Chapter 93 Decline

Huan Yin took another deep look at Sister Jiujiu's room, then turned and walked out.

"Sister must have gone out." He told himself.

After walking out of Huan Jiujiu's room, Huan Yin once again concealed himself and walked towards the direction of his room in his memory.

Huan Yin's room was not far from Huan Jiujiu's room, and Huan Yin arrived here soon. At this moment, the door of this room was locked, and there was no servant standing outside the door. This room should be cleaned frequently. At least from the outside, the door and windows are spotless.

Huan Yin walked into his room, expecting to see scenes he had seen countless times in his childhood. He thought he could find the most memories here, but unexpectedly, the appearance of the room had changed drastically.

Now, Huan Yin's room looks like it is occupied by a young child. There are children's toys scattered everywhere in the room. There is even a small space next to the master bedroom, which seems to be for the child's nanny. For rest.

Could it be that the Huan family already has another generation? If this is the case, then it is a natural arrangement to give your room to your children. After all, I am afraid that I have faded away in the hearts of my family. Who will keep the room for me?

Huan Yin walked to the desk and picked up a somewhat worn book from the ground.

"Immortals and gods have different ideas." Huan Yin read out the title of the book gently. This book was the one he used when he was a child to ask his father that he wanted to become an immortal. Huan Yin learned about "immortal" for the first time from this petition. Unexpectedly, the scene in his room changed drastically, and the book was still there.

Huan Yin finally found some memories of his own in the house. Then, his eyes swept back and forth in the house, trying to find more traces of the past. In this way, Huan Yin picked up several old books one after another on the floor and in the corners of the house. These were all books he had read when he was young.

"The new owner of this house seems to like reading very much." Huan Yin looked at the books he had packed up and smiled. I don’t know whose child lives in this house, but it looks a bit like him when he was young. If his father could see this child, he would definitely like him very much.

"However, it's still not cherished enough." Huan Yin said to himself as he straightened the bent footers of these books one by one, lightly dusted off the dust, and placed them neatly on the desk. .

After doing this, Huan Yin searched around the house again. After making sure that he could not find any old things, he walked out of the door. It seems that if the new owner of the house didn't like reading, I might not even be able to find those books in the house. I wonder if the child will be shocked when he sees the messy books neatly arranged when he comes back.

After looking at his room, Huan Yin had nothing to worry about here. He is going to the backyard now. The ancestral temple is in that direction. He is going to pay homage in front of his father's soul, and then go to find Sister Jiujiu.

Go east from the residence and walk along the promenade, passing through the beautiful scenery on both sides of the promenade, to the backyard of Huan Mansion. The backyard is a place where the masters of the Huan family enjoy the scenery and rest. In the past, when Duke Huan was recovering from a serious illness, Huan Yin's mother Li Yun often helped him here to enjoy the scenery.

When Huan Yin came to the backyard, he found several servants standing at the door, and the sound of someone talking came from inside the door. Huan Yin could still recognize these voices immediately even after several years - they were the voices of the elders in the family.

Huan Yin walked into the courtyard door, and a face that was more familiar than the voice caught Huan Yin's eyes. The eldest lady Zhu, and the two side wives Wang and Liu were sitting in the small pavilion in the backyard. Next to them stood a young woman in her twenties. The young woman was holding a little boy. It looked like Not much smaller than Xiaotian.

"Xiaojun, take Lin'er over there to play." Mrs. Zhu said to the young woman.

"Yes, mother." The young woman bowed to Mrs. Zhu and the others, then took the child and left. Unexpectedly, the child refused to leave and looked at Mrs. Zhu: "Where is grandma?"

When Mrs. Zhu heard the child's words, she looked at him lovingly: "Lin'er, be good, grandma will go over and play with you in a minute, okay?"

After hearing what Zhu said, the boy pursed his lips and said coquettishly, "Then the second grandma and the third grandma will also come to accompany Lin'er."

"Okay, okay, let's go and stay with Lin'er for a while. We all love Lin'er the most, and Lin'er has to be obedient, right?" Wang and Liu coaxed in unison.

"Okay then, Lin'er has resigned." After saying that, the child bowed to the three ladies in a decent manner, pulled his mother and left.

After a moment of silence, when the mother and son walked away, Wang was the first to speak: "Sister, has the situation in our house worsened again?"

Zhu's eyes moved back from the mother and son, and her face instantly became a little angry: "That evil man spends money wantonly and ignores family affairs. This time, he spent hundreds of thousands of taels of silver for a prostitute. !”

"What! Hundreds of thousands taels?" Wang and Liu exclaimed.

Huan Yin looked at the three elders in front of him with confusion. Although hundreds of thousands of taels of silver were a huge amount of money for most families, to the Huan family, it was not a big deal. For some reason, the ladies showed such shocked expressions at this moment because of hundreds of thousands taels. At least when Huan Yin was still at home, even if it was a few million taels, the ladies would not blink an eye at it.

After the exclamation, Wang and Liu gradually showed helpless expressions on their faces. Finally, Wang said: "Alas, since the master left, Huanyu has been enjoying himself all day long. Except for him, all the men in my Huan family are women. How can anyone manage the family business? In the past few years, we have been living off the family and spending more than we earn. If we manage the house properly, when Lin'er grows up, we may be able to make a comeback. But Huanyu is really hateful. Not only does he ruin the family reputation, but he also squanders it. No matter how big my Huan family is, it can't stand his tossing."

"Alas, it's all my fault. When he was disrespectful to the master, I should have thought that he would do the same to us. Now he is the only one in the family, and we can't do anything to him." Zhu's face was full of regret.

"Sister, how much silver is left in the mansion?" Liu couldn't help asking.

Zhu heard this question and her face was full of pain: "Less than four million taels."

Less than four million taels! Huan Yin couldn't believe his ears. He didn't expect that the Huan family would decline to this extent in the years since he left. You know, in his father's eyes, a business of four million taels was not considered a big business, and now there is only so much money in the Huan Mansion. How did Huan Yu squander it in the past few years? This is simply unbelievable.

The huge Huan Mansion, even for daily expenses, probably costs about 100,000 taels a year. Coupled with Huan Yu's squandering, how long can the four million taels support the Huan Mansion? No wonder Huan Yin always felt that he couldn't see servants everywhere when he entered the mansion. This was probably because the mansion was empty, so the ladies dismissed a lot of servants.

Wang and Liu were not as surprised as Huan Yin after hearing what the eldest lady said. They just nodded silently, as if they had already gotten used to such a result.

"Sister, if we don't think of a way to control Huan Yu, we're done." Huan Yin saw a trace of despair in Liu's eyes.

"Those who should be dismissed have been dismissed. Those who are left now are all hired by him at a high price. They are all his people. Now in the mansion, we are trying to save money, but he spends money like water. Not only are we living in poverty now, but few people listen to us. How can we deal with him?" Wang was also a little desperate.

"It's all my fault. It's all my fault. Back then, I was obsessed with this evildoer and helped him to his current position. I didn't expect that he would not recognize his relatives now. I have implicated my two sisters." Zhu regretted it very much.

"If, if we had followed the master's wishes back then, would it be different now?" Liu said softly.

"The master's meaning? You mean because..." Wang didn't say anything more.

"It's all my fault. I'm such a vicious woman. I only care about my own interests and did such a thing. Now I'm suffering the consequences. It's my fault. The master has gone through ups and downs in his life to develop the Huan family to such a big place. How could his vision be wrong? If Huan Yin had taken over as the head of the family, the whole family would not have declined to this point. I will definitely go to hell. How can I have the face to go to heaven to see the master?" Zhu became more and more excited, and her body trembled uncontrollably.

The voices behind her continued, and the regrets of the three elders were endless. Huan Yin sighed heavily and walked towards the ancestral temple.

Huan Yin could see that the one called "Xiaojun" by the eldest lady should be his sister-in-law, Huanyu's wife, and the child Lin'er she was holding should be Huanyu's son. They probably pinned their hopes on Lin'er for a long time, but they didn't expect that Huanyu didn't even care about his wife and children, so how could he leave them with any hope?

Huan Yin had not seen his three sisters. Considering the ages of Huan Ling and Huan Yuchu, they should have all been married. But Huan Jiujiu was only fifteen. Was she married too?

Huan Yin's mood became a little low. Although he had become an immortal, this was his home after all. Seeing the decline of his family, he could not help but feel sad. His father was looking at the miserable situation of his family from heaven. I am afraid it would be difficult for him to feel at ease, right?

Huan Yin came to the door of the ancestral temple. The temple and the surroundings were all desolate, with dead branches and spider webs everywhere - it was unknown how long it had been since anyone had cleaned it.

Filial piety comes first. If the clan members even forget to be filial, then the family will not last long. This is exactly the situation of the Huan family. Although it seems that only this place in the entire Huan family is completely in decline, in fact, this place represents the entire Huan family and the history of the Huan family. Therefore, the decline here will spread quickly.

Huan Yin pulled down the spider web in front of the door of the ancestral hall, pushed open the heavy wooden door covered with dust, and walked in.

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