Chapter Thirty-Three: Going to See the Clan Elder

  What Zhao said was good, the ancestral hall in the village was renovated two years ago. According to reason, as long as it is a person from Linjia Village, they should contribute some money. Those who have money pay money, and those who don't have money can also deduct grain to the village.

  It's actually not a lot, just over 100 yuan per household, but when it was He's turn, he said that he had already moved out and wouldn't go back to live there, and the ancestral hall refused to pay.

  At that time, the clan leader was still red-faced, and later the clan leader said that if they were not willing to pay for the renovation of this ancestral hall, they would no longer be considered villagers and would be removed from the village. Later, Lin Dajiang secretly took money from Zhao's place and handed it over to the clan leader, which finally calmed down the matter.

  However, He also offended the clan leader that time. It's likely that he went to the clan leader's house and things aren't over yet. Thinking of this matter, Zhao is gnashing her teeth at He. It's just over a hundred taels of silver, who can't afford that much money?

  Even if you don't live in this village now, after all, it is also the old Lin family's roots. After a hundred years of returning to their hometown, they still have to come back here. But this daughter-in-law makes them lose face at the ancestral home.

  Thinking of these things, I couldn't help but blame my own son. How could he be so useless? He listens to his wife for everything and has no backbone at all, ending up like this.

  But after all, he is his own son, what else can he do? He still has to accompany him to the patriarch's house, even if it means being ridiculed by the patriarch.

  Things have been arranged, and Huang Shi and Zhou Shi went back. When Huang Shi returned home, it was almost time for lunch. Looking around the house, there were still some cured meat left, four or five catties of white flour, and over ten catties each of black rice and corn flour. The grain can last for a while.

  Huang made some mantou (steamed buns) with black flour at noon, stir-fried a dish of cabbage and cured pork, and another plate of wild vegetables. The white flour was not used, Huang planned to put it there, and then eat the white flour again after a few days.

  Recently, life at home has been a bit better, and we've been able to eat a meal of steamed buns every day. Now, however, we need to be more frugal again, at least until this period is over and next year when our own family's grain can be harvested.

  At noon, the family ate Wonton noodles, no one was in high spirits, and no one spoke during the meal. In the afternoon, Huang asked Lin He to take Lin Chen and Xiao Bao to collect some firewood, the weather is getting colder, this household needs firewood for cooking and heating, which made Xiao Bao happy.

  Since the house was built at home, Xiaobao has been staying at Er Gouzi's house every day because no one takes him out to play. Recently, the older ones have to go to school, and only he doesn't need to. He is a bit bored with staying at home. Today, he heard that he can go out to collect firewood, and he was really happy.

  Lin He has also been staying at home every day during this period, and plans to take her younger brother and sister out for a walk in the afternoon. Lin He thinks that she is sometimes really contradictory.

  In my past life, I always felt like I didn't have parents and my childhood wasn't happy. As I grew up a bit, most of my time was taken up by studying. After finishing school and starting work, the pressure was even greater, leaving no time to catch my breath.

  Now let her have a second chance to live her own childhood, but instead she has forgotten that her present is also her childhood period, just to make the family live better, only if she wants to, can make up for the regret of the past life.

  But if the family environment is not good, where can we say that our childhood life was happy or unhappy? It seems that in any era, the economic foundation determines the superstructure, and this sentence is always correct.

  On this side, Lin He took his younger brother and sister out in the afternoon. On that side, after eating, Zhao Shi went to the Daijiang family with Lin Lao and said that they wanted Daijiang and He Shi to go to the ancestral home with them. At first, He Shi was unwilling to go, saying that it would be enough for Daijiang to go alone, but she wouldn't go. However, Zhao Shi insisted that He Shi must go, as she was the one who had offended the clan elder last time and must personally go to apologize.

  When the group of people arrived at the head of the clan's house, the head of the clan was smoking a water pipe in the courtyard. The head of the clan saw them coming but did not get up. Instead, the head of the clan's wife brought over a stool for Lin Laotou and Zhao Shi to sit down on. Da Jiang and He Shi stood there, with no one paying attention to them.

  Lin Lao Die looked at the clan leader's attitude and dryly laughed twice, saying "Clan leader older brother, have you been well recently? Is your body still vigorous?"

  The clan leader, Lin Lao, also smiled and said, "Thanks to good fortune, you're still in good health. There are many things going on in the village, but when your younger brother came back, he didn't even say hello. You see, last time you sent so many things over, this is really embarrassing."

  The clan leader said so, but his face didn't show a hint of guilt, and was instead calm.

  On this side, Zhao's family was also talking to the clan leader's wife. Seeing that Da Jiang and He Shi were still standing there, they pushed them. Da Jiang then reacted and handed over the things in his hand while saying, "Clan leader, we plan to move back to the village to live. Look, we just arrived home, settled down a bit, and came to visit you."

  The clan leader glanced at Da Jiang and didn't take the thing. "Isn't this Da Jiang? Didn't you make a fortune in town? Didn't you say that you wouldn't come back for the rest of your life? What's going on, why are you back?"

  The clan leader knew about Lin Dajiang's family situation, but was still angry about the previous incident, so he deliberately said that to humiliate Lin Dajiang.

  Da Jiang's face was awkward, he didn't know how to respond, and stood there holding something in his hand.

  Lin Lao Die hastily said, "Head of the clan, what are you talking about? The Jiang family in town just runs a small shop to make ends meet, where did they get rich? Now that something has happened at home, they've come back. Besides, Lin Jia Village is their roots, where else would they go? They'll always come back. Head of the clan, don't be petty with them either, they're also too ignorant, or there wouldn't have been today."

  Lin Lao Die made a gesture to Da Jiang and He Shi, while Da Jiang placed the item next to the clan leader and said, "Clan leader, I was wrong, please don't mind me, I'll stay here with you for a bit. Here's a small token of apology, please accept it."

  He was a bit dissatisfied, thinking that he was just a clan leader, but still followed Da Jiang and the clan leader to pay their respects.

  The clan leader looked at their apologetic attitude and saw something on the ground, his anger dissipated a bit. After all, he was a clan leader and couldn't be too excessive. If he did, people would say that this clan leader was unfair, which wouldn't sound good.

  "Go back to the village and live a good life from now on. Don't bring those messy habits back to the village either. Linjia Village may be poor, but these bad habits don't exist here. You should also reflect on yourselves."

  The Great River knew that the clan leader was talking about his own son's gambling, and although it was embarrassing on the surface, who let their own son not be promising? The clan leader, as the head of the clan, was also right to scold him like this.

  They could only respectfully agree and Lin Lao Ye and the clan leader exchanged a few pleasantries before the family returned home. The clan leader watched them leave, shook his head and also went back inside.