The ancestral hall is not only a place for family sacrifices, but often, some important affairs involving the entire family are also conducted in the ancestral hall.
Therefore, it can also be said that the ancestral hall is the core meeting room of a family.
Of course, this is not just the core issue.
An ancestral hall is the testimony of ancestors for generations. Generally speaking, it is solemn and serious enough.
Those currently in the ancestral hall are the older generation of the family, headed by the head of the family, Zhuang Zhiyuan, and his old brothers.
In this world, people with a little bit of cultivation live longer, and it is common for ordinary people to live to be seventy or eighty years old. As for cultivators at the three levels of condensing Qi, unblocking meridians, and opening orifices...
Condensing Qi is enough to guarantee that one will live to eighty-nine years old. If one is condensing Qi and does not live to eighty, he will die.
That's a rare situation.
If you have great success in opening up your meridians, you can live to be 120 or 30 years old, and that won't be a big problem.
As for the level of enlightenment, the problem is a bit complicated, because the same enlightenment can be very different, but no matter what, the normal life span is 180 years or more.
Mr. Zhuang Zhiyuan is in the enlightenment state.
He is only over 120 years old this year, yes, "talent"!
Therefore, he has been in charge of the family for a long time.
If nothing unexpected happens, the next generation of the family head will be handed over to Zhuang Zaiting, even though his eldest son is not very convincing in terms of ability.
But there are noble people outside and a new generation of the family that is about to flourish inside. It doesn't matter at all who the head of the family is. Therefore, there won't be much resistance for Zhuang Zaiting to take over as the head of the family.
But, let him wait.
Wait slowly.
In a certain world, an emperor named Kangxi only lived to be sixty-eight, but he reigned for a full sixty-one years, and his son Yongzheng had no choice but to wait until he was forty-five before ascending the throne.
It was already very late.
Especially compared to his father, arriving late is disappointing.
The most despairing thing was Yongzheng's son Qianlong, who lived to be eighty-eight years old! And he still firmly held power until the end.
His sons...
Whoever takes the lead first is the loser.
Being the son of this person requires extremely high political wisdom. Moreover, wisdom alone is not enough. You must always be favored by the goddess of luck. Otherwise, if you are not careful, you may end up playing tricks.
Mr. Zhuang Zhiyuan doesn't know the story of the other world, but in this world, the status inheritance of aristocratic families or cultivators has its own system.
All in all, all in all, no matter how "young and powerful" and "in the prime of life" Zhuang Zaiting and his brothers are now, they can only stand aside and play on the sidelines, without the right to speak in family affairs.
As for the juniors behind, let alone that.
"According to the preliminary agreement previously, we first determined the two quotas for the Mingshui family. It just so happened that someone from both families was selected." The owner of the family, Zhuang Zhiyuan, said.
"Do you really want to give it to their family? Two! That's two full places!"
The person who said this was Zhuang Zhiyuan's direct eldest brother. He only had the Tongmai realm, so although he was only a few years older than Zhuang Zhiyuan, he looked dozens of years older and looked a bit older. At this time,
The old man said sadly, "There are only five of us!"
"Yes, second brother, can we discuss this matter again?" Another old man said, he is Zhuang Zhiyuan's younger brother.
Next, several clan elders expressed that this matter might be reconsidered.
In fact, the matter was decided in advance and agreed upon with the Mingshui family. If not, no children from the Mingshui family would have participated in the previous court examination.
If you regret it at this time, you will have done something very badly and cannot be justified in any aspect.
However, despite this, when the incident came to pass, the dealers still felt so sad that their hearts ached, their eyes ached, their hands ached, their feet ached, and their whole bodies ached both inside and outside.
Especially, there are only five places in total.
After five are eliminated, there are only three left!
And among these three, Zhuang Zaiting will definitely occupy one room. It goes without saying.
The other quota is for female dolls, which goes without saying!
So in fact, there is only one quota that is truly "empty"!
Several companies are vying for this one!
And if there are three, it means that the number of places has been expanded three times, and the situation will be very different.
When the previous decision was made, because the matter had not really happened yet, everyone accepted it rationally. But now, when the matter came to pass, the principles were still the same, but the emotions were not the same.
Whether it’s short-sighted or short-sighted, or going back on your word, in short, my heart hurts!
It hurts so much that when I think about it decades later, my heart still hurts!
Zhuang Zhiyuan glanced at his old brothers and looked at them one by one.
In fact, why doesn't his heart hurt?
However, as the head of the family, you must stand tall, look far, and bear more responsibilities.
He didn't say much. The next moment, he just said: "Those who agree to discuss this matter again, raise your hands!"
In the ancestral hall, the twenty-eight clan elders except him raised eighteen hands.
"Those who agree to maintain the previous resolution, raise your hands!" Zhuang Zhiyuan said again.
The raising of hands this time was a bit slow, and many people were clearly hesitant and faced many difficulties, but in the end, thirteen hands were raised.
Three of them raised their hands both times.
No one is surprised by this. It is not uncommon to have two opinions, let alone on this kind of matter!
In fact, who here is not heartbroken? Who doesn’t want to overturn the previous decision?
However, at the same time, who would be willing to go back on his words unless forced by circumstances? That would be pointed at the spine and scolded!
Therefore, it can also be said that in the hearts of the twenty-nine people in this ancestral hall from the head of the family at this moment, there are both ghost monsters (demons) and messengers (angels) standing, and the two are in fierce confrontation.
middle.
Among the eighteen people who were discussed again, six had enlightenment and twelve had unblocked meridians.
Among the thirteen people who upheld the original proposal, nine had enlightenment and four had clear meridians.
Tongmai's family is the most in need of this quota, so it is not surprising that twelve people voted to discuss it again.
In fact, as a big family that has been passed down for many generations, the Zhuang family has far more than twenty-nine people, but the other clan elders are all just condensing qi, and according to family rules, members of the family who are in the qi condensing realm, no matter how old they are, are still
Not qualified to participate in family affairs.
Then, when it comes time to vote.
Tongmai, one person, one vote.
Enlightenment, one person, two votes.
The head of the family, in the case of Mr. Zhuang Zhiyuan, has two votes as Kaiqiao, plus five votes as simply the head of the family, so one person accounts for seven votes.
After both parties raised their hands to vote, everyone silently calculated in their minds.
Such simple arithmetic is something that only occurs to them for a moment.
Whether it's to open up the meridians or to open up the mind, even if you don't know a single Chinese character, even if you don't know anything about arithmetic, you can instinctively get answers to numbers of this level almost directly. And how could people from aristocratic families like them not know this?
Wen Shu, that’s a huge joke!
Further discussion, 24 votes.
Original motion, 22 votes.
The owner of the family, Zhuang Zhiyuan, has not expressed his position yet.
The next moment, the eyes of all the clan elders in the ancestral hall were focused on him.
"Then we will proceed as agreed before." Zhuang Zhiyuan made the final decision.
There were sighs in the ancestral hall, but also a lot of relief.