Chapter 16 Power, Responsibility and the Hu Family

The next day.

Chen Nuo came to the ancestral hall.

Here, the uncle had already gotten up.

He was slowly doing a set of boxing.

Chen Nuo did not disturb him, but stayed quietly aside and watched quietly.

After a while, the old man stopped.

"I am old, and I can't even finish a set of boxing."

Chen Nuo came over.

"Uncle, what kind of boxing is this?"

"Haha, this is just a set of health-preserving boxing circulated among the warriors of Yue State. It was created by the Taizu of Yue State, so it is also called Taizu Changquan. It does not require any medicinal materials. It is specially used to regulate the body and prolong life."

"When I was a child, I taught you when I was drinking tea at the entrance of the village, but unfortunately none of you liked it."

The uncle sighed.

Chen Nuo laughed beside him.

"Okay, come in with me. Next, I will teach you something. How many fields and people are there in our village? Which family is in difficulty and which family is rich? How many elderly people need to be supported? How much money does the clan have? These are all what you need to know."

"Yes, uncle."

In the following period of time.

The uncle's teachings made Chen Nuo really understand how great and extensive the power of the clan is!

The clan is actually a small autonomous rights organization based on blood ties, ancestors, and interests.

Here, clan rules are more important than national laws.

If a person does something wrong, it is not his turn to send someone to deal with it. The clan will solve it on its own, set up a private punishment hall, and use lynching.

The clan also has collective power to divide land, mediate disputes, preside over family division, property inheritance, convene fights, collective business, resource integration, and the power of life and death.

With power, there are responsibilities.

It is necessary to match single men, help poor families, support lonely elderly people, protect clan members, and avoid taxes...

There are tricks in this.

But to sum up, it is actually the word unity.

Use blood, filial piety, morality, ancestors, interests, no matter what, unite.

The clan leader who really holds power can be said to be a small local emperor.

Can easily decide the life and death of a clan member and the survival of a family.

This is the weight of the clan leader!

...

Noon.

Chen Nuo asked to stay here for dinner.

The uncle was stunned and smiled.

"Okay, good boy, stay for dinner."

The uncle patted Chen Nuo.

Then, Chen Nuo helped the uncle cook.

The uncle was not a person who was greedy for power. On the contrary, he was devoted to the clan. There was not much food in the rice jar at home, and there were only some wild vegetables. The only precious thing was probably the chickens jumping on the ground.

A bowl of scrambled eggs, a bowl of wild vegetables with vinegar, and rice, simple and plain.

It can be seen that the uncle likes the feeling of being popular. After eating, he happily talked about some past events with Chen Nuo.

Looking at the lonely great uncle, Chen Nuo felt complicated.

The great uncle's son and daughter-in-law left many years ago, leaving only a grandson. After raising him with great difficulty, the guy ran away to the county town. For the sake of the great uncle, many people in the clan helped him, so that he could become a butcher smoothly, but what happened now? He only comes back once a month.

Many people in the village wanted to beat him up several times because they were unhappy with him, but they were stopped by the great uncle.

Except for the grandson, the only relative of the great uncle was the clan leader, his nephew, a man with a tragic fate.

He didn't know much about the clan leader.

He only knew that the clan leader was very fierce, and several times he fought with the Hu family alone.

Unfortunately, he died in a fight with the Hu family a few months ago.

I remember that it was because of the fight over the water source of Xiaochen Creek in summer.

"Uncle, tell me about the Hu family."

"I can't be a clan leader who doesn't even know who the enemy is."

Chen Nuo suddenly said.

The uncle obviously shuddered and remained silent.

"Uncle." Chen Nuo called again.

"Alas."

A long sigh.

The old man touched Chen Nuo's hair tremblingly, "Good boy, uncle knows what you want to do, uncle is kind, uncle thanks you."

"But no, there is no need."

"You practice martial arts well and wait for revenge later."

Chen Nuo smiled and nodded obediently.

"Hu family, that's a bloody story."

The uncle told the story.

It turned out that the Hu family also moved from other places, just a little earlier than the Chen family. At the beginning, the relationship between the two families was good. The Hu family produced craftsmen and the Chen family had a lot of land, so they didn't interfere with each other.

Unfortunately, the court later ordered to collect craftsmen to build the mausoleum, but an accident happened and all the craftsmen were buried with them.

The Hu family was seriously injured, and it happened that someone in the Chen family was mean at that time, and a small-scale fight occurred, which buried the hidden danger.

Later, the Hu family wanted to transform and began to attack the land. The two families officially became enemies, fighting every year and people died.

Then, disputes over fields, water sources, men and women, and even the smallest trivial matters could lead to quarrels, and the conflicts continued to deepen, so that in just a few decades, they had already become blood feuds.

And this year, they relied on despicable means and set traps to kill the head of the Chen family.

The blood feud deepened further.

"So, uncle, do you think that when I succeed as the head of the family, will the Hu family come to make trouble?"

Chen Nuo asked this question.

"No." The uncle answered flatly.

?

"There is no chaos in the world. Although we have fought and killed people, we have not completely torn our faces apart. No one wants to force the other party to go to the government, which is a group of blood-sucking worms."

"When that happens, no one will be able to get away with it."

Chen Nuo understood.

Good guy, they haven't torn their faces apart even after such a mess. Is it because the government is more disgusting?

What the hell has the government become? It makes people so disgusted.

It seems to understand Chen Nuo's speechlessness.

The uncle explained, "The people belong to the people, and the government belongs to the government. The government will not investigate if the people don't report it. Once the matter goes to the government, no matter whether it is right or wrong, the price to be paid is something that every clan cannot afford."

The uncle's attitude of keeping a distance made Chen Nuo nod.

Afterwards.

The two chatted for a while.

Then they finished the lunch.

...

Time passed by.

Seven days passed in a blink of an eye, and the uncle had told him to prepare for succession.

During these seven days, in addition to learning to handle affairs, taking care of the second generation of oyster mushrooms, and practicing martial arts, Chen Nuo used spray to experiment with things.

Unfortunately, all he got were junk, none of which was useful.

Chen Nuo was a little disappointed. Is luck with oyster mushrooms a one-time thing?

What a pity.

In addition.

He just socialized with the ten young men and Chen Yong, built relationships, and listened to their gossip, news, etc.

"Alas, there is still half a month before the autumn harvest, and the tax collectors are coming again."

"These jackals, I really want to kill them one by one."

"Alas, it's a pity that we can't go up the mountain, those snakes are too scary..."

"Xiao Chenxi seems to have caught a big fish recently..."

"The people from the Hu family actually scolded me..."

"..."