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The ancestral hall of the Zou family is not in the compound just now, but in the center of the city.

It is also the place where the Zou family is discussed.

In this huge wooden structure unique to the Wasi clan, a huge hall is gathering most of the people in charge of the Zou family at this moment, and of course, the patriarch of the Zou family's generation is indispensable.

Zou Jinghui, Zou Jingcheng's eldest brother, is the patriarch of the Zou family's generation and the mayor of the city.

The Blue Flag Empire does not have officials stationed in the empire for cities like Anping City, which has a population of less than one million, and for such cities, the Wasi people generally have a high degree of autonomy, and as long as they pay a certain amount of taxes to the empire on time, the Blue Flag Empire will not interfere much in the management of such cities.

Therefore, a city like Anping City, which was founded by the Wasi family, is generally the supreme ruler of the city by the patriarch of the family.

Although Zou Jinghui is nominally the head of the Zou family, Zou Jinghui is old, so since Zou Jingcheng resigned from the Imperial Medical College a few years ago, Zou Jinghui handed over most of the affairs of the clan to Zou Jingcheng, including the affairs of Anping City, so in fact, the real head of the Zou family is Zou Jingcheng.

If it was just Zou Jingcheng recruiting a son-in-law, in fact, there was no need for the Zou family to gather so many principals, including the patriarch Zou Jinghui, who was recuperating outside the city.

However, today everyone received a letter from Zou Jingcheng, which is not just a matter of the Zou family recruiting a son-in-law, but a major event related to the future fate of the Zou family.

"Brothers, relatives, I, Zou Jingcheng, will greet everyone back to the conference hall today, and everyone understands the main things to discuss."

In the middle of the hall were two tall Taishi chairs, on which Zou Jingcheng and Zou Jinghui sat on one left and one right.

Behind the two of them are rows of ancestral tablets listed from high to low, and under the ever-bright lamp, the names engraved on these tablets are clearly visible. It is estimated that someone has been repairing it for a long time, and the gold text on it is brand new, as if it has not been affected by time.

"Okay, if it weren't for this kind of thing that is related to the rise and fall of our Zou family in the next hundred years, I don't want to get together to discuss with the eldest brother and all the clansmen in their busy schedules, but as the acting patriarch, I can't be arbitrary about such a major matter, so I also ask the eldest brother and all the clansmen to share their opinions."

After looking around at the people in the lobby, Zou Jingcheng first arched his hand to Zou Jinghui, the eldest brother who had closed his eyes beside him, and then said to several principals in the lobby.

"Ahem. Brother Cheng, my eldest brother is old, if it weren't for your repeated insistence, I would have unloaded this burden and gone to the countryside to retire. So as long as you have an idea about this matter, the eldest brother has no opinion. Brother Cheng, your vision and insight are obvious to everyone, so I trust your judgment very much. ”

As soon as Zou Jingcheng finished speaking, Zou Jinghui, who was sitting on the side with his eyes closed, suddenly opened his eyes, and a pair of somewhat godless eyes suddenly bloomed with a divine light, but after glancing at Zou Jingcheng, he hid back again, replaced by a kind gaze.

"Thank you for the eldest brother's understanding, the eldest brother's thoughts and younger brother fully understand, but although the younger brother is more than ten years younger than the eldest brother, he is also a person who is half cut into the ground, so the position of the head of the family is still borne by the eldest brother first, and when there is a suitable candidate for the role among the juniors, the eldest brother will hand over the position to him."

For Zou Jinghui, Zou Jingcheng knows better than anyone else, this eldest brother is good at everything, and he is also the most stable and suitable person to be the head of the family in their generation, but unfortunately an accident when he was young made him lose the ability of a man to inherit the lineage, so he has been obsessed with this since he was old.

But his eldest son has long been passed on to his eldest brother as a son, so Zou Jingcheng has always been reluctant to accept the name of the head of the family, which is precisely why.

After all, after Zou Jinghui passed away, if there was no accident, the position of the head of the family would definitely be his eldest son's, and there was no need for him to have this false name at this time.

"Two fathers, Yan'er has something to say."

In fact, after Zou Jinghui made a statement, there were not many opinions on the heads of those families, not to mention that after Zou Jingcheng took over the family affairs over the years, every decision made everyone admire it to the extreme, just say that they supported Mu Jiu's resistance to the Ji Yu invaders, and everyone was also very supportive, after all, this is a matter related to the national complex, and I found that as a Wasi person, who would like to see their nation invaded by the Ji Yu Empire.

But just when everyone thought that this matter was such a successful decision, a person standing under Zou Jinghui suddenly stood up, first saluted everyone in the hall, and then turned to the two elders on the Taishi chair and said.

"Yan'er has something to say, this matter is actually what you should care about the most, your sister is more than twenty years old for you, I was in the imperial capital all those years, and I didn't fulfill my father's responsibilities, after your sister came back to Anping, it has always been with you, so strictly speaking, you want to be her father more, so you are more responsible to worry about her marriage."

Looking at his eldest son, who had succeeded as a big brother, Zou Jingcheng said with some guilt.

"Father, what I want to say is not about Qin'er's choice of a son-in-law, in fact, as long as Qin'er is willing, no matter what kind of husband she chooses, I have no opinion, just ......"

Looking at the biological father in front of him, Zou Zhiyan's inner emotions were complicated.

This father and his mother got married at the age of seventeen, but he was keen on medicine, so after he was born, he left Anping to study in the distant empire, except for the days when he came back to his uncle, and did not hurry back until his mother died of a serious illness.

To be honest, if it weren't for Zou Suqin's cuteness since childhood, which made him hate, otherwise Zou Zhiyan wouldn't want to pay attention to this half-sister at all, let alone take care of this irresponsible father for many years.

Now that his lovely sister is getting married, as a big brother who pulls her up with a handful of and urine, Zou Zhiyan said that he was not reluctant to say that it was a lie, but compared to what he was going to say next, this reluctance was nothing.

"Oh, it's not that you are reluctant to marry your sister, then Yan'er just has a different opinion on supporting your sister-in-law, okay, you are not a child, you have also handled family affairs for many years, and you also have the right to put forward your own opinions, so you can tell me your reasoning."

Although Zou Jingcheng didn't expect that the first person to have an opinion on his decision turned out to be his own son, he still didn't mean to stop Zou Zhiyan, and waved his hand to let his son continue.