When Yan Heng left Qili Village, there was only Xiao Yan Song by his side, just a blanket.

And now only a few months have passed, and there are not only little Yan Song and his father who have returned to their hometown with Yan Heng, but also three big girls who are like flowers and jade.

There are also three more carriages, one is ridden by Yan Heng's father and son, one carries the three of them with colorful embroidery and early summer and late autumn, and the other pulls the wealth gifts for relatives and friends in the clan.

The Yan family now has no housekeepers, and there are no slaves to drive the car, so Xu Deming and a few printers from the Wenqu study temporarily acted as coachmen.

When Yan Heng left Qili Village with little Yan Song, he didn't leave a good impression on the Yan clan, and even offended some people in the clan, so Yan Heng didn't think that he would be greeted by the people in the clan this time.

However, Yan Heng is not afraid of what these Yan clan people will do to him now.

Because, his father Yan Zhun has a high status in the clan, and even stands side by side with his uncle who is the patriarch, plus he has a meritorious reputation, so he is more prestigious.

The people in the clan only dared to jump out when their father was in prison at most, and now I am afraid that no one will dare to take away the land of the talented husband again.

Yan Heng carefully inquired about his father Yan Zhun about the genealogical inheritance of the Yan family, and sorted out the current overview of the entire Yan clan.

To be precise, the Yan family used to be considered a prestigious family, and their ancestors even served as officials for a dynasty.

But that can only be regarded as the grandfather period of Yan Heng's grandfather.

Since then, because the ancestor of the Yan family who was an official traveled here, seeing that the soil here is fertile and the feng shui is unique, he settled here, so that now there is a large family of more than 100 families.

The so-called big clan is a large population, with five rooms, but now it is no longer a prestigious family, because since the great-ancestor of Yan Hengzhi, there has been no one to slaughter the officials, and there are no rich businessmen.

Whether an ancient clan can continue and stabilize is not related to the amount of land it occupies and how perfect the family rules are, but to the number of officialdom, shopping malls and even outstanding figures in the academic field that the clan can produce.

Basically, if a clan does not have a prominent descendant, the big clan will become a small clan, and eventually the land will be annexed by another clan, and then the people of the clan will become free peasants without clan control, and even possibly landless tenant farmers and nomads.

And the Yan family is the same now, the thousands of hectares of fertile land left by the ancestors have shrunk to less than 10,000 acres, and many clansmen no longer have land, and are forced to go to other clans to rent land or even directly become slaves.

Of course, there are also people who can't raise people because of their own family, and some Yan family members who sacrifice their families to other families as slaves and maids, after all, their Yan clan can't give them the blessing and benefits they deserve, they can only rely on other clans.

It is precisely because of this that the Yan clan, which has cultivated and read the heirloom to the present, is actually a plate of scattered sand.

As the patriarch's uncle, Yan Ju was an honest farmer, so it was difficult for him to exercise strong control over the rest of the clan.

This is also the reason why the uncle, who is the patriarch, also desperately wants his father Yan Zhun to succeed in the scientific examination to become a Jinshi, because only in this way can the Yan family clan not continue to decline.

And now, as the patriarch's uncle, the most he can do is use his clan power to oppress some weak clansmen and take away their land.

Cousin Yan Zhishi used to do this a lot, causing the Yan clan to be even more detached, and some of the weaker people in the clan were even more forced to leave their hometowns.

Before that, my uncle, who was also obsessed with land and wanted more harvest for his family, turned a blind eye to this.

But now that his cousin Yan Zhishi was suddenly killed, he also felt a little uneasy, and began to return some land to his clansmen.

In this way, the internal contradictions of the Yan clan have also eased somewhat.

And the news that Yan Zhun, the only famous father of the Yan family, is safe and sound, and the news that Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song won the county test are even more of a booster, which generally gives the Yan clan, which is about to fall apart, hope for a new cohesion.

Therefore, what Yan Heng didn't expect was that just when he thought that the people in the clan were sneering at him and even his family, he heard gongs and drums outside the car, and even horns blowing harsh music.

Xiao Yan Song took a look at the curtain of the car, and waved his little hands in surprise: "There are so many people, uncle, aunt and third grandfather are here!" ”

Daddy Yan Zhun sat in the middle very motionless at this time, and also straightened the scarf above his head, patted the dust on the plain shirt, and pretended to be the second uncle of the Yan family:

"What's the panic, you go down first, but remember, don't be arrogant just because you won the county exam, after all, you are juniors, you must be humble and polite to the elders of the clan!"

Yan Heng couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart, no wonder everyone wants to study and be famous, even if his father is just a showman, although he behaves obscene and humble in front of the gentry in the county, but when he returns to the township, he is like a different person, full of confidence and quite good at pretending to be forced.

Of course, his father, Yan Zhun, is the son of the head of the Yan clan, and he is the only scholar with a meritorious reputation, so his status in the clan is naturally extraordinary.

Yan Heng could also understand, so he pulled Xiao Yan Song first and started to get out of the car.

At this time, some people outside had already begun to discuss, and some people were surprised: "Mom! This carriage must be worth a lot of silver, but it's still three! ”

"But isn't it, I remember that the house of Master Liu who I went to work for a short time was only one, and it could only be Master Liu's housekeeper, not even his wife."

"What do you say these two old men are doing in the county, why are they so rich all of a sudden."

"Joke, the second master is a talented man, and he doesn't kowtow when he sees his parents, and now the two brothers have also won the county exam, and it seems that they have worshiped their parents as teachers, can they not be rich."

"But why didn't you see it before?"

"Before, the second master didn't know how to run it himself, but now it can be seen that he has found a way in the county, but I am afraid that the two brothers have been appreciated by the eldest parents, and the eldest parents have given them wealth when they see that they are pitiful."

"That's right, it's just that I didn't expect this Brother Song and Brother Heng to be so smart, they both won the county exam, I didn't even see it in the past, especially Brother Heng."

"That's your clumsiness, you can only face the loess with your back to the sky and make a fuss with a hoe in your life, where can you see the smart and sensible things of our brother Heng and Brother Song, these two brothers have been obedient and sensible since they were children, especially to his uncle who is not more filial than them, I saw at the time that these two brothers are not shallow."

Aunt Li snorted, and counted the wife of a cousin beside her, and Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song, who were extremely disgusted by her in the past, were praised by her.

Then, seeing Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song get out of the car, Aunt Li even rushed ahead of her uncle Yan Jie, and ran over directly with an arrow step, shouting:

"Ouch, what about my two dear nephews, you miss my aunt and me!"

Aunt Li ran to Yan Heng and Xiao Yan Song, touching and hugging each other, very affectionate, and said that they had lost weight, and said that they would make food for them if they went back.

Xiao Yan Song was dumbfounded, he instinctively took a step back, hid behind Yan Heng, and looked at Yan Heng with innocent eyes: "Brother, is she sick?" ”