I have to say that without Xia Changyuan, the Xia family is really getting worse and worse.
The pillars of the Xia family are Xia Xiangwen and Xia Xiangwu.
Xia Xiangwen has a dull head. He likes to follow the rules in everything. As an official, he doesn't want to make money, and he has offended many people.
Not to mention Xia Xiangwu, he was a total prodigal.
He is a big spendthrift and has two sons who are little losers.
However, Xia Xiangwen had nothing to do with his younger brother. After all, he couldn't hit him and could only curse him a few times.
But over time, his angry curses fell on deaf ears, and he continued to do whatever he needed to do.
It was okay at first, Xia Xiangwu still imagined that he could become the head of the Xia family, so he still restrained himself.
When he realized it, Xia Po had been playing tricks on him all along and had no intention of letting him be the head of the family, so he completely let himself go.
Money flows like water every day, and one person spends more than a whole family.
Whenever someone said that he was a prodigal, he still justified it.
"I'm a prodigal? I gave up my position as head of the family to my brother. Even if I become a prodigal again, he still has to support me!"
As the saying goes, if a person has no shame, he is invincible, and he may be the one he is talking about.
As the family's financial resources were getting thinner and thinner, the Xia family first laid off more than half of their maids and handymen, and then reduced their food expenses.
But despite this, the monthly turnover still seems a bit stretched.
One day, a group of people with sticks in their hands broke into Xia's house, claiming to be clerks from a gambling den, and came to collect debts from Xia Xiangwu.
After getting to know Xia Xiangwu, he actually lost a total of two hundred thousand taels of silver through gambling.
Moreover, I have an IOU written in black and white on a piece of paper.
Not only that, Xia Xiangwu may have borrowed too much money and others would not lend it to him, so he borrowed a lot of money in the name of the Xia family.
When everyone in the Xia family wanted to find Xia Xiangwu, they heard from a car dealership in Kyoto that Xia Xiangwu and his group had already left the city.
Helpless, the honest Xia Xiangwen had no choice but to wipe the butt of his younger brother.
But after much calculation, he really couldn't afford the two hundred thousand taels of silver. Just when he didn't know what to do, the owner of the gambling house came to see him.
In fact, most people really don't dare to go to the Xia family to collect debts, because even though the old man is dead, no one dares to touch his influence there.
But this person is different. His name is Ye Qinghan, and he is the brother-in-law of the current emperor!
That's right, it's the emperor who is only ten years old this year.
Although he was not very old, he still wanted to have a queen, so he found a girl younger than him to be the queen.
As the saying goes, when one person attains enlightenment, chickens and dogs ascend to heaven, and all those who are related to this little queen will be promoted.
And this brother-in-law opened a gambling house in Kyoto and established a monopoly as a relative of the emperor, making a lot of money in a short time.
As soon as he saw Xia Xiangwen, he cupped his hands and then looked at the big courtyard.
"I have long heard that the largest house in the entire Kyoto is the house gifted to the Xia family by the late emperor. Looking at it this way, it is indeed well-deserved."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Now that your Xia family has declined to this point, what's the point of having such a big house? Why not use this yard to pay off your debts? As long as you agree, in addition to completely canceling your debts, I can also give you a house that's not much worse than this one."
Although Xia Xiangwen is honest, he is not stupid.
When I heard what the other party said, I immediately thought that the other party's goal from the beginning was this house.
"You...you are despicable!"
"Whatever you say, according to what is written in this IOU, the interest rate is not low. You don't have much time left to think about it."
Later, Xia Xiangwen came to Xia Po to discuss the matter, but Xia Po's answer was that people should learn to let go.
After all, the Xia family is really too big, and Xia Xiangwen alone cannot protect it.
If you keep occupying this place, even if you finish dealing with this Ye Qinghan, a second Ye Qinghan will appear.
Xia Xiangwu is gone, and sooner or later a second Xia Xiangwu will appear in the Xia family.
Are you able to cope with it?
Having said this, Xia Xiangwen understood what he should do, but at the end he asked Xia Po.
"Are you willing to give up your own little yard?"
Xia Po looked back at the yard where he had lived for more than thirty years and shook his head.
"What do you think?"
Afterwards, Xia Xiangwen said nothing more.
He still transferred the Xia family compound to Ye Qinghan, partly because there were not many people in the Xia family now, so living in such a big house seemed deserted.
Another reason is that I know I can't hold on.
Fortunately, Ye Qinghan was not as mean as he thought, and the new yard given to the Xia family was also very spacious.
It is more than enough for the entire Xia family to live here.
As for Xia Po, he still stayed in the original courtyard because Xia Xiangwen specifically talked to Ye Qinghan about this matter.
Ye Qinghan was quite generous. After all, the outer courtyard was just a place for servants to live. The outer courtyard was just a courtyard for Xia Po to live in.
He also said that he wanted Xia Po to be one of his own and so on.
At first Xia Po thought that if the family got too noisy, he would turn this place into a haunted house.
But unexpectedly, this family seems to be very friendly, and they are more polite when they see Xia Po occasionally.
It was only later that Xia Po learned that Ye Qinghan's family came from a small place.
The place was hardly affected by the idea of valuing civility over martial arts. In addition, after the death of Emperor Chiyuan, no one deliberately belittled warriors anymore, and the status of warriors slowly rose.
I heard that Xia Po was a warrior in the innate realm. How could they be so disrespectful?
On this day, Xia Po was meditating in the courtyard. After a while, he suddenly opened his eyes.
"Huh? Taoist priest?"
In front of him, a Taoist priest wearing a Taoist robe and dragging a fly whisk stood there. He stared at him for an unknown amount of time.
"I'm at Tianlong Mountain, Taoist Priest Qingyang. I've heard about the Five Tigers and Hidden Dragons in Kyoto a long time ago, and I'm still a little skeptical. Today I really slapped the old man in the face hard."
Xia Po narrowed his eyes and looked at the opponent's panel.
[Name: Li Buchun]
[Nickname: Taoist Master Qingyang]
[Strength: Innate inner strength]
[Kung Fu practiced: Xuantian Dao Jing]
Unexpectedly, he turned out to be a warrior in the middle stage of Xiantian.
So he sat up and cupped his hands.
"I heard from the Ye family that they are going to invite a master to catch the evil spirits in the courtyard today. You must be that master, right?"
"Hahaha, it took me a lifetime to learn some talisman skills. I can't be called a master. At least I don't dare to call myself a master in front of you, my brother."
I don't know why, but this house has been haunted lately.
Women and children often wake up in the middle of the night, saying they saw strange black figures.
Xia Po paid special attention to it for a few days, but didn't see anything.
Finally, the Ye family asked a Taoist priest from their hometown to come and take a look.
However, in Xia Po's view, those Taoist priests were nothing more than liars.
But when he saw this Taoist priest, especially when he claimed to know the art of talismans, he became interested.
I have a lot of talismans that I can't use, but this person who is not as powerful as me actually says that I can use them.
Maybe you can find a way to use it this time.
So I followed the Taoist priest, wanting to see how he used the talisman.