Jiapingguan Chronicle

Shen Zhonghe remained silent and showed a faint smile. He first glanced at Liang Jieque, then turned to look at Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, Xue Ruitian, and Shen Jiu, exchanging glances with each other.

The eyes of Shen Haolin, Shen Cha, and Xue Ruitian finally fell on Liang Jieque, with a meaningful smile on their faces.

"What are you..." Liang Jieque looked at these people, then at Mei Lin and Ying Wu who had the same expressions, and asked in confusion, "What do you mean? Did I say something wrong?"

"Aunt Liang, to be fair, if the statement you just made were listened to by ordinary people, people who have never been on a battlefield or fought in a war, they might still be able to fool us, but we..." Shen Zhonghe pointed to himself and others, and said, "Your rhetoric is full of loopholes."

"Why are there so many loopholes?" Liang Jieque was dissatisfied and glanced at Shen Zhonghe, "Whatever I say is what I say. Children, what do you know!"

"Young children may not know about other things, but only about war, many young and old know about it." Shen Zhonghe chuckled, "Everyone here, including me, has experienced hundreds of battles. Yes, we have seen and gone through many more battles than you, right? For us, you are..."

"Newbie." Shen Jiu yawned, continued to lie on the table, looked at Liang Jieque listlessly, and said, "If my brothers reported the battle situation to me like you did, I might just fight out. He raised his eyebrows at the other party, "What you just said, probably only the time, person, and place are true, and the rest are all false. But you are already here, why are you still making it up?" What about a lie?”

"Yes, Aunt Liang, we are here now, what else can't be said?"

Aunt Liang looked at Shen Zhonghe and then at the others. Seeing the expressions on their faces, she sighed helplessly.

"When I said it just now, I knew it was going to be exposed, but I still imagined that if I could fool it, maybe this matter would be over. I didn't expect..." She looked at Shen Zhonghe and looked at it. After a while, he said, "This is impossible to fool."

"You really want to fool us!" Shen Zhonghe raised his eyebrows knowingly, "But why are you trying to fool us? Isn't it better to tell the truth?"

"I also have my own reasons. The inside story here is very troublesome. If I tell the truth, I'm afraid it will..." Liang Jieque thought for a while, "This incident that happened that year and this explanation were agreed upon by me, my adoptive father and my eldest brother. Yes, we agreed that if anyone asks about what happened that night in the future, we will tell them this way. If no one asks, we will bury this secret in our hearts and never mention it again for the rest of our lives." She looked at her hands. Holding the jade pendant in his hand, he sighed softly, "After all, family scandals cannot be made public."

"Family ugliness?" Shen Zhonghe was stunned, looked at Liang Jieque, and then at Liang Jieque's hand holding the jade pendant, and frowned slightly, "The family ugliness you are talking about, could it be...my second uncle?"

Liang Jieque looked at Shen Zhonghe, was silent for a while, and nodded gently. "Why? What is going on?" Shen Zhonghe didn't know what to say. He swallowed hard and said, "Isn't he... dead?"

"Yes, he did die, but his death was not very honorable." Liang Jieque smiled bitterly, "You just said that your grandfather and father and I didn't speak to each other for a long time, and we had a very close relationship. Stiff, isn't it?"

"Yes!" Shen Zhonghe nodded, "Isn't it right? You didn't talk or communicate much for two or three years, which made the whole family very nervous and everyone was very depressed."

"Do you know what the reason is?" Liang Jieque saw Shen Zhonghe shaking his head in confusion and sighed softly, "Because your grandfather and your father strongly requested that your second uncle be removed from the family tree. They believe that traitors are not worthy of being in this family, and they are not worthy of enjoying the incense of this family." Seeing Shen Zhonghe who looked shocked and disbelieving, she smiled helplessly, "Have you ever seen this in the ancestral hall? Your second uncle’s tablet?”

"Second uncle's tablet?" Shen Zhonghe thought for a moment and shook his head gently, "No, there really isn't. It's just that mother said that you will enshrine the second uncle's tablet, right?"

"That's true, but don't you think there's a problem with this? Why can't your second uncle enter the ancestral hall after his death? Why do you want me to worship him?" Liang Jieque sighed softly, "Because he was covered in lard. Xin, you did something wrong, angered your grandfather and father, almost ruined the entire Shen family, and almost made you lose your grandfather and father, do you understand? "

"But why?" Shen Zhonghe was puzzled, "He betrayed his family and stood in the other side's camp?"

"Well!" Liang Jieque thought for a moment, "I don't know when he started hanging out with those people, or why he did such a thing, nor what he was planning, but I know that when he made this decision, he definitely did not consider my future and his. Therefore, even if I persuaded your grandfather, he still died for the Shen family in the end. The Shen family had to set up a memorial tablet for him. I... It has nothing to do with him anymore." She looked at the jade pendant in her hand, "This jade pendant for your second uncle was given to him by me when we decided to get married. At the beginning, I thought that we could be together for the rest of our lives. I didn’t expect that it would end in such a tragic ending.”

"In other words, the second master of the Shen family didn't take your relationship with him seriously at all. He betrayed the relationship and the Shen family for himself. Is my understanding correct?"

"Yes." Liang Jieque nodded, "I didn't think about our family and me at all. Now I understand what others said. The second master of the Shen family is a heartless and unjust person at first glance."

"A man's mouth is a liar, half of the men in this world are like that." Jin Miaomiao curled her lips in disgust, "But how did you come to the conclusion that the second master of the Shen family is heartless and unjust? Did he do anything bad behind your back?"

"People in the town told me that the second master of the Shen family was attracting bees and butterflies, but I never believed it. I asked my sister-in-law why there were such rumors, and she just smiled and said that she was probably jealous. My brother is just good-looking. But now that I think about it, maybe what he said is right, otherwise, how could he abandon us so resolutely, right?"