"Sir, please stay."

Chen Fan saw an old man wearing a scholar's shirt passing by, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked, "Isn't this Chen Mansion before? Why did it become Xie Mansion?"

The old man stopped, looked at the hat he was wearing with strangeness, and said, "Young man, you haven't come to the capital for a long time. Many years ago, this place was no longer Chen's mansion." After that, he was about to leave.

"Can you ask, what happened to the Chen family?"

"Of course I've been in trouble. I still have urgent matters. Go and ask others." The old man shook his hand and ignored him.

Chen Fan's heart sank, did he make a mistake? What did he do? He would be to the point where he threw away his old house.

But the old man didn't want to say much, so he could only ask others.

He looked back at the familiar house and turned around and left.

Two streets away, there was a tavern, which was still around nine o'clock in the morning. The tavern had just opened and there were no guests.

Chen Fan walked in and ordered a pot of wine and a few plates of snacks. After the waiter delivered the things, he was about to leave, but he stopped him, "Ask you something." As he said that, he put a few copper coins on the table.

The smile on the waiter's face became more enthusiastic, "Just ask, the guest official, he said everything he knew and said everything."

"There is a Xie Mansion over there, do you know?"

"I know, that's the mansion of General Yangwei General Xie."

"I remember that house was originally Chen's mansion?"

The waiter was a little surprised, "You know even this, it happened more than ten years ago."

Chen Fan asked what he was most concerned about, "What happened to the Chen family? Why did the original Chen family become the Xie family?"

The waiter thought for a while, "It seems that the Chen family committed the crime back then. I don't know very well what the matter is."

Chen Fan saw that the waiter was only fourteen or fifteen years old. When the Chen family was born, he was still ignorant. He thought that he was well-informed in being a waiter, so he came to ask. It seemed that he had asked the wrong person.

"Hey, anyway, it's not rare to offend some big shots, and the family business is taken away." The waiter said again.

"How are the people from the Chen family?"

The waiter shook his head, "I don't know this. The guest officer would better ask the old people living on this street, they might know."

Chen Fan took out a piece of silver and put it on the table.

The shop assistant's eyes lit up, "Customer, you are..."

"You are familiar with this place, please help me find someone who knows what happened back then. This piece of silver is yours."

"Okay." The waiter quickly took the piece of silver and turned around and left.

Chen Fan sat there, poured a glass of wine, and waited while drinking.

After half an hour, the waiter walked in from outside with an old man.

The old man walked up to him, put his hands in his sleeves, looked at him with his eyes squinted, and asked, "It's you, want to know what's happening to the Chen family?"

Chen Fan made a gesture of invitation, "Please sit down, old man."

"Forget it, the old man won't have a drink with the person who has hidden his head and tail." The old man had no intention of sitting down.

"It's a shame." Chen Fan was anxious to know the whereabouts of the Chen family. Moreover, the Chen family moved out of here more than ten years ago, so there was no need to cover up their appearance. So he took off his hat.

The old man glanced at him, his eyes suddenly stopped, rubbed his eyes hard, and his face looked shocked, and he said in absent voice, "Three, Three Young Master..."

Huh?

Chen Fan never expected that the old man in front of him would reveal his identity in his previous life in one word. It was obvious that this man had seen him before.

He looked carefully and found that he was a little familiar with his face, but he couldn't call him a name. He should be an old person from the Chen family.

"You recognized the wrong person, I am not the third young master."

He explained so as not to scare the person. He also wanted to know from the other party what happened to the Chen family later. "My name is Chen Zhou. Although my surname is Chen, it has nothing to do with the Chen family that I just mentioned. I was entrusted by someone to come to the head of the Chen family. Who knew that the Chen family's former Chen family had become the Xie family, so I wanted to ask someone for a clear question."

He didn't say what it was, but he was just an excuse he made.

The old man still had a look of seeing a ghost on his face, and he said, "It looks so much like..."

"Please sit down, old man." Chen Fan pulled him down, poured him a glass of wine, and said, "If I guess correctly, are you an old member of the Chen family?"

The old man subconsciously picked up the wine glass, leaned over to his mouth and took a sip, barely calmed down, and heard his words and said, "I used to work in the Chen family's shop, and I often saw the Third Master."

So that's it.

Chen Fan thought no wonder, if it were the servants of the Chen family, he should be more familiar with it, and would not just think it looks familiar.

The old man's tone and expression were no longer as strong as he was at the beginning. He lowered his posture. It was obvious that Chen Fan's appearance was exactly the same as the Third Young Master, which had a great impact on him.

Chen Fan picked up the wine bottle, poured the wine glass for the old man, and said, "Old man, can you tell me about the Chen family back then?"

"I didn't know much about the things back then, but it was not a secret, so it would be okay to tell them..."

"Fifteen years ago, Mr. Chen was ginseng in a book, saying that he was corruption and bribery, and he was quickly imprisoned. Even the eldest master was implicated and was removed from his official position. In order to rescue the master, the old lady ran around and spent all her money, so she saved the master's life..."

When Chen Fan heard this, his eyelids twitched. Fifteen years ago, it was the last time he passed away. Could it be that it had something to do with him?

"It was then that house was bought by the Xie family and became the Xie Mansion."

Chen Fan hurriedly asked, "What about the Chen family? Are they okay?"

"After that incident, the Chen family moved back to their hometown."

Yes, my hometown.

Chen Fan then remembered that the Chen family's ancestors were not native to Beijing, but also the great-grandfather of Mr. Chen. After becoming a Beijing official, they took root here.

After losing his official position, he lost everything here, so he naturally had only his hometown.

The Chen family has a house and some land in their hometown. Whether it is Mr. Chen's father or two brothers, they are both knowledgeable people and should not be too miserable.

"After a long time, the affairs of the Chen family were gradually forgotten. Until seven years ago, the second young master went to Beijing to take the exam and had a high school entrance examination. Now he is a doctor in the Ministry of Personnel and a fifth-rank official."

“…”

Chen Fan didn't expect that there would be such a turning point. Back then, the second brother who was studying hard, actually passed the Tanhua exam and is now a fifth-rank official. The Ministry of Personnel, the Ministry of Personnel, is definitely a key department.

That second brother is a few years older than him, and now he is only about thirty-five, and his future is limitless.

The imperial examination is indeed a road to heaven, and the Chen family can turn over with this.

The old man suddenly sighed, "But even if the second young master became such a big official, he still could not take back the old house, and he didn't even dare to mention it. Back then, the master offended him, but the noble relative."

A noble relative?

The first thing he thought of was Shou'an Hou.

Chen Fan asked, "Why did the Chen family offend noble relatives back then?"
Chapter completed!