Zhou Man and Bai Shan stood side by side outside the yard. They pricked up their ears and listened. They really couldn't hear anything. Just when Zhou Man was hesitant to ask Keke to eavesdrop on the negative points, he heard Bai Shan say: "Look
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Zhou Man looked up at him and saw him pointing to the sky. He raised his head to look and saw a cluster of strange clouds floating slowly in the sky.
Zhou Man exclaimed, "It looks like a sheep, like a camel, and it's also golden."
Bai Shanxiao asked: "Does it look good?"
Zhou Man nodded, "It looks good!"
Bai Shan reached out and held 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 I want to split up the clan, I have to be so powerful that the clan cannot keep me, or I am so depressed that the clan dare not keep me."
But the Bai family is an aristocratic family. The former is too difficult, and the latter is not easy either.
Xia Rui negotiated with Patriarch Xia in the room 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 clan leader sixty taels of silver, and I also donated eighty taels of silver to the clan."
Zhou Man breathed a sigh of relief, "Fortunately, it's within my expectations. Thank you Uncle Xia."
Xia Rui smiled and said, "No need to be polite to me."
Bai Shandao: "This is a lot of money. We can contribute the eighty taels to the clan, but we have to give the sixty taels to the clan leader in two installments. We will give thirty taels first, and then we will leave after the genealogy is established.
Then I will give you 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 is a full 160,000 yuan, which is the salary of me and Zhou Man for a year."
Zhou Man was stunned for a moment and then nodded repeatedly, "Yes."
The sound was neither too loud nor too quiet, just enough for Chief Xia, who was standing in the yard to listen with his ears pricked up, to hear it. He felt a little better. It seemed that Zhou Man's life was not easy after all.
But it is indeed a lot of money.
Sixty taels, their family had to save three years to save even if they were frugal.
So Chief Xia agreed.
When the Xia clan chief came forward, although the Xia clan elders in Hongtian Village had objections, they finally agreed to divide their clans.
Zhou Man agreed that after the clan was divided, the sacrificial fields used by her lineage to provide family science would still not be taken back. It would be regarded as a gift from their lineage to the family, and it would only be written in the genealogy;
And when the clan is divided, Xia Mu will give another eighty taels to the clan, not only to provide clan education, but also to take care of the orphans and widows in the clan.
Of course, Zhou Man doesn’t know whether this money can fall into the hands of real widows and orphans.
After the matter was agreed upon, Chief Xia chose an auspicious day. Zhou Man and Bai Shan brought Wu Yuan over, and Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Zheng also brought their eldest sister over to join in the fun.
Wu Yuan, who was newly dressed, was held in Bai Shan's arms and handed to Zhou Man outside the Xia family's ancestral hall.
Zhou Man hugged him and stood in the first row.
When the ancestral hall opened, Bai Shan stepped aside and stood with the child Bai Jingxing.
Child Bai Jingxing's eyes were full of wonder. He looked at his mother and his brother standing in the middle, and then at them, and couldn't help but ask: "Dad, why are we standing here instead of standing together with our mother?"
Bai Shan touched her little head and said, "This is an ancestor worship. We are considered outsiders now, so we can't go in."
Child Bai Jingxing couldn't understand, "Aren't we a family? Are they the outsiders?"
Bai Shan hissed and said: "I will tell you when you are older. Well, in a few years you should memorize "Clan Chronicle". When you memorize "Clan Chronicle", I will tell you why.
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Mrs. Liu glanced at her grandson and pulled her great-granddaughter to her other side, "Don't bully the child."
Bai Shan:...He started memorizing "Clan Chronicle" at the age of six. Why didn't anyone say that he was bullying him?
The Xia family was not big, and the ceremony for dividing the clan was not complicated. The clan leader, witnessed by the clan elders and heads of households, separated Zhou Man's branch from her grandfather's, and wrote down the reason in the family tree.
Of course, the modifier was used, and it was only said that Xia Mu, the heir, was young and needed guidance from his parents. He always lived in Chang'an. For the sake of the family plan and his future development, he decided to split the clan...
Patriarch Xia took out a blank book and wrote Xia Yan's name at the front of the row. Next to it, he named his wife Ning, who gave birth to a daughter Xia Xin. He married Zhou Yin of Mianzhou and gave birth to a daughter Xia Man (Zhou Man).
In an accident, the young girl was exiled to her maternal ancestral home, so she changed her surname to Zhou, and later...
Patriarch Xia paused when he wrote about Bai Shan, then wrote the Bai family of Longzhou, and gave birth to a son, Xia Mu, to take over...
Patriarch Xia put down his pen, dried the ink and handed it to Zhou Man. "This is your family tree. Do you have any questions?"
Zhou Man took it and saw the forked word Xia Mu at the end, his eyes sparkled. Although it was a lot simpler, it was not a problem, so he shook his head, "No problem, then the family tree here..."
Chief Xia handed it to her to read. The records above were similar to those in her new genealogy. In this way, future generations would be able to know the reason and rely on this genealogy to find the original family.
Zhou Man returned the family tree to Chief Xia, took Wu Yuan and knelt on the futon, bowing to the spiritual tablet enshrined in the ancestral hall.
Wu Yuan couldn't kneel firmly, 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 mother and son had finished bowing, Chief Xia handed her the new family tree in front of everyone.
Zhou Man took Xia Mu's hand, asked him to hug it tightly, and whispered: "Wu Yuan, you will be the leader of our branch from now on. You just need to grow up happily and healthily."
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Chief Xia said: "Although your branch has been separated, your great-grandfather is still in the ancestral hall, and he will still come back frequently to offer sacrifices."
He responded respectfully.
She knew that just like Mr. Bai, even though the clan was divided, as long as there was a major event in Longzhou, especially a major event such as repairing a tomb, he would still be found because the tablets of his ancestors were still enshrined in the ancestral hall.
Zhou Man held Wu Yuan in his arms, and Wu Yuan came out of the ancestral hall holding the family tree, and looked at Bai Shan who was standing outside. A smile instantly broke out on his face, and he couldn't suppress it no matter how hard he tried.
Mrs. Liu was also very happy. Her great-grandson became the leader of the clan. She also had fun for a while. When she came to her senses, she saw the two children still laughing at each other, smiling like two fools, so she couldn't bear it.
He couldn't help but pat his grandson and said, "What are you looking at? Go and pick up Wu Yuan. This child is already so big and his mother is still holding him."
Bai Shan came to his senses and quickly stepped forward to pick up the child.
Xia Rui led the two children over, "Congratulations."
For this time to go so smoothly, Xia Rui, the lobbyist, was the most important, so Bai Shan and Zhou Man saluted together, "Thank you, Uncle Xia."