Regardless of whether the matter of Li's critical illness was fabricated by the Shen family, Shen Mingjun and his wife had to go back to their hometown to visit, because Li was Shen Mingjun's mother and the most senior citizen in the entire Shen family.

As descendants, elders are critically ill. Unless they have particularly urgent military affairs like Chen Xi, even if they are in court, they need to go back to their hometown to visit.

For Zhou, she was unable to act as a hero in her son's jurisdiction, but she had to go back to Tingzhou Prefecture to visit Li, which made her very unwilling to accept it.

Zhou called Xie Yuner to discuss.

Filial piety is the first in the past, and unfaithfulness and unfiliality cannot gain a foothold in the world at all. What's more, Chen Xi has now entered the officialdom. As parents and wives, he must pay more attention to filial piety, otherwise he will be attacked by the censors. In a last resort, the family could only turn around and go south, go up the Ganjiang River, go to Ganxian, Ganzhou Prefecture City, southern Ganzhou, and then turn east, go ashore in the ancient town of Ruijin County, and head to Ninghua County.

Even if Wuchang Mansion is right in front of you, the Shen family cannot go to enjoy the happiness.

At this time, Chen Xi had not received any news that Li was critically ill.

In fact, the news that Li's critical illness was originally intended to be brought to Chen Xi, but the person who reported the news happened to pass by Jiujiang. As a result, he found out that Chen Xi had led his troops to the southern part of Huguang. It was meaningless to go to Wuchang Prefecture. While he was wandering, he suddenly realized that the Shen family was coming and was overjoyed. So by chance, the news came into the ears of the Shen family.

Since I received the news, no matter how reluctant Zhou was, he could only leave and return to his hometown in western Fujian. Not only did she and Shen Mingjun want to go back, but Li's grandson-in-law Xie Yuner, Lin Dai and Xie Hengnu also wanted to go together.

At this time, the Shen family was in power in Ninghua.

It was a luxury to expect Shen Mingwen to support his family. In just half a year, the Shen family was in chaos. In the past, no matter how domineering the Li family was, at least they managed the Shen family's finances in an orderly manner so that they would not be able to make ends meet. But now, Shen Mingwen and his wife really treat themselves as big families, eat and drink well, and their family quickly declined.

At this moment, everyone hopes that Shen Mingjun and his wife will come back, not that they hope that Shen Mingjun and his wife will take charge of the family business, but that they can send money back to respond to the emergency and repay the Shen family's foreign debt.

Now the Shen family not only lost all their savings over the years, but also owed a lot of foreign debts. Others borrowed money for the sake of Shen Xi as a senior official in the court, but only borrowed money or not, and Chen Xi's house disappeared, so no one was willing to continue borrowing money.

The property and land that Chen Xi bought for the Shen family was sold one after another by Shen Mingwen and his wife. Until now, they are already in vain and cannot continue.

Whoever talked about the Shen family in Ninghua could not help but shook their heads and sighed, believing that they were at the end of their strength. If it were not for Chen Xi, it would be impossible for ZTE to revive again.

But those who look down on the Shen family have to admit that as long as Chen Xi is there, the Shen family will still be among the great families again. However, at that time, the Shen family was no longer hosted by the Li family. The Shen family, composed of Shen Mingwen's generation, was instead a new Shen family formed by his descendants, led by Shen Xi. However, at that time, the Shen family would no longer be an ordinary poor family, but would become a real wealthy family.

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When Chen Xi learned that Li's critical illness was reported, the people were already in Qianyang County, southern Chenzhou Prefecture. At this time, the army had crossed the Yuanshui River and was about to enter the ground of Jingzhou.

Chen Xi did not doubt the news that Li's critical illness was because he did not think that the Shen family would deceive him and his parents to go back by falsely reporting Li's condition.

Chen Xi took the letter written by Shen Yongzhuo from his hometown in Ninghua County, and sat alone in the tent and looked at it for a long time. Hui Niang walked behind him and asked, "Are you not going back to see it?"

Chen Xi glanced at Hui Niang, held Hui Niang's hand on his shoulder, and asked, "Where is it going to go back? Ninghua County? Since you have come out of that small county in western Fujian, why do you have to go back? People will eventually have to be born, old, sick and die. This is a natural law. The old lady has lived for most of her life and has completed what she should do. What are the regrets? "

Hui Niang thought about it and couldn't say anything.

Chen Xidao: "The old lady's life has done everything for the Shen family's revival. Now she has seen this day that I won the top scorer and is now a second-rank official in the court. I am a lot higher than the official rank of the ancestors and the ministers of the ancestors. Although it may not bring much substantial benefits to the Shen family, at least the children of the Shen family will gradually come out of that remote place. It is no longer a luxury for future generations to study in the future."

"As for the degree to which the descendants of the Shen family can learn, it depends on their own luck. In this era, being able to pick up books without worries is a happy thing. They can use this to firmly grasp their destiny in their own hands, rather than being controlled by the times..."

Before he knew it, Chen Xi talked deeply about the topic because Li's critical illness had a certain impact on Chen Xi's mentality.

Hui Niang said: "When my husband was young, he encountered unfair treatment at home. He always thought of his own way to study, and even faced the crisis of dropping out of school several times... My husband, don't you hate the old lady?"

Chen Xi smiled bitterly, his expression full of emotion: "People must clearly understand their position in this era and can fight for their destiny, but they must have the qualifications and talents that match it."

"My grandmother, although she has made things difficult for me, I don't think she is wrong. At least in her logic, everything she does is for the purpose of family rejuvenation. She sacrifices the interests of most people to achieve a dream. There is nothing wrong with that, it's just that the person she chose to sacrifice was wrong..."

Chen Xi did not say that he would hate Li's family. It would be impossible to say that Chen Xi did not mind Li's partiality at all. In the past, he tried his best to let Shen Mingjun and his wife escape from Li's shackles and live his own life, so that he would have the opportunity to study and take the imperial examinations and enter the gentry class.

Chen Xidao: "Although the social hierarchy in this era is clear, as long as people can access books, they can change their destiny through the imperial examinations. I can enter the court to become an official, change the status of the Shen family, and turn the Shen family from a poor family to a scholarly family, all depends on this."

"If it weren't for the imperial examination, I might not have been able to stand out. In this world, only officials can have the right to speak, otherwise no matter how rich they are, they will be just pigs and sheep to be slaughtered. If the court does not give such a channel for lower-class poor children, poor children will have to sink and will never find a way out!"

Hui Niang no longer talked about the Shen family. She found that Chen Xi became depressed due to the critical illness of Li. She did not want to put any pressure on Chen Xi because she felt that as a woman around Chen Xi, she wanted to help him share his worries rather than causing trouble.

"Well!"

Chen Xi put down the letter, stood up and went to the door of the camp, looked out, and said, "If the old lady really left, then the Shen family's previous Shen family completely fell apart, and each room of the Shen family would live their own lives. What kind of Shen's children can do in the future depends entirely on themselves."

"But no matter what, the Shen clan members can find a way out through study. If any room is not interested in studying, or has been hitting a lot of walls in the imperial examination, as long as they are diligent and down-to-earth, I will help them and let them make a strong job in the yamen. Even if they can't be rich and powerful, they can have no worries about food and clothing for their whole life..."

Hui Niang said, "Then the master will stop asking about the family?"
Chapter completed!