After all the shopkeepers in the meeting hall had dispersed, Fourth Uncle Chen did not take any of his entourage with him, but just walked to the Chen family's ancestral hall on his own.
The Chen family's ancestral hall is hundreds of years old. The moment the wooden door was opened, a cold and cold air rushed in.
Fourth Uncle Chen walked in slowly and closed the door behind him.
"You're here." In front of the memorial tablets in the ancestral hall, a somewhat rickety figure knelt. When he turned back to look at Fourth Uncle Chen, he looked like an old demon who had not seen the light of day for many years.
Fourth Uncle Chen sighed quietly: "Why, after all these years, are you still obsessed with the position of the head of the family?"
Hearing these words, Uncle Chen, who was kneeling on the ground, started laughing.
It was the twelfth lunar month of winter, and it was the mourning hall again, and his laughter seemed to come from the underworld.
"Fourth brother, do you feel at peace when you sit in this position?"
After Uncle Chen finished speaking, he turned back and looked at the spiritual tablets in front of him.
Fourth Uncle Chen said solemnly: "I don't have great talents, but I have managed to keep the family business. The three of us don't have to worry. I will take good care of the three of us, and we will never be short of food or clothing."
Uncle Chen's sad laughter echoed in the empty ancestral hall: "Look at what you said, how do you think of me as your brother?"
"Brothers and friends are respectful to each other. It's natural for older brothers to be friends and younger brothers to be respectful." After all, Fourth Uncle Chen was a scholar, and Third Uncle Chen was naturally not as good as Fourth Uncle Chen in terms of words.
Just this sentence made Uncle Chen so angry that he didn't know what to say.
"Your position as head of the family was given to you by your niece, so why do you have the shame to say this?"
Uncle Chen has decided to become the head of the family. He really can't bear to live like this without any sense of existence.
But Fourth Uncle Chen didn't seem to care about this matter at all: "Since ancient times, everything has been done well by capable people. Back then, I only wanted to read books about sages. What can I say now?"
"It's better than Third Brother, who is nothing and always thinks about things he can't get."
Fourth Uncle Chen's voice was not loud, but it sounded particularly harsh in Third Uncle Chen's ears.
"Why, if the capital is gone, everyone will go to Chen Jinjun. You, the head of the family, are really a coward."
Hearing Third Uncle Chen speak like this, Fourth Uncle Chen couldn't help but frown: "It seems that Third Brother's information is really well-informed."
The front leg had just finished a meeting in the council hall, and the back leg in the ancestral hall knew what was going on in the council hall.
"Although I'm locked up in the ancestral hall by you, you don't really think that I don't care about anything."
Uncle Chen turned around and glanced at Uncle Chen proudly.
Fourth Uncle Chen looked at his third brother intently and couldn't help but laugh: "It's okay, third brother, I won't leave. I'm just here to spend time with you. We can be regarded as brothers and sisters of another kind."
, isn’t it?”
Uncle Chen couldn't bear it anymore. He stood up directly, turned around and ran towards Uncle Chen. At this moment, there was only one thought in his heart, that is, even if he died, he would drag his good brother with him to hell.
He moved very quickly, but after kneeling for a long time, he rushed forward suddenly, and his knees instantly became weak.
Third Uncle Chen fell directly to the ground, staring at Fourth Uncle Chen unwillingly with his eyes.
The entire ancestral hall was very dark, except for the candlelight on one side of the incense table that was swaying with Uncle Chen's heavy breathing, illuminating the figures of the two people.
Fourth Uncle Chen took a step back in fear when he rushed towards him, but just as Uncle Chen fell to the ground.
Uncle Chen couldn't help but laugh.
He didn't hide the sarcasm in his laughter at all, he just looked at Uncle Chen lying on the ground and laughed so hard.
In the dim room, the dust raised when Sanshu Chen fell to the ground has not completely settled.
Fourth Uncle Chen's laughter echoed inside the ancestral hall, which seemed particularly terrifying.
Uncle Chen fell to the ground and looked at Uncle Chen smiling. He was so angry that he got up and wanted to pounce on him.
But Fourth Uncle Chen was on guard and gave Third Uncle Chen a kick directly.
"Third brother, tell me why you have endured all these years." Fourth Uncle Chen stepped forward.
On the wall of the ancestral hall, the shadow of Fourth Uncle Chen raised his foot and stepped on the finger of Third Uncle Chen.
The shrill screams echoed throughout the entire ancestral hall, and even the echoes had a creepy tail tone.
But Uncle Chen had no intention of letting Uncle Chen go. He stepped on Uncle Chen's fingers with his toes and kept crushing them back and forth.
Third Uncle Chen was stepped on by Fourth Uncle Chen, and his screams became weaker and weaker.
Knowing that Uncle Chen's screams were less and less vigorous than at the beginning, Fourth Uncle Chen raised his feet and looked down at Uncle Chen.
"Third brother, look at how you look now. Do you look a little like the head of the Chen family?"
Fourth Uncle Chen clicked his tongue and looked at Third Uncle Chen mockingly.
Uncle Chen raised his head and glared at his younger brother fiercely.
"What exactly do you want to do?" Uncle Chen's voice squeezed out from between his teeth was hoarse with pain.
Fourth Uncle Chen looks like a decent head of the family. He has no intention of letting Third Uncle Chen go, not only for the sake of the current Chen family, but also for himself.
"Third brother, I don't know if you still remember that you colluded with your mother-in-law to sell the Chen family."
Fourth Uncle Chen narrowed his eyes and tilted his head, looking meaningfully at the embarrassed Fourth Uncle Chen.
Third Uncle Chen raised his head and looked at Fourth Uncle Chen fiercely: "If I didn't do this, how could I have gotten rid of that little girl Chen Jinjun?"
"But you forgot, if she is not stupid, how could she hand the Chen family into your hands? What is the difference between that and giving it directly to an outsider?"
As Uncle Chen spoke, he patted the ferocious and twisted face in front of him in a serious manner.
"I am your brother!" Uncle Chen shouted at the top of his lungs.
But Fourth Uncle Chen's roar was more powerful than his: "From the moment you colluded with the Zhou family, I no longer have you as my brother!"
After saying these words, Uncle Chen stood up slowly and patted his hands, as if he had wiped away something unclean.
"Third brother, just stay in the ancestral hall and stop thinking about things you shouldn't think about."
Then, Fourth Uncle Chen walked out and said, "I will not leave the capital, I will wait until the moment you die."
Uncle Chen raised his head and looked at the figure at the gate of the ancestral hall.
I don't know why, but Uncle Chen just feels that his once heroic and ambitious heart is filled with despair.
But he had no choice but to watch helplessly as his fourth brother, the head of the family, walked out step by step.
The door of the ancestral hall was closed behind Fourth Uncle Chen.
He took a long breath and sneered.
The fourth eldest son of the Chen family, his status is really neither high nor low. He has known since he was a child that he could not become the head of the Chen family, but he also hopes that he can obtain a title and contribute to the Chen family in the court.
But after all, I don’t have that talent, nor am I the material for studying.
Since there is no way to contribute to the Chen family, he will never allow anyone to harm his family.
Even...it's the third brother who is similar to myself.
Fourth Uncle Chen looked back at the door of the ancestral hall behind him. It was so dark that it made people breathless.
Third brother, just spend the rest of your life there.
Even if the group of Japanese pirates from the Northeast really invade the capital, you will still kneel before your ancestors and repent forever.