one, gently dusted off the ashes on them, and placed them neatly on the desk.
After doing this, Huan Yin searched around the house again, and after making sure that he could no longer find any old things, he walked out of the door. It seems that if it weren't for the new owner of the house who liked to read, I am afraid that he would not even be able to find those books in the house. I wonder if the kid will be shocked when he comes back and sees that the originally messy books have been neatly organized.
After looking at his room, Huan Yin has nothing to worry about here. He is going to the backyard now, the ancestral ancestral hall is in that direction, he is going to go to his father's spirit to have a good worship, and then go to Sister Jiujiu.
From the residence to the east, walk along the promenade, through the beautiful scenery on both sides of the promenade, is the backyard of Huan Mansion. The backyard is a place for the owners of the Huan family to enjoy the scenery and rest, in the past, when Huan Gong was recovering from a serious illness, Huan Yin's mother Li Yun often helped Huan Gong here to enjoy the scenery.
When Huan Yin came to the backyard, he found that there were several servants standing at the gate of the courtyard, and the sound of someone talking came from inside the courtyard gate. These voices, even after a few years, Huan Yin can still distinguish them immediately-this is the voice of the elders in the family.
Huan Yin walked into the courtyard gate, and a face more familiar than the voice met Huan Yin's eyes. The eldest lady Zhu and the two partial ladies Wang and Liu were all sitting in the small pavilion in the backyard at the moment, and beside them, there was a young woman in her twenties, who was holding a little boy, who looked not much younger than Xiao Tian.
"Xiaojun, you take Lin Er to play over there. Zhu Shi arrived at the young woman.
"Yes, Mother. The young woman bowed to the Zhu family, pulled the child and was about to leave. Who knew that the child refused to leave, and looked at Zhu's to: "What about grandma?"
When Zhu heard the child's words, he looked at him lovingly: "Lin Er, grandma will come over to play with you in a while, okay?"
The boy listened to Zhu's words, pouted, and coquettishly said: "The second grandmother and the third grandmother are also going to accompany Lin'er." ”
"Okay, okay, let's go to accompany Lin Er for a while, we all love Lin Er the most, Lin Er also has to be obedient, isn't it?" Wang and Liu coaxed in unison.
"Okay then, Lin Er has retired. With that, the boy bowed to the three ladies in a decent manner, and took his mother away.
There was silence for a while, and when the mother and son walked away, Wang was the first to speak: "Sister, has the situation in our house deteriorated again?"
Zhu's eyes moved back from the mother and son, and his face instantly became a little angry: "That evil obstacle is wanton and squandering, and he doesn't care about the affairs of the family at all." This time, he spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for a prostitute!"
"What! hundreds of thousands of taels?" exclaimed Wang and Liu.
Huan Yin looked at the three elders in front of him with a puzzled expression, although hundreds of thousands of taels of silver are a huge amount of money for most families, but for the Huan family, it is not a big deal. I don't know why, several ladies would show such shocked expressions at this moment because of hundreds of thousands of taels. At least when Huan Yin was still at home, even if it was a few million taels, several ladies would not blink because of this.
After exclaiming, Wang's and Liu's faces gradually showed helplessness, and finally, Wang spoke: "Alas, since the old man left, Huan Yu has been lewd all day long, and my Huan family except for him is a man, all of them are women's people, how can anyone be in charge of the family business? But Huan Yu's evil obstacle is really hateful, not to mention corrupting the door, and squandering it wantonly, no matter how big my Huan family's family business is, I can't bear him so much. ”
"Alas, it's all my fault, when he was disrespectful to the master, I should have thought that he would do the same to us. Now that he's the only one in the house, we can't help him. Zhu's face was full of remorse.
"Sister, how many silver taels are there in the house?" Liu couldn't help but ask.
When Zhu Shi heard this question, his face was full of pain: "It's less than four million taels." ”
Less than four million taels! Huan Yin couldn't believe his ears, he didn't expect that in the past few years since he ran away, the Huan family has declined to this point. You know, in my father's eyes, a business of four million taels is not a big business, and now that the Huan Mansion only has so much money, how has Huan Yu squandered it in the past few years? This is simply unbelievable.
The huge Huan Mansion, even if it is a daily expense, I am afraid that it will cost about 100,000 taels a year, plus Huan Yu's profligacy, how long can these four million taels support the Huan Mansion? No wonder Huan Yin entered the mansion, he always felt that there were no domestic servants everywhere, this is probably because of the emptiness in the mansion, and the ladies dismissed a lot of domestic servants.
Wang and Liu listened to the words of the eldest lady, and they were not as surprised as Huan Yin, they just nodded silently, as if they were used to such results.
"Sister, if you don't want to find a way to restrain Huan Yu, we'll be finished. Huan Yin saw a trace of despair in Liu's eyes.
"Those who should be dismissed have been dismissed, and those who stay now are all hired by him at a great price, and they are all his people. Now in Fuzhong, we are trying to save money, but he is spending money. Not only are we living in poverty now, but few people even listen to him, what can we do against him?" Wang was also a little desperate.
"It's all my fault, it's all my fault, back then, it was my ghost who helped this obstacle to his current position. Unexpectedly, now that he doesn't recognize his six relatives, I have affected my two younger sisters. Zhu regretted it.
"If we had followed the old man's wishes, would it not be the case now? Liu Shi arrived gently.
"What do you mean, sir?" you mean because of ......," Wang didn't say any more.
"It's all me, it's all me, a poisonous woman, who only cares about my own selfish interests to do such a thing, and now I deserve to eat the consequences. The old man has gone through ups and downs in his life to develop the Huan family to such a big point, how can his vision be wrong? If Huan Yin is allowed to take over as the head of the family, it will not cause the entire family to decline to this step, I will definitely go to hell, how can I have the face to go to heaven to see the master?" Zhu became more and more excited, and his body trembled uncontrollably.
The voices behind him continued, and the remorse of the three elders was endless. Huan Yin sighed heavily and walked towards the ancestral hall.
Huan Yin could see that the one who was called "Xiaojun" by the eldest lady should be his sister-in-law and Huan Yu's wife, and the child Lin Er she was holding should be Huan Yu's son. They probably pinned their hopes on Lin Er for a long time, but they didn't expect that Huan Yu didn't even care about his wife and children, so where would he leave them with any hope?
Huan Yin has never seen his three sisters, and he thinks that in terms of the age of Huan Ling and Huan Yuchu, they should all be married. But Huan Jiujiu is only fifteen, is he also married?
Huan Yin's mood became a little depressed, although he had become an immortal, but this was his home after all. Seeing that his family had fallen to this point, he still couldn't help but feel sad. When my father looks at the miserable situation at home from the sky, I'm afraid it will be difficult to feel at ease, right?
Huan Yin came to the door of the ancestral hall, and the ancestral hall and the ancestral hall were surrounded by a desolate scene, with dead branches and cobwebs everywhere - I don't know how long it had been since no one had cleaned it.
Filial piety comes first, if the clansmen even forget to do their filial piety, that family will not last long. This is the current situation of the Huan family, although the entire Huan family seems to be completely decayed only here, but in fact, this place represents the entire history of the Huan family and the Huan family. Therefore, the decay here will spread very quickly.
Huan Yin pulled down the cobwebs in front of the ancestral hall, pushed open the heavy wooden door covered with dust, and walked in.