Chapter 90: Separation of Families
Early the next morning, Li Qing asked everyone to gather at the gate of Li Qing's house. Except for the guards on duty at the gate of Li Qing's realm, the others all went. Li Qing's gate was crowded outside the gate, and the inner and outer three floors were full of people.
Li Qing stood on the gate of Li's house and took a loudspeaker made of paper and said: "I came to you today to deal with yesterday's affairs, and everyone must know very well." But there are some things that are not clear to everyone, today I will tell you about the matter, if I say something wrong, the insider can come out and correct it, after all, it was a long time ago. β
Li Qing said that he passed the third room back then, and the condition for the Li family to agree that he would take charge of the third room was that the Li Shan family would be in Li Qing's hands in the future, and no matter what happened, the Li family would not care. and also agreed that in the future, the three rooms of Li Shan's family will be Li Qing's own, and Li Qing's family business will be purchased by Li Qing himself, and the Li family has no right to intervene.
Everyone was in an uproar, even Wu Tian didn't know about this matter, they were outsiders, and they didn't know what was going on in the Li family. Everyone didn't expect the Li family to treat their boss (the owner/master) like this. It is no wonder that over the years, Li Qing has built Li Qing's land boundary and Li Shan's family, and there has been no funding for the clan, and no one in the clan has stood up to speak. Except for this drought, Li Qing has not done anything for the Li clan before. Now that Li Qing has set up such a big family business, the Li people finally can't bear it anymore, and they even count other people's family businesses, thinking about what happened yesterday, they all hate itchy.
Li Qing's family workers and the people of Li Qing's family all thought that Li Qing was a member of the Li family after all, and they were not good at what to do, so they had no position to resist the Li family, so they could only hope that their master (the owner) would come back soon. But now it's different, their master has long been abandoned by the Li family. The affairs of the Li Qing family have nothing to do with the Li family.
Li Qing continued: "In the future, the Li family has no right to intervene in the affairs of the Li Qing family and Li Qing's territory. If the people in the clan want to take away my family property, no one in my Li Qing family will be polite to you, not to mention that when the time comes, I will cut off your water and drive you out of my Li Qing realm, I will do it all. β
The people led by Patriarch Li, when they heard Li Qing's words, their faces turned pale, and Patriarch Li said righteously: "My Li clan people have no intention of taking your family property, we just asked your grandmother and your mother to let the Li family take charge of Li Qing's territory." β
The corners of Li Qing's mouth rose slightly and said: "Don't say it is better than singing, what does my Li Qing family and Li Qing's realm have to do with the Li Shan family?" When I was in the Li Family Ancestral Hall, I remember that you were also there. β
Seeing that Patriarch Li stopped talking, Li Qing continued: "Do you think that if you take the key from Wang Wensheng's hand, you will be able to take charge of Li Qing's realm? I will make it clear to you now, although Wang Wensheng is the chief manager of Li Qing's family and Li Qing's land, everyone's deed of sale, long-term labor contract, house deed, land deed, jewelry and other valuables are in my hands. You guys are so naΓ―ve, everything in Li Qing's realm has been registered and filed in the Yamen. What you rob will not be yours. β
Li Qing looked at everyone's puzzled gazes and continued: "You may think that there is nothing unusual about the sale and purchase transactions being filed in the Yamen, and the things should belong to whoever is in their hands. But my Li Qing's things are not, those are all bought with my master's official silver, listen up, it's official silver. Can any of you tell where the official money came from? It seems that stealing an ingot of official silver is a capital crime, and I spent a total of 10,000 taels of silver to buy these lands, and I don't know what the crime is. Don't think I'm going to speak for you, whoever dares to snatch my stuff should die. β
Everyone was in an uproar when they heard this, and Li Qing's people all looked at him with admiration. The people of the Li clan who had undivided thoughts began to be afraid.
Li Qing looked at Sanniang and said: "I'm telling you a story, everyone knows that I was passed from the big house of the Li Shan family to the third room, and the third room was passed to let me be in charge of the Li Shan family." But there should be some rumors in the village that I am actually a child born in the second room of Li Shan's family. Everyone should wonder why there is such a rumor, but in fact, this rumor is true. Back then, it was my own mother who wanted to kill me, and my grandfather passed me to the big house in a fit of anger. Patriarch Li also knew about this matter, and he was punished back then, and I don't want to pursue this matter today. Now I am telling this to let everyone know that I don't care who that person is, even in the name of my biological mother, I can't point fingers at my third room. Today I split up in front of everyone. β
Mrs. Li regretted it, and asked Li Qing in tears: "Can you not separate the family?" I didn't think that they could do such a thing, I thought that your third brother is very capable, you are not at home, and he can take care of the affairs here. If the Li Shan family is separated because of me, how can I be worthy of your grandfather. β
Li Qing said: "Grandma, all the people in my Li Qing realm are involved, and every place is not a matter of one person's opinion. Does my third brother understand construction? Can he replace Craftsman Xue? Does my third brother train the army? Can he replace Li Geng, Wu Shi and Zheng Lin? Is my third brother the village chief? Will the people of the three villages listen to his words? Do you still use me to list them all? β
Li Qing saw that Mrs. Li could still stand, and she was already supported by her aunt. soft-hearted said: "Don't talk about my third brother, even I can't do it all." If I could do it alone, why would I ask so many people to help? What's more, Li Qing's realm has never been my Li Qing's, it was bought with my master's silver. Why do you think my master would put this in the hands of an outsider? Li Qing waved his hand and asked the old lady to help her in.
After Mrs. Li left, Li Qing continued: "Li Shan's family originally had 20 acres of land, and the two houses of the big house were 10 acres each. The Li family's mansion belongs to the Li Shan family's big house, as long as the big house is willing, the second room of the big house can continue to live like this. The property of the third room was purchased by myself, and according to the original agreement, no one in the Li family had the right to intervene. Where is Li Gui? β
Li Gui stepped forward and knelt down and said, "Master, the slave is here." β
Li Qing said: "This is your deed of sale, and you will not be my Li Qing's slave from now on." With that, he tore the paper in his hand in half and threw it down.
Li Gui picked up the paper and knelt on the ground, Li Qing looked at Wang Wensheng, Wang Wensheng took a piece of paper and gave it to Li Gui and said, "From today onwards, your whole family will be the long-term workers of the Li family." Li Gui looked at the long-term contract, pressed his handprint, and then kowtowed and cried and thanked Li Qing.
Li Qing said: "From today onwards, you are the steward of my Li Qing family, and you are in charge of all the subordinates of the Li Qing family. If anyone dares to bully our chief again, you can't hide anymore, you have to take someone and beat them all out first. β
Li Gui said: "The slave obeys the order, there will be no such thing in the future." β
Li Qing nodded and motioned for him to go down. Li Qing took out a few pieces of paper from her arms, read the names of some people, and thanked these people for helping her in the past few years. He also said that in the future, they will all be long-term workers of the Li family, and Wang Wensheng will re-sign the long-term contract for them later. Among these people is Zhao Qian's family, and Zhao Qian's family is grateful to Dade and follows everyone to kowtow to Li Qing.