Banker, ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall is not only a place for family sacrifices, but also, often, some major affairs involving the entire family are also carried out in the ancestral hall.

Therefore, it can also be said that the ancestral hall is the core meeting room of a family.

Of course, this is not just the core issue.

The ancestral hall, the testimony of the ancestors, usually speaking, it is solemn and solemn enough.

At this moment, in the ancestral hall are the older generation of the family headed by the head of the family, Zhuang Zhiyuan, and his old brothers.

In this world, people with a little bit of cultivation live relatively long, and even ordinary people live to be seventy or eighty years old, and as for the cultivators at the three levels of qi condensation, pulse channeling, and enlightenment......

Condensation is enough to ensure that you live to eighty or ninety, and if you live less than eighty as condensation, you are dying.

That's a rare case.

It is not a big problem to live to be one hundred and twenty or thirty years old.

As for the level of enlightenment, the problem is a bit complicated, because the same enlightenment can also be far apart, but in any case, normally speaking, the life span is one hundred and eighteen upwards.

Old man Zhuang Zhiyuan is the enlightened realm.

He's only one hundred and twenty years old this year, yes, "cai"!

That's why he has been in charge of the family for a long time.

If there is no accident, the next generation of the head of the family will be handed over to Zhuang Zaiting, although his eldest son is not so convincing in terms of ability.

But there are nobles on the outside, and a new generation of families is about to flourish inside, and it doesn't matter who the head of the family is. Therefore, Zhuang Zaiting will not have much resistance to take over as the head of the family.

But, just let him wait.

Wait slowly.

In a certain world, an emperor named Kangxi only lived to be sixty-eight years old, but he reigned for sixty-one years, and his son Yongzheng could only wait until he was forty-five years old to ascend the throne.

It was already late.

Especially compared to his father, it's desperately late to come.

The most desperate of all was Yongzheng's son Qianlong, who lived to be eighty-eight years old!

His sons......

Whoever comes first will play the egg.

To be the son of this one, it requires extremely high political wisdom, and wisdom alone is not enough, but also the goddess of luck must always favor him, otherwise, if you are not careful, you may just play with eggs.

Old man Zhuang Zhiyuan doesn't know the story of another world, but in this world, the inheritance of the position of the family or the cultivator has its own system.

All in all, in short, no matter how "young and strong" Zhuang Zaiting and his brothers are now, they can only stand aside and play, and they have no right to speak on family affairs.

As for the juniors in the back, let alone the juniors.

"According to the preliminary agreement before, we first determined the two places of the Mingshui family, and it just so happened that people from both of them were elected. The head of the family, Zhuang Zhiyuan, said.

"Do you really want to give them home? two! That's enough for two places!"

It was Zhuang Zhiyuan's eldest brother who said this, he only had the Tongmai realm, so although he was only a few years older than Zhuang Zhiyuan in terms of age, he looked dozens of years older, and he looked a little old. At this time, this old man was distressed, "There are only five of us in total!"

"Yes, second brother, can you discuss this matter again?" said another old man, he was Zhuang Zhiyuan's brother.

Next, several clan elders in a row said that this matter may be considered again.

In fact, the matter was decided in advance, and they were all agreed with the Mingshui family, if it weren't for this, the children of the Mingshui family would not have participated in the previous court trial.

At this time, if you regret it, things will be too bad to be justified in any way.

However, despite this, when the matter came to an end, the elders of the dealer still regretted that their hearts hurt their eyes, their hands and feet, and their whole body hurt both inside and outside.

In particular, there are only five places in total.

If you go to two out of five, then there are only three left!

And among the three, Zhuang Zaiting's room must occupy one, which is needless to say.

The other place is for female dolls, which goes without saying!

So in fact, there is only one place that is really "empty"!

Several families are vying for this one!

And if it is three, it is equivalent to a threefold expansion of the quota, and the situation is very different.

When the previous decision was made, because the matter had not really happened, everyone accepted it reasonably, but at this time, when the matter came, the truth was still the truth, but the emotion was not that emotion.

It doesn't matter if you say that the rat is blind, or if you say it, in short, the heart hurts!

It hurts so much that when I think about it decades later, my heart still hurts!

Zhuang Zhiyuan glanced at his old brothers and looked over one by one.

In fact, why doesn't his heart hurt?

It's just that, as the head of the family, you must stand tall, you must look far, and you must bear more.

He didn't say much, and the next moment, he just said: "Agree to discuss this matter again, raise your hand!"

In the ancestral hall, the twenty-eight clan elders other than him raised eighteen hands.

"If you agree to uphold the previous resolution, raise your hand!" Zhuang Zhiyuan said again.

This time the hand was raised a little slowly, and many people were clearly hesitant and in difficulty, and in the end, thirteen hands were raised.

Three of them raised their hands on both occasions.

This is not surprising, double opinions are not uncommon, let alone in this kind of thing!

In fact, who is not heartbroken at this moment? Who does not want to overturn the previous resolution?

But at the same time, if it is not forced by circumstances, who is willing to go back on their word?

Therefore, it can also be said that the twenty-nine people in this ancestral hall at this moment are all standing with netherworld monsters (demons) and messengers (angels) standing in their hearts, and the two are in a fierce confrontation.

Of the eighteen people who discussed again, six were enlightened and twelve were through the veins.

Of the thirteen people who maintained the original proposal, nine were enlightened and four were connected.

Tongmai's family is the most in need of this place, so it is not surprising that twelve people voted to reconsider.

In fact, as a great family that has been inherited for generations, there are far more than twenty-nine people in the Zhuang family's generation, but the other clan elders are just condensing qi, and according to the family rules, the people in the family of the condensation realm, even if they are old, are not qualified to participate in family affairs.

Then, at the time of voting.

Tongmai, one person, one vote.

Open the mind, one person, two votes.

The head of the family, in the case of the old man Zhuang Zhiyuan, is the two votes of the enlightened person, plus the five votes of the simple head of the family, one person accounts for seven votes.

After both sides raised their hands to vote, everyone made a silent calculation in their hearts.

Such simple arithmetic is a matter of necessity in their minds.

Even if you don't know a single big word, even if you don't know anything about arithmetic, you can get an almost direct answer to a number of numbers of this level by instinct. And how can people from a family like them not be literate, that's a big joke!

Reconsiderate, 24 votes.

Original proposal, 22 votes.

The head of the family, Zhuang Zhiyuan, has not yet made a statement.

The next moment, in the ancestral hall, the eyes of all the clan elders were focused on him.

"Then come as previously agreed. Zhuang Zhiyuan made the final decision.

There was a sigh in the ancestral hall, and there were many people who were relieved.

In any case, the resolution has been made, and that is it.

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