If there really comes a day when your brother comes back alive and this home is given to Zhaoyu, no matter if it is all squandered or not, it will never be returned to Zhaoming, and Zhaoming will have no home.

You are not guarding for me, you are guarding for Zhaoming."

Shen Zhaoshu was silent for a long time, and finally said: "If you want me to continue, you have to promise three things."

"you say."

"Since I am guarding for Zhaoming, I will only do so for twenty years. If there is no news of my brother in another twenty years, I will completely give up hope.

I will only guarantee the Yongding Marquis Mansion brand for twenty years, so please make up your mind."

Shen Xiao thought: If I really take over, how can I bear to let it go? So he said: "Okay. What are the other two?"

"I went into the mansion to check all the accounts. I sent a letter to all the banks and businesses in the capital. The Yongding Marquis' Mansion will not be responsible for any debts owed by Zhaoyu or Rongguo Mansion.

If I check the accounts and find that you have taken on too much debt and can no longer get rid of it, I will not take it.

Since I am keeping it for my brother, I can’t leave him with a debt.”

Chen Xiao said, "Alright, but if this rumor gets out, I'm afraid Rongguo Mansion won't be able to hold on."

Shen Zhaoshu said: "Then you should support them, even if the Yongding Marquis Mansion collapses."

Chen Xiao said, "As you wish. Anything else?"

Shen Zhaoshu said: “In order to facilitate future actions and not be constrained, Zhaoyu’s identity as the eldest daughter of the Yongding Marquis’s mansion cannot be maintained.

You opened the ancestral hall, revised the family tree, and Shen Zhaojue changed her name back to Shen Yu, and remained a concubine's daughter.

Chen Xiao said, "If your sister loses her status as a legitimate daughter, wouldn't it be even more difficult for her to live in the Rongguo Mansion?"

Shen Zhaoshu said: “Even if she filled the entire Yongding Marquis Mansion with it, it would still be difficult for her.

If you don’t want to, then forget it.”

Chen Xiao said, "Then I'll let your sister know first."

Shen Zhaoshu said: “If you don’t do it directly, then this matter will ninety-nine percent fail.

Zhaoyu is crying, making a fuss and trying to commit suicide. I guess not only will you fail to accomplish your task, but you may even have to pay a larger sum of money.

Father, let me take you out."

Chen Xiao gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll do as you say! But under what name?"

Shen Zhaoshu said, "She has done all sorts of ridiculous things, just picking out two of them is enough. Furthermore, her biological mother murdered her stepmother's children, so she couldn't have been adopted into her stepmother's name."

Shen Xiao said, “Okay.”

Shen Zhaoshu said: "In this case, I will be responsible for requesting an imperial decree to ensure that the title of Marquis of Yongding will be preserved for another twenty years after your death.

I would also like to ask you to do a small favor and arrange for Wang Xipei to have a new identity in the clan. From now on, she will be called Wang Hanyi, your great-niece."

Shen Xiao asked: "Why is this?"

Shen Zhaoshu said: "In order to let Xi Pei return to Kyoto."