All the ancestors in the capital begged me to be a substitute

Hearing this news, everyone except Yun Wang changed their faces.

Shen Lingxi's impression of the ancestor of the Wu'anbo family still stays at the time when the ancestor of the Shen family passed away.

Mrs. Wang told her at that time that she and the ancestor of the Wu'anbo family were good friends in boudoirs, and when they were young, they often passed letters on flower paper.

Shen Lingxi also imitated her old man's handwriting and wrote a contract to defraud Shen Liang.

It can be regarded as having some chance with this ancestor.

Shen Lingxi still remembered that when he saw the old ancestor at Mrs. Wang's funeral, he was still in good health.

Why did he pass away suddenly?

"Who reported the funeral? Did you tell me how the ancestor passed away?" Mu Huai'an asked directly.

Qiao Xing: "It's the housekeeper of Wu'anbo Mansion, and I didn't go into details, I just invited the girl to come over and do my ancestor's make-up."

Shen Lingxi's eyes revealed a sudden look.

In the past few years, she has been doing errands for others, and she is quite well-known in the capital.

Generally, those who came to invite her to come to the door right after passing away, most of them died in a not so dignified manner.

Shen Lingxi asked Qiao Xing to go back first to pack her things.

As she walked back with them, she told them about the speculation in her heart.

At the end, Shen Lingxi asked curiously: "Is Mu Shaoqing related to the ancestors of Wu Anbo's family?"

Mu Huai'an glanced at Chu Yan next to him, "The ancestor of Wu'an Bo's family, surnamed Xie, is the younger sister of our ancestor's direct relative. I want to call her aunt."

"It's also my concubine's aunt." Chu Yan also said beside him, "I'll go to their house with you to have a look."

Shen Lingxi did not expect that Wu Anbo's ancestors were actually Xie's family.

The Xie family was one of the most prestigious hairpin families in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and its power was originally equal to that of the Dou family.

However, since he came to the throne today and first assisted Xie Xun to return to his hometown, the members of the Xie clan gradually faded out of the court and lived in seclusion.

Even so, the Xie family has many old relatives and is extremely influential in the court.

When Chu Yan and Mu Huai'an first heard the bad news, their expressions were very dignified, which shows that this old ancestor has an extraordinary status in the Xie family.

With this relationship, Shen Lingxi returned to Fu'an Hall, saw the butler of Wu'an Bo's mansion, and without asking any more questions, took the packed things from Qiao Xing, and got into the carriage.

In the past few days, Yun Wang went in and out of Fu'an Hall, all wearing coarse cloth straight gowns, and dressed as a waiter, and he simply followed Shen Lingxi.

Since Chu Yan said he was going, Mu Huai'an naturally wanted to go with him.

Therefore, the housekeeper of Wu'anbo Mansion originally only invited Shen Lingxi to come to bury the ancestor's corpse, but he didn't expect that he would also present two giant Buddha statues as a gift.

Shen Lingxi sat in the carriage and was not idle.

She was familiar with Chunjun, so she asked Chunjun directly through the car curtain to find out about the situation in Wu'anbo Mansion.

Chun Jun is an embroidered clothes envoy, and he knows the situation of each prefecture and family in the capital like the palm of his hand, so he said eloquently:

"The Su family is in Hua Lane, Xi'an City. It is a title earned by our ancestors. The old Wu An Bo passed away six years ago. He is now Wu An Bo Su Wei. He is the eldest son of the family, and he has two sons. The father and son are stationed at Tongwu Pass in the west all the year round. , there are only women and children at home in the capital, and the Ninth Master Su Xian."

"Master Nine is the old son of the ancestor of the Wu'anbo family. He is 26 and seven years old. He looks talented. He has been very intelligent since he was a child. He can recite poems at the age of three, and he can write poems at the age of seven. He was praised by the late emperor. But later he gave birth to a son. Once the disease has fallen to the root of the disease, it will rarely appear in front of people."

When Chun Jun mentioned this Su Xian, he couldn't hide his regret in his tone.

Mu Huai'an at the side heard Su Xian's name, and seemed to think of something, a smile appeared on his lips.

On the contrary, Chu Yan frowned invisibly, as if he had some prejudice against this person.

Shen Lingxi didn't care much about Master Su Jiu.

In the history books, there are too many child prodigies like Su Xian.

In the end, there are very few people who really become the pillars of the country, which is not uncommon.

When the carriage arrived at Wu'anbo Mansion in Anhua Lane, it was nearly dusk.

White lanterns have already been hung in front of the gate of Bofu.

Mrs. Wu Anbo, Mrs. Zeng, was about 37 or [-] years old. She was very thin and dressed in thin clothes. She brought her family members and waited sadly at the door to greet her.

The four of them greeted the Zeng family, Chu Yan and Mu Huai'an went to the Chenxiang courtyard where the old ancestor died, on the grounds of condolence.

Chenxiangyuan is the courtyard where the ancestor of Wu Anbo lived.

As soon as you enter the yard, you will feel that the layout is different from ordinary yards.

The yard is very open and empty, except for a few clumps of green bamboo planted by the wall, there is no other decoration.

On one side of the open space, a refined iron weapon rack was cast, and there were many light and handy weapons on the rack, which seemed to be used by women.

It seems that the ancestor of Wu'an Bo was quite a military general during his lifetime, and he could wield knives and guns in his spare time. He was not like a woman from an ordinary aristocratic family.

Shen Lingxi followed them into the upper room, and saw a corpse covered with a white cloth, resting on the newly installed coffin in the middle of the room.

The white cloth covered the body tightly so that the situation inside could not be seen.

Even so, Shen Lingxi still found a shadow of a soul sitting on the chair at the top of the room.

The soul shadow was about sixty years old, and his expression was a bit dazed.Although the person is sitting, his body is straight, and he looks very strong.

However, there was a blood hole on her forehead, and bloody scratches could be seen on her exposed skin, and there were also many mottled blood stains on the clothes she was wearing, and she should have died from a fall from a high place.

Subconsciously, Shen Lingxi stretched out her hand and grabbed Chu Yan's sleeve, preventing him from walking to the coffin.

Although this movement was small, it seemed very abrupt among the solemn-looking group of people, and it attracted everyone's attention.

Mu Huaian frowned.

As for Yun Wang beside him, a look of surprise flashed in his beautiful eyes.

Chu Yan stopped subconsciously.

He remembered that Shen Lingxi had said that the evil spirit around him could bounce back the souls of the dead.

Presumably this girl has seen the dead soul of her ancestors.

Seeing that he stopped his feet, Shen Lingxi felt a little relieved, only then did she realize that her actions just now were out of proportion.

She hurriedly let go of her hand, and under the probing eyes of everyone, she racked her brains to make up for it: "Your Highness, the little girl met the old ancestor at the funeral of her grandmother before, and knew that she was a clean old lady. Let the little girl wash up for the old ancestor. Fan, please come to express your condolences again."

Now everyone in the capital knows that Shen Lingxi is the prostitute of Xuan Pinghou's mansion, so this rhetoric can barely be fooled.

Everyone silently looked away.

"Alright."

Chu Yan put his hands behind his back with a calm expression as he said, and stopped walking in. He just looked at Mrs. Zeng at the side and asked, "I remember that the old lady has always been in good health, why did she pass away suddenly?" Reported to the official, asked for a post-mortem examination?"