Don't worry about traveling through time, she has an all-powerful senior sister to help her

When Shen Lingzhu asked his elder brother and second sister why they had been sent away, Shen Huai also said, "What can't they see?"

"Master, hasn't you noticed that these kids pick up their weapons as soon as something happens?" Mrs. Hu felt both distressed and nervous when she thought about Fang Chang.

When her son heard the noise, he picked up a bench and ran away, and her eldest niece Miaozhu even grabbed the scissors from her sewing basket and ran out.

"The children were frightened on the way and haven't recovered yet.

If more than one person on the mountain starts fighting again, I'm afraid the children won't be able to resist joining in. "Knives, guns, sticks, and clubs are indiscriminate, and it's painful to be injured."

Shen Huai, however, was somewhat skeptical: "When Xianzhu grows up, he will have to travel far away on his own to gain more experience and knowledge."

Mrs. Hu asked in return, "Can two daughters also go on a long journey?"

Why not? Shen Huai saw that she looked unhappy and didn't say anything more. He had no objection to the children having the opportunity to travel abroad.

When his mother was young, she often went out with his grandfather. Compared with other old ladies, she was more open-minded and cheerful. She always encouraged him to study and never learned the behavior of some people who would bully their daughters-in-law.

I miss my mother. I will go to her grave to burn some incense for her later.

While his mind was wandering, Huang Zongqi and others had already dragged a strong man down the mountain. If Shen Lingzhu were here, he would definitely recognize that this man was the strong man who blocked the door of the tavern yesterday.

Xia Wang naturally recognized this guy, and ran ahead to quickly go down the mountain to inform the young master. He promised not to tell anyone about what happened yesterday, but he didn't expect that all three of them were not there.

His unusual nervousness caught Shen Huai's attention, "Do you know the person who was arrested?"

Xia Wang hesitated for a moment, but finally couldn't resist the pressure from the Fifth Master and nodded, telling him in detail everything that happened before and after buying salt yesterday.

The three siblings had no idea that the thing they wanted to hide for the time being had been exposed. When they approached the end of the village, someone was pulling fertilizer, and they covered their noses and ran away.

There were not many people on the roadside in the afternoon, and Shen Lingzhu suggested that his brother take a walk around the village to exercise his body. In fact, he wanted to take the opportunity to get more familiar with the terrain.

After a long time, when they arrived at the main entrance of the village, Shen Miaozhu stopped under the two-pillar, single-room archway to take a closer look. The stone archway was carved with various patterns and animal shapes. It was built by the prefecture and county government at the order of the imperial court after his uncle passed the imperial examination.

The year in which my uncle passed the imperial examination is engraved on the beam, and the names of the officials in charge of the construction are also engraved on the left and right pillars.

The last time I came back, my uncle deliberately avoided this side of the village and must have felt bad seeing it.

"Second sister, come and see, is the sculpture on this drum-shaped stone a lion? It looks like one and not like one." Shen Lingzhu asked, sticking her head out from behind the Sumeru pedestal under the beam column.

Shen Xianzhu also ran over to see: "It's a Qilin."

"It's the Qilin that suppresses evil." Shen Miaozhu was very sure.

"The Qilin is on the upper beam. This one is definitely not it. It has red hanging on its tail." Shen Lingzhu pointed to the bottom row.

Shen Miaozhu: "Just wipe off the red mud on it."

She reached out and felt it, and immediately realized something was wrong. "Cinnabar?"

"Why is there cinnabar on the archway?" Shen Lingzhu's mind raced as Shen Xianzhu leaned in to smear it, "Someone must have applied it on purpose.

"Second sister, look, there's more here, here, and here. Does it look like a broken rune when connected together?"

The archway is dusted and cleaned regularly, but the base is only half a meter high and is easily dirty by daily dust, and it is not easily seen from the back.

"Who?" Shen Xianzhu was instantly alert. "Someone hates Dad."

"Look at the base on the other side." Shen Miaozhu ran over and squatted down. There was dry mud on the base, so she asked her junior sister to find some dry grass to wipe it off.

As the three siblings were slowly cleaning up, several neighbors carrying farm tools came over, talking and laughing.

"Seeing this memorial archway reminds me of Shen Chi. He always said that he wanted his son to earn a Jinshi memorial archway in the future, but more than ten years have passed and he still has two daughters."

"He takes after his grandfather's roots, so he's probably destined to have only daughters. Maybe he'll even have to marry into the family."

"He'd be furious. He worked so hard to build his fortune, but it's gone to outsiders."

"You can't say that. The Fifth Master and Ba Chi's father both have the surname Chang.

When the fifth master of the Chang family in Aikou passed the imperial examination, the whole family came to ask him to return to the family. His father agreed, but the fifth master and his two brothers refused.

Old Madam Shen is good at raising her son, and her heart is with the Shen family, so she has no intention of returning to her ancestral home."

"Chi Er already has two daughters. If he marries a son-in-law and gives birth to a Jinshi, he will definitely have to be named Shen."

"Well, if I can't be the father of a Jinshi, I'll be promoted to the grandfather of a Jinshi."

As the conversation got heated, someone scoffed, "What's the point of passing the exam? They've even confiscated your home, and you're relying on others for gifts to survive."

"Tsk, Xia Zhu, you're ridiculous. Xia Xing's family rented the land from the Fifth Madam, but instead of sending her food, they sent you? Are you dreaming?"

"You just took advantage of his family and you took advantage of him."

"What are you talking about? What? Your family didn't have to do labor service a few years ago because of the Fifth Master's protection. Now you've forgotten what you said."

"ungrateful."

"I paid for the exemption."

"That makes sense. We did pay Chi Er. Everyone except the Shen family paid."

"Hear me, those you flatter and thank don't treat you as their own.

Oh, bah, you said you were doing good for the village, but I think you're exploiting the villagers. Isn't this retribution for charging so much money?" Xia Zhu kicked the drum stone.

"Then you can pay for another spot now!

"Put your feet down!" Shen Lingzhu stood up from the back and shouted sharply.

"This..." When several uncles and aunts saw her, they quickly recalled whether they had said anything too much just now. Fortunately, only little Zhuzi heard it, and she was young and probably couldn't remember everything.

They all agreed that they had not said anything bad, and stared at the stunned Xia Zhu one after another.

The latter quickly retracted his foot and ran out of the village with a red face. The remaining few people smiled embarrassedly and wanted to leave quickly when they saw the big bamboo of the Shen family growing out from behind the drum stone.

Let me ask, "Do you uncles know when the memorial archway was last cleaned?"

What does that mean? As they looked at each other, another child from the Shen family appeared. "What the hell are you guys hiding behind the archway base?"

"The second old master led people to sweep the place before the Dragon Boat Festival." Someone spoke, and the others nodded in agreement, and after they finished speaking, they ran faster than the other.

The three siblings walked towards the village with heavy faces. Shen Miaozhu was absolutely sure that something had been painted with cinnabar on the bases on both sides.

She didn't tell her elder brother that it was a talisman, but Shen Ling was too familiar with her senior sister's expression and was sure that the cinnabar was a talisman.

Now that the two sisters can come into this world, they will not think that supernatural things are completely false.

"Most villagers should be respectful to my uncle, but as for my father..." Shen Lingzhu was not in a position to list her father's faults in detail, not to mention that she was not very familiar with Mr. Chi's daily life.

She changed her words and said, "I feel that things like drawing talismans should not be done by villagers."

Shen Miaozhu and her eldest brother basically agreed, because it would be beneficial to the villagers if their uncle (father) continued to serve as an official.

She said, "Find some medicine to clean it up, and ask Uncle privately if he has any enemies in or outside the village, so that we can be on guard against them in the future."

Shen Lingzhu: "Why don't you find out who did it?"