Before he could think about it, someone from the mansion came out to welcome him into the mansion.
Xu Bingrong took a quick look and saw that only the housekeeper and a few servants came out. There was no sign of Shen Zhonglei at all, and he immediately felt unhappy.
"My sister and two children died tragically. I came all the way to attend the funeral, but my brother-in-law didn't even show his face and only sent a few servants to greet me. Isn't it a bit unreasonable?"
The housekeeper said with a sad look on his face: "My uncle, I don't know. Madam, after the accident happened to the second girl and the young master, our master hunted the murderer sleeplessly and was almost killed by a bomb in the street.
"After finally avenging his wife and two young masters, the master couldn't hold on any longer. He fell ill and is still bedridden!
"Now the old lady is taking over the household chores, and the two girls are keeping watch at the mourning hall. They are both busy, so we can only send the younger one to greet my uncle."
The steward's words were so powerful that the people watching around him sighed with emotion and cast unfriendly glances at Xu Bingrong.
Such a big thing happened to the Shen family. The mother-in-law said she came to attend the funeral, but after arriving, the series of actions did not seem like she was attending the funeral properly.
When I came up, I cried at the door without saying a word, but still being so picky.
Does he want Master Shen to drag his sick body out to greet him, or does he want the old lady of the Shen family to come out to greet him, a junior?
Although Xu Bingrong didn't feel that he had done anything wrong, he could still feel the looks and attitudes of the people around him. He thought that if a good man doesn't suffer the immediate consequences, he should go in and tell Shen Zhonglei if he has anything to say.
Thinking of this, he nodded and said, "Then you should lead the way."
The housekeeper had long known that this uncle was a gangster, so he was relieved to see that he didn't cause trouble again.
After Xu Bingrong entered the house, he still knew what he was doing. He first went to the mourning hall to pay homage to Mrs. Xu, pretended to cry, and then got up and asked the housekeeper: "Take me to see my brother-in-law."
In fact, Shen Zhonglei didn't have a serious problem. His previous fainting was just due to excessive fatigue, physical exhaustion, and excessive mental exertion.
The reason why I kept complaining was that firstly I didn't want to continue acting to entertain outsiders, and secondly I also thought that when Xu Bingrong came, it would be better to make excessive demands on him as a patient.
But is Xu Bingrong the kind of person who knows how to consider others?
Of course not, he came straight to Shen Zhonglei's residence after coming out of the mourning hall.
Seeing the housekeeper leading him all the way across the courtyard, Xu Bingrong frowned and said, "Is it possible that my brother-in-law is staying in his aunt's room while my sister is in mourning?"
The housekeeper was speechless and could not offend him, so he had to explain patiently: "The master lives in the main house. When he opens his eyes or closes his eyes, he will think of his wife and the two young masters. He sheds tears day and night and cannot rest at all, so he ordered someone to clean up a house."
Come out and stay temporarily across the hospital."
Xu Bingrong turned around when he heard this and rolled his eyes.
He didn't know why, but he always felt that he had planned well along the way, but after arriving in Yongzhou Prefecture, nothing developed as he expected.
The housekeeper of the Shen family is even more of a slippery old loach, and his words are so thoughtful that he cannot catch any mistakes.
I followed the housekeeper into the house and came to Shen Zhonglei's bedside. I saw that he indeed looked sick, and I didn't know whether it was real or pretending.
"Bingrong is here." Shen Zhonglei bowed, and finally fell back weakly.
He hadn't seen his brother-in-law for several years, and his impression at first wasn't very good. Now that he saw the Xu family, he was even more upset, but he couldn't show it on his face.
"How is your brother-in-law's health? Didn't you ask the doctor to come over and take a look?" Xu Bingrong looked around the room with his eyes rolling around as he spoke.
He had been to the Shen family's old residence before, but this was his first time here in Yongzhou Prefecture.
It really deserves to be a magistrate's residence. This is just a cross-yard, and it looks even more grand than the main house of his family.
The things on the shelves don't look cheap either.
Xu Bingrong originally thought that relying on the Xu family, his family was already living a very luxurious life. At least in his hometown, not even the county magistrate could compare with his family's prosperous life.
But now when I came to Shen's Mansion, I looked at the large house and the furnishings in the house.
Only then did Xu Bingrong understand why so many people study hard and want to be officials. It turns out that they just want to live such a life!
When he thought about Xu's unexpected death, he felt really sad.
It was originally a long-term support for Xishui Changliu, but with the passing of my sister, this was all that was left, and it was a huge loss.
I couldn't help but sigh in my heart, if my parents had more daughters and married them off one by one, wouldn't I be able to live a good life without doing anything?
Of course, he just thought about these words in his mind, and would never dare to say them in front of Shen Zhonglei.
Shen Zhonglei leaned on the bedside and said feebly: "The doctor came here to see me. It's not a serious problem. It's just excessive grief and tiredness from the past few days."
He rested for a while and then said: "You can come over to attend the funeral, and your sister's spirit in heaven must be very comforting.
"The thing she loved the most during her lifetime was your brother. She really worked hard to find a good job for you.
"Now that she is gone, we are still relatives after all. I will go back to find someone to say hello, and you can just continue to do the work."
Shen Zhonglei's attitude was really beyond Xu Bingrong's expectation, blocking out everything he originally wanted to say.
Seeing his weak look, even if I had doubts in my heart, I couldn't find any flaws for the moment.
Although Xu Bingrong kept talking to Mr. Xu at home, he actually didn't feel that this matter really had anything to do with Shen Zhonglei.
Even if the relationship between husband and wife is not harmonious, there is no need to be so cruel, let alone two children.
Thinking of this, Shen Zhonglei said again: "I have asked someone to arrange a place for you. If you have nothing to do in the past few days, go to the mourning hall to accompany your sister. After the funeral in a few days, she will be sent back to her hometown to be buried in the ancestral grave. If you want to worship in the future, it will not be so convenient."
Shen Zhonglei naturally did not want to bury Mrs. Xu in her ancestral grave, but Mrs. Shen said that she had already made arrangements. When the time came, she would bury Mrs. Xu anywhere. There would only be an empty coffin and a monument set up in the ancestral grave. Just show it off.
Although Shen Zhonglei still felt heartbroken, he had to agree to this approach. After all, in order to prevent the scandal of being a cuckold and raising a son for others from being exposed, he had to act like it to the outside world.
Xu Bingrong felt that he was really exhausted from traveling day and night, and his mind was a little unable to move. It would be better not to say anything more for the time being, but to go back and have a good rest before making further plans.
Little did he know that all of this was a rhetoric that had been rehearsed by the entire Shen family in order to prevent him from finding fault.