Chapter 553: Self-inflicted (5)
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"The Songjiang Shen clan is too popular in Shilin." Shen Ying said.
As soon as the second champion of the Shen family came out, everyone could see that unless there was an accident, the Shen family would be able to prosper for another fifty years. As the younger generation successively takes the imperial examination, there will be more and more children of the Songjiang Shen family.
The wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind will destroy it.
As soon as Songjiang's case came out this time, it made the bigwigs in the capital look sideways at the children of the Shen family.
There are advantages and disadvantages to the Heclan, that is, when encountering this case, because there is no division of the clan, the children of the clan will be implicated. If you want to kill your family, you will be beheaded according to the family.
What is a family, the family is all relatives of five obedience, blood is connected, flesh and blood; But out of the five suits, apart from the common surname, what else?
Even if the clan is divided and the family becomes a clan, when it is really necessary to resist external humiliation, the clan relatives are also relatives.
Shen Qi and Shen Quan are both smart people, so they naturally want to understand the stakes.
Shen Quan patted his forehead and said, "I thought about the injustice of the clan before, and I took the position of the patriarch to the second brother, and the clan will not drag its feet in the future." Now that I think about it, it will be difficult to reconcile, and it will be the second brother who will be embarrassed by the time comes, and it is better to divide it. β
As early as when the patriarch was alive, the Shen family had a close relationship with each other; With the death of the patriarch, Shen Hai's prestige was insufficient, and the heads of the houses tended to be "autonomous", which was not as close as in the past.
Shen Quan stood up and said, "I have to go and say hello to Brother Jin and Brother Rui, they are still thinking about changing the patriarch, and everyone in the province will go on a bad trip!" β
Shen Hai guarded the five rooms before, and after sending people to send posts to each room, he arranged for people to keep an eye on this side, wanting to see who the five rooms were connected with.
When the sun was set, the subordinates who were staring at the fifth room went back to pray, but they didn't see Shen Hai, but Shen Jun with red eyes.
"The master is drunk, rested, if you have anything to say to me." Shen Jun rubbed his forehead and said.
The subordinate was speechless, and replied honestly: "The third master of the fifth room went to the fourth room, and then went to the sixth master, and did not go to the side of the room." β
Shen Jun waved his hand: "It's hard work, go to the account room to pay a string of money." β
The next person went down happily, Shen Jun turned his head and looked at the inside of the study, where he didn't move for a long time.
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Early the next morning, the family members of each house who received the post all arrived at the old house of Zongfang.
Needless to say, the second room came with Shen Yuan and Shen Rui's uncle and nephew; The third room is Shen Hu, Shen Yong's brothers, the fourth room is Shen Jin, the fifth room is Shen Ying and Shen Quan's brothers, the sixth room is Shen Qi, the seventh room is Shen Qin, the eighth room Shen Liu and Shen Bao father and son, what is surprising and not surprising is the ninth room, in addition to the ninth room master, there is also Shen Li.
Shen Jun stood at the gate of the ancestral hall on crutches and greeted him personally.
Although the second and fifth rooms are served, because of Shen Rui's relationship, the uncle and nephew are still in plain clothes.
The two brothers, Shen Hu and Shen Yong, are also plain clothes, but they are the filial piety of the old lady in the third room. After all, the two brothers are siblings, although they have quarrels, but now in order to let the He mother and son return to the third room, the two brothers are united again. The fourth and fifth rooms have always been close, and after sitting down, Shen Jin also whispered to Shen Quan.
Needless to say, Shen Jin in the fourth room is also unsuccessful in filial piety for Shen Hong, who is in the fifth room.
Shen Qi of the sixth room was also wearing a plain clothes, and his beard was a little unshaven, he was guarding his wife's filial piety, and his wife died when he went ashore. The six rooms are thin, and there are few caretakers, and the losses are the heaviest when the Japanese go ashore, except that the treasury was robbed, and Grandma Qi protected her children and died tragically. Shen Qi was dredging paddy fields outside the city at that time, but he escaped.
In the rooms of the Shen family, the one who hates the He family the most is Shen Qi. For Shen Hai, the patriarch's confusion, Shen Qi's anger was no less than that of Wufang.
Shen Li, the head of the seventh room, was not in Songjiang, or a few years ago, he was taken care of by the second room after the fall of the spring of the year, and he was elected as a scholar, and now he is in the field, so it is Shen Qin, the son of the seventh room. This Shen Qin once went to Beijing to choose an heir, and he was also familiar with Shen Quan and Shen Rui. Because the ancestors of the seventh and eighth rooms are brothers, and the two rooms have always been watching and helping each other, so although there are five rooms, Shen Qin is still wearing plain clothes, which is the filial piety of the old lady who guards the eighth room.
Shen Liu, Shen Bao, father and son in the eighth room, are naturally also dressed in plain clothes.
The ninth room master has the highest seniority, and his bloodline is far away from all rooms, but he doesn't need to wear plain clothes, but his face is as black as the bottom of the pot, which is more ugly than a dead grandson. It's no wonder that he is like this, Shen Lu is still in charge of the prefect's yamen, and like Shen Zhu, he will be a "witness" who has been in contact with the "Japanese Kou" and go to the capital with the Qincha.
Shen Li is close to Wufang, and he is also dressed in plain clothes.
In this way, except for the senior in the clan of the ninth room master, he is actually full of plain clothes. Everyone sat down and looked at each other, feeling a little more concerned in their hearts.
Others are okay, their seniority and age are lower than Shen Hai, so naturally there is no need for Shen Hai to greet him, but there is still a nine-room master, Shen Hai is a generation lower, and it would be rude if he didn't greet him.
This is the ancestral hall side hall, that is, the place of discussion in the clan, above is a chair, the position of the patriarch, and the lower head and left and right four chairs, is the position of the head of the eight rooms. After eight chairs, there are two rows of chairs, which are the seats of the auditors.
Although the grandfather of the ninth room is high, the position of the ninth room in the ancestral hall is fixed, sit down and look at the nephews and grandchildren, only his own family is lonely, and he can only come forward to Shen Li with a thick face, and he is uncomfortable in his heart, he can't see Shen Hai in the four corners, he is unhappy, and his face droops down: "The patriarch is so big, the big guys are here, and they haven't shown up for a long time, the spectrum is big enough!" β
Shen Jun was inconvenient to walk, so he had already asked someone to carry a chair and put it under the patriarch's position.
As soon as the ninth room master had a seizure, the people who were originally chatting with each other all turned silent, and everyone looked at Shen Jun together, and they were also curious about Shen Hai's belated arrival.
Everyone has sat down and has half a cup of tea, even if Shen Hai wants to end the finale, it is time to come out.
Shen Jun was originally sitting, but at this time he stood up on crutches, and said with a face full of shame: "I am annoyed with my father on behalf of my clansmen, yesterday afternoon the second uncle Yong came over and talked about the aftermath of the second brother Ling, my father remembered Brother Xiaodong, and he was uncomfortable, and after eating a few more glasses of wine, he was a little uncomfortable, and he tossed at night, and only took medicine and slept at dawn." β
Shen Yong was concerned and confused, and said anxiously when he heard the words: "Why is you sick at this time?" But I invited a doctor, what did the doctor say? β
Shen Jun said: "I invited Imperial Doctor Wu from the Rejuvenation Hall, saying that he hurt his nerves a few days ago, and prescribed warm medicine to let him recuperate." β
Doctor Wu is the old lady doctor in the Tai Hospital, a famous apricot forest master in Songjiang City, and he diagnosed it like this, so it is naturally such a disease.
"Then today's clan will ......" Shen Yong didn't expect things to change again, and couldn't help but get anxious.
Shen Jun's face was full of apologies, and he looked at everyone and said, "My father invited everyone over before to discuss the aftermath of the second brother, but now that he is sick, he really can't take care of this." β
The ninth room master still wanted to talk to Shen Hai about Shen Lu's detention, and snorted coldly when he heard it: "It can't be pretending to be sick, right?" Your eldest brother Lu and Shen Zhuke are still in the prefect's yamen, and your father, the patriarch, will not show up to express his position. β
Shen Jun smiled bitterly: "I'm afraid my father is not strong enough." β
Shen Qi was angry in his heart, and said with mockery: "Didn't Shen Ling ask Second Uncle Yong to get rid of the clan?" How to handle the aftermath, there is no need for Zongfang to speak again. β
Shen Yong frowned and said: "It was just an expedient measure at the beginning, but now that the lawsuit is over, I know that Brother Ling is wronged, and I, as Lao Tzu, naturally will not let him be buried outside, as a lonely ghost." β
As soon as he said this, everyone present could see that Shen Yong and the patriarch had reached a consensus, and what this clan would say was that Shen Ling had re-entered the family tree. It is not for Shen Ling, who is dead, nor for the He family's mother and son who are still alive, but for the thirty percent of the family property judged by the Yan family.
Shen Qi's face was even more sarcastic, and he turned around to look at Shen Jun: "Second brother Jun, you came forward today to make the decision for the third room on behalf of the patriarch?" If He's mother and son disagree, will the clan come forward to 'persuade with good words'? β
Shen Jun hurriedly shook his head and said, "Brother Qi misunderstood, the younger brother didn't mean to meddle in the housework of the third room. What the younger brother can do for the second brother Ling is to set aside two acres of land next to the ancestral land to be the blessed land of the second brother Ling. β
Shen Yong heard that something was wrong, and just as he wanted to speak, he heard Shen Jun say: "The reason why I still go this way is because I really can't rest assured of my father's body. If I'm still in good health, I won't say anything, my father will recuperate, and I will do chores when there is something in the clan; Now our father and son are inconvenient, and everything such as sacrificing fields and ethnology can be put casually, and now we have to bother the clansmen, and it is better to choose the head of the house to temporarily replace the clan affairs......"
As soon as the voice fell, the audience was silent.
What does that mean? To hand over the patriarch's position?
No matter what the rooms were thinking before, they were suddenly stunned.
Even Shen Rui, Shen Jin, and Shen Quan, who had the intention of changing the patriarch before and later changed to the sect, also thought that there would be a fight today, and they had to dispatch Shen Yuan and Shen Li to confront each other, but they didn't expect that Shen Jun would take the initiative to hand over the position of patriarch without being spoken.
What's going on? Is Shen Hai really sick?
With Shen Jin's "pearl and jade in front", the brothers looked at each other and had similar guesses. This Shen Hai is afraid that he is "sick", so it's better than really fighting each other and tearing his face.
Before others could speak, Shen Yong had already stood up: "Nonsense! Shen Jun, you don't have to make your own decisions, it's just a minor illness, why did you get to the point of changing the patriarch? Even if you have a leg injury, it's almost good to raise it for three or five months, so why bother? The clan is a descendant, and it is also a matter of course to be in charge of clan affairs. β
is so strongly opposed to the change of patriarch, but he is worried that Shen Ling will return to the family tree.
Everyone just looked at the joke and looked at Shen Jun, wanting to see what he had to say.
At this time, it was Shen Hu who opened his mouth and Shen Yong exchanged words: "Why can't you change it?" The Shen family has been based in Songjiang for more than 100 years, and the position of patriarch has not always been in the clan room. However, now that the second room is in the capital, and Songjiang is a side branch house, the patriarch's position is let out, and it should be the turn of the third room......"
(End of chapter)
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