After a boiling March peach blossom snow, with the sound of three funeral cannons, there were bursts of crying from the tallest old house in the center of the town. A pair of white lanterns hung on the door of the old house, and the lanterns had a big word written on them, and a gust of wind blew, and the spirit flags and paper money flew up and down. At the door, two linen and filial piety men walked up to me and knelt on the ground: "Young master, you are late, the head of the family is gone." After speaking, he lay on the ground and cried bitterly.

As soon as he heard the news that the head of the house was gone, a wave of sadness welled up in his heart, and two lines of hot tears flowed uncontrollably from his face, and then he ran towards the old mansion like crazy. The courtyard was covered with mourning flags and white lanterns, a large inscription was hung on the wall of the main hall, a white funeral bed was placed in front, and a posthumous image was placed near the door, with three everlasting lamps burning on each side of the statue.

I rushed into the main hall, knelt in front of the mourning bed and lifted the prayer quilt, and watched the old man lying on the mourning bed crying bitterly, and the crying in the whole main hall became much louder.

"Yi'an!" An old lady came over with the support of two young women and touched my head: "Yi'an, grandpa still can't wait for you." ”

Hearing the old lady's words, I seemed to understand, although it was still my own consciousness, my body was called Yi'an, could it be that I had crossed over?

"Almost! Why did you go so sad? ”

When I heard the voice and raised my head, I found that the main hall was full of kneeling people, and several middle-aged men were sitting on chairs, without any trace of sadness on their faces, and it was one of them who said what they had just said.

The old lady helped me up and glanced at the middle-aged man who spoke: "You big rebels, your father just left, did you start fighting for power?" ”

The middle-aged man looked back at a few people next to him: "Mother! That's not right! We are all biological, and we are very sad when our father dies, but we can't watch the Lin family fall into the hands of outsiders! ”

The Lin family? Does it have anything to do with me?

After the middle-aged man finished speaking, a young woman with red and swollen eyes stood up from the ground: "Second uncle! Grandpa just left, can you talk about these things another day! ”

I've seen this woman, the masked woman on the boat.

The middle-aged man slapped the armrest, got up from the chair, and pointed at the young woman: "Shen Siling!" Don't think I don't know, didn't you marry Yi'an just to save your Shen family? Another day? Another day, I'm afraid that the entire Lin family will have to change their surname! ”

"Dick! That's enough! The old lady slammed the cane in her hand to the ground, and suddenly the crying in the whole hall stopped. Shen Siling walked to the old lady's side, took the old lady's arm from the young woman's hand, and helped the old lady to the chair.

"Mother! I think the second brother is right, don't blame us, our Lin family has been inherited for more than a thousand years, and we can't hand it over to others! Another middle-aged man stood up and stared in Shen Siling's direction.

The old lady looked at the sons in front of her, and suddenly burst out laughing, and after laughing, she raised her crutches and pointed at everyone: "You all think so, right?" Then who do you think is the right person to take over the head of the family? ”

As soon as the second child heard the old lady's words, he coughed, glanced at the seat of the head of the family under the laying word, and looked back at the three brothers next to him, obviously having prepared a set of rhetoric.

"Mother! Originally, after my father died, according to the rules of the Lin family, the eldest brother should take over the head of the family, but I think my eldest brother doesn't pay much attention to the things at home, this is five years, and there is no news at all until now, Yi'an is still young, I'm afraid that it is not good to be a good family, it is better for our brothers to take care of it for a period of time, and it is not too late to take it over when the time comes. ”

After the second brother finished speaking, the three brothers next to him said: "This head of the family will let the second brother take it, and with the second brother's ability, he doesn't need our assistance." ”

The old lady's hand holding the cane kept trembling: "Listen to me, you rebels, this is your father's last wish to hand over the head of the family to Si Ling, you can't stop it!" ”

The old lady held Shen Siling's hand: "Siling, you will make a statement in front of your good uncles today." ”

Shen Siling looked at the fanatical eyes of the four uncles, walked up to me and wiped my tears, and turned around to the front of the head of the family's seat: "Grandma, uncles, I, Shen Siling, have been members of the Lin family since I married Yi'an a year ago, and the Shen family has never had any intentions towards the Lin family. In terms of age and generation, it is indeed not my turn to sit as the head of the family, but since my grandfather passed on the position of the head of the family to me before he died, then I, Shen Siling, will obey my grandfather's last wishes. From today onwards, I, Shen Siling, will be the head of the Lin family! ”

When the second child heard Shen Siling's words, the frenzy in his eyes suddenly turned into anger, he slapped the handrail fiercely, and suddenly knelt down beside the spiritual bed and cried: "Dad! You're confused! How can you hand over the Lin family to a woman from the Shen family! ”。 The other three people also cried one after another, and for a while the main hall was filled with the cries of four people.

When the crying gradually changed to a child, Shen Siling sat on the seat of the head of the family and looked at the kneeling people in the main hall: "All along, the head of the Lin family has been the eldest son and eldest grandson, and there has never been a precedent for establishing a foreign surname. ”

After listening to what Shen Siling said, the second child got up from the ground and pointed at Shen Siling: "The surname is Shen, do you think that you have changed your surname to the Lin family?" Don't talk nonsense here, you're only in your twenties, and when you die, we old guys don't know where they are, it's not up to you to pass it on to the surname Lin or to the surname Shen? ”

Shen Siling leaned on the armrest of the chair and owed: "Second uncle, I said that from today onwards, my name is Lin Siling!" The Lin family has a huge business, I am still young, and if a few uncles are willing to help, Si Ling is here to thank you. If a few uncles want to make things difficult, don't blame the Lin family for being ruthless! Don't think I don't know the good things that my uncles do on a daily basis! ”

The second child obviously underestimated the twenty-year-old girl in front of him, coupled with the good things that Lin Siling just said about doing on weekdays, he was a little weak-hearted, but he still pretended to be calm in front of everyone in the Lin family.

"Since you are willing to take over the position of the head of the family, and keep saying that it is for the good of the Lin family, I don't know when the head of the family is going to take everyone to find the destiny chart?"

Hearing the horoscope, everyone in the main hall began to talk to each other, and it was filled with buzzing for a while.

Lin Siling looked at the crowd of people who were talking to each other, coughed heavily, and his voice gradually became quieter.

"Second uncle! The things you did behind your grandfather's back before were just for the sake of fate, right? If you want the position of the head of this family, I'm afraid it's also to use the power of the entire Lin family to find your destiny, right? Don't you know the idea that the ancestors taught the descendants of the Lin family that they must not fight the fate? ”

"Humph! Are you in a hurry, a few of us are seeing our health getting worse and worse, and no one knows if we can survive until tomorrow, and you! The second child turned around and looked at the person kneeling on the ground: "Everyone in the Lin family, if you don't want to die, you can only change your life!" ”

"Rebel! Are you going to disobey the teachings of the ancestors? The old lady looked at her second son, her chest rising and falling violently, and her hands trembled.

"Zu Xun? What age is it and the ancestors? The Qing Dynasty is going to die, and I still believe in those outdated things! If those old things are really for the good of the Lin family, why don't they change their lives for the Lin family? You want to die, I don't! Come with me if you don't die! After speaking, he broke his sleeves and walked towards the door with the three brothers, and the dozen or so people behind him stood up and followed Lin Siling and the old lady.

"It's the other way around!" The old lady looked at the four sons who turned to leave, she was angry, a mouthful of blood spurted out, slowly closed her eyes, her hands hung down weakly, and a tear fell to the ground across her cheeks.

The scene in front of me gradually blurred, and finally fell into darkness. By the time it became clear again, I was on a boat, surrounded by an endless sea, and a man was standing at the bow with his back to me.

After a while, a young man who looked like a servant ran over: "Family master, I just received news from the Shen family, and all the widows behind us have been resolved." The person at the bow of the boat turned around, and it was Lin Siling, who had just taken over the head of the Lin family.

"Hmm!" Lin Siling nodded at the person next to him: "When you get to the place, it's up to you!" ”

The young man knelt on one knee and raised his fists above his head: "The head of the family is serious, my life belongs to the Lin family." ”

Lin Siling took out a black seal from his back and put it in the young man's hand, which was the one on the stone gate under the sea: "What is the name of your clan?" My Lin family doesn't have a nameless soul! ”

"Lin Mosheng."

"Go ahead, stay behind."

After the young man left, Lin Siling turned around, as if talking to himself and as if to say to me: "Everyone wants to find it, but what can they do, if people's hearts are insufficient, there will be disaster." ”