"I know this. I heard Old Shen say something." His Highness Prince Ning touched his chin, looked at the curious Jin Miaomiao and the others, and said with a smile, "Want to know?"
"Yeah!" Jin Miaomiao nodded frequently, pulled Hongye who was close to him, and looked at Shen Haolin and Shen Cha, "Master Guo, Xiaocha, do you mind?"
Shen Haolin didn't say anything, just shook his head gently. This is not a secret, let alone something shameful. It's okay to say it, just don't let him say it. The great achievements of our ancestors have made these descendants For future generations, it seems a bit self-proclaimed.
"Your Highness, Your Highness, the Duke has agreed." Jin Miaomiao looked at His Highness Prince Ning expectantly, "Just tell me!"
"Okay, since Hao Lin has no objection, let me tell you." His Highness Prince Ning moved a stone bench and sat down. The temperature in the secret room was much colder than above. He took the thick cloak that Ying Wu had just gone out to get. On the body, watching Shen Haolin follow Shen Cha to open other boxes and boxes, knowing that they might be embarrassed, he ignored them, cleared his throat, took a sip of water, and said, "Before telling the story, I want to state in advance that I heard this story from Lao Shen. I don’t know if there are any added elements. You can just take it as a story and listen to it casually. Don’t take it too seriously. Do you understand? "
"Of course." Xue Ruitian nodded and yawned, "After all, so many years have passed, and we don't know what happened back then, so we can just listen."
"As long as you understand, then I'll start talking!" His Highness Prince Ning watched Shen Haolin and Shen Cha open three boxes, which were filled with letters. He raised his eyebrows slightly and turned his eyes to Xue Ruitian and Xue Ruitian. Jin Miaomiao, "It's like this. Back then, the Shen family was not a nameless person in Xijing City, nor was it a small family. At any rate, they had official positions. From the fourth-grade Zhonglang General, there were also some It’s a certain deterrent.”
"The military attaches have always had little say. The previous dynasty always valued civility over military affairs. Those powerful people," Jin Miaomiao sneered, "were each a martial artist, a vulgar one, and their eyes were on the top of their heads."
"By the way, when I said that, I suddenly remembered, is your family's situation similar to that of the Duke's Mansion?"
"It's just that the starting point was almost the same at the beginning. After my ancestor was squeezed out, he has been depressed and unable to raise any fighting spirit. In the end," Jin Jing sighed, "he died of depression. However, when my ancestor was dying, if he met Ming Lord, I can help you with all my heart, but "
"You are not allowed to enter the official position, right?" Seeing Jin Jing nod, Xue Ruitian sighed, "No wonder you have repeatedly taken the position before. It turns out to be the ancestral precepts."
"Well!" Jin Jing looked at Shen Haolin and then at Xue Ruitian, "Miaomiao and I are very happy that we chose you. We feel that we have a good vision. At least we can repeat the mistakes of our ancestors."
"This doesn't sound like you are praising us, but you are praising yourself." Xue Ruitian waved his hand towards Jin Jing who wanted to say something more, "Stop it, I don't want to hear any more self-praising words. Please continue telling us stories, Your Highness!”
"Actually, there is nothing wrong with Jin Jing's family ancestors. After all, in that era, there were not many so-called wise masters, and becoming an official was just asking for trouble." His Highness Prince Ning smiled, "Look at Shen, who is a fourth-rank Cong. Although my official position is not small, once I encounter something, I have no room to speak or reason with you from the fourth rank, not to mention that the other party is prepared and deliberately looking for trouble."
"Are you deliberately looking for trouble?"
"Well, the Shen family's family motto is to live a clean life and not do those dirty things or compete with the people for profit."
"Such a family motto is not a big problem now, but more than a hundred years ago, it was."
"Untimely." Shen Cha sighed softly, heard a click, and opened the last box. She stood up and patted the dust on her body, "Because she refused to join in the same trend, she was already hated. Later, because of He was too upright and unreasonable, and he completely offended the Grand Master at that time, so it was understandable that he would be found in trouble."
"It is said that the Grand Master at that time fell in love with a young lady from the Shen family and wanted to marry Miss Shen. But at that time, the Grand Master was almost seventy years old, and his grandson, the Crown Prince, was already twenty years old and had already been in charge of the country. , to take charge of the government. And the young lady of the Shen family has just celebrated her sixteenth birthday, so the Shen family will naturally not agree to it. We have said it many times, but the Shen family has not agreed."
"From this day on, the Shen family's nightmare began."
Shen Haolin stood up. All the boxes he opened now contained letters. He glanced at them roughly. There were letters written by Tan Lingxuan to Xue Jinchang, others written to him, and some left by himself. He didn't have time to look at the essays he had written down, as well as some things that seemed to be minutes that he didn't know when they were recorded. He just flipped through them and put them back in the box.
"Nightmare? Are the Grand Master's people starting to cause trouble?"
"That's right." His Highness Prince Ning nodded, "The Shen family has offended the Grand Master and the Grand Master's people before, and this time they embarrassed the Grand Master in public." Seeing that Jin Miaomiao was confused, he explained, "Grand Master For several mornings in a row, his disciples harassed the ancestors of the Shen family, saying that they wanted to give an explanation in person, either it would work or it wouldn't work, and they would give reasons why it couldn't work. Anyway, they harassed them a lot, and the ancestors of the Shen family Not happy anymore, he pushed him back in front of all the civil and military officials, saying that the grand master was eating young grass, and he was already so old, and he wanted to harm other people's little girls, so that future generations would lose face. , simply inferior to humans and animals." He looked at Shen Haolin and raised his eyebrows slightly, "That's pretty much what you mean, right?"
"Yeah!" Shen Haolin nodded and looked at His Highness Prince Ning, "When my father told Uncle Wang, he was still very reserved. I heard my father and mother talking about this matter. It is said that they were scolded very hatefully at that time. , if it weren’t for the fact that all the officials could not bring swords to court, there would have been a fight long ago. Even throughout the morning court, the prince’s face was not very good. After all, the person who was accused of being a shameless old gangster was his grandfather, whom he had always been proud of. "
"However, as Haolin said before, after this incident, the Shen family's situation in Xijing City became very difficult. Every day, there were gangsters who made trouble in front of the house, and even the female relatives of the Shen family I dare not go out. Once I go out, I will encounter the entanglement of these gangsters. Anyway, both daily life and the careers of the Shen family men outside will be greatly affected. "
"They have the confidence to do this. One is that the Grand Master has a high position, and the other is that the Shen family is a native of Xijing. If people from other places can't bear it anymore, they will return to their hometown. But the Shen family has no retreat. They can do whatever they want, as long as Waiting for the Shen family to kneel down and beg for mercy." Shen Haolin sneered, "Unfortunately, they made the wrong calculation."
"They never thought that the Shen family had already prepared to leave Xijing City. The reason why they dared to do this was because they were invited by their friends to go to Yuezhou to develop again." His Highness Prince Ning looked at Xue Ruitian, "That My friend is Xue Jinchang from the Xue family."
"They actually knew each other at that time? It's incredible!"
"We are destined to meet each other thousands of miles away. It was an accident that they met. However, this is another story. We will tell it when we have time." His Royal Highness Prince Ning patted Xue Ruitian on the shoulder, "However, it was because of Xue Jinchang's invitation that the Shen family decided to leave the West From the capital to Yuezhou.”
"Thank you to the Grand Master and his minions. Without their coercion and inducement, the Shen family would not be as lucky as they are now."
