NOVPUBEarly in the morning, Shen Roujia left the palace and hurried directly to the Shen family residence, the carriage and horses not stopping for a moment until they arrived at the gate.
Seeing the tightly shut gate, Shen Roujia felt even more uneasy.
“Xiao Fu, have someone knock on the door.”
Xiao Fu knocked for a long time before two young servants finally came to open the door.
Shen Roujia frowned at them, “What were you all doing? How could the household be so lax that even opening the door takes this long?”
The servants saw that it was Shen Roujia and immediately knelt down in fear.
“Your Highness.”
Shen Roujia strode quickly into the residence.
It wasn’t until she heard some noise from inside the house that she finally looked up.
“Second Sister.”
Shen Siqi appeared much thinner, her eyes red and swollen, as if she had just been crying.
She seemed surprised to see Shen Roujia suddenly here, and asked in astonishment, “Jiaojiao, why are you here?”
Shen Roujia frowned, “Second Sister, has something happened in the household?”
As Shen Roujia asked this, tears welled up in Shen Siqi’s eyes again.
“Jiaojiao, the people from Huizhou have arrived.”
Shen Roujia’s brows furrowed tightly. “Second Sister, speak slowly, there’s no rush.”
There was another Shen family in Huizhou. The old master of that family had once been a Grand Tutor, but after the Shen family declined over several generations, a mere scholar was left—Shen Hexuan’s father.
However, because he had privately pledged himself to the daughter of a salt merchant, the main branch of the family, already sparse in descendants, was bullied and forced out by the second and third branches, leading to his tragic death.
Shen Hexuan’s mother had taken her three children and prepared to head to the capital.
At that time, the Huizhou family had declared them expelled from the family genealogy, saying they were no longer members of the Shen family.
