"It can't be your grandfather's concubine."

Shen Mingan shook his head in denial.

"I remember hearing from the elders in the clan that the entire Shen family was even poorer than it is now. Although many people in the clan went out to work and earn money, they could not save the money they earned, so your grandfather could not have the money to support a concubine.

Not to mention your grandfather, even the clan leader at that time didn’t have the money to marry a concubine. That’s not right…”

Shen Ming'an's words made Shen Qingli, Shen Qingxuan and Shen Qingyu grasp another key point.

Even Shen Mingan himself realized that something was wrong.

Only Zhao Xiufen and Shen Qingyang, mother and son, were still confused.

The two looked at each other but tactfully kept silent.

If you don’t understand, just listen.

Anyway, my husband/brother, son/younger sister will explain it to me when the time comes.

"So... our bad luck has a family origin...?" Shen Qingyu wiped the unnecessary cold sweat from his head and said.

"But...why are we the only ones who are unlucky in the end?" Shen Qingxuan said, touching the wing of his nose.

"This is the strangest part!" Shen Qingli said, holding her chin with her hands. "Did they all use extradition talismans?"

"No, I don't feel the breath of the extradition talisman!" 98K said in Shen Qingli's mind.

Shen Mingan also denied it: "I have observed recently that except for a few who wear something around their necks, the other people with the surname Shen in our village have nothing around their necks."

"So... there must be another way!" Shen Qingyu said as he thought about how to get rid of the bad luck.

"Our family was not originally a direct descendant of the Shen family, right?" Shen Qingxuan suddenly thought of a possibility.

"Indeed, I heard your great-grandfather once mention that your great-great-grandfather was your great-grandfather's illegitimate son and was never taken seriously.

Later, your great-great-grandfather's son, your great-great-grandfather, was brought back to be raised by the clan leader at the time, your great-great-grandfather." Shen Ming'an nodded.

"Isn't it true that Grandpa Taizu is the illegitimate grandson of Grandpa Tianzu?" Shen Qingxuan asked again.

"That's right!" Shen Mingan nodded again.

"Second brother, have you thought of something?" Shen Qingli looked at her second brother and seemed to have found the reason.

"I do have an immature idea." In fact, Shen Qingxuan is not quite sure whether his idea is correct.

"Since no one has any ideas yet, why don't you tell us what you think?" Shen Qingli said to Shen Qingxuan with a smile.

My second brother has always been smart, and he must have thought of something that I didn't think of.

"During Grandpa Tianzu's generation, our Shen family should still be a wealthy family, right?" Shen Qingxuan looked at his father Shen Mingan.

"I know this. Our Shen family started to prosper in the early Qing Dynasty. By the Qianlong period, it had become a well-known merchant family in the entire Qing Dynasty."

Shen Qingyu said,

“When I was still a fool, I heard from the elders in the clan that the ancestor of the Shen family had once met the emperor and received praise from Emperor Qianlong in person, and was considered a leader among many imperial merchants.

But during the Xianfeng period, for unknown reasons, the family began to decline. By the Shunzhi period, the Shen family could no longer stay in the capital, so the ancestor returned to his hometown in Shangdu with his direct descendants.

At that time, we made two preparations. One was to buy land and build houses in Xiaorongshu Village as a backup, and the other was to buy houses and shops in Shangdu to prepare for a comeback.

But... the result was naturally that they lost money in everything they did. By the time of Tianzu's grandfather, their family had fallen from being one of the largest in the Qing Dynasty to becoming a wealthy family in a small place.

Of course, in the commercial capital at that time, the Shen family was considered a wealthy family."

After hearing this, Shen Qingxuan continued, "Why would Grandpa Tianzu raise the child of a concubine's child as his heir? Grandpa Tianzu must have had quite a few legitimate descendants at the time, right?"

"Indeed!" Shen Qingli also felt something was very wrong after hearing this. "Could it be that Grandpa Tianzu has some reason not to allow his own direct descendants to be the heirs?"

"Since the separation, it seems that we haven't had any bad luck for a long time?" Shen Mingan also noticed something. "Even those members of the same generation as your grandfather who separated from the clan haven't had any bad luck again."

"That's right!" Shen Qingxuan patted the table lightly and said, "This is what I'm suspicious of. It seems that those who leave the direct lineage are no longer unlucky!"

"Grandpa Tianzu's direct descendants should not be in our Xiaorongshu Village now, right?" Shen Qingli suddenly asked.

"Basically, they're all gone!" Shen Ming'an shook his head. "Most of the Shen family members in Xiaorongshu Village now are descendants of your great-great-grandfather."

"Then we'd better find out where those people are now and how their descendants are doing? Have any bad luck happened again?" Shen Qingli curled her lips and smiled.

If they live well, it can be further confirmed that as long as they break away from the direct line, they can escape this bad luck forever.

This way she can feel at ease.

Otherwise, I would have to worry about what would happen if my brother and their descendants were plagued by misfortune again.

"When I get back, I'll ask the elders in the tribe." Shen Ming'an said.

"There's one more thing I want to confess!" Shen Qingyu said embarrassedly, "When I escaped from the black market today, I met Gu Zhiqing."

"Gu Zhiqing? Gu Jiajia?" Zhao Xiufen asked in surprise, "Then doesn't that mean she is..."

"Yes, she knows that my leg is fine!" Shen Qingyu nodded, "And she also knows that we are wearing extradition talismans."

Shen Qingyu dropped another bomb.

What?

She actually knew all this?

Does she know anything about this?

Or is she just a master of metaphysics?

"Did she say anything?" Shen Qingxuan asked.

"She said she could see the bad luck that befell us, and that the main talisman of the extradition talisman must be related by blood to the main talisman of the mother talisman, and it is best if they are direct bloodlines, such as father and son or mother and son!" Shen Qingyu repeated what Gu Jiajia had said before.

"No wonder she found an excuse to look at my amulet before, which was the extradition talisman before." Shen Mingan suddenly remembered that Gu Jiajia had seen the extradition talisman on him before.

Originally, he didn't want to show his personal belongings to a little girl, but he couldn't resist his wife, so he had to take it off and show it to Gu Jiajia.

The little girl didn't take it away, but just looked at it carefully and then returned it.

I guess she already knew at that time that what she was wearing was not an amulet?

By the way, she also told Xiaoyu that the main talisman of the extradition talisman must be related by blood to the main talisman of the mother talisman, and it is best to be a direct bloodline, such as father and son or mother and son!

Does that prove that I am indeed my father's son?

"So...we are really grandpa's biological grandson and granddaughter?" Shen Qingyang said unhappily.

The three Shen Qingyu brothers obviously could not accept this result.

But Shen Qingli had different ideas.