Farmer's eldest sister becomes rich

After hearing what her mother-in-law said, Wei gradually put away her bitter face.

After closing the gate of the courtyard, the family walked towards the ancestral hall at the end of the village.

The villagers in the entire village are divided into four major families, and only a few households are from outsiders.

The surnames of the four major families are Jiang, Qin, Zhang and Zhao.

The ancestral halls of the four major families were all built at the end of Pingxiang Village.

Each surname has an independent ancestral hall, which is located in the four directions of southeast, northwest, northeast and southwest of the courtyard.

Usually during the New Year and other festivals, descendants of each family would gather together in one house and worship in the ancestral hall.

The grandfather took the siblings to the ancestral temple and met several groups of his clansmen on the way.

Everyone looked at the brother and sister strangely as they went to the Jiang family ancestral hall.

People who have never seen the siblings would even ask their grandfather directly: "Whose children are these?"

And the grandfather answered one by one: "This is my grandson."

In this era, a married daughter must not stay in her parents' home to celebrate the New Year, let alone go to the ancestral temple on New Year's Day.

The custom is that on the second day of the Lunar New Year, the daughter returns to her parents' home with her son-in-law and children to kowtow and wish a happy new year to the elders in her family.

Today is the first day of the Lunar New Year. My grandfather took my sister and brother to the ancestral temple, which obviously broke everyone's original cognition and rules.

Naturally, he could not avoid being pointed at and criticized by other tribesmen.

At this time, members of the Jiang family also came to the ancestral hall one after another.

A man from the Jiang family came forward and asked in confusion: "Uncle, on the first day of the new year, what are you doing...?"

The man is Jiang Chenghai's cousin, named Jiang Chengdong, who is seven or eight years older than Jiang Chenghai. He had previously gone to the An family with Jiang Chenghai to ask for an explanation.

My grandfather pretended to be confused and asked, "Adong, what's wrong?"

Jiang Chengdong said: "It's not appropriate for these two children to come to the Jiang family ancestral hall on the first day of the new year!"

An old man with a cane at the back pounded the ground with it and sternly accused him, "Awen! You are just fooling around! You are just fooling around!"

"Are you confused? How can you bring the two children of the An family to our Jiang family ancestral hall?"

An Yue knew that her grandfather wanted to give them a sense of belonging, to let the siblings understand that they were not unwanted wild children, and that they should never give up on themselves.

The fact that her grandfather could make this decision made An Yue understand why her grandfather had such a high prestige in the village.

Because he is strong and tenacious, and sticks to his own opinions, he can firmly do what he wants to do even if no one agrees with him, or even if he has to oppose everyone.

The old man looked older than my grandfather, but my grandfather said without fear: "Why? Is there any family rule that explicitly states that grandchildren cannot be allowed to worship?"

My grandfather put his hands behind his back and looked at the Jiang family members with sharp eyes.

Then he continued, "Or is there some written law that stipulates that grandchildren cannot worship?"

"..." Everyone lowered their heads and said nothing.

Grandfather asked himself with some emotion and answered: "No! Since there is no!! Why can't I do this?"

An Nian looked at everyone who was strongly opposing and staring at his siblings. He was so scared that he hugged his sister tightly, closed his eyes, hid his head in her arms, and didn't dare to look at anyone.

Another old lady stood up from the crowd and said, "This is a custom passed down from generation to generation by our ancestors. It is not something we made up at random!"

Grandfather spread his arms, tilted his head and said loudly: "Good! Well said! This is a custom passed down by our ancestors."

"It's a custom! It can be broken, evolved, and of course, it can be changed."

"Our ancestors said that daughters are money-losing goods, but they didn't say that we can't have daughters, right?! Now that we have given birth to a daughter, we have to be responsible for her!"

The old woman retorted coldly: "As the old saying goes, when a daughter grows up and gets married, she follows wherever she goes."

The grandfather asked everyone, "Why? This son is the blood of the Jiang family, so is this daughter not the blood of our Jiang family?"

The old man with the cane added, "But a daughter who is married off is like spilled water after all! Her children are naturally not the flesh and blood of the Jiang family."

Grandfather Jiang Wuwen bowed to several elderly people and said, "Uncles, uncles, grandfathers, old men, weak women and children of the Jiang family, this stroke cannot even draw a character for '人'. This character for '人' must have a left stroke and a right stroke, right?"

"As long as one is one person, he or she cannot escape the bloodline of the two families."

"Besides, each of us is born from the womb. Rules are hard, but people are flexible. When rules are not in line with human nature, we have to break them a little."

"Besides, I think everyone knows what the situation is like for these two siblings at such a young age!"

"They don't want the An family, but I do! I, Jiang Wuwen, want them! They are the children of my daughter Jiang Pan'er, so they are half of my Jiang family."

"How cruel and vicious are the An family to drive their own grandchildren out of the house?"

"I, Jiang Wuwen, can't do what they do, which is worse than pigs and dogs! I think our Jiang family members can't do it either, right?"

"Everyone understands that my granddaughter has helped everyone in the village to some extent. I think the uncles and uncles have not forgotten this, right?"

"As the old saying goes, there is no rival since you came out of the cave, so be merciful when you can."

"..."Everyone was silent and no one spoke.

Seeing that no one objected anymore, my grandfather's mood gradually calmed down.

He lowered his head and said calmly: "Today, I didn't mean to oppose you all. I just wanted to use this incident to make everyone recognize them and no longer exclude them."

"We are deeply saddened by the tragic death of Tianshun Pan'er and her husband. Is her child really going to become an unclaimed street beggar?"

Anyun and Anyue watched their grandfather go against all the members of the Jiang family for them, and their hearts were filled with self-blame and guilt, but more of it was admiration.

This also proves once again that they are not orphans who are not loved by anyone, nor are they wild children who are bullied by others.

Seeing that everyone was looking at them with eyes no longer filled with contempt and disdain.

At this moment, the long-standing family trauma of the siblings was finally healed a little, and they felt warm in their hearts.

The old man who was leaning on the cane shook his head and sighed, "Alas! These two children are really pitiful!"

After the old man finished speaking, he slowly walked towards the ancestral hall.

The old woman looked at the brother and sister and no longer had the rejection she had before. She echoed them and said, "Yes! Such good children, why do they have such bad luck!"

The Jiang family members began to evacuate gradually and walked slowly towards the ancestral hall.

The grandfather led the brother and sister into the ancestral hall, asked them to kneel in a row with people of their same generation, and walked to the front row.

An elder knelt first and shouted the words of greeting, and then all the Jiang family members, young and old, began to kneel and kowtow.