His father took the second uncle of the Yan family to the extreme, and after saluting, he walked forward side by side with his uncle and third grandfather.

Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song followed, a group of men also followed closely according to their relatives, and the female dependents were followed by their aunt Li.

Xu Deming and others followed in the carriage at the end, and the three maids sitting in the carriage only felt lively and fresh, they had never gone to the countryside, and leaned out of the window from time to time to take a look.

Occasionally, someone from the Yan clan saw the three maids, and they couldn't help but feel half crispy.

After all, the women they have seen are basically raised by men, they don't apply fat powder and don't nourish their skin, their faces are yellow and dry, and they are naturally a little appelate when they see Chu Xia and others, but they also know that this is a person from the second master's family, so they don't dare to look at it more.

Yan Heng was looking at the entire Yan family at this time, logically speaking, those who could come to greet him today were basically regarded as having a higher rank and a higher status in the Yan family's five rooms.

But looking at it, most of the people are still in rags, with vegetables on their faces, and some are even rolling up their trouser legs, carrying hoes or carrying backpacks and lupine scarves, and Xiao Yan Song, who is a little out of place in a brocade robe with arrow sleeves.

Even the uncle and the third grandfather, who were older than their father Yan Zhun, were a little cramped and didn't know how to speak.

Aunt Li is more virtuous and virtuous than before, but she still holds the cloth and refuses to let go.

Yan Zhiqing has been following the back of Xiao Yan Song's buttocks, watching Xiao Yan Song take out candy from his purse from time to time to eat, he is so hungry that he wants to go directly to get the purse on Xiao Yan Song's body, but he sees Yan Heng here, and he is a little afraid to do so.

"Want to eat?" Xiao Yan Song glanced back at Yan Zhiqing.

Yan Zhiqing nodded.

"Here you go!"

Xiao Yan Song gave him the purse directly, Yan Zhiqing happily took the purse and ran away, and when he came back after a while, the whole mouth bag was bulging, and he had been chewing on it.

Yan Zhiqing grabbed a sparrow in his hand and was about to hand it to Xiao Yan Song: "Here you go!" ”

Xiao Yan Song happily wanted to pick it up, but he didn't catch it, and the sparrow took advantage of this opportunity to fly out directly.

Xiao Yan Song was a little disappointed, and Yan Zhiqing patted Xiao Yan Song on the shoulder very humanely: "I'll catch another one for you in a while." ”

Yan Heng couldn't help but smile when he saw this, the selfishness and dislike brought by poverty disappeared in the friendship between each other, and the Yan clan, whose relationship had become cold, might be able to begin to melt in this warm spring.

The clan is the cornerstone of social stability in the Ming Dynasty, and it can unite the strength of the whole clan to complete some grassroots services that the government cannot provide, and it can also better resist the oppression of other clans.

Of course, it was the greatest obstacle to the transformation of the small-scale peasant economy into a capitalist economy, locking the peasants firmly to the land and the intellectuals to the box of serving the interests of the family.

Yan Heng once wanted to get rid of the shackles of the clan, but he found that although he could now take advantage of the decline of the Yan clan to get rid of the shackles of the clan, he had also lost the power that the clan brought him.

In order to expand the scale of Wenqu Study, he had to use Ouyang Jin to use his power in the Ouyang clan to operate relationships and cooperate with the government.

At the same time, if he wanted to recruit a few reliable people, he had to use Ouyang Jin, after all, in these years, from scholars to farmers, they all have their own clans, and people must come to you to do things with the consent and trust of the clan.

Not everyone is as alone as Yan Mi, an outsider, and has no worries.

In the future, the Wenqu study will definitely have to expand, and his Yan family will definitely jump into the ruling class and become a gentry family.

But it was impossible for Yan Heng to let Ouyang Jin continue to place his Ouyang family's people in his various Wenqu studies to take care of things, or even come to his own house to be a housekeeper.

In that case, no matter how big the Yan family is, it will have to be set aside by the Ouyang family.

This is an era of extreme lack of human resources, and it is a peaceful world, not a troubled era where the homeless people are swarming, everyone is under the control of the clan, Yan Heng now needs more people to serve the growth of his Yan family, and he can only find talents in his own clan first, and then he can get more talent resources through clan marriage or other means.

However, looking at these clansmen who were accustomed to farming, Yan Heng could imagine how difficult it was to get them off the land.

The dilapidated ancestral hall of the Yan family, the grassy graves, the dry canals, the collapsed bridges, and the bluestone slabs that have been removed, leaving only a muddy road, Qili Village all show the decline of the Yan clan.

Yan Heng didn't believe that a few elders of the Yan family could really ignore the Yan family's decay in his own place, so he took the initiative to stand in front of his father Yan Zhun and others, and put forward a proposal to rebuild the ancestral hall.

Daddy Yan Zhun is used to Yan Heng being in charge of all matters in the family, and he also calls this inaction, so naturally he has no opinion.

At this time, they all knew that Yan Heng was the most profitable and promising person in the entire Yan clan, so they all acquiesced to let Yan Heng manage the affairs of the clan.

The people in the clan agreed, after all, this kind of thing was paid by Yan Heng's family, so why wouldn't they do it.

Yan Heng immediately took out the silver and immediately went to a nearby market town to sell a pig with a clansman who had usually helped him, and he was ready to feast on the clansmen and agreed on the major event of rebuilding the ancestral hall.

The ancestral hall is dilapidated because the five rooms of the Yan family are relatively poor, and no one has the extra money to repair the ancestral hall.

It seems that Yan Heng's stupid and hateful impression in the Yan family never existed.

Two cauldrons were placed under the banyan tree, and a fat pig was bought, and was being pressed against the board and screaming.

The women were already filling the vat with boiling water, and the men were taking out the bundles of firewood from the house.

The children gathered around the fat pigs in groups of three or five, and the older children actively moved the tables and stools in the house.

Yan Heng and the three elders of the Yan family sat in the courtyard of their house and drank tea, at this time he had become the head of the entire Yan clan, only talking about how to rebuild the ancestral hall.

No one dared to question Yan Heng sitting there like the three Yan family elders, after all, all the silver was made by Yan Heng.

And now Yan Heng is the head of the county case, and he is also the eldest grandchild in the long house, although his father is the second son of the long house, but he has a talent and fame, so it will be okay.

"Brother Heng, the size of the family, relatives and friends from near and far have arrived, take a look, when will the banquet be held, and when will the discussion be held?"

The one who spoke was a part-time carpenter's cousin in the fourth room, who was over thirty years old, but he didn't have the slightest cousin's frame in front of Yan Heng, and even groveled a little, mainly because Yan Heng had already said that he would spend money to find a carpenter in the clan to repair the ancestral hall, so this cousin was more attentive in front of Yan Heng.