Farmer’s Blessed Girl

With the Qian family in front, not to mention that Patriarch Xia didn't want to make the relationship too stiff with Zhou Man and the Zhou family.

For example, let Zhou Man change his surname.

As for the land property, it is possible to keep it, but in that case, the reputation of the Xia clan will be ruined by most of it, and the gains will outweigh the losses.

After all, Zhou Man is not an ordinary person. She is an official. Above them, if they have a grudge against her, their family has worked hard for a long time to get through the relationship. Maybe she can break their years of hard work with a single word.

For a while, various thoughts flashed in Patriarch Xia's mind, and finally he squeezed out a smile at Qian's and Lao Zhoutou, "My in-laws are right."

So the question goes back to Zhou Man's surname. If she is not Xia, why should she take Xia's family property?

Not to mention the fact that those properties belonged to her grandparents and mother, in this world, clans can still snatch property from male orphans, let alone Zhou Man's surname Xia.

That is, local regulations will stipulate that when buying and selling land, under the same conditions, people of the same clan should be given priority and cannot be violated.

Some people who are vicious and deliberately play tricks on people, they will pay the same price as people when the same clan wants to buy and sell fields, and repeat it again and again, so two or three can drive people crazy.

Unlike Old Zhou Tou and others who naturally stood on Zhou Man's side, even Magistrate Zhai felt that it would be unfair to inherit all of Xia Yan's property if Zhou Man did not make some concessions.

After all, her surname is not Xia.

Man Bao discussed with the Xia Patriarch, "I know that half of the field is divided into sacrifice fields, and I have no intention of recovering it. Uncle Yitang has guarded the house for my family for many years, and there is no credit or hard work. Half of the money is given to Uncle Yi, as a thank you for his care for the house over the years, and the remaining half is given to the orphans and widows of the clan, which is considered a merit of grandfather and grandmother."

Patriarch Xia did not feel Zhou Man's sincerity, but only felt malice. As soon as these words came out, Xia Yi and the people in the clan who now took Zhou Mandi were at odds with each other?

Man Bao continued to laugh and said, "I heard from the magistrate of Zhai that there are people in the clan who are studying now?"

Patriarch Xia, who had a gloomy face, was refreshed. This is the lifeblood of their clan. Why are they willing to take a step forward and discuss with Zhou Man in a good voice when they come to the county government?

Isn't it because someone in their clan is studying?

Patriarch Xia forced a smile and said, "Yes, there are several children studying. Your two cousins ​​are more promising and have been admitted to the county school."

Man Bao sighed: "Reading is important, our Xia family is not very poor, can we provide for our children to study or should we do it, I remember that there was clan learning in the past?"

you remember? Where do you remember?

Not to mention that it was only a few months when she left, but that the ethnic studies were closed at that time. Where did she hear about it?

Man Bao smiled and said: "The clan study should still be done, let all the children of the right age in the clan go to study, it is best to be able to take the exam, but it is not possible, it is also good to be an accountant or find a clerical job after you come out. ."

When the patriarch Xia heard this, he had anticipation in his heart, and then he heard Zhou Man say: "The field that the patriarch is renting now, I think it will be a school field for the clan. After more than ten or twenty years, we can’t say that our Xia clan can also produce a top talent?”

Patriarch Xia didn't react yet, but the clan elders behind him were eager to move, and they all looked at Patriarch Xia heartily.

Patriarch Xia:  …

Is it so good to read?

Not to mention asking for money, how much would it cost just for books and ink, paper, and inkstones, just relying on that piece of land to open a school?

I'm afraid it will be enough to add ten more fields of about the same size.

Xia's family is indeed not very poor, but not very rich either, otherwise they would not have been in business for so many years until now they sent two people to the county school.

However, the magistrate of Zhai supported this move very much, educating the people and running a school are also considered his achievements. This is his third year in Shangzhou, and it is estimated that he will stay for another three years.

He hoped that after four years, he could find a better job by virtue of his political achievements.

So the magistrate of Zhai immediately helped, glanced at Bai Shan and said, "Patriarch Xia, what are you afraid of when you have such a grandnephew and son-in-law? He is a son of an aristocratic family. Occasionally a word is enough for the children in the family for a long time."

Bai Shan sat on the chair and nodded and smiled.

Patriarch Xia and the rest: ...they just forced the old Zhou family to repent of their marriage in front of people.

And even if there is no such encounter, with their relationship with Zhou Man so far apart, people are still raised in the Zhou family, how much affection can they have for each other?

Man Bao wholeheartedly encouraged the Xia patriarch to start a clan study, and let the children of the clan learn to read and learn the etiquette.

Magistrate Zhai didn't want to go. Although Xia Yi didn't say much yesterday, judging from what he and Xu Lichang told the yamen, most of them were Pozi, and he would be a little rude in the face of Pozi. I don't want to be embarrassed.

But Man Bao did not let him go, and warmly invited him to visit her ancestral home together.

Bai Shan followed suit and said, "When we saw it yesterday, in addition to a jujube tree, there was also a pear tree in the garden. It was so rich that it seemed to be edible. Don't you want to taste it?"

In no mood!

Magistrate Zhai thought so, but said with a smile on his face: "Okay."

So he got up with a smile and went out with them, and also ordered the master to bring a few more yamen, this trip is likely to do it.

Patriarch Xia and the others who followed them out were already expressionless, and the co-authored jujube tree knew so.

After getting into the car, several members of the Xia clan squeezed into Patriarch Xia's ox cart, and then sat on both sides to watch him.

Patriarch Xia said with a headache: "Don't look at me, even Chief Xu has already prepared the land deed and returned it, can we still have a hard time with her?"

"Xia Yi's family is not easy to deal with, especially Xia Yi's family. She wants to spill it, and it will lose our Xia family's face."

"She's not easy to deal with, so Zhou Man can be fooled? She doesn't seem to be flirting, but if you sue the family to the county government, it will be even more embarrassing," Patriarch Xia said, "Guro and Qilang will have to go to the government. I learned, at this time, there can be no rumors."

A clan elder sighed, "Who would have thought that their family was still alive?"

No one has heard from them for 14 years, and everyone will think they are dead early.

"Actually, there's nothing wrong with it. I heard that she is already a fifth-rank official."

"At the end of the day, a girl is big enough to be of this rank. If you go up, where else can you go?"

"Does this mean that my brother still looks down on the fifth grade? She is the same official as Mr. Changshi. In the future, if Wulang and Qilang can be admitted to the middle officials, we will be very satisfied as county magistrates, and they are still incomparable to her. "

"The clan is closer to her, and I can borrow some strength in the future."

oh, scary baby

see you at nine