Compared with the Zhu family in the Yangning Marquis Mansion in the past, even those who were as yin as Chen Ying avoided their edge, and did not launch a counterattack until they attacked the title, and the situation of the Ru Ningbo family was much more complicated. The last Ru Ningbo, that is, the patriarch of the Yang family, Yang Jue, said that he was a descendant, but in fact it was only recorded in the name of Mrs. Tai, so as soon as the old uncle died, there was a lawsuit. In order to deal with the Ministry of Rites and the powerful people who can influence this matter, the Yang family's originally unreliable family foundation was squandered, not counting the three or four Zhuangzi that the emperor had taken back from the previous dynasties under various pretexts.

At this time, everyone arrived, Mrs. Tai sat down, and Yang Jin, the fifth old man who had entered the mirror garden to persuade him to no avail, was the first to stand up, and said with a sad expression: "The title that has been inherited for more than 100 years has now been lost, not only that, but the pawnshop that has been stolen has made our Yang family lose face, and this is not counted, but now, the second sister-in-law has even made a little family trouble in Shuntian Mansion, do you think our face is not enough to lose?" The good century-old wealthy family has ended up at this point, all because there is no way to govern the family, no matter what, since the eldest brother has opened the army, Brother Ai can't afford this clan matter, and now in our family, it is the highest official position in the whole brother, whether it is to pick the chief or the virtuous, this patriarch should be ......"

Before he could finish speaking, the Jiang clan frowned and said lightly: "Brother Quan didn't even have the time to come to today's clan conference, let alone take care of clan affairs on weekdays. The fifth brother doesn't need to say anything about selecting a competent deacon or a clan elder to assist from the side, could it be that when the second brother was the patriarch in the past, these were never set up, and it is not that the clan can hardly pick out a talent? Besides, if you don't seek politics in your position, you can't say it after all. Therefore, the patriarch doesn't have to think about him, how can there be no one patriarch among so many people? I'm here today just to say that, and you can discuss the rest."

Chen Lan watched coldly, and saw that some of the Yang family disciples present were sneering, but more of them were exchanging glances, and their faces were full of joy that could not be hidden, and she couldn't help but turn her gaze to Mrs. Tai again. I saw that Mrs. Tai seemed to be asleep with half-squinted eyes, and the whole person was motionless, only from the hand holding the Buddha beads trembling slightly, but I could see that her person was by no means calm.

"Since my sister-in-law said so, then I recommended myself." Yang Jin smiled proudly, and gently stroked the three imposing long beards on his chin, "If you don't count the two branches of the eldest brother and the second brother, then I should take over as the patriarch."

As soon as these words came out, two sparse echoes sounded below, but more of them were in an uproar. The young man who had just moved Jindun for Chen Lan sneered: "Fifth old lady, you dare to say that if you didn't compete with the second old lady for that title, and it didn't work out, it ended up in Shuntian Mansion, how could our Yang family's ancestral property be less than half?" Now that you know that you have come forward, you are not thinking about this old mansion handed down from your ancestors."

"You...... Nonsense" Yang Jin was so angry that his forehead was bruised, and he slapped heavily on the high table on the side, Huo Ran stood up, "What kind of place is this, even your father is a descendant, how can you be a grandchild to speak"

"Fifth old lady, you don't have to teach people one elder and younger generation, you now say that the second old lady is a set, but what have you done all these years? Privately co-authored with a businessman to open a casino in the outer city, right? The second old lady put the money in the seal, and you let the fifth old lady mix it up, is there any? As for helping those litigants to say favors to Shuntianfuguan, this is also there, right? Just now, the old lady said that our Yang family is now a family and can't pick out a talent, isn't this not that the upper beam is crooked and the lower beam is crooked? ”

"You, you shut up for me, come on, let's get him out"

Seeing that Yang Jin, who was still dignified just now, was suddenly crooked in anger, and even stammered when he spoke, how embarrassed and embarrassed he looked, and seeing that most of the people in the audience were laughing, only the eleventh old man Yang Luo and a few two or three people were frowning there, Chen Lan couldn't help but sigh secretly, and then coughed lightly. Although her voice was not loud, it was only a moment before the spacious room fell silent, and no one came in from outside the door.

"What is the best proposal for my brother's daughter-in-law?"

Seeing that the fifth master Yang Jin finally squeezed out a decent smile and looked at him, Chen Lan smiled slightly: "Today, you came here to select a patriarch to come out. In that case, why don't you ask all of you who want to take up the burden of this clan to stand up first, and don't say what you did before, but only what you want to do after taking over as the patriarch. When all was finished, he asked each room to write their names on a piece of paper and put them in a box, and then the patriarch was chosen according to the number of votes. Naturally, one vote per room, a total of nine votes, all of which are anonymous, and in the end, if more than five votes are passed, how about it? ”

Chen Lan was really impatient to listen to these people quarreling, so he got angry with his mother-in-law Jiang and the eleventh lord Yang Luo early, and at this time he simply put out the method of secret ballot. Seeing that a group of people looked at each other for a while, but no one said a single objection, she looked at Mrs. Tai.

"What does Madame Tai think?"

Mrs. Tai opened her eyes and glanced at Chen Lan meaningfully, and then her eyes dimmed, and the old man said softly: "Okay, depending on you." ”

As soon as she spoke, the eleventh lord Yang Luo was the first to speak, and then the others hesitated for a while, and finally agreed unevenly. Soon, in addition to the fifth master Yang Jin and the eleventh master Yang Luo in the ninth room, only the father of the young man who had been with Yang Jin before, the fourth master Yang Miao, said that he wanted to compete for the patriarch, and then naturally stood up and spoke one by one. The fifth master had just been frustrated, and at this time, he impassionedly drew a big cake that he vowed to get back the title for the clan and sat down. And then Yang Miao was much smarter, and after saying common words such as benevolence, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom, and faith, the conversation suddenly changed.

"I am a junior, if I become the patriarch, I have to ask my aunt and third brother and sister to mention more about these affairs, and I will never dare to act arbitrarily. It must be known that a fence with three piles, a hero with three gangs, this Yang clan belongs to everyone, and the so-called patriarch wants the whole clan to live a good life......" He then made another wish, and only then did he bow to the Jiang clan with a smile and said, "I'm done with everything I should say, and I ask my aunt to give instructions." ”

When Jiang was young, he was soft on the outside and strong on the inside, but for many years in Xuanfu, he was in contact with the wives and daughters of officers, and the surface of the softness was almost polished, and he was extremely disgusted with such hypocritical overtures, so he simply raised his eyebrows at this time: "You just made a lot of wishes, but you never said why you let the Yang Sect come back, why let the talents in the clan come out in large numbers, what else do I have to teach?" ”

Seeing that Yang Miao was speechless when asked, his son opened his mouth as if he was ready to join in to help, Chen Lan immediately grabbed the conversation, because he looked at Yang Luo and said, "Uncle Eleven, you are the last." ”

Compared with Yang Jin, who was pretentious, and Yang Miao, who was full of words, Yang Luo stood up, just shook his head, and then said in a deep voice: "The Yang family is no longer in dire straits, but on the edge of the cliff, you are holding the second brother who has already been in the army, but you should also think about it, how many tricks we have made over the years in the hands of others, and who among the children of the family are admitted to the imperial examination by virtue of their ability, or have they mixed up their future in the army without relying on grace?" It doesn't matter if you look at a small mistake, if you pile up too much and liquidate it, it's the same fatal, plus there is a lack of successors, what kind of revitalization to talk about, it's not bad if it doesn't fall completely"

Seeing that these words finally had a little deafening effect, Yang Luo slowed down and calmed his tone: "Ethnology has been abandoned for many years, and there are so many serious classes, but all of them are children surnamed him who came to the attached school, who of our own children is attentive?" And if you want to talk about bow horses, don't say anything else, even my kid can't even get up the horse at all, so as the patriarch, the first thing is to clean up the clan school out of a good atmosphere, set the strictest rules, send all the school-age children into it for good training, and then select a few old family generals to teach them to practice bow horses. Of course, this is for the future, and it is not yet visible that it will have an effect.

As for the present, the first thing is to try to smooth out the past one by one. This is the most difficult, but no matter how difficult it is, I have to do the emperor's determination to eliminate the evils, everyone should see it, first the Marquis of Dongchang, then our Ru Ningbo, and the rest of the nobles also have a lot of reprimands or fines or confiscated Zhuangtian. After the Dongchang Marquis's family committed suicide, the remaining clansmen of the Jin family almost all managed Liaodong, what is the reason? It's not because they don't know what to do, and they don't have a successor."

Hearing this, almost everyone in the audience changed color except for Jiang and Chen Lan, as well as the quiet Mrs. Tai. After a long time, someone finally sneered unconvinced: "It's just that the second brother committed the crime alone, how could he implicate us?" ”

"What the second brother committed is a little lighter than what Dongchanghou committed at the beginning?"

One sentence made everyone speechless, Yang Luo looked at Jiang and Chen Lan at this time, and saw Chen Lan nodding slightly at himself, he remembered the letter that Chen Lan asked the girl to send him at that time, and an irrepressible awe was born in his heart. Some of the things written on it were thought of by him, such as ethnology, and some were things he never thought of, such as the Yang family, which has not yet fallen completely, just because the Son of Heaven still has a glimmer of opportunity.

At this time, Chen Lan also nodded slightly: "Now that it's all done, let's vote one by one." ”

Jiang picked up the pen and did it overnight, while the rest of the people considered it again and again, and some even peeked at Jiang and Chen Lan, and swept around among the three candidates. After a long time, it was not until Chen Lan personally stood up with the wooden box that people hurriedly wrote on the paper and carefully folded it again. Chen Lan accepted them one by one, and when she walked up to Mrs. Tai, she turned around when she saw that she didn't look at her and threw herself in.

At that moment, there was a loud commotion outside.

"I'm not a clan woman, who dares to choose what patriarch"

With this voice, I saw that the door curtain was lifted, and Zheng shook off his daughter-in-law who was blocking left and right, and went straight in. Mrs. Tai raised her eyebrows and was about to speak, when the other people in the room suddenly made a buzzing sound, and the fifth old man, Yang Jin, stood up all of a sudden, glanced at the Zheng family, and showed a sneering expression.

"Lady of the Clan? Lao 2 even lost the ancestral title in the family, and the position of the patriarch should have been dismissed at that time, what kind of clan wife do you call it? If he hadn't married you, an unvirtuous woman who put money in the seal, he wouldn't have gone to Kaiping to eat sand and earn his life at such an age, and you went to Shuntian Mansion to sprinkle and pull all our Yang family into the water, so disregarding the overall situation, you still dare to call the clan wife? ”

Since her husband attacked Ru Ningbo and the Zheng family got the fate, although there were many disagreements between brothers and concubines of the same generation, they were often behind their backs, and few people dared to contradict her like this in front of her, so she was so straightforwardly pushed up by Yang Jin, she only felt that the blood all over her body rushed to her head at once, and her expression became extremely hideous for a while.

"I have always been the patriarch of this house, what dare not admit it, you still have the face to reprimand me, what kind of good thing are you not doing, do you still do less things about male thieves and female prostitutes......"

Seeing that Zheng's eyes were red and he dared to say anything, Chen Lan's face sank, but when he wanted to try it, someone gently pressed his hand. She immediately looked sideways at the Jiang family on the side, and found that the mother-in-law shook her head slightly at herself, and then glanced in the direction of the lord's wife, and she immediately looked over. At this moment, she clearly saw that Mrs. Tai sneered and directly reached out to the side to the side, and the tea cup that was originally placed firmly fell down suddenly.

Bang Dang –

The crisp voice suddenly interrupted the two people who were staring at each other, until they found a tea cup that had broken at Mrs. Tai's feet, and tea residues and fragments of tea were splashed everywhere, and everyone quietly looked at Mrs. Tai. Seeing that his waist was straight, he no longer saw the indifference just now, and one by one exchanged glances, and he sat down to get up and persuade him.

"Get out."

Zheng was stunned by these two concise words, and he didn't react at once. But immediately after, she saw Mrs. Tai trembling and raising a finger, pointing at her undoubtedly: "Get out of here."

This earth-shattering sound finally stunned the Zheng family. She swallowed a mouthful of saliva with difficulty, and said in a sad voice: "Mother, the master is not here, do you also want to help outsiders bully our mother and son?" Brother Ai is lying on the bed half dead, and her daughter-in-law has also been forcibly taken back, and now they have to take the house to fight for the patriarch, I just want a fair ......"

"If you don't want Brother Ai to make you and his father end up in a situation, and you don't want everyone in this house to be killed by you, you can go out"

At this time, the sound was more severe than just now, Zheng Shi was shocked, staggered back two steps, and suddenly saw Chen Lan sitting on the side of Jiang's lower hand, his eyes were suddenly full of resentment, and his hands in front of his waist were twisted together. However, in the silence of the hall, she didn't dare to continue to blindly hard top, so she slowly retreated all the way to the door. As her heel touched the threshold, she suddenly turned and rushed out the door.

"Come" Mrs. Tai shouted as soon as she went out, and when a mother entered the door, she ordered in a deep voice, "Send all the people who are staying in Hua'an to Changxinju, and follow the second lady and don't leave." If she's hysterical, you all know what to do, and the rest of the people are all sent to Ai Ge'er to watch."

As soon as the mother walked forward, Mrs. Tai immediately looked sideways at Chen Lan: "Brother Quan, daughter-in-law, you will do your good deeds to the end, and you will still do the duties of this witness." My old woman is almost in the ground, I only regret that I didn't teach my son well in the past, and now I don't have any big wishes, I just hope that our Yang clan can have a good leader in the future."

"So I transgressed. In order to save trouble, only the name is pronounced, and the honorific title is omitted, and I ask for your forgiveness. ”

Chen Lan saw that everyone was looking at him, so he gave a salute, then opened the box, leaned down slightly to show everyone a little, and then unfolded the notes one by one.

"Yang Luo."

"Yang Jin."

"Yang Miao."

After reading the first three notes, the expressions of everyone in the audience suddenly became a little subtle. Chen Lan took advantage of the situation to glance at everyone, then lowered his eyelids and continued to open the remaining notes. This time, however, every time she thought about it, she could see the faces of the crowd change again, and when the last note was put aside and the box was empty, a man suddenly stood up.

"It can't be"

"Does the fifth uncle think I'm unfair?" Chen Lan raised his head suddenly, looked directly at the fifth old man Yang Jin who was covered with green muscles on his forehead, and said word by word, "If the fifth uncle feels unfair, you can let someone come out to check the handwriting on these notes." Although it is anonymous, the handwriting of your uncles and brothers cannot be hidden. ”

"This ...... This ......"

When Yang Jin was sweating profusely, Yang Miao, who had just had a gloomy face, had already stood up with a smile on his face, and gave Yang Luo a deep salute: "My vote was voted for by myself with my face salivated, and the fifth uncle always chose himself after all, but the eleventh uncle can get all the trust of the rest of everyone, which is really admirable." Not to mention anything else, just the words that Uncle Eleventh just made a deaf deaf voice are something that a person like me can't say. With you in the lead, our Yang clan will definitely be able to get out of trouble......"

This call was both convincing and beautiful, and it was all compliments and flattery after that, so although the next person stood up to congratulate him, he couldn't change too many tricks, so he hung a Yang Jin standing alone, how desolate and desolate it was. When Yang Jin finally calmed down, how could he not understand that Mrs. Tai and the Jiang family had both recognized Yang Luo, so although his heart was sour, he also laughed and laughed together. For a while, there was peace in the main hall that had just been tense.

Since the patriarch had chosen, he should open the ancestral hall to all the clansmen, but Yang Luo was unusual, unusually respectfully pushed back the words of the lady asking him to sit on the main seat, and Tuan Tuan said: "The matter of opening the ancestral hall should not wait until Chinese New Year's Eve to worship the ancestors." Now the top priority is to withdraw the paper from the second sister-in-law to the Shuntian Mansion first, and then I will personally negotiate with the Yangning Marquis Mansion......"

Seeing that Yang Luo looked over as he spoke, and most of the others were secretly looking at him, Chen Lan nodded and said, "The old lady of the Yangning Hou Mansion has learned about this matter, and the second uncle has also known about it, and he will definitely deal with it properly." ”

With Chen Lan's words, everyone was relieved. At the moment, he was going to choose the old deacon of the clan again, but Mrs. Tai was tired of it, so she directly gave her share of power to Yang Luo to decide, and ordered them to go to the filial piety hall in front of the ancestral hall to continue to discuss. After a while, more than half of the people left in the huge house, and only three generations of old, middle-aged and young mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law remained.

Mrs. Tai looked at the Jiang family, then looked at Chen Lan, and finally sighed softly: "The cause of the day is now the fruit." At this point, I don't want to say anything false, and I don't want to apologize insincerely. Even if the Yang family has a chance to revive, it will be at least ten years and decades later, and it will definitely not be as fast as your family's Qianli Horse. Although the old 2 is not my own child, but he has been raised under his knees for many years, and he will eventually have affection, he is now in front of the army, and I don't ask my brother to take care of it, but I only want to be able to protect my brother a little bit. If the old uncle has a spirit under the spring, although he regrets not being at the beginning, he can trust it the same as me. ”

Jiang felt that Chen Lan's hand holding him tightened slightly, squinted his eyes, and then bowed and said, "Don't worry, Mrs. Tai, although that Dr. Zhang is not a member of the Tai Hospital, he is also a national hand. With his diagnosis and treatment, the medicine will inevitably be cured. ”

When she got out of the main hall, Chen Lan breathed a sigh of relief, and after going out all the way and finally getting into the carriage, she noticed that Jiang patted her hand gently, and said softly: "Mother still said that I have a good heart, are you not the same?" After all, the emperor has not yet made a will on how to deal with it, even if we have compassion, it is not easy to agree to Mrs. Tai. ”

The Jiang clan lifted the curtains and glanced at the familiar and unfamiliar high-walled compound, and finally opened his hand lightly: "With your eleventh uncle here, this Yang clan can probably hold on, but those who are counting on this old mansion are probably going to be disappointed." They have always been given the first place, except for the first place, they were not allowed to move out before, either they forgot it or had other arrangements, and this time, I am afraid that at most they can keep the small place of the ancestral hall......"

"Seeing him raise the Zhu Tower, seeing him feasting guests, seeing his building collapse."

Hearing Chen Lan muttering these three sentences in a low voice, Jiang couldn't help but be a little surprised, and Chen Lan came back to his senses This is from the "Peach Blossom Fan" by Kong Shangren in the Qing Dynasty, if the two crossing colleagues had not quoted it, it must have not been circulated yet, so he had to smile bitterly, "I didn't know which book I saw when I was a child, I just felt that it was used to meet the situation at this time." ”

"Yes, these words are indeed memorable, and it's no wonder you remember them well." The Jiang clan didn't take it to heart, and after pondering for a while, he said, "Let's go to the Yangning Marquis Mansion next." Whether it's for Yang Ai, or for the reputation of the Marquis of Yangning, or for your second sister, you have to make it clear. Although marrying a chicken and a dog is never fair to a woman, it is also unreasonable to dislike the poor and love the rich after marrying. I think your grandmother is better than this one here, and she will take care of this idle matter as soon as possible, and if my brother comes back, we can live a smooth life. ”

Chen Lan was said like this, and for a while he thought of Yang Jinzhou's letter. At this moment, she suddenly felt a strong jolt in the carriage, and then she suddenly sat unsteadily and fell down, and there was a lot of exclamation outside.

PS: Yesterday someone said that I had a change, and then I said, a change is also 6,000 words, isn't this to save trouble? The twenty-one, like the plot, it's the darkness before dawn, everyone's pink ticket supports me, okay? ()