All Heavens Pension started from the fiery era

Chapter 698 Chapter 699. Dispute over the Division of the Family and the Hemei Family
After washing up, Yue Wenxuan changed into a brand new robe with the help of Yanliu and Biyun.

The sun in July always moves in a hurry, as if afraid of missing its date with the dawn.

A ray of sunlight fell like a thread, shining through the window lattice on a sixteen-year-old boy. He was wearing a dark blue robe, which was like a quiet ocean in the night, deep and solemn. His figure was slender, like a bamboo that had not yet grown, upright and tough.

His face was handsome and handsome, and his eyes were shining with a bright light, as if they contained the sea of ​​stars. At this moment, there was a faint smile on the corner of his mouth, as warm and gentle as the warm sun in spring.

Yan Liu looked at the young master who was looking in the mirror with fascination. In her eyes, the young master was like a gentleman, gentle and elegant, as gentle as jade, and every move made people respect him.

Yan Liu knew her identity and did not have any improper thoughts, but this did not prevent her from admiring and appreciating the young master.

Yue Wenxuan was also very satisfied when he looked at the handsome young man in the mirror. After all, he had grown up in luxury, and although he was not yet an adult, the sixteen-year-old boy's body and frame were already larger than most adults.

According to the old rules, after getting up, Yue Wenxuan would first pay his respects to his parents, and then go with his parents to pay his respects to his grandmother and have breakfast together.

The ancestral home of the Yue family covers an area of ​​nearly seven acres. According to the current market value, even if it is an old house, it will cost at least 50,000 yuan. Of course, this is the last face of the Yue family, and it will definitely not be sold to the outside world.

This ancestral house is a typical Su-style garden building. Because the area is large enough, the old lady of the Yue family and his three biological sons each occupy a courtyard. The old lady lives in Yongning Hall, Yue Wenxuan's uncle named his courtyard Junzixuan, the second uncle's courtyard is called Yunshuiyuan, and Yue Wenxuan's family lives in Qingpuyuan.

As illegitimate sons, Yue Wenxuan's third and fourth uncles were not treated as highly, so the two brothers lived together in Jifuju. Fortunately, there were enough rooms in the courtyard, so they could live comfortably.

Yue Wenxuan lived in the same courtyard as his parents, and it was only a few steps away for him to pay his respects. Yanliu, Biyun and Huang Youjin all had their own things to do, so they didn't need to accompany the eldest young master to pay his respects and have breakfast.

After watching the young master leave the door, Yan Liu's eyes were still fixed on Yue Wenxuan's back.

Walking on the old stone road in the yard, every step Yue Wenxuan took seemed calm and unhurried, as if he was savoring the peaceful time.

His robe fluttered gently in the breeze, like a flowing ink painting, so beautiful that it was breathtaking.

In Yan Liu's eyes, his existence seemed like a unique landscape, making the world in the early years of the Republic of China a better place because of him.

Although Yue Wenxuan's mother, Tan Bingzhen, has given birth to four children, she is only 35 years old. Because she has always lived a pampered life, she looks a few years younger than her actual age.

Tan Bingzhen has soft facial features nurtured by the Jiangnan water town, and her temperament is gentle and elegant. She is a typical good wife and mother of this era.

Yue Wenxuan is the eldest son whom Tan Bingzhen has always valued the most, and any slight change in him cannot escape her eyes.

After Yue Wenxuan paid her respects, she looked her son up and down carefully. She always felt that her eldest son seemed a little different today than usual.

But after looking carefully, she couldn't find what was different. The face was still the same face, the person was still the same person, just the clothes and appearance had changed a little.

"Mother, is there something wrong with me?" Yue Wenxuan asked deliberately.

As soon as Yue Wenxuan opened his mouth, Tan Bingzhen finally realized what was different about her son. Today, her son seemed more stable than before!

As the eldest grandson of the Yue family, Yue Wenxuan shoulders the future of the Yue family and has been educated to be obedient and sensible since childhood. However, there is an essential difference between pretending to be obedient and sensible and being truly sensible, and Tan Bingzhen discovered this the first time she saw her son.

After discovering this, Tan Bingzhen was very happy and said happily: "There is nothing wrong, I just feel that you seem to have grown up a lot overnight."

Yue Wenxuan's father, Yue Hanzhang, also nodded and said, "He does look more stable than before, and not so obviously childish."

"Xuan'er, are you feeling stressed out by things at home? You are still young and should focus on your studies. It's not time for you to worry about the big and small things at home."

As a mother, Tan Bingzhen is of course very happy to see her son becoming more and more stable, but she can't help feeling a little distressed, thinking that her son has been wronged.

If the Yue family was at its peak, the eldest grandson would have been prominent and well-fed, enjoying all the wealth and prosperity in the world. How could he have shouldered the burden of family development at such a young age?

Yue Wenxuan sat on the stool next to him and did not continue what his mother said. He was just sixteen years old this year. If he could not show his mature and stable side in front of his parents, it would be difficult to win his parents' trust and the freedom he wanted.

He said seriously, "Mom, I am an adult now, and it is time for me to take responsibility. How can I be indifferent to family affairs?

Even though I am a small person and cannot help my father well or offer any useful and constructive suggestions, at least I can learn how to behave after fully understanding the situation. "

Hearing what her son said, Tan Bingzhen was very happy and felt that her son had finally grown up. Yue Hanzhang also nodded secretly and was very satisfied with his son's performance today.

But Yue Hanzhang always played the role of a kind father and would not easily say a word of praise. He just asked: "I believe you know that our family is about to split up. Do you agree or not?"

"Of course I agree." Yue Wenxuan's tone was firm. "As the saying goes, a big tree has many branches. Even a thousand-year-old clan is made up of many small families. If a family wants to ensure long-term prosperity, it must prune the branches every few decades to ensure that the main trunk can grow stronger."

"Once we decide to split up the family, who do you think will be the most suitable person to inherit the position of the head of our third branch?" Yue Hanzhang continued to ask.

The Yue family has a total of five branches, and the position of patriarch has always been held by the eldest branch. Yue Wenxuan's branch is the third branch, and his ancestors for several generations have been the heads of the third branch.

"Of course it's you, father."

"Why do you think so?"

After a brief thought, Yue Wenxuan said, "Our Yue family has declined to such an extent that it has reached a very dangerous situation. Even if we cannot revive in a short period of time, we cannot continue to slide down. If we cannot stabilize our current interpersonal relationships, we will really be forgotten by the crowd.

My eldest uncle's condition is serious and my second uncle is listless all day long. We certainly cannot put such a heavy burden on their shoulders, so only my father can take it on.

Moreover, my father had a huge advantage that my uncles did not have, and that was the support and help from my maternal grandparents.

After the successive failures of my eldest and second uncles in these years, our Yue family has been able to maintain its current status, mainly relying on the relationship with my maternal grandparents.

If my grandfather hadn't helped us to cover up the covert and overt means used by officials and businessmen in recent years, our family's wealth would have been wiped out long ago." At this point, Yue Wenxuan paused and said with some emotion: "If a young man like me can understand something, people as smart as my uncle and second uncle can definitely see through it.

It is not easy for people to struggle in this cannibalistic world. As the saying goes, a county magistrate becomes rich if his family is ruined. Even if the eldest and second uncles are willing to live the life of a rich man, they still need someone to shelter them from the wind and rain.

If a person only has money but lacks the ability and connections to keep it, he will only become someone else's prey, which is a very dangerous thing.

I think after so many failures, my uncle and second uncle must have figured this out a long time ago."

Yue Wenxuan did not mention his third uncle and fourth uncle at all, because they were only illegitimate sons, and since there were legitimate sons in the family, they had no qualifications to inherit the family business.

After listening to his son's analysis, Yue Hanzhang was a little surprised, but also felt relieved.

His eldest son has always been mature and steady since he was young, which is what he likes most. But he still didn't expect his son to see things so clearly, after all, his eldest son is only sixteen years old.

It is gratifying that a child of this age can study hard, but his son has already been able to see through the world. For Yue Hanzhang, this is a bit unbelievable and an unexpected surprise.

Having just traveled through time, Yue Wenxuan is of course very concerned about the important matter of dividing the family.

For any aristocratic family, dividing the family is a huge matter, because the interests of everyone involved are huge, and everyone must take it seriously.

That is to say, the situations of Yue Wenxuan's eldest uncle and second uncle are special. One is physically broken, and the other is physically and mentally broken. In this case, even if the shrewd old lady did not come forward to persuade them in person, they should be able to make a wise decision.

Otherwise, even if he knew that there were many advantages to having Yue Hanzhang as the head of the family, if his uncle was still in good health, he would not give up the position of head of the family readily.

After all, the title of a family head is not just about a person's dignity, the most important thing is that it involves the distribution of huge benefits.

Even though the Yue family has fallen to such a state, once Yue becomes the head of the third branch, the benefits that belong exclusively to the head of the branch are enormous. For example, the ancestral home can only be inherited by the head of the branch; for example, the Qingming field and the book lamp field that belong exclusively to the third branch can only be managed by the head of the branch, etc.

The three of them talked for a while before Yue Wenxuan's eldest sister and younger brothers and sisters finally arrived and came over to pay their respects.

Yue Wenxuan's elder sister Yue Suzhi is two years older than him. Under the guidance of her mother Tan Bingzhen, she has a similar temperament to her mother and is also a gentle and elegant lady. Her appearance is a combination of the best of both parents. She is even more beautiful than her mother when she was young. She is definitely a rare beauty.

Yue Wenxuan's brothers and sisters are still young. Although they act like little adults in front of their parents, they are very lively in private. Yue Wenxuan's brother Yue Wuxuan is naughty and mischievous, and his parents can accept it and don't discipline him. But the younger sister Yue Suqin is more lively and active than her brother Yue Wuxuan, which makes Yue Wenxuan's mother unacceptable.

Tan Bingzhen thought of many ways to discipline her younger daughter, hoping to train her into a standard lady like her older daughter, but to no avail. Tan Bingzhen could only hope that the little girl would change naturally when she grew up.

After the family gathered together, they went to Yongning Hall to pay their respects.

When the family arrived at Yongning Hall, the old lady had already packed up and was waiting for her eldest grandson and his family to come for dinner.

In the past few years, the whole family had to gather together for every meal. Later, various changes happened to Yue Wenxuan's uncle and second uncle, so this rule was changed.

Now only Yue Wenxuan's family has the honor of having dinner with the old lady. Everyone else eats in their own yard, and it is enough for them to come and pay their respects after dinner.

In the first two years when we ate separately, for convenience, each courtyard had a small kitchen, which made eating more convenient and could satisfy personal tastes.

But later, the pressure of life became greater and greater, and in order to cut expenses, they had to forcibly cancel all the small kitchens. Although each courtyard still ate separately, the cooking was done in the big kitchen.

After the family finished paying their respects, Yue Suqin crawled into the old lady's arms like a little monkey, and said coquettishly: "Grandma, I want to eat three shrimp noodles today, but mother won't let me eat it. Can you help me to speak for me?"

The old lady stretched out a finger and gently poked her granddaughter on the forehead. "You little naughty boy, why are you so greedy? If I remember correctly, you had three-prawn noodles for breakfast yesterday, the day before yesterday, and the day before yesterday, right?"

"Grandma, I love to eat it. The three-prawn noodles are the best. I can't get enough of them even if I eat them every day.

And I also ate other things. I had fried meat-stuffed dumplings yesterday morning, two-sided yellow dumplings the day before yesterday morning, and a lot of rice balls the day before yesterday morning.

I don’t only eat three-prawn noodles, why can’t I eat it every day?” Yue Suqin pleaded aggrievedly.

"Because your mother wants to train you to be a lady, but you act like a tomboy every day. If you continue like this, your mother will worry about how to marry you off in the future."

The old lady hugged Xiao Suqin and said kindly, "Didn't I tell you the day before yesterday not to come to me to ask for help all the time? Let's stick to the agreement and you can only ask me for help once a day.

Think carefully about whether you should take advantage of this opportunity to ask for help today."

Yue Suqin bit her finger and thought for a while. She had several things she wanted to ask her grandmother for help with today, but she still felt that having a bowl of three-shrimp noodles early in the morning was the most important thing, so she made a decision quickly.

"Grandma, please plead for me. I have decided to use this opportunity to ask for help today."

Without waiting for the old lady to speak, Tan Bingzhen glared at her little daughter and said seriously, "Remember this yourself. You have already used up your only chance to ask grandma for help today. Don't complain when you write big characters later."

When Yue Suqin thought about having to write ten large characters this morning, her delicate brows furrowed tightly, and her face showed a look of complete agony.

The family chatted and laughed as they sat down in the dining room. The servants, who had already prepared everything, quickly brought a variety of breakfasts to the table.

There are many types of breakfast, more than twenty kinds, but most of them are common meals.

For example: three shrimp noodles, sugar porridge, salty soy milk, fried dough sticks, glutinous rice balls, fried dough sticks, shredded radish cakes, red bean cakes
, double stuffed rice balls, osmanthus cake, lard cake
, crabapple cake, soup dumplings, small wontons, bubble wontons, meat dumplings, pot stickers, lotus seed and white fungus porridge, century egg and lean meat porridge, shepherd's purse and tofu soup, beef vermicelli soup, mung bean and barley porridge, crab meat dumplings, plus a few colorful side dishes.

The only breakfasts that require expensive ingredients are the bird's nest soup and sea cucumber millet porridge that the old lady likes.

Although these two breakfasts were not exclusive to the old lady, only her daughter-in-law, Tan Bingzhen, would occasionally share a bowl with her. After tasting them, the others would generally decline and would not taste them for the second time until a long time later.