"Hmm. How many brothers and sisters are you looking to play with? Let the butler take you down. The fourth old lady smiled kindly.

"No, fourth grandfather, my grandson and sister are here to ask you for a favor." Brother Xuan said.

"Help? Let's hear it. ”

As soon as Brother Xuan told him about the matter, the fourth old lady stroked the big white beard, and smiled with an unclear meaning, "Your father and mother are not here, wouldn't it be better to follow your third uncle, what do you say at a young age to open a mansion and stand on your own." ”

"Fourth grandfather, Sister Hui is a little older brother, and she has studied with the Seventh Princess for two more years, and she has also learned some etiquette rules. My father is still here, but he is only out to serve his family and country. Father is the elder, if the brothers in the house are separated, even the grandmother's youngest sister-in-law has to go out to open the house, then the father will inevitably not be talked about by the world in the future. Grandmother has a loving heart and wants to take care of our sister and brother, but we don't dare to ruin our father's reputation for our own comfort. Sister Hui continued

"Well, you are right, the fourth grandfather should be in charge of this matter." The fourth old lady held his beard and nodded.

Sister Hui was overjoyed, but she was also surprised, she thought that she would have to spend a lot of words, but she didn't expect it to be so easy, the four old ladies responded, overjoyed, and brought out some on her face: "Thank you, fourth grandfather." ”

"Fourth grandfather, our sister and brother still have some things to do, come back another day to say hello to you and the fourth grandmother." Sister Hui and Brother Xuan bowed to the two old men and said.

"Hmm."

Seeing Sister Hui's sister and brother leaving, the fourth old lady looked at the fourth old lady and smiled: "You old man loves to play tricks, she designed to let the eldest brother centrifuge from you, and drove our family out of the Hou Mansion, hold a grudge!" ”

"Humph!" The fourth old lady shook her beard and snorted.

"Alas, her methods have not changed over the years, and it is clear who is useful and who is not. Back then, the Qin family confronted her with Mai Mang, killing the old one, although the two younger ones were not dead, they were afraid that they would not want to escape from the palm of her hand in her lifetime. ”

"Then let her see if she can escape this time!" The fourth old man looked at him fiercely and said.

Sister Hui came out of the fourth old lady's mansion, and when she sat in the carriage, she couldn't help but take out the letter paper that Hongyu brought back overnight after sending the painting from her sleeve. What was written above was all about the clan elders who were invited to witness by Chu Jinzhang this time, and some of them were marked out and useful information was written.

"Why is my sister sighing?" Brother Xuan saw Sister Hui looking at the piece of paper and sighed, with a little smile on her face, and couldn't help asking.

"If this karma wasn't a calculation, that would be great," Sister Hui replied with a sigh, her eyes looking into nothingness.

Brother Xuan frowned, obviously not understanding, "What cause?" ”

"It's nothing, let's go to the next house and try to finish the matter today."

"Hmm." Hearing this, Brother Xuan nodded heavily.

After that, according to what was said on the letterhead, the two visited several stores one after another, some went well and some were slightly unsmooth, but fortunately, they all achieved their goals in the end.

In the thirty-third year of Xihe, at the beginning of this year, Anning Houfu ushered in a major event, and the Anning Houfu was going to be separated.

On this day, several families with high rank and status in the Japanese clan were invited by Chu Jinzhang to the ancestral hall to worship their ancestors for the New Year.

"This time, I invited all the clan elders to come, that is, our clan is going to split up, and I hope that all the clan elders will witness together. If there is anything wrong, please mention it to your uncles and elders. Chu Jinzhang stood in the hall, and after saying this, he took the account book from the butler's hand and handed it to the longest remaining person in the clan. Chu Jinzhang also wanted to call the old man of the uncle.

"Uncle, this is the big tent of the Hou Mansion, please take a look." The eldest lady is the eldest son of the previous Anning Waiting Lord, and Sister Hui's grandfather is the second and eldest son. Now he is indeed the oldest and the highest in the clan.

The old lady looked at the account book for a long time, then closed it and nodded: "No problem." ”

After that, Chu Jinzhang showed the account books to the Jianzhou relatives and uncles one by one.

Then he took back the account book and stood in the hall and read: "The ancestors of the Chu family are on top, the fifteenth generation great-grandson of the Chu family today, the eighth generation of the Anning Houfu family, Chu Jinzhang, no virtue and incompetence." The upper cannot make the old mother happy, and the lower cannot control the younger brother, so he has to open the ancestral hall to separate the family to relieve his worries, and hope that the ancestors will forgive their sins. ”

As soon as these words were opened, everyone under them stepped forward to offer incense to their ancestors one by one according to the sequence.

When Chu Jinli's pillar of incense was also inserted, Chu Jinzhang began to read again: "Now I invite your uncles to witness that the family property is divided as follows."

In the end, Chu Jinzhang really wanted his brother to live well, and he had a full share of Chu Jinli's share. In contrast, Chu Jinhui was much more chilled. However, firstly, Chu Jinhui is a concubine, and secondly, although the thing he did a few years later is just a shadow, he can join his own brothers, so that Anning Houfu is under the dangerous wall, and the people in the clan are not safe. There was no one to make a sound.

Fortunately, Chu Jinhui doesn't care about himself, what he has asked for after so many years is to open his own mansion and go out, compared to freedom, this bit of silver is not enough to mention, and after many years of exile, his family background is also some.

"Why didn't I hear the division of my eldest nephew's family? But what's missing? Seeing that the big guy had no objections, the eldest old lady was about to get up and sign the final, but the fourth old lady suddenly squinted his eyes and asked loudly.

Chu Jinzhang immediately replied: "Mother feels that the eldest brother is not here, and Brother Xuan, as the head of the big house, is also studying outside, and he is young. Therefore, I wanted Sister Hui, Sister Lian, and Brother Wen to live with the Hou Mansion first, and they could also take care of one or two. ”

"Also, two girls who are not in time and two children with drooping hair, you should take care of them more." The old lady nodded and continued

"Uncle is serious, this is what the nephew should be." Chu Jinzhang was very humble and saluted, and said.

Sister Hui, Qiao's, Xiao Li, and the old lady were in the cubicle of the lobby when they heard this. couldn't help but glance at the old lady, but she didn't think that she happened to be caught, and she was also looking at her.

"The eldest nephew is also an official in the court, so how can this matter of separating the family and leaving the house on his own. Although the children had to be watched over by their grandmother and uncle, the eldest nephew would come back and deduct the silver taels. But it doesn't make sense, don't you come out of that one. The old lady who came from Jianzhou's hometown thought that the black-faced old lady said suddenly.

"Yes, this is a good thing to say is that the eldest nephew and the third nephew have a deep brotherhood, and it is not good to say it, and it is not good to say that the man of our peaceful Houfu is not responsible, greedy for comfort, and wants to rely on the big tree of Houfu to enjoy the shade." The fourth old lady followed up again.

All of you here have gone through the variables of Xi and the past 20 years, and the grievances and grievances here are all clear. Although they are all old men in the clan, the person in power is Chu Jinzhang. I didn't have to offend Chu Jinzhang to get out of that head. But the family has been around for a hundred years, and the name has been passed down from generation to generation, and there are also a few people with a bad temperament. As Fang just spoke, the black-faced old lady was one of them.

Chu Jinzhang also knew in his heart, he was silent for a moment, and then said with a big stroke of his pen: "Your uncles are right, since this is the case, the eldest brother's share cannot be missing." The eldest brother is the eldest and the eldest brother, so let me give it my share. ”

This was said very generously, and it also gave Chu Jinmin face.

Sister Hui sneered a few times in her heart, this time the family was separated, Chu Jinli's share was the thickest, and Chu Jinzhang had a special family property passed down by his ancestors because he was the Hou Ye, so as to leave it to the Hou Ye for future generations to take over. Therefore, he did not leave much for himself, and when he was seriously divided, it was only a few thousand taels of silver more than Chu Jinhui's share.

However, like Chu Jinhui, Sister Hui does not want family property, she wants the freedom of their sisters and brothers.