Zhou Man and Bai Shan stood side by side outside the yard, pricked up their ears and listened, but they couldn't hear anything. Just when Zhou Man was hesitating whether to ask Keke to eavesdrop with negative points, he heard Bai Shan say: "Look! —”
Zhou Man looked up at him and saw him pointing to the sky, so he raised his head to look, and saw a cluster of strange clouds floating slowly in the sky.
Zhou Man marveled, "Like a sheep, like a camel, but also golden."
Bai Shan smiled and asked: "Is it good-looking?"
Zhou Man nodded, "It looks good!"
Bai Shan reached out to hold her hand, squeezed her fingers and asked, "Are you feeling better?"
Zhou Man nodded.
"Don't worry," Bai Shan said, "The Xia family is neither big nor rich. They are afraid of power, but also interested in profit. They can solve it with money."
He smiled and said: "Things that can be solved with money are not big things. Like me, if you want to divide the clan, only if I am too powerful that the clan can't keep me, or I am so downcast that the clan doesn't dare to keep me."
But the Bai family is an aristocratic family, the former is too difficult, and the latter is not easy either.
Xia Rui bargained with Patriarch Xia in the house, from morning to noon, and finally opened the door and came out.
Xia Rui directly pulled the two of them aside and said, "I promised the patriarch sixty taels of silver, and I will donate another eighty taels of silver to the clan."
Zhou Man breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, within my expectations, thank you Uncle Xia."
Xia Rui smiled and said: "Don't be polite with me..."
Bai Shandao: "This is quite a lot of money. We can pay out the 80 taels donated to the clan, but we have to pay the 60 taels to the patriarch in two installments. We will give 30 taels first, and when the genealogy is established, we will leave. Then give the remaining thirty taels."
Xia Ruichi asked, "Is this a lot of money?"
Bai Shan sighed and said, "Of course, according to the current exchange rate of copper coins, it's a full 160,000, which is the salary of Zhou Man and me for one year."
Zhou Man froze for a moment, then nodded again and again, "Yes."
The voice was neither too loud nor too soft, just enough for Patriarch Xia, who was standing in the yard to listen, to hear him. He felt a little better. It seemed that Zhou Man's life was not easy.
But that's a lot of money.
Sixty taels, and their family would have to save for three years before they could save it.
So Patriarch Xia agreed.
The Xia Clan Head came forward, and although the elders of the Xia Clan in Hongtian Village had objections, they finally agreed to divide them.
Zhou Man promised that after the division of the clan, the sacrificial land provided by her lineage for genealogy would still not be taken back, and it would be regarded as a gift from their lineage to the main family, as long as it was written in the genealogy;
And when the clan is divided, Xia Mu will give another 80 taels to the clan, which not only provides the clan study, but also takes care of the widows and widows in the clan.
Of course, Zhou Man doesn't know whether the money will fall into the hands of the real widow or not.
It was agreed that Patriarch Xia chose an auspicious day, Zhou Man and Bai Shan brought Wu Yuan over, Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Zheng also brought their eldest sister over to join in the fun.
The newly dressed Wu Yuan was held in his arms by Bai Shan, and he stuffed him to Zhou Man outside the Xia family's ancestral hall.
Zhou Man hugged him and stood in the first row.
The ancestral hall was opened, Bai Shan stepped aside, and stood with the kid Bai Jingxing.
Little Bai Jingxing's eyes were filled with wonder. He looked at the mother standing in the middle and the younger brother in her arms, and then at them, and couldn't help asking, "Daddy, why are we standing here instead of mother?"
Bai Shan stroked her little head and said, "This is for ancestor worship. We are considered outsiders now, so we can't go in."
The kid Bai Jingxing couldn't understand, "Aren't we a family? Are they outsiders?"
Bai Shan hissed and said, "I'll tell you when you're older, um, in a few years you'll have to memorize "Clan Chronicles", and when you memorize "Clan Chronicles", I'll tell you why .”
Mrs. Liu glanced at her grandson, and pulled her great-granddaughter to her side, "Don't bully the child."
Bai Shan: ...he started reciting "Clan Records" when he was six years old. Why did no one say they were bullying him
The Xia family is not big, and the ceremonies of branching are not complicated. The patriarch, under the witness of the clan elders and heads of households, separated Zhou Man from her grandfather and wrote down the reason in the genealogy.
Of course, modifiers are used, only saying that Xia Mu, the successor, is young, needs to be taught by his parents, lives in Chang'an, considers the family plan and his future development, and decides to divide the clan...
Patriarch Xia took out a blank booklet, wrote Xia Yan's name at the top of the page in his own hand, and named his wife Ning Shi next to him. In the event of an accident, the young girl was exiled in her ancestral home, so she changed her surname to Zhou, and later...
Patriarch Xia paused when he wrote about Bai Shan, but he still wrote the Bai family of Longzhou, who gave birth to a son Xia Mu to inherit...
Patriarch Xia put down the pen, dried the ink and handed it to Zhou Man, "This is your family tree, can you see if there is any problem?"
Zhou Man took it, and saw the word Xia Mu branched out at the end, his eyes sparkled. Although it was much simpler, it was not a problem, so he shook his head, "No problem, the genealogy here..."
Patriarch Xia handed it to her. The records on it were similar to those in her new genealogy. In this way, future generations can know the reason when they search for the family in the future, and they can find the original family by relying on this genealogy.
Zhou Man returned the genealogy to Patriarch Xia, took Wu Yuan to kneel on the futon, and bowed down to the spiritual tablet enshrined in the ancestral hall.
Wu Yuan was unstable on his knees, so after Zhou Man saluted, he hugged him from behind, held his little hand and taught him to bow down bit by bit.
After both the mother and the son finished their salutes, Patriarch Xia handed her the new family tree in front of everyone.
Zhou Man held Xia Mu's hand and took it, let him hug it tightly, and whispered: "Wu Yuan, you will be the suzerain of our branch from now on, you just need to be happy and grow up healthy and healthy." .”
Patriarch Xia said: "Although your branch has been separated, your great-grandfather is still in the ancestral hall, and you will still come back often to pay respects."
Zhou Man responded respectfully.
She knew that, just like Master Bai, even though the clan was divided, if there was a major event in Longzhou, especially a grave event, they would still find him, because the tablet of his ancestor was still enshrined in the ancestral hall.
Zhou Man hugged Wu Yuan, and Wu Yuan walked out of the ancestral hall with the family tree in his arms, and looked at Bai Shan who was standing outside, with a smile on his face that couldn't be suppressed no matter how hard he tried.
Mrs. Liu was also very happy. Her great-grandson became the suzerain, and she followed suit for a while, and when she came back to her senses, she saw that the two children were still laughing at each other, smiling like two fools. He couldn't stop patting his grandson, "What are you looking at, hurry up and get Wu Yuan, this child is so old and let his mother hold it."
Bai Shan came back to his senses and hurried forward to pick up the child.
Xia Rui led the two children over, "Congratulations."
This time it went so smoothly, Xia Rui, the lobbyist, was the most important, so Bai Shan and Zhou Man saluted together, "Thank you, Uncle Xia."