From the perspective of Chen Xi, whether the Shen family is divided or not has a big impact on him... Whether it is divided or not, he has to be an official in other places alone. Recently, he has been an official in the capital. He lives his own life and the Shen family will not follow him because no one can guarantee when he will be transferred to another place to be an official.

Chen Xi was very open-minded. He didn't want to get involved in Ninghua's industry at all, because fighting with the Shen family was harmful and useless to him. His ambition was not to compete for the strengths and weaknesses of a group of feudal and conservative tribe members for a while. Power and social status were what he wanted to fight for. He looked down on anything else.

However, in theory, Chen Xi should do at least one thing to reintegrate the family structure, that is, to help his parents gain the power of independence.

Zhou disagrees with his son's kindness!

That's right, she used to want to break away from the old lady's control earlier, but now she doesn't want to split up. She can spend money in the future, but no matter how much money she earns, she will not be promoted to one level as much as her son's official position. She was suppressed by the Shen family for so long, and she is waiting to inherit the position of the old lady in the future and become the master of the Shen family.

The Wang family gave up Shen's old house, and the transfer procedures were not in a hurry. Chen Xi said that he was using his salary to buy a big house, but in fact he was just giving my mother a way to "whitewash the money"... He didn't go back to Ninghua to live there, so he wouldn't have used his salary for several years to help the Shen family redeem the big house.

Li was very concerned about redeeming the old house of Shen family. Before going to Taohua Village, he quickly called the main lineage of the Shen family and the people from the side branches to announce it, and then took people to the Wang family to sign a redemption contract. In short, she wanted to take the credit on herself, and Chen Xi could take advantage of the time of the day or two to visit her teachers and friends.

On the seventh day of the third lunar month, after meeting his enlightenment mentor Su Yunzhong, Chen Xi set out back to Taohua Village with the Shen family.

On the eighth day of the third month, the group arrived at Taohua Village.

When they learned that the top scholar had returned home, all the villagers of Taohua Village came out to greet him. The little Shen family, who seemed to be a little bit old, only walked out of Dashanwazi and won the top scholar and returned to worship their ancestors for a few years...

I want to see if this is the wild boy who once ran around the mountains and out of the village?

Hey!? My little face is similar to running around in open crotch pants, but I am a little more mature.

Why are their kids so promising? My kid is the same age as the Shen family Xiaolang. Now he still fights with a stick. He is lazy and has no sign of integrity when he asks him to work in the fields...

"Isn't this the youngest in the Shen family? Oh no, now he is the top scholar's father... Mr. Shen."

A group of male villagers were surrounded by Shen Mingjun. They wanted to take Shen Mingjun to the tea shop at the entrance of the village to have a few cups.

There was also a group of women around Zhou: "The Zhou girl is so lucky. She said that you were rich and noble. Your son became the top scholar. When will you go to the city with your son to enjoy your happiness?"

"Don't talk nonsense, they are Mrs. Chen, who originally lived in the capital."

"Hey, didn't you say you were in Ninghua? Why did you arrive in the capital?"

"Which yamen is the top scholar now?"

As she spoke in a slight manner, Zhou almost couldn't take the conversation. Only the last question made her extremely proud. She quickly replied: "In the Zhan Shi Mansion."

Several women who have never even been to the county town know that it is good to have a prefecture and a prefecture government office. How could they hear of the name of the yamen that is so difficult to describe in the Zhan Shi Mansion?

Zhou himself explained, "The Zhan Shi Mansion is in the capital, which is to do things for the people in the palace. My son is currently a lecturer in the East Palace and teaches the prince to study on weekdays."

The woman looked magical, but someone asked, "What is the prince?"

"The prince is the son of the emperor's old son, and he will be the emperor in the future..."

As for the old lady, after returning to her familiar home, she personally took the Shen family to clean up the yard, used the food and drink brought from the carriage to spread the water in the yard, boiled water, made tea, put some snacks, and put some pickled pieces prepared in advance, so that the villagers could come and enjoy it at will.

As for Chen Xi, who was wearing official uniforms, the villagers dared not get close to him easily. What ordinary people fear most is the official. Chen Xi is an official and his status is still above the official, so others can only stay away from him. Only an uncle came over and looked at Chen Xi curiously, and seemed to not believe that the little doll was in front of him.

"Uncle Liu...is it good?"

Facing the familiar villagers, Chen Xi tried to speak as simple as possible.

This person is no other person, and he is the Uncle Liu who often meets at the village entrance when he was a child. He always tells him a few words. Among the families of people like Taohua Village who work hard for food and clothing, few people pay attention to a little baby who is five or six years old who is nothing, let alone acquaintance with him.

"I'm really the young man from the Shen family. How old are you when you grow up so old?" Uncle Liu put down his hoe.

"Fourteen years old." Chen Xi replied.

Uncle Liu smiled and said, "Okay, it's so good. If you win the top scorer, it's the star in the sky, but it can descend to a small place like Taohua Village. You have to be more filial to your grandmother and parents in the future. It's not easy for them to raise you... When you fell from a tree at the age of five, you thought you were dead."

Uncle Liu is a little older and becomes prone to talkative things, and he can't stop talking as soon as he opens up. Chen Xi personally handed over the tea. Uncle Liu didn't have much knowledge, so he took it and drank it until someone came over to remind him... This is the tea that Zhuangyuan respected, and he had to kowtow and thank him before drinking it.

"There are not so many rules, they are all from the villagers, so it's not a big deal." Chen Xi scratched his head and smiled.

Uncle Liu said happily: "It's still the same as when I was a child. I look stupid, but my little head is so smart that I remember you catching loaches at the village head, thin arms and thin legs..."

Chen Xi suddenly remembered that he wanted to catch loaches to improve his food. In a blink of an eye, eight years passed, and eight years later, he was no longer a little baby who was just a newcomer who couldn't adapt to anything, but became more and more like an indigenous person during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty.

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There are many rules for going up the mountain to worship.

After the Shen family went up the mountain, they needed to open the mountain to clear the tombs and remove the weeds around the Shen family's ancestral tombs.

This time, whether it is the main vein or the side branch, the Shen family gathered in Taohua Village to worship their ancestors. One of them is counted as one, and they all have to go up the mountain. Even Chenxi has to symbolically pull up a handful of grass.

A new daughter-in-law like Xie Yuner and Lin Dai, who have just started, have to subcontract a small area.

Nowadays, women cannot enter the ancestral hall, but they still have to attend the ancestor worship, but they can only follow the man. Although Chen Xi and Xie Yuner are husband and wife, they cannot walk together.

When it comes to the ancestral tomb of the Shen family, Chen Xi has only been here once. At that time, he did not pay much attention to this mountain without peach trees. Now he understands that according to the rural concept of people in this era, one day he will probably be buried here after a hundred years of old age, but the tomb is just bigger than others.

"Mr. Shen, here is your letter." Just as Shen Xi brought a bunch of weeds aside, the yamen runners who came with him came over and handed a letter respectfully.

It was the second letter Yu Niang wrote to him from Quanzhou Prefecture.

It was only four days before and after the first letter. Perhaps it was because Yu Niang had no good intentions. In addition, she forgot to mention something in the previous letter, so she quickly added a letter.

The main content of the second letter was that Yu Niang "seeking medicine", saying that "the father and brother are terminally ill". She asked Chen Xi to give medicine, but in fact, Chen Xi would help find a solution.

In the letter, Yu Niang specifically mentioned, "My uncle once had a letter to entrusted him that if his father and brother cannot recover from his illness, he will be buried early after he dies."

This is quite obscure. After Chen Xi thought about it for a while, he roughly understood that the "uncle" mentioned by Yu Niang in the letter should be Liu Daxia who sent her to handle the case. As for "letter trust", it may be to give Yu Niang a certain authority, or it may be to capture Zhang Lian's military order under the investigation of evidence.

However, "they went to bury early after they died of illness" literally urging him to set off for the capital as soon as possible, but perhaps Yu Niang hinted to him that Zhang Lian could implement the strategy of "dead first and report later".

"Wild, come over quickly. You are going to worship your ancestors. You have to go up and burn a stick of incense." Zhou came over to remind him.

Chen Xi put the letter written by Yu Niang into his arms and walked in front. Behind him were Li, Shen Ming and male parents from other rooms of the Shen family.

Later on, there were Shen Mingjun's family, including his husband and wife, children and two daughters-in-law, representing that their status in the Shen family was second only to the heads of each family.

Next is the male member of Shen Ming's generation and the third generation of Shen's family.

Then there is the fourth generation of the Shen family.

The Li family is not considered a thin family, but after all, their ancestors are the youngest, and the other fourth-generation people in the same clan have already gotten married and had children, which is older than Li's eldest grandson Shen Yongzhuo.

As for women and children who are still in their infancy, they stay at the end.

The village chief personally presided over the ancestor worship ceremony. There were many people watching Taohua Village and surrounding villages. On weekdays, the villagers thought that the Shen family was so thin that only Li, the Li family, had a few children and grandchildren. No one knew that if they did not worship their ancestors, they turned out to be such a big family.

"On March 19 of Gengshen year, the new top scholar was the first student in the school, the Youchunfang Youzhongyun of Zhan Shifu, the editor of Hanlin Academy, and the lecturer of the East Palace Chen Xi returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors. The sky was clear that day..."

The top scholar returned to his hometown to visit his relatives, which is the top priority in Ninghua County. Among the people sent by the county government, there are special records of this matter.

Although the Shen family is a poor family, their ancestors are rich after all. Among all the ancestral tombs, the most conspicuous one is the tomb of Chen Xi's great-grandfather, who was posthumously named "Zhongzhi".

When Chen Xi worships his ancestors, he must first tell the ancestors that he was the top scholar to be the official, kowtow and burn incense, then spread the money and drink, and then burn paper money in the brazier. Then he will stand aside and wait for the Shen family to come up to worship in turn and then retreat.

Because it is not a funeral, there is no need to cry for sacrifice, but when the woman comes to worship, there will always be crying sounds.

As for Li, Zhou, Xie Yuner and others, they would not speak out with their face, but would wipe their tears to express their respect for the ancestors of the Shen family.

Chen Xi's grandfather's grave was originally the most reliable, but with the top scholar in Chen Xi, the grave will be moved to the most conspicuous position later. This is nothing to the dead, but for a widow like Li, it is a great honor. After all, she will be buried with her husband after she dies.

Chen Xi was the first to worship, stood aside, watching the Shen family come up to worship one by one, and the person in charge of calling was standing behind him.

When the worship is almost done, some people start to set off firecrackers and spread paper money into the sky. If the villagers in Taohua Village and surrounding villages want to come to worship, they will be welcomed. After going down the mountain, the Shen family's old house will be relieved of filthy wine.
Chapter completed!