Mistakenly recognized as a cousin, thousands of pampered

Tao Jiuxi and Shen Zhiyi strolled leisurely on the street.

"Sucheng is really nice. Look at the road, there is not even a little beggar. When I was in the capital, I could occasionally glimpse a few on the street." Tao Jiuxi turned his head and said softly to Shen Zhiyi.

Shen Zhiyi's mind was not focused on this at first. After Tao Jiuxi mentioned it, he suddenly remembered that he seemed to have never seen a young beggar.

"I guess the magistrate of Sucheng has governed well. After all, this place is quite close to the capital."

"In that case, the orphanage here must be doing well. Why don't we go take a look there tomorrow? If the place is suitable, we will send Fuya there." Tao Jiuxi said, and then looked at Fuya who had been following him obediently, feeling a little reluctant.

The three of them moved forward slowly, and Fu Ya was already exhausted.

Seeing this, Shen Zhiyi took the initiative to hold Fu Ya in his arms, but his movements were extremely unfamiliar. He adjusted several times before he finally mastered the correct posture for holding a child.

Fu Ya gradually fell asleep in Shen Zhiyi's arms. Shen Zhiyi held the baby steadily in one hand and held Tao Jiuxi's hand with the other, and walked towards the inn.

Passersby couldn't help but marvel at the heartwarming scene of the two people holding their child.

"This couple is really good-looking."

"How can you have a child at such a young age? Look at you, you are so old and still not married." A woman said as she pointed at her good-for-nothing son in a reproachful manner.

Before meeting Tao Jiuxi, Shen Zhiyi had never thought that such a heartwarming scene would happen to him.

He held Tao Jiuxi's hand even harder, feeling extremely satisfied at the moment.

When I returned to the inn, Jiang Shun and Jiang Qu were already waiting at the door.

The two have arranged personnel to investigate the situation in Sucheng according to the original plan. Most of the area in the east of the city has been checked and no problems have been found. Starting tomorrow, they will start to check the other three directions in the city.

The next morning, Tao Jiuxi and Shen Zhiyi took Fu Ya to the charity hall.

The two men walked towards the west of the city and saw a funeral procession slowly moving towards the opposite side from afar.

It was Tao Jiuxi's first time to witness an ancient funeral and he felt that it was quite grand.

"Shopkeeper Zhao is truly pitiful. He had a son in his old age, but he never expected that the child would be unlucky and drowned in his own pond."

"You still say he's pitiful. I heard it was his son who was too naughty. He tied a servant to a stake and threw him into the pond. He stepped on the stake and drowned."

"I also heard that the dozen or so servants who looked after this young master were all executed. Some of them were not personal servants, but simply signed a death contract, leaving them at the mercy of their master."

There were constant discussions in the crowd. Tao Jiuxi looked at the child's relatives walking in front of him crying inconsolably, and had no choice but to let Shen Zhiyi lead him back a few steps.

There were too many tragedies in this dynasty. Although she felt sad when she heard about them, she was powerless to do anything.

Suddenly, Tao Jiuxi was surprised to see that the funeral procession was carrying two coffins.

"Why are there two coffins?" Tao Jiuxi couldn't help but ask with confusion.

Someone nearby immediately spoke up, "Manager Zhao felt bad that his son had passed away at such a young age, so he arranged a ghost marriage for him so that he would have someone to accompany him in his afterlife."

"Ghost marriage? In a ghost marriage, can two coffins be buried together?" Although Tao Jiuxi had heard of ghost marriages before, she always thought that the coffins were buried at different times.

How could it be such a coincidence that I could find the right one?

"Those who died around the same time can be buried together." The kind-hearted person answered patiently again.

Tao Jiuxi felt a little uncomfortable at this moment, so she pulled Shen Zhiyi and hurriedly hid in the shop.

"You are usually very brave, why are you afraid of this?" Shen Zhiyi asked jokingly.

"Well, I'm very afraid that someone will die. Can we wait until everyone leaves before going out?" Tao Jiuxi's face was a little pale, and he grabbed Shen Zhiyi's sleeve tightly.

Shen Zhiyi held Tao Jiuxi gently in his arms and waited until the funeral procession had gone far away before he took Tao Jiuxi's hand and walked out of the shop.

Because the journey to the west of the city was long, Shen Zhiyi hired a carriage after leaving the shop.

"The carriage has been running for so long, why hasn't it arrived yet?" Tao Jiuxi asked with a hint of complaint while handing pastries to Fu Ya.

"When I hired the car just now, I heard that this Ci Xin Hall is very large, so it was built in a more remote place where the land price is cheaper." Shen Zhiyi explained patiently.

"That's true. If the place is big, children can move around freely." Tao Jiuxi couldn't help but think of modern kindergartens and schools.

The carriage traveled for another half an hour before finally arriving at Cixintang. Tao Jiuxi felt like his body was about to fall apart.

The carriage that was temporarily rented on the street was completely different from the carriage in Duke Shen's mansion.

"Why don't you wait here and I'll go in and take a look." Shen Zhiyi suggested considerately.

"I'm already here, let's go in and take a look together."

The two got off the carriage, and the carriage slowly went to a shady place on the side to wait.

In addition to the door plaque, there are two huge wooden couplets at the entrance of Ci Xin Hall. The upper couplet reads: The grace of nurturing children will be passed down through the ages, and the lower couplet reads: The accumulation of good deeds and support for orphans will be praised for thousands of years.

Look at that seal, it was sent by the government.

"This has been certified by the government, so it should be good." Tao Jiuxi stood at the gate of Cixintang, looked around, and affirmed Cixintang.

Her gaze lingered on the couplet for a moment, and she felt a little more anticipation for the Ci Xin Hall.

As the three of them stepped onto the front steps, the gatekeeper came up quickly, his face full of vigilance, and asked in a very unfriendly tone, "What are you doing?"

There was a hint of wariness in the servant's eyes as he looked the three of them up and down as if they were uninvited guests.

Tao Jiuxi frowned and was about to ask them why they were so fierce when he heard Shen Zhiyi say, "We are from other places. This is a child we found on the road. We heard that this place can adopt children, so we came here."

Shen Zhiyi changed his usual noble and imposing demeanor and spoke softly to the two people in front of him.

But Tao Jiuxi felt something was very wrong when he looked at him like this.

The two servants guarding the gate listened to Shen Zhiyi's words and began to carefully look at Fu Ya, who was hiding behind Tao Jiuxi with only her head visible.

After a while, one of the servants said, "Since you are here to send someone, now that you have delivered the person, you can go back."