Zhengjia Village is not big, with just over 100 households and a population of over 500. The news that Li Xiuying, the wife of the Zheng family, made a fortune by making noodle dolls spread like wildfire. For more than a thousand dollars, that is a lot of wealth.

Among ordinary people, whoever has a few hundred dollars in savings is considered a wealthy family.

There is plenty of food in the house and money in the pocket. What else are you thinking about these days? Let’s have some fun.

The usually arrogant wives and mothers also restrained themselves when they saw Li Xiuying.

Those who had previously said that Li Xiuying was unknown about her husband also changed their words one after another: "You see, the wife of the Zheng family is blessed at first glance. Her hands are dexterous. She is indeed a well-educated lady from a wealthy family."

It would be a lie for Lee Soo-young to say that she doesn't care about other people's opinions.

For many dark nights, she wept alone until dawn. If her son hadn't given her any comfort, she would have committed suicide long ago.

They say three people make a tiger, and rumors are the most hurtful and the most devastating.

The change in everyone's view of her today is all because of her son's unintentional play, which inspired her to make a facial doll.

People are like this, respecting the strong, as can be seen from the attitude of the villagers towards Li Xiuying.

It is not easy for orphans and widowers to survive these days.

Not only is she living well now, but she can also make money, and her life is better than other people's lives. This is enough, and it can be considered the end of all hardships.

The public sacrifice of the clan is coming, and the men of the same clan must go to the ancestral hall to worship.

At the same time, it is also the day when the youngest son of the clan enters the clan registration and enshrines the family tree in Huaiyuantang.

Li Xiuying has been waiting for this day for a long time. Her husband was still alive and her children were still young. She comes from a womanly family and doesn't care about these things.

But after her husband passed away, she discovered that this was far from simple as she thought.

Take the vegetable plot in the west of the village as an example. Anyone who is a male listed in the genealogy will be allocated a piece of it.

Li Xiuying once held her son and asked the old patriarch Zheng Sanwang to reason: "My parents are descendants of the Zheng family, why don't they allocate vegetable land to my family?"

As a result, Zheng Sanwang pushed him back because the genealogy was not in the book.

When we hold the ancestor worship ceremony in Kaihuaiyuantang, which happens every three years, we must enter our son's name.

She could still breathe without steaming the steamed buns, but Li Xiuying was constantly being pressed by this breath, and her chest felt like a huge boulder pressing down on her.

There are more than a dozen children in the village who need to record their genealogy, and Zheng Changsheng is one of them.

As her mother hugged her and babbled, he also understood the twists and turns.

Being included in the family tree represents the recognition of the clan. Never underestimate the power of the clan.

People all live together in clans. Although the concept of clan has weakened in modern society, in feudal society this was a matter as big as the sky.

Often the country's rule only reaches the county level, and everything below is controlled by clans.

Thousands of ordinary people live under the control of their clans.

It can also be said that clan is the most powerful tool for the king to control the people at the bottom of society.

And the clan leader is a high-ranking person who holds the power of life and death. It is not an exaggeration to say that he is the emperor of a land.

When tribesmen commit crimes, they often only need to hold a clan meeting to resolve the matter, without the need for government intervention at all.

In addition, the ancient custom of "people do not raise officials and do not investigate" has also strengthened the authority of the patriarch. Think about it, if the government does not intervene, then the patriarch has the final say?

Usually when something happens in the clan, it is decided by the clan leader.

Even if there were disputes with other families, the clan heads of the two families would come forward to negotiate and resolve the dispute. The government acted as a peacemaker and mediator in front of the clans.

When clan disputes arise, county magistrates have big heads. As the saying goes, it is difficult for upright officials to resolve household affairs, so the power of the clan is revealed.

Usually the leader of the clan is a highly respected person in the clan. Such a person is a moral benchmark and the spokesperson of the king's will in the lower society.

Therefore, Zheng Sanwang is such a person.

However, he is a bit pedantic and accepts death.

Everything is done according to the rules. If it is within the framework of the rules, it is easy to say anything. But if it exceeds the rules, it will be difficult for anyone to do anything in front of him.

For example, regarding the vegetable plot, although he knew that Zheng Changsheng was a descendant of the Zheng family, since he had not opened an ancestral hall to record the genealogy, that was not possible.

He also knew that Li Xiuying's life was difficult, and land was life to farmers. If you could get more, you would have more, and no one would take too little, but he did not open his mouth for this.

In his eyes, rules are just rules. The genealogy has not yet been recorded, so it is useless to talk about it.

Regarding genealogy, it is said that there are different customs in three miles and different rules in ten miles. Everyone has his or her own differences.

Some people will record their children as soon as they are born, which is undoubtedly very humane. However, the medical conditions in this era are underdeveloped, and the death rate of children is still very high.

Therefore, the rules of Zhengjia Village are that records are recorded once every three years, and the records are very grand, including gongs, drums, and running water mats.

Although it is very expensive to handle it as the top priority of the clan, the people in Zhengjia Village enjoy it very much.

Every household has to donate money. To put it bluntly, it is the same as giving money to future generations when they hold weddings and weddings.

After donating money, the whole family can go to have a banquet and watch the ceremony.

For ancient villages where entertainment was scarce, what could be more joyful than this?

There were overcrowded people in front of Huaiyuan Hall. Zheng Sanwang, the old patriarch, took the adult men of the clan to burn incense, kowtow and worship the ancestors. The sense of ritual was very strong.

At this moment, Li Xiuying was following the women in the village, busy in front of the temporary earthen stove, preparing the running water mat.

Zheng Changsheng walked back and forth among the women on his short legs, playing tricks with children of the same age.

Occasionally, I would walk up to my mother and open my little hands to ask for something delicious.

This is normal. Not only did Li Xiuying take the opportunity to tear off a piece of cooked meat and stuff it into her son's mouth, other women also did this.

Children! Especially boys, who doesn’t treasure them as much as gold ingots?

Besides, life is mostly miserable these days. For the common people, apart from a few bites during the Chinese New Year, how many people can afford it in normal times and how many are willing to eat it?

At this moment, the loud voice of the old patriarch Zheng Sanwang was heard: "Daughters-in-law from each family, bring over Zheng's children of appropriate age and kowtow to worship their ancestors and join them in the clan."

Li Xiuying put down the waiter in her hand and pulled Zheng Changsheng over to tidy up her clothes. This shirt was made of newly cut cloth with the money earned from selling the dolls.

Li Xiuying, who is skillful with her hands, also embroidered five poisonous insects on it, such as scorpions, centipedes, geckos, toads and poisonous snakes, which are vivid and vivid.

The ancients were superstitious and believed that these were poisons. Fighting poison with poison would ward off evil and ensure peace.

Zheng Changsheng looked at his mother's excited look and knew that this was a big deal in her heart and there was nothing to be careless about, so he honestly stopped being naughty.
Chapter completed!