Then. Shui Tianzhun came forward again, and after appeasing Shui Youning and Lin Fan, Fang announced that the two teams of men and horses would be merged into one team, and then continued on the road and marched towards Xiangyang City.

Lin Fan was naturally invited into the carriage of the beast car with water condensation, and after eating two sweet cakes. Shui Youning Fang raised his head and said quietly: "Brother Jiang, you must be very strange, why was that Shui Xiangzhong so hostile to me just now, right?" ”

"Yes! It stands to reason that although you and him are not brothers and sisters, they are also cousins, how can the family be so stiff. What about you everywhere? Lin Fan was indeed a little surprised.

In the final analysis, this is all caused by the word "right"! Shui Youjing sighed.

It turns out that a big family like the Shui family also has many branches, and the three largest branches are the long house, the second room and the third room. Most of the successive heads of the family were produced among the outstanding figures of these three rooms.

At present, the head of the Shui family is Shui Youning's father, Shui Tianji. The second elder and the third elder of the family are Shui Tianzhun in the second room and Shui Tiancheng in the third room respectively.

There is also a Yuan Infant Monk in the Shui family, who has served as the Great Elder in the family, but he basically doesn't care about the affairs of the family, and the matter of the successor to the head of the family has always been discussed by the Shui Patriarch Elders. At most, when the new head of the family succeeds to the throne. I will be in attendance.

"According to the practice of the Shui family, any young person who has reached the mid-stage realm of condensation and is under the age of thirty will be considered a potential disciple and qualified to compete for the position of the successor of the family master. And the children of the Shui family who currently meet this condition. It's me, my sister Shui Yuening, Shui Xiangyong in the third room, and Shui Xiangzhong you saw just now, don't look at his face He is in his thirties, but his real age is only twenty-seven years old, only four years older than me. Shui Youning introduced. Bai Du Yixia performed the new chapter of the Song Pavilion and cut the mouth of the L section

After a pause, she said: "According to the rules, the heir of the head of the family will generally appoint two, the first heir and the second heir, so as not to have any accidents in case one of them happens, which will cause the inheritance of the family to be interrupted. And once he is established as the heir to the head of the family, the family will be inclined to cultivate immortals such as pills, magic weapons, and Fu Lu, and focus on cultivation. At the same time, the heirs of the family will be allowed to take over some of the internal management affairs of the family, and they can participate in the family elders' meeting, which is very powerful. ”

Therefore, Shui Xiangzhong and Shui Xiangyong are eager for this position and want to become the next head of the family. So not only did they mobilize the people in the second and third rooms to support the two of them, but they also did everything possible to hit my sister and me. They know that they are inferior to us in their ability to handle family affairs, and they are not superior to our sisters in their magical powers. So he found another way to spread rumors within the family. Say that a woman is going to marry after all, and then she will face the matter of establishing another heir to the head of the family, so why bother tossing. ”

"Moreover, in the recent period, Wang Quan, the second young master of the Wang family, and Lin Yusheng, the third young master of the Lin family, asked someone to propose to my father respectively, saying that they wanted to marry me and my sister, which further fueled their arrogance, and it was not until a month ago that my sister and I publicly announced in the family that we would not marry, which quelled these gossips......"

When Lin Fan heard this, he was taken aback and said, "Youning, you're not marrying?" ”

"It's not that you don't marry, but you don't get married!" When Shui Youning said this, her pretty face showed a touch of blush, and she said shyly: "Our Shui family also had a time when a woman was the head of the house. At this time, if the female head of the family refuses to give up the position of the head of the family and wants to get married, the husband she marries must only be a son-in-law. At the same time, the husband must sign a contract when he joins the family, stipulating that he will not participate in family meetings, hold any position in the family, and not interfere in the internal affairs of the water family......"

After Lin Fan heard this, he also stuck out his tongue, this condition was too insulting, and he completely used his son-in-law as a tool for breeding.

Shui Youning obviously realized this, so Youyou said: "So, this kind of harsh condition is very humiliating for men, so don't talk about the Great Cultivation Immortal Family, even many scattered cultivators are unwilling. Therefore, the people married by the female head of my Shui family, almost without exception, are unscrupulous cultivators with low cultivation, lazy to eat, and have no ability. ”

Immediately, she explained: "Actually, it doesn't matter if our sisters are the masters of the family or not, but the key is that Shui Xiangzhong and Shui Xiangyong only know how to fight for power and profit, suppress dissidents, and don't know anything about running a business. It was only under the persuasion of my father and several elders in the family that I stood up and competed with them for the position of the head of the family! ”

Lin Fan nodded silently, it seems that every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, just imagine that a small Demon Soul Peak is full of infighting. What's more, a Great Cultivator Immortal Family like the Shui Family, whose strength is comparable to that of the Heavenly Demon Sect?

The convoy rumbled forward, seeing Lin Fan and Shui Youning sitting quietly, neither of them spoke anymore, and they both had a stomach full of worries and troubles in their hearts......

A few days later, the Shui family's convoy finally arrived safely in Xiangyang City.

Lin Fan poked his head out of the window of the carriage and looked at the city, his face slightly surprised. The capital of Jingzhou was not as big as he imagined. It feels like the city is only slightly larger than the Heavenly Demon City. But the gate of the city is full of people, and its popularity is much stronger than that of Heavenly Demon City.

Shui Youning saw his expression, and also grinned and said, "Brother Jiang, you have also been to the Heavenly Demon City of the Han Kingdom. That city still feels good. It's just that there are too many ghost cultivators, which makes the atmosphere of the whole city a little eerie and terrifying, and the ghosts are angry, so many monks are reluctant to go there, so the popularity is much lower than our Xiangyang City. ”

Lin Fan naturally knew that the ghost path monks did not even have a tenth of the proportion in the Demon Gate, and the number could be described as extremely rare.

After all, how many normal people are willing to deal with ghosts all day long?

As he spoke, the convoy of the Shui family had already arrived in front of the city, but it did not stop, but went straight to the city gate.

Lin Fan couldn't help but sigh secretly, it seems that in this Xiangyang City, the Shui family does have a lot of strength and prestige, which can be seen from the fact that when the convoy entered the city, the guards at the gate of the city saw the flag of the Shui family played by the convoy, and even the interrogation could be saved.

After the convoy entered the city, the noisy boiling sound suddenly rushed towards him, making Lin Fan, who had been traveling in the empty desert for the past month, a little difficult to adapt for a while.

Although the scale of Xiangyang City is only slightly larger than that of Heavenly Demon City, perhaps because it is better planned, the entire city gives people a sense of grandeur. Spacious streets above. The constant flow of people reveals the city's great popularity.