Chapter 356

This person seems to be calm, but in fact he has a deep mind. Even when facing his own woman, he maintains a cautious style, which makes it difficult for people to understand what he is thinking.

After Zhao Meiren finished speaking, Luo Qinghan said lightly.

"You did a good job. You can get in touch with Chu Ji more in the future. It's best to inquire. Is Qiu Yuan's face different from before?"

Zhao Meiren thought the Prince's question was very strange.

But seeing that he didn't mean to explain more, Zhao Meiren didn't dare to ask, and bowed her head to answer: "Well."

After Zhao Meiren left, Luo Qinghan turned to look at Xiao Xixi, but saw that she was still reading, holding the Diamond Sutra in her hand, but her eyes were closed.

This woman actually fell asleep just looking at it!

Luo Qinghan walked over, took the scriptures from her hand, picked her up, and put her on the bed.

Xiao Xixi woke up, and when she saw that the person in front of her was the prince, she closed her eyes with confidence and fell asleep again.

...

next morning.

According to the prince's instructions, the royal chef specially prepared a vegan breakfast.

Xiao Xixi is not a picky eater, even if she is a vegetarian, she still eats it cleanly.

But after eating, she was still a little unfulfilled.

She smacked her mouth and said with emotion, "Without meat, I always feel like something is missing."

The snow has stopped outside, and the snow in the courtyard has been swept away by the servants.

Luo Qinghan decided to go out. He was going to the Shen family's ancestral hall to offer incense to the ancestors of the Shen family.

As a dutiful leg pendant, Xiao Xixi will naturally follow along.

She sat lazily in the carriage, holding the stove in one hand and the Buddhist scriptures in the other, reciting the scriptures feebly.

Luo Qinghan listened to her humming, which was as thin as mosquitoes and flies, and frowned slightly: "You either don't say it out loud, or you can say it louder, don't make such a humming sound, it sounds like a pig."

Xiao Xixi: "..."

Xiao Xixi raised her head angrily and glared at him angrily: "You can insult your concubine, but you can't insult the pigs raised by your concubine!"

Luo Qinghan: "..."

What a mouthful of slots!

Seeing that he stopped talking, Xiao Xixi felt that she had won this quarrel.

She smiled proudly, revealing two small pear vortexes at the corners of her mouth.

Shen's ancestral hall is located outside the city, and the location is quite remote.

The carriage passed through more than half of Panyun City and drove outside the city for another half an hour before finding Shen's ancestral hall.

Along with the car, there are Zhao Xian and two hundred Yulinwei.

Before the prince got off the bus, Zhao Xian instructed the Yulin guards to surround the ancestral hall and prevent anyone from approaching the place.

Xiao Xixi got off the car with the prince and walked into the ancestral hall.

As a well-known local family in Chenliu County, the Shen family has also been brilliant. Unfortunately, because of the decline of talents in the family, there are fewer and fewer juniors who can enter the dynasty and become officials, and the Shen family gradually declines.

There are many tablets quietly placed in the ancestral hall.

These are the ancestors of the Shen family.

Although Luo Qinghan is not surnamed Shen, he has half the blood of the Shen family, and he is half of the Shen family.

He took three lit incense sticks from Eunuch Chang, gave a big gift to the ancestors of the Shen family, and then inserted the incense sticks into the incense burner.

Luo Qinghan looked sideways at Xiao Xixi and motioned for her to come and kowtow as well.

Xiao Xixi did as she was told, knelt on the futon, and respectfully kowtowed three times.

Luo Qinghan looked around and found that the tablets and incense cases were covered with dust, the floor tiles were cracked, the corners of the walls had cobwebs, and there were a few tiles missing from the roof. Through the small holes, one could see the sky outside.

If there is rain and snow, the ancestral hall will definitely leak.

There was a faint musty smell in the air, an indescribable sadness.

The aristocratic family that was once prosperous for a while has actually fallen to this point now.

Luo Qinghan asked, "Is this place usually taken care of?"

Eunuch Chang was not very clear about this, he said: "Your Highness, please wait a moment, the servant will ask someone to inquire."

After a while, Eunuch Chang returned with an old man.

The old man knew that the person standing in front of him was His Royal Highness, and he was very frightened. As soon as he entered the door, he knelt down, his forehead was on the ground, and his voice trembled with nervousness.

"Caomin Liu Huo pays respects to His Royal Highness the Prince!"

Eunuch Chang introduced from the side: "This Liu Huo is the person in charge of taking care of the Shen's ancestral hall, and his family lives nearby."

Because the Shen family has no descendants, they can only ask foreigners to help take care of the ancestral hall.

Luo Qinghan motioned for Liu Huo to get up and speak.

Liu Huo stood up, but did not dare to look up. He looked like an ordinary farmer. Because he worked in the sun all the year round, his skin was dark and rough, and he was wearing a rough short coat with patches.

Luo Qinghan asked, "Have you always been taking care of this ancestral hall?"

Liu Huo didn't dare to hide it, and answered truthfully: "Since the fire, the Shen family has no descendants, and the ancestral hall has always been taken care of by the grass people."

"How long has it been since you came in here?"

When the prince asked this, his tone was cold and indifferent, without any fluctuations, but Xiao Xixi was keenly aware that he was in a bad mood at this time.

Liu Huo said tremblingly: "There have been a lot of things at home recently, and the grass-roots people couldn't take care of it here."

Luo Qinghan asked again: "Who arranged for you to take care of the Shen's ancestral hall?"

Liu Huo: "Yes, it's the big housekeeper of the Chenliu Palace."

Although the Shen family was in decline, his family still had a little prestige in the local area. In addition, Shen Zhaoyi's son became the crown prince. Even in the prince's favor, King Chen Liu did not dare to let the Shen family ancestral hall be completely deserted, so King Chen Liu specially asked the housekeeper to find a reliable person to help take care of the ancestral hall, but he did not expect to invite such an unreliable thing.

Luo Qinghan was too lazy to look at Liu Huo again, and said lightly, "Pull it down."

Immediately, two Yulinwei came in, grabbed Liu Huo's arm, and dragged him out.

Liu Huo was extremely frightened and wanted to shout, but Yu Linwei blocked his mouth and couldn't make a sound.

Soon Liu Huo was dragged away.

Luo Qinghan asked someone to call the local Lizheng.

Li Zheng knelt down and bowed to the prince with sincerity and fear.

Luo Qinghan didn't go around in circles with him, and said straight to the point: "Go back and find a few masons to rebuild this ancestral hall and try to build it as strong as possible. In addition, you can find a reliable person to help take care of the ancestral hall. How much does it cost? You make a list, and Gu will let someone hand over to you."

Li Zheng hurriedly responded, "Here!"

Then Luo Qinghan went to the Shen family's old house again.

However, the Shen family's old house has long since disappeared, and in its place is a newly built Bodhisattva Temple.

The incense in this temple is quite strong, and pilgrims are constantly coming in and out.

Xiao Xixi looked out through the car window. From here, he could just see the gate of the Bodhisattva Temple.

Xiao Xixi asked curiously, "This is the Shen family? It doesn't look like it."

Luo Qinghan did not explain, and said lightly, "Go in and have a look."