Luo Yu'an was somewhat frightened by the future that the black cat showed her. She did not dare to leave the shrine at will. She always felt that as soon as she left, someone would take advantage of her second brother's current poor condition to dissect him and destroy him.
After her sister's death, prison life, murder, and a series of things she encountered herself, she changed a lot without realizing it.
For example, she didn't expect that she would be so calm after killing Qin Zhi. The body was buried in the yard, but she felt nothing. Someone in the old house was looking for the missing Qin Zhi, but she never said a word and just watched them search with cold eyes. As for Ming Hui, who was worried and sad, at least she didn't have to know that the boy she liked was using her.
Silently using the authority of the clan god's wife to check some information, Luo Yu'an held a video conference in the corridor outside the shrine. The participants were the elders of the Qin clan and many powerful figures in the Qin clan.
Luo Yu'an clicked on the video on time, and almost immediately, everyone entered the video conference, obviously waiting for a long time, including those elderly people who usually don't like to use modern technology such as mobile phones, all sitting in front of the camera seriously. There are many people followed by young people, responsible for teaching them how to use it.
"Grandpa, the camera is here, look over here."
"I know, I know. I don't need you to teach me. Just go away."
She didn't know how many people hadn't slept well when a video conference notice was sent out last night. Seeing that everyone had arrived, Luo Yu'an smiled and greeted everyone, and then directly stated the main purpose of holding this meeting.
“If anyone in the Qin family feels that the current family is more of a constraint than a help to them, then they can choose to change their surname and leave the Qin family.” Luo Yu’an said such a simple sentence, and everyone was shocked and stunned, and they couldn’t recover for a long time.
Leaving the family? Changing the surname? They had never heard of such a thing. The origin of the clan god could be traced back to thousands of years ago, when people were proud to have the protection of the clan god. Until now, the older generation had never thought of leaving the family. This was simply unimaginable to them.
Moreover, as the only family that still has a powerful clan god, they have a natural sense of superiority and unspeakable pressure in their hearts. The decline of the family will affect the clan god, and the weakness of the clan god will in turn affect the family. They will only try to expand the family and will never want anyone to leave the family.
"No!" Someone finally reacted and answered in a strong and resounding voice.
Even though they respected Mrs. Ujigami, they still couldn't easily accept what she said. With such a person who dared to speak as a representative, the video conference almost immediately became noisy like a vegetable market.
"Madam, why did you suddenly bring up this matter? Such an important matter cannot be decided on a whim. It concerns the rise and fall of the family, so of course we have to be more cautious." This was a more subtle way of speaking.
"That's absolutely not possible. If we leave the family, wouldn't that harm the family's interests?" This is a direct statement.
"How could anyone be willing to leave the family? This is a joke." This is unbelievable.
The older people were talking about it, with stubbornness and disapproval on their faces. If it weren't for Luo Yu'an's status, most of them would have jumped up and slammed the table and cursed.
However, some young people behind them didn't care much, and some even grumbled: "What's wrong with that? Everyone can choose freely. What era is this? What's wrong with a little change?"
As a result, he was immediately scolded by the old men.
Luo Yu'an looked at the camera, and the smile on her face slowly disappeared. After she became the wife of the clan god, her appearance did not change much, but the inhuman feeling on her body was getting closer to the clan god. When she sat in front of the camera motionless and expressionless, her dark eyes staring at everyone, everyone felt a strange pressure, and they couldn't help but lower their voices, and finally fell completely silent.
"There are people who feel that the clan god can no longer bless them, that the family can no longer bring them benefits, and that the family has bound them, and therefore are dissatisfied. They exist in every corner of this family." Luo Yu'an raised his hand and pointed at the camera, "They exist in corners that you can't see."
Everyone felt that she was pointing at them, and they couldn't help but feel uncomfortable. To them, the clan god was high above them, but they were also high above the rest of the clan. But when the clan god leaned over and looked at everyone below, most of them wouldn't.
Luo Yu'an no longer had the gentleness and patience she had shown them in the past. There seemed to be a burning fire in her eyes. She slowly lowered her finger that was pointing at them, "I know you are not happy about this matter. Even if I ask you to do so, you will pretend to obey me but secretly disobey me. You can even use some small tricks to make people afraid to leave the family."
"But it doesn't matter." Luo Yu'an smiled again, "Because you will all die eventually, but I won't. You can't stop me from doing what I want to do. If I don't solve this problem now, when you all die, I will use more drastic methods to solve it once I feel the problem is more serious."
A group of elderly people were speechless because of her, their faces turned red and white, and a slightly younger middle-aged man frowned and asked: "Excuse me, Madam, why did you suddenly make such a decision?"
Luo Yu'an: "For the sake of the clan god."
No one asked whether this was what Ujigami meant. It seemed that everyone assumed that Ujigami would not agree, and this was just a momentary whim of Mrs. Ujigami.
An old man recovered and waved away the granddaughter who was supporting him. He said, "Madam, the God of the clan will not agree to this. He will never want to see our family members separated! I'm sorry that we can't follow your advice!"
Luo Yu'an said stubbornly: "This is not an opinion, it's a notice. I ask you to do this."
Angered by her attitude, the old man stood up from the armchair with a bang, and said in a somewhat aggressive tone, "Madam is young, and probably doesn't know what the consequences were for those who wanted to leave the family in the past! Not only do we not want to, but the God of the clan will not want to either!"
Luo Yu'an: "Are you talking about something that happened more than 200 years ago?"
This was something that was rarely mentioned within the Qin family. If he hadn't been provoked by her attitude, the old man wouldn't have mentioned it without thinking. Once the words came out, the faces of many people in the video became even uglier, especially after Luo Yu'an mentioned it directly in an ordinary manner. Everyone's attitude was ambiguous, their eyes were evasive, and the fear in many people's eyes could not be hidden.
Luo Yu'an was silent for a moment, "You all said that those four hundred people were devoured by the clan god because they wanted to leave the family, but I don't think so."
She had not been here for long, and had only seen the Qin clan members interact with the clan god a few times. She often felt that the clan god was indeed obsessed with the clan. He doted on these "children" too much, and he was whatever they wanted him to be. However, she did not believe that he would devour someone simply because they wanted to leave the clan.
From the beginning, she could detect Ujigami's mood and preferences. She could mostly guess what he was interested in and what he wanted, not because she had special abilities, but because she had been watching Ujigami all the time since then, observing and understanding him as an ordinary person.
Her second brother is a very pure person, possessing the sincerity of a teenager and the tolerance of an elder.
"He is your clan god, and also mine." Luo Yu'an stood up with the camera and walked into the shrine. "In this case, let's ask the clan god directly."
Those who wanted to speak shut their mouths when they saw this. Most people looked at the strange red cocoon with fear.
Putting the camera aside, Luo Yu'an knelt in front of the altar and took out the pair of divination cups.
The elderly in the video also watched with bated breath. The shrine was very quiet, and only Luo Yu'an's voice could be heard. She said, "I hope the clan god will allow the Qin clan members to leave the family and change their surnames according to their own wishes."
Two red divination cups were thrown out of her hands and fell to the ground while spinning.
“Pah.”
When Luo Yu'an threw down the divination cups, she wasn't sure whether her second brother would agree, but... She smiled as she looked at the divination cups, one facing up and the other facing down, in front of her.
"Ujigami said yes."
The laughing divination blocks clearly showed that the god agreed. It was so easy and simple that their previous arguments and insistence seemed a little ridiculous. This result was obviously beyond the expectations of the elders. Some people even cried out: "How is it possible!"
Luo Yu'an did not pick up the two divination cups. She let the camera shoot for a while. She leaned over and kissed Hong Jian in a place where the camera could not see her. She whispered, "Thank you, second brother."
"So, does anyone have any objections?" she asked, sitting back in front of the camera.
"What if... there are really many people who want to leave the Qin family?" Someone still couldn't help asking.
Luo Yu'an: "Then let them go."
She did not have the deep-rooted concept of family honor and disgrace and strong desire for power that the Qin elders had. All she thought about was for the person she loved, so she could be so decisive.
After this matter was implemented, it indeed caused an uproar, and almost everyone in the Qin family was discussing it.
But after a period of time, the number of people who left the Qin family was far less than Luo Yu'an had imagined.
"I was stupid to leave the Qin family. The entire Yuzhou is the Qin family's territory. We have a big tree to lean on for shade. Who would leave the family for no reason?"
"Although some family rules are sometimes troublesome, there are also many benefits. Children in the family can receive subsidies for their studies, and those who excel can be directly assigned jobs."
"What are these people up there doing? Don't they think that we are useless to the family and want to drive us away so that they can take more advantage?" The young man who said this was one of the people who followed Qin Zhi in smashing the statues in the future shown by the black cat.
She thought those people were crazy because they were dissatisfied with the constraints and restrictions of the family, but now she realized that it was not the case. They were just angry why they were not the ones holding the power.
Most people don't care about the so-called constraints. Interests are the fundamental reason that drives these Qin family members to follow Qin Zhi to destroy the clan god. Qin Zhi has shown them huge benefits.
When there is no one leading them, these people are just scattered grains of sand. Only when they are driven by the same interests will they become a torrent.
However, these are just ordinary people.
Because Luo Yu'an, who would develop a dislike for them in the future, after realizing this, ultimately did not do anything to the people she had found.
Qin Zhi is dead and the matter is over.
She returned to the shrine, feeling inexplicably depressed, and when she looked up, she found a white figure floating beside the camellia bushes in the yard, like a bright moon emitting a hazy glow, shining in front of the flowers.
It took him almost three full months to form a cocoon this time.
Luo Yu'an missed him so much that she didn't know how she ran over. When she came to her senses, she was already buried in the arms that exuded a faint fragrance. She grabbed his hair tightly and squeezed his waist.
She thought of what she had done during this period and looked up, "Second brother, there are many things I haven't done well."
The smiling god gazed at her depressed face and kissed her forehead. Luo Yu'an closed her eyes, feeling the flowing hair covering her, and the anxiety and anger in her heart were dispelled by this gentle comfort.
"Ann is still a child."
Luo Yu'an: "... Second brother, don't say such things anymore, otherwise you are committing a crime."
Ujigami followed suit, "Okay, I won't say any more."
But his eyes clearly meant that.
Luo Yu'an grabbed his clothes and hair and refused to let go. "You said I was like a child... Was my behavior childish? I had no experience before, and I was too anxious..."
Ujigami: "No, it means cute."
Luo Yu'an looked at his smile and realized that he might not have taken this incident seriously. He blurted out a question, "Second brother, what happened more than 200 years ago? Can you tell me?"
The Qin clan members were very secretive about this matter. Qi Ji had said some half-truths to her in the past, and Qin Zhi was even more convinced that the clan god was no different from the devil. However, she did not believe any of their words. She only believed what the person she loved said.
Ujigami was hugged tightly by her, and he stroked her hair with a smile, and suddenly said naughtily, "Use the divination cup to ask if I can tell you."
Luo Yu'an: "..." Why did you use the divination cup to ask when you were awake? But seeing the second brother like this, the tense mood unconsciously relaxed.
She really and silently took out a pair of divination cups and threw them out in front of the god.
Unsurprisingly, it was a funny divination block with one positive and one negative.
Receiving her eye signal, Ujigami smiled and said as she said: "A long, long time ago..."