In this way, the Liu clan science was quickly established.

There are small courtyards and houses donated by Master Liu Si, and silver money donated by Liu Dongxing and others, Master Liu Si quickly hired craftsmen to come back to clean up the house inside and out, and asked carpenters to make many new tables and chairs, and also wandered in the famous study shop in Heng'an City for a long time, and bought back a lot of pen, ink, paper and inkstone. Although the clansmen privately complained that he was lavish and had spent more than half of the silver taels before the serious start of the class, they all admitted that the newly built clan studies looked like a serious school.

The whole Liu clan looked forward to this school like never before, although the fourth master Liu was the one in charge of the affairs of the clan, but the people in each room wanted to know as much as possible about the trivial things in the process of building the clan. They cared about whether the house was renovated enough or not, whether the tables and chairs were comfortable, whether the pen, ink, paper and inkstone prepared for the students were of good quality, and even complained that Master Liu Si spent so much money, but only got some ordinary goods back, so they fought countless war of words with Master Liu Si, forcing the latter to make the account books for everyone to see overnight, and barely passed the test.

And after this quarrel, everyone suddenly discovered that one hundred taels of silver was far from enough to run a good school, even if Liu Fu donated another hundred taels, it was still insufficient. When Mr. comes back, the annual cultivation will cost at least fifty or sixty taels of silver, plus the student's use in the school, how long can two hundred taels last? So everyone couldn't help but focus on the share of land that Liu Dongxing had invested.

No matter how much silver there is, there will be a day when the mountains are empty, and only the land can be continuously used for the study of the family.

Liu Dongxing was talking about the clan land he was allotted, but everyone knew that he didn't get much clan land. When he was a child, the clansmen bullied him for being helpless, so he sat back and watched Liu Fu's family swallow up the share that should belong to him, and when he grew up, he split up and set up a separate family, which was in the capital, Liu Fu claimed that he had already given him the land, and it was naturally impossible to divide the clan land.

Previously, because it had nothing to do with themselves, the people of the various clans were indifferent to Liu Dongxing's return of the clan land, but now it is different. The amount of clan land under Liu Dongxing's name is directly related to the interests of their children, how can the clansmen be willing to accept this result? And the more clan land there is, the more confidence the academy will have, and the clansmen in other houses will not have to pay extra money and materials. So they began to gather privately to discuss, and even a few families who had always supported Liu Fu also participated, and finally under the leadership of the fourth prince Liu, they officially proposed to Liu Fu, who was the patriarch, that they should supply Liu Dongxing with the number of acres of clan land he deserved.

Liu Dongxing is the eldest grandson of the eldest grandson of the long house, although his parents died early and he has become independent, his identity is unshakable, even if he is no longer a son, he should inherit his father's share of the family property. According to the clan rules, he can get 30% of the land in the long house.

How could Liu Fu possibly accept it? He had bad feelings from the beginning, and the current situation proves it. How many fields are in the name of the long house? Not counting what he has privately purchased as an official for so many years, just the part handed down by his ancestors has as many as 100 hectares of land, and it is divided into 30% for Liu Dongxing? Wouldn't the two Zhuangzi he had already divided into be given in vain?

Fourth Master Liu and others went to the long room every day to reason with Liu Fu, they were elders, and they represented the vast majority of the clansmen, Liu Fu was annoyed, but he couldn't send people away directly. Now that he is no longer an official, if he wants to live a happy life in his hometown, he can't do without the support of his clansmen, but he can't accept their proposal, so he freezes there.

Liu Dongxing once privately persuaded Fourth Master Liu and others: "The second uncle has already divided my land, if I want to get back so much clan land, it will be too much, I am afraid that it will annoy the second uncle, but it will not be beautiful." He has been an official for a long time, even if his power is not as strong as before, his connections are still there. Our Liu family still has a place to rely on him in the future, if he is offended so badly, won't the younger brothers and nephews in each room suffer in the future? I know that all grandfathers and uncles are thinking about me, but for the sake of the overall situation, let's take a step back. ”

When the clansmen heard this, they all sighed: "Brother Xing'er is really a sensible child, and he is willing to make concessions even on such a big matter for us." "The attitude has softened a lot.

Liu Dongxing went to see Liu Fu in private: "The elders are just anxious for the sake of clan studies, and my nephew didn't expect the situation to become like this, I thought that I was a junior, throwing bricks and leading the way, taking the lead first, and each room was willing to contribute to clan learning." But at present, the grandfathers and uncles in each room are riding tigers, they are elders, I can't stop them, the second uncle should look at the past and treat them more. As for the clan, you just have to divide the meaning. How old is a family? There are more than a dozen students in the house, even if you add the children of relatives, there are only twenty or thirty people, plus the cultivation degree of the two gentlemen, what is the use of using less than a hundred taels of land a year? ”

So when Liu Fu met with the people of each house again, he put forward the request of only 50 acres of land, thinking that 50 acres was enough to supply the annual use of the clan, and the children of the clan were separated from each other, and they were only allocated 40 acres of land, which was already a lenient treatment of Liu Dongxing's Changfang lineage. The clansmen calculated that fifty acres of land could barely support the school for a year, and there was really no surplus at all, how could they accept it? So the quarrel broke out again.

Liu Dongxing mediated between the two sides again, but this time, he only said good things on both sides and did not help to persuade them. In the end, Liu Fu hardened up, claiming that if the clansmen were still not greedy enough, he would not care about it, and they would do whatever they liked

Thinking that Mr. Clan would have to rely on Liu Fu to come forward to invite, and if his children learn their homework well in the future, they will have to get Liu Fu's consent before they can attach the hall to worship Mr. Dongyuan as a teacher, and the people of each house finally gave in. They lowered their requirements, only 100 acres of clan land, but the requirement must be good and good land. Liu Fu was impatient, and agreed to everything, and thought about it carefully when he sent the person away, but for some reason there was always a strange feeling, as if something was wrong.

This 100 acres of land was soon transferred to Liu Dongxing's name. Liu Dongxing put the field deed in his left hand, and handed the account book to the fourth master Liu in front of the whole clan with his right hand: "My nephew is going to be an official outside the country, and I have no time to cook, so these fields and properties will be entrusted to the fourth uncle." ”

Fourth Master Liu was surprised and delighted, but he didn't expect Liu Dongxing to hand over all the things to himself without hiding anything at all, and hurriedly took it: "Don't worry, Brother Xing, since the fourth uncle has taken over this burden, he will naturally handle it." He was rejoicing in his heart, but he didn't notice that the people of each house had exchanged glances with each other, and Fourth Master Liu was still staring at him tightly, with a look of vigilance.

When Liu Dongxing returned home, Wen Yi asked him how things were going, and he smiled and said, "It went very well." The clan field has been handed over to my name, and the account books have been handed over to the fourth uncle, and the whole clan can be witnessed. ”

Wen Yi didn't understand his intentions: "Why did you give the field to the fourth uncle?" He has always liked to enrich his own pockets, and the cost of renovating the house and buying tables and chairs in the study room alone made him swallow at least twenty taels and went to the aunts in each room in the past two days to complain to me several times in private, and asked me why I didn't advise you to find someone else to preside over the affairs of the family. ”

Liu Dongxing chuckled: "If the field is under my name, I can't run away, what I want is a name, where is this hundred acres of land missing?" I don't want to make any of that, it's the same for everyone. As for who will preside over the clan study, it's not up to me to decide, it's the errand that the fourth uncle jumped out to take by himself. Besides, the fourth uncle took out his own real estate, and he also made a great contribution to ethnography. As for his greed, don't worry, the eyes of the whole clan are on him, and they won't let him go too far. ”

Wen Yi glanced at him: "Why do I think I ...... What do you seem to be calculating? ”

Liu Dongxing smiled: "How can I calculate something? However, I feel that there are some things that I can't guard against, and I can't stay here for long, so I might as well let everyone help me watch out. ”

Liu Dongxing said it lightly, but Liu Fu didn't think so. More and more, he felt that he was being calculated. Liu Dongxing proposed ethnology, and his prestige among the clan soared, and he became a court official at a young age, and the younger generation of clansmen were completely headed by him. After the completion of the clan study, once the children of the clan who have achieved success in learning can make achievements on the way to the imperial examination, they will only be grateful for Liu Dongxing's kindness, and the children of the martial arts examination will directly become Liu Dongxing's sworn friends. He, the patriarch, was first robbed of the opportunity, and then he was set aside, even if he took out a hundred taels of silver, donated another hundred acres of fertile land, and then tried his best to invite Mr. back, he couldn't get the slightest good.

Especially in the matter of clan fields, Liu Dongxing used tricks to instigate the whole clan to recover the clan property for himself, but he could only suffer a dumb loss. Now that he has lost his land and reputation, he has also made enemies with the clansmen, and even the people in the few houses who have always supported him have begun to alienate him, and Liu Si Ye, who has always been his sworn friend, has actually become the presiding officer of the clan study, Liu Si Ye helps him take care of clan affairs with one hand, and holds the clan study with the other, and his power and prestige in the clan faintly overshadow him. Liu Fu began to be wary of this cousin.

Within two days, two rumors began to circulate up and down Liujie, one is that Liu Si was full of private pockets and greedy for the money in the name of the clan; The second is that Liu Dongxing borrowed the power of the clansmen to ask for the clan land, but he was just using the clansmen, not really wanting to contribute to the clan. The former one is known by many people, but it has caused more gossip, but it has not caused any splashes, and the latter one has become more and more intense, and some people even began to say that Liu Dongxing slandered in front of Liu Fu, and the latter would refuse the request of the clansmen so strongly, in fact, the two had already made an agreement in private, and Liu Fu gave more land to Liu Dongxing.

Some clansmen couldn't sit still, they were embarrassed to ask Liu Dongxing about it, so they hit Wen Yi with their ideas. Several Mrs. Liu found excuses to come to see Wen Yi, knocking on the side, Wen Yi only pretended not to understand, and sighed: "A few days ago, there was such a big trouble in the clan, and the husband didn't know how many good things he said to the second uncle, and finally calmed things down, but he offended the second uncle for this matter." These days, my second aunt doesn't even want to see me in person, and scolds her in the inner courtyard every day, saying that our husband and wife are thieves or something. In fact, Xianggong has already made a lot of concessions in front of the family, he is the eldest grandson of the long house, and he should have obtained an inheritance from the clan, but now he is just sharing a hundred acres of fertile land in the long house, and he has to persuade the elders not to fight for him more, but I didn't expect that in the eyes of the second aunt, this hundred acres is still cutting her flesh, which is really sad. ”

Several Mrs. Liu exchanged glances with each other, and their expressions were a little uncomfortable, so Mrs. Liu Jiu smiled dryly: "Isn't it?" In the end, they are all the children of the long house, no matter how Brother Xing'er said, he shouldn't only share a hundred acres of land, how can the second master treat him like this? It doesn't make sense, does it? ”

Wen Yi smiled helplessly: "That's it, when I was in the capital, the second uncle had already divided our two small Zhuangzi, and adding this hundred acres of land would not be less." It's just that when we left Beijing, due to the limited manpower in our family and no one to take care of them, our husband and wife changed hands on Zhuangzi. We don't know how many years we will stay in Kangnan when we go south, so what is the use of buying more land? As long as this land property is enough for the cost of the school, our husband and wife will be satisfied. If it weren't for this great event, we wouldn't have thought about it. ”

Mrs. Liu Jiu laughed a few times, glanced at the concubines, and felt a little ashamed, and was about to leave not long after.

Wen Yi stopped them and said, "My nephew and daughter-in-law suddenly have an idea. Speaking of which, we are all daughters-in-law of the Liu family, and in the future, our children and grandchildren will also study in the family studies, and we should also contribute to the affairs of the clan studies. I have a few pieces of jewelry here, and they are worth some silver, so why don't I ask my aunts to accompany me to the fourth uncle's house and donate them? ”

Everyone looked at each other and had to follow Wen Yi. So Wen Yi handed over a box of gold and silver jewelry with a slightly old style to Mrs. Liu Si in front of everyone, and asked her to go to the jewelry shop to exchange it for silver money and return it to the clan account.

With Wen Yi taking the lead, Mrs. Liu San and others also donated a few pieces of jewelry, for a while, Wen Yi's reputation in the clan soared, and the unhappy Liu Gu asked the girl to take two boxes of jewelry after hearing the news, but she only got a thank you, and she didn't get any good reputation.

Liu Gu was about to curse, but Liu Dongxing immediately took Liu Dongning away, went to visit his childhood classmates, and invited him to the clan school to act as a young child's Mr. Enlightenment. This classmate has already made a name for himself, and he is a person who is solid in learning and steady and patient, and he is more than enough to enlighten young children. And because his family was poor, the invitation of the Liu brothers was tantamount to helping him a lot, and through his mouth, the brothers quickly won the name of benevolence among the students of Heng'an.

Another teacher who taught the Four Books and the Five Classics was originally invited by Liu Fu, but the Liu brothers invited a famous teacher who had been famous in Heng'an for a long time under the introduction of that classmate. For a time, the evaluation of Liu Dongning in the clan also improved greatly. Immediately afterwards, Liu Dongning publicly stated that he wanted to study in the clan and be classmates with his cousins, no longer being high in the past, and the attitude of the clansmen was even softer.

For the sake of this matter, Liu Gu did not embarrass Liu Dongxing and Wen Yi anymore, and because Dongning and Dongya brothers wanted to study in clan studies, Changfang finally had a representative in clan studies, and the resentment in Liu Fu's heart was also alleviated, but he didn't notice that when the clansmen talked about his eldest son, they no longer regarded Dongning and his father as one.

Willow Street in November has gradually calmed down. And Liu Dongxing, who had countless halos on his body, finally stopped and said to Wen Yi: "The overall situation has been decided, we can retire after success".

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