If Zhu Houzhao ascended the throne and was about to fight with the civil servant group, Chen Xi asked himself that he could not do anything. He did not have the despicable and shameless vicious spirit of Liu Jin. Even if he had the trust of the emperor, Chen Xi himself was a civil servant. He could not kill people all over the court without scrupulously, and without killing people, he would not shock the civil servant group. In the end, he would only cause both losses. Not only would he make the court turmoil, attract the covetousness of foreign tribes, but he would also be a traitor of traitors.

Liu Jin was born in line with the times. Chen Xi asked himself that he could not be a knife in Zhu Houzhao's hand, and he would rather retreat.

This is also the fundamental reason why he is willing to leave the capital.

Since he could not fight with the civil servant group and did not intend to help Zhu Houzhao consolidate the imperial power, he chose to release himself and avoid the fierce political struggles in the court.

With Hui Niang's wisdom, she obviously cannot understand Chen Xi's transcendent mentality. She is just an ordinary woman. No matter how strong she is, she cannot break through the fog of history and see the truth of things clearly.

In Hui Niang's eyes, Chen Xi was omnipotent and would not consider what Chen Xi would do in the court. Anyway, no matter what official Chen Xi was, in her mind, she was a high-ranking official that she never dared to think about before, which made her deeply impressed her.

Chen Xi cannot handle things with such a blind attitude as Hui Niang. Even if he tends toward Zhu Houzhao, he will not leave a bad reputation in history. Even if he knows that Liu Jin is a great traitor of a generation, he cannot be punished without being taught. He reminds himself to maintain sufficient rationality and take action at the most suitable time to influence the government.

Chen Xi originally hoped that his future life would be stable, but now it seems that this goal seems to be getting farther and farther away from him.

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Ninghua, Shen family.

Li's funeral was carried out in an orderly manner. Shen Mingwen, who presided over the funeral, was the Shen family's house, but the actual person in charge quietly became Zhou.

Because the Shen family did not sell big houses, there was no money to prepare for funerals, especially the funeral was held grandly, and it looked like a family, so Zhou had to pay for it.

In addition, because the Shen family is poor, there is nothing else in Mi Cang except mice, and Zhou also has to pay money to entertain guests.

In any era, the person who pays the money is an old man.

This is not the first time that Zhou has been in the head of the Shen family. This time she made arrangements behind her back, and everyone followed her instructions. As for Shen Mingwen, the nominal eldest son of the Shen family, was completely left aside, and only occasionally came out and shouted, and then continued to go back as a vase.

The Shen family has entered the post-Li era. This is the first time since the Li family has become sick, the Shen family has been united in their hearts.

Because everyone knows that the Shen family is about to split up now, and it is impossible for anyone to come out to take charge of the family business. Even the Zhou family cannot support such a large family.

The fourth room has actually been separated, and the second room has no owner. The big room cannot live under the fifth room when the old lady dies. Now there are only three rooms who follow the fifth room. Since this is the case, it is better to split the family directly. The third room does not mean that you can't support yourself.

However, how the Shen family's property, that is, how to allocate two houses, has become the focus of attention of each house, and there is also the foreign debt issue that has made the Shen family very worried.

Even if Zhou returned to Ninghua, she did not take the initiative to help the Shen family pay off their debts because she knew that the Shen family was going to sell their house to pay off their debts, so she paid them back first. The house was not hers, which was equivalent to a big loss. She would not do a discounted deal.

Zhou was a smart person and once followed Hui Niang to do business. She was very clear about this issue.

Li originally wanted to stop the spirits for 49 days, but the southern region was still shining brightly, with high temperatures and high heat. The time for the body to stop in the mourning hall should not be too long. Moreover, Zhou was thinking about going to his son's jurisdiction to enjoy his happiness, staying away from Ninghua, which is a place of trouble, and he had no intention of staying in the Shen family for a long time.

The last few people sat down to discuss, Li's family stopped the spirit and only stopped the 27th day, which was for fourteen days. The main reason was that the Shen family now has a high status in Ninghua County, and many people from far and near came to pay their respects, otherwise the 17th day would be enough.

Shen Mingjun and his wife were at home, and everyone was around the second house, and the juniors in the second house and the third house were most obviously reflected.

After all, the second wife has three sons. After Wulang Shen Yongqi returned, the second wife is actually quite famous. After all, among the third generation, the second wife has three males. They can do a lot of effort when the funeral is held. Of course, their efforts are still much worse than those of the fifth wife.

There is Zhu Shan in the fifth room, and there are brothers in the carriage and horse gangs, and almost all things are covered. Only in places where outsiders are inconvenient to enter and exit at will, is the stage for the younger generation to show their strengths.

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Twelve days after Li's spirit was stopped, the Shen family discussed the funeral.

That night, people from all rooms in the Shen family gathered together. The second generation of the Shen family, the third generation of male and the Shen family's wife were all here, but none of the Li family's married granddaughters came back. Among the second generation, Shen Xi's aunt came back, that is Shen Xi's second aunt, Yang Shen, and Yang Linghe, the father of uncle Yang Wenzhao.

Yang Wenzhao went north to escort the prince, but did not follow Shen Yongqi back to Ninghua. Yang Ling and his wife seemed very concerned after learning that Li had passed away. First of all, the Yang family now has a certain relationship with the Shen family. Others only gave the Yang family face because of Shen Xi, a second-rank official at the time. Li died, and the Yang family had no reason not to come.

Next, Yang Ling and his wife were concerned about Yang Wenzhao's work with Shen Xi. Taking advantage of the great opportunity of Shen Mingjun and his wife coming back, they took the initiative to come and walk around to please and curry favor with Shen Mingjun and his wife so that their son can have a better future in the future.

At the family meeting that night, except for Shen Yongzhuo and Shen Yongqi, the rest of the people arrived.

Shen Mingwen sat in the head, while the other head was given to Shen Xi's father Shen Mingjun. Because Shen Xi's current status in the Shen family is unique, Shen Xi's room naturally has to highlight its status.

As a result, the third son Shen Mingtang and the fourth son Shen Mingxin could only sit on both sides of the table, and the second generation of daughters-in-laws in each room sat behind, while Yang Ling and his wife were placed at the end of the table. The younger generation, whether they were grandsons or granddaughters, could only stand and listen to the elders' discussions.

Shen Xi is not here, and the eldest grandson Shen Yongzhuo is guarding the spirit. In fact, no one of the third generation descendants is qualified to speak. All discussions must be followed by people of the Ming generation to make decisions.

It was originally supposed to be Shen Mingwen's speech, but his wife Wang prefers to show herself and stand up actively: "There will be a funeral tomorrow, and there are a lot of things needed. There are no less than 200 relatives and friends who come to attend the funeral ceremony. You have to make a decision early on how to arrange the scene!"

The Shen family’s ancestral tomb is in Taohua Village. It takes one day to go from Ninghua County to Taohua Village, so the funeral is actually a day earlier than the burial and will be buried in the next day. The Shen family set off with the coffin and returned to Taohua Village after a day. As a person who has made great contributions to the Shen family, Li is qualified to enter the ancestral tomb, especially when Li was alive, he hoped to be buried with her husband.

Wang spoke, and no one else spoke, and Shen Mingjun was also speechless. At this time, Zhou's voice came from Shen Mingjun's side: "As long as you arrange it, just arrange it..."

Wang was a little dissatisfied: "This funeral costs a lot of money. What are you doing for the five houses?"

Although Shen Mingjun and his wife are greedy and lazy, and domineering, they are not stupid. They are just trying to use provocation to make Zhou a big shot.

But Zhou is not a fool. She said when she was holding a funeral, she could temporarily pay the money for the funeral to entertain guests, but she did not intend to fully bear the funeral expenses.

Zhou sneered: "Why is it that our five-bedroom payable? The money needed is naturally distributed to each house. Are you not your mother's son and daughter-in-law?"

After saying this, the air suddenly felt a strong smell of gunpowder. Wang and Zhou were incompatible. Everyone knows that it was better for the two of them to get together at this time.
Chapter completed!