"Didn't you say that your parents are here, so you can't just split up?" Seeing that Xiao Langjun didn't reply, Jiang Yi asked a question.

After all, she is a person from later generations, and she is not very clear about these, but she vaguely heard that in ancient times, the ancestral hall family was very authoritative in front of the clansmen, and those whose parents were still casually separating the family would first stop the clan elders from teaching a lesson, and they couldn't raise their heads to be people in the village.

Bu Ru said with a frown; "This is the case in terms of etiquette, but our Bu family, which has fled here in the Central Plains for six generations, has never had a strong patriarch, and the family patriarchal laws are almost abolished, who still abides by these etiquette laws."

After a pause, he continued with a wry smile; "And my sister-in-law made a fierce fuss, and she called her mother's family over if she didn't know it."

Jiang Yi knows that the sister-in-law has a backstage, and his brother is a showman with a certain connection.

Although Xiucai is the lowest level of merit in the imperial examination system, it is still very deterrent in the eyes of the countrymen.

It seems that this family is divided.

Sure enough, two days before the Lantern Festival, the third brother Buyou trotted over and asked Bu Ru to go to the ancestral hall of the Bu family immediately, saying that he was talking about the eldest brother's separation.

Jiang Yi originally didn't have anything to do with her, but when she thought of her cowardly mother-in-law, it was good to accompany her.

After the two arrived at the ancestral hall, they saw that there was a lot of people inside, the older generation of uncles and uncles of the Bu family had arrived, and there were a few old and respected old people in the township.

Standing in the middle of the ancestral hall was a young man, who was talking endlessly.

"I don't care what rules your Bu family has, as the so-called tree is a big fork, the big people are divided, and now the second of the Bu family is divided, and it is impossible to leave the two old ones only to the eldest family to feed......"

The young man was about twenty-seven or eighteen years old, dressed in a blue gown, with a scholar's hat on his head, a yellow face, and two beards at the corners of his mouth.

This beard is not short, not long, only an inch, and it is not carefully cared for, it looks very messy, and with a mouthful of yellow teeth, it gives people a very bad impression.

No one needs to introduce him, looking at the similarity with the Qi family, he probably guessed that this is Qi Renming, the elder brother of the Qi family, one of the few talents in the town.

However, I heard Bu Ru say that this Qi Renming's talent is still a little wet.

In every place, every three years, there will be people who will be admitted to the show, just when the country was just opened, the test in the show can be subsidized by the state every year, called the meal, so the beginning of the show is also called the meal.

However, in the middle of the dynasty, the population base increased, and there were more and more talents in the examination, and the country could not raise too many talents, so it increased a part of the quota.

In the later period, the number of Xiucai increased again, because it was increased in the name of attached school, it was called epiphysis.

After many people are admitted to Xiucai, they have not been able to take the exam, so there are more and more teams of Xiucai, so later the dynasty increased the examination in the system, which is also once every three years, so that a group of Xiucai can take the exam, and those with first-class grades are called Yusheng students, and they can get state subsidies, and they have two taels of silver a year.

The second-class is proliferation, the third-class is epiphysia, and the last class will directly eliminate the fame of Xiucai.

Because it is not easy to get a show, the dynasty is merciful, so there will not be too many places at the bottom, and at most three or five garbage talents who have no real talent will be eliminated at a time.

And this Qi Renming, the results of the exam were not very good several times, and once it was said that he was the worst in the exam, but then he didn't know what means he used, so he found a poor show to replace him, and many people in the town had heard of it.

But in any case, he is not exterminated now, he is still epiphytic.

Although he is an epiphytic talent, he is also a character in front of the small step family, after all, there is not even a child in the step family.

An old man said with a calm face; "Bushui Gui and his wife are still young and strong, hardworking and thrifty, where do they need to repair their families to support? I think it's about the same as his husband and wife to support the Buxiu family. ”

Qi Renming smiled; "Since you say so, wouldn't it be better to divide it?"

The old man opened his mouth and stopped talking.

At this time, the elder of the other step family said angrily; "Buxiu is the eldest son of Bushui Gui's family, and according to the family rules, he can't abandon his parents,"

"The family rules are dead, but people are alive, and besides, does the law of the country stipulate that the eldest son cannot be separated? Is it the law of the country or the law of your step? ”

This was said aggressively, and the old man couldn't pick it up.

Qi Renming saw that a group of people stopped talking, and he had a feeling of fighting the group of Confucians, and immediately had to inch in; "To divide or not to divide? If I don't divide it, I have to write a pleading, and ask the county official to divide it. ”

As a countryman, everyone is afraid of seeing officials, and it is not good to say that it is not good to divide the family and make trouble in the official mansion.

Bu Shui, who has been gloomy and has a gloomy face, is expensive; "Forget it, it's useless to talk more, let's divide it!"

As soon as these words came out, Qi Renming and his sister Qi Shi behind him suddenly became happy, while Bu Xiu did not speak from beginning to end, squatting on the ground and lowering his head to avoid seeing the disdainful gaze of the clansmen.

Jiang Yi stayed behind her stepmother, and when she heard that the head of the family agreed to split the family, she had a rich expression on her face, but she still didn't say a word.

She has rarely been to the town since she was a child, let alone to the county, and she has never read a book, she has a soft and kind personality since she was a child, she listened to her father when she was a child, and listened to her husband after she got married, and rarely came forward to argue with people in her life.

At this time, I knew that I was going to separate from my eldest son, and I was a little reluctant and relieved.

She has seen a lot of mothers-in-law who bully her daughter-in-law since she was a child, and she was bullied by her mother-in-law when she first married into the Bu family, but when she became a mother-in-law, she still bullied her daughter-in-law.

Now that the second child is out, the eldest is also going to be divided, but fortunately, there is still a third child. And she and the head of the family can also cultivate the land without worrying about starvation, which is why she doesn't speak from beginning to end, because there is still a way out.

Jiang Yi saw that her mother-in-law didn't make a sound, and she couldn't make a sound.

First of all, whether she is separated or not, it will not affect her interests, and there is no need for her to speak out.

Now the family property is saved by the thrifty husband and wife, and it is not her turn to worry.

Besides, this ancestral hall is full of people and no one speaks, where can they get their turn? Don't think that people who travel can manage the sky and the air, and don't think that the common people in ancient times were stupid and could do whatever they wanted.

The people in this ancestral hall may not be as knowledgeable as Jiang Yi who was in the information explosion and traveled back hundreds of years later, but she is by no means stupider than her, she has no money, no power and no status at this time.

When Jiang Yi adhered to the attitude that it was not about herself, the separation was almost finished.

The process of splitting up the family is still led by Qi Renming.

As a showman, he has a certain status in the countryside, plus he has been to the state capital when he was rushing to take the exam, and he can be regarded as a scholar who has seen the world.

Qi Renming scolded Fang Xuan in the ancestral hall of the Bu family.