In order to maintain the solemnity and authority of the patriarch, the patriarch did not allow anyone to be untrustworthy, and repented after the succession ceremony was fulfilled. Except for those who are voluntarily expelled from the clan, they are not members of the clan, and naturally there will be no step-children in the clan under their names.

This is a major matter of extermination, and a person who has been exterminated is like duckweed without roots, and when he walks inside, he will not only be looked down upon, but he will not even want to be worshiped by future generations.

For the superstitious crowd, this is simply more unbearable than death. Generally, those who are expelled do not end up very well.

After listening to this, Old Man Zheng always felt that there was a disagreement, he thought about it carefully, but he didn't find out where the disagreement was.

In his opinion, it is the son who is inherited, and the one who is passed is his own grandson, so it is better than inheriting an outsider to his son's name in the future.

So he said to Zheng Shanqing: "It's already daylight today, it's not a good time to pass the succession, you go to the patriarch's house to ask the yellow calendar first, we have to pick an auspicious day for the zodiac to do the succession." ”

When Zheng Shanqing heard this, he was a little unhappy. But he also knew that Old Man Zheng valued this matter, and he wouldn't do it at a so-so time, so he had to agree: "Dad, then you wait, I'll go to the patriarch to ask." ”

Old man Zheng waved his hand and asked his second son to hurry up.

Waiting for Zheng Shanqing to leave, Meng asked a little uneasily: "Old leader, are you sure that Lao Mai will not be angry with us when he comes back?" ”

Old man Zheng shook his head, he couldn't take care of this: "Take a step at a time, I don't know how many days I can live with this body, I can't see a child under my knees, even if I go, I can't close my eyes." ”

"Okay, these unlucky bodies?" Meng Shi felt uncomfortable in his heart when he heard this, and began to wipe his tears again, but he didn't dare to ask any more.

Zheng Shanqing's movements were very fast, and he ran directly to the patriarch's house, and after getting that the day after tomorrow was the day after tomorrow, he ran back happily and reported the good information of Old Man Zheng and the Meng family.

Old man Zheng and Meng asked their second son to plan the offerings to be used for succession, and they waited for the arrival of the auspicious day of the zodiac with confidence.

Zheng Shanqing was worried that Zheng Shuiqing would know about the succession, so he asked Old Man Zheng and Meng to stop publicizing it first, and wait for the third brother to have a son.

Old man Zheng and Meng felt reasonable, and they were very happy that the second son could think about the third son, and promised not to say anything about the succession in front of his eyes before the third son gave birth to a son.

The so-called auspicious day of the zodiac soon came, after the old man Zheng and the Meng family personally guaranteed that he was the son who replaced the eldest son Zheng Rin and passed the second son, out of trust in the couple and the psychology that the parents would not harm their children, after worshipping the ancestors of the Zheng family, the patriarch crossed out the "Zheng Datou" under Zheng Shanqing's name on the family tree, and wrote "Zheng Datou" under Zheng Rin's name.

Such a major event was secretly realized in such a quiet way.

Zheng Rin, who was far away in Fucheng and wanted to make a first contribution, was trying his best to find someone, but he didn't know that a son had appeared under his name, so that he was so angry when he came back to know the truth that he would make waves in the Zheng family, it was not the three members of the Zheng family who single-handedly promoted this matter could have predicted.

The parents of the Zheng family, there is really no such thing as the best, but they are too weak to be at the mercy of the elders, and the two brothers of the Zheng family are all selfish and self-interested

The capital of Yunzhou Mansion is Mingzhou, Mingzhou is located in the central part of Daqing, and at the intersection of the first river Yonghe River and the largest tributary of the Yonghe River, Yunjiang, there is the largest inland river port in Daqing, and the goods from the south to the north are transferred in the Mingzhou ship port regardless of land or water.

It is also by virtue of this port that Mingzhou is much more prosperous than other state capitals, ranking among the top three among more than 20 prefectures and cities in Daqing, second only to the capital and another sea city that prospered hundreds of years ago.

The Mingzhou boat port has facilitated the traffickers from the south to the north, and it has also confused thousands of poor people who come here to eat. Since the establishment of the port more than 30 years ago, it has gradually formed several streets such as stacks, warehouses, restaurants, and commercial houses, and has become the most prosperous and enthusiastic middle zone in this prefecture city.

As night falls, the streets that are like boiling water during the day gradually come to a halt and usher in the most peaceful time of the day.

Suddenly, a group of four people seemed to come out of the ground and went straight to a small inconspicuous double-storey stack at the end of the street.

The four looked young, the oldest was about to pass his prime, and the youngest looked to be in his early twenties. Each of them carried a burden, as if they were just ordinary travelers, and the light in their eyes was inadvertently revealed, and at a glance, they knew that these four people were not ordinary people, and no one would notice this.

These four people are none other than Zheng Rin and his three old friends, who went out to look for someone twenty days ago. The oldest is Zhang Niu Yu from the "Old Zhang Niu Shop" in Yunlai County, and the two younger ones are the big bags and monkeys who went to Cui's shop to smash together.

One foot stepped into the door of the stack, and when the leader of the stack looked over, Zhang Niuyu said to Zheng Rin and the others: "Our brothers finally met, and we will get drunk and rest later, so you will set two rooms to rest first, and I will go to the back kitchen to see if there is a woman's food, and let the store make a table of food and send it to the room." ”

Regarding this placement, Zheng Rin and the three of them did not have any suggestions, so they nodded beyond Zhang Niu Yu and walked towards the stack leader on the back of the counter.

The stack leader who had already heard what Zhang Niniuyu said greeted him warmly: "Guest officer, I have three kinds of rooms here, one is a single room, one is a double room, and another is a chase shop for twenty people, and the guest officer wants one class?" ”

In fact, when the group of four people entered the door, the leader checked their clothes behind him, and he probably knew what kind of room they wanted.

Sure enough, Zheng Rin smiled and said to the stack leader: "Our brothers haven't met for a long time, so let's come to two quieter places, just to catch up at night." ”

The leader of the stack hurriedly took out the two sets of keys, untied the ropes that were strung together, and then put them on the counter and pushed them in front of Zheng Rin's eyes: "Guest officer, these are the innermost two room keys upstairs to the left, and it is three hundred wen wen money for one night, how many nights does the guest officer want to stay?" ”

Zheng Rin directly took out five taels of silver and put it on the counter, and said to the stack leader: "Our brother is going to delay in Fucheng for a few days, and I am not sure how many days it will take, you can take these silver first, and if it is not enough, I will make up for it." ”

The stack leader's eyes lit up, and he was so happy that he couldn't see his teeth, and he nodded hurriedly, secretly glad to meet the guests of the big house.

Zheng Rin and the three of them arrived at the two guest rooms on the second floor under the leadership of the stack leader, and saw that the room was very clean and there was no smell of mess, so they nodded with satisfaction and thanked the stack leader.

The leader of the stack also saw the opportunity, and after sending the people away, he secretly retreated, and did not say a word.

After a while, the big bag and the monkey in the next room put down their things and ran to the room where Zheng Rin and Zhang Niuyu were, and saw that Zhang Niuyu had not returned, so they did not close the door.

The three of them were relatively speechless, not because they didn't want to speak, but they were really tired these days, and they were hungry and really didn't have the interest in talking.

When Zhang Niuyu, who had finished ordering, arrived at the room, he saw the three of them sitting in one place and glared angrily, so he smiled and said, "I didn't hear the debate between Dabao and the monkey, I thought I went to the wrong room." ”

Da Bao and the monkey glared at Zhang Niuyu, and said in unison: "I've been looking for so long, and I haven't even found a single hair, who has another psychological trouble!" ”

When Zhang Niuyu heard this, the smile on his face fell, but it was a valuable comfort to the two friends: "Although it is said that 'life is to see people and death is to see corpses', a death order has been issued for us to find people, and there is no specific deadline, we will find it slowly, and we will find it one day." ”

The monkey shook his head, not so contemplative: "If people were still alive, they would be able to find the day when they were like you said, but what if people died?" That is falling into the Yonghe River, the Yonghe River is directly connected to Haizi, where can we find it? ”

Da Bao also thought so, agreeing with the monkey's words: "This matter is the most difficult thing since we went out on a mission, if the fate is good, the ban will be found the next day, and the fate is not good, maybe don't want to realize it." ”

"Don't think so, it's okay to do what you said, we found our fate the next day." Zhang Niu Yu laughed, saying the words of Daguan, and there was already hope in his heart that he couldn't find.

He knew that even if he didn't find it in the end, they wouldn't be punished from above, but the impossibility of the mission would be a shame for them in itself, and no one would be happy to bring this shame to the soil.

After laughing, seeing that Zheng Rin didn't speak as always, Zhang Niniuyu couldn't help asking: "Brother, I see that you have to work harder than ever before on this mission, is there any hope?" ”

Zheng Rin frowned, and did not say anything about the hope when he received the mission, but just shook his head and said, "No matter whether you have a body or not, you have to find people first." "Otherwise, it's all for nothing.

When Zhang Niuyu heard this, he didn't ask when he saw the opportunity, but there was a little sadness between his eyebrows: "This time, so many people were dispatched, and there was no information for so many days, and I questioned that those two people were not dead at all, but they hid and didn't let us find them." ”

Otherwise, from the upstream of the Yongjiang River to the lower reaches of the Yunzhou Mansion, why didn't anyone notice that the bodies that matched the characteristics of the woman and the child were already floating on the surface of the river?

"W-How is this possible?" Da Bao and the monkey said in unison, let them trust that a weak woman and a seriously ill child can survive falling into the Yonghe River on a cliff more than 100 feet high, it is better to let them trust that the Yonghe River will dry up.

Zheng Rin lowered his head and thought about it, and the more he thought about it, the more he felt that Zhang Niuyu's guess was not impossible: "It's okay, maybe they are really alive, if there is no information, why can't we find it by testing the method of finding a living person?" ”

Truth people will float to the surface sooner or later after death, there are thousands of merchant ships coming and going north and south on the Yonghe River, and these merchant ships begging for a living on the water are the most believing in ghosts and gods.