Lin Jiujiu felt that she had said this at least three times.
These people all selectively turn a deaf ear, ultimately not because of money.
And she is not short of money now.
As he spoke, he took out ten taels of silver from his sleeve and handed it to the gatekeeper's wife, asking her to give the money to the oldest clan elder of the Lin family.
"Don't say my father is heartless. You all know what kind of life my father lived in the Lin family before."
Now that everyone in the Lin family is dead, the debts are settled, and we can let it go. But it's impossible for my father to wear mourning clothes.
Consider these ten taels of silver as our family's way of showing pity for them.
Your clan should arrange for them to be buried in a simple coffin. As for the mourning, you can do it yourselves.
After all, their children and grandchildren are gone, but they still have nephews and nieces to fill in.
The reason they didn't give it to Lin Tianfang was clearly because they didn't trust him.
Others might not be capable of such a heinous act of greed, but this person is not.
Lin Jiujiu knew something about the funeral rites for the Lin family, which had no descendants.
In some families where there are no descendants to carry on the family line, and no children or grandchildren mourn at the grave after someone dies, a nephew will be sent to take his place.
After all, some people are willing to inherit their family's property by mourning and mourning at their graves.
So many people died in the Lin family's house, so maybe no one would dare to take it, but doesn't the Lin family still have a few acres of land?
Moreover, the plants have already been planted, and it will be ready for harvest soon. I'm afraid that when that happens, there will be people vying to do the grave-weeping, and it won't be his father's turn.
Hearing Lin Jiujiu's words, he realized that it was impossible to bring their family back into the fold.
Some people started to have ideas, and some even expressed their opinions on the spot.
"Clan leader, I think Lin Jiujiu is right. This is our clan's own business, and we shouldn't trouble others."
"My family has many children, so why don't we adopt one from my family to be Uncle Tianchang's child? With the help of the villagers, this matter can be arranged."
That man had a really good plan. He directly said that if the Lin family adopted the child, all the land would belong to his child.
If it's said to be the child's, then it must be his.
His family had seven or eight boys, but they only had three dilapidated thatched huts, and one of them was used as a kitchen.
It's barely enough room now, but in a few years when the children are grown up and getting married, we can't all still be crammed into one room.
Although someone died in the Lin family's old house, he didn't mind.
He'll clean it up later, and if necessary, he can go to the temple and invite a Bodhisattva to worship. He doesn't believe those wandering ghosts will dare to come back.
The most important thing is the land owned by the Lin family. Back then, the Lin family was very hardworking.
What was originally a somewhat barren, medium-quality land has been transformed into top-quality farmland by them year after year.
The annual harvest is no less than that of the original fertile land.
Although the Lin family planted the rice seedlings themselves this season, and the seedlings in the field were sparse and some were withered and yellow, it was still a free harvest.
If he can think of this, others can naturally think of it too.
Immediately someone retorted, "Don't even think about it. In terms of blood relations, it's not your turn to be adopted. My father and Uncle Tianchang have the same grandfather. We have quite a few children in our family. Let alone adopting one, we could adopt two without any problem."
"What right do you, a relative beyond the fifth degree of kinship, have to interfere?"
It looked like these people were about to start arguing in front of the Lin family's house.
Mr. Lin said impatiently, "If you want to fight, go back to your house and make a scene."
With that, he flicked his sleeve and said to the doorman, "Close the door."
Lin Jiujiu originally wanted to see them bicker and argue, but seeing that her father had rarely lost his temper, she nodded to the gatekeeper.
Behind her, the Lin family's door slammed shut again with a bang.
Although Lin Tianfang didn't manage to bring their family back into the family genealogy, he still got ten taels of silver, so it wasn't a wasted trip.
He was initially quite pleased with himself, but when he turned around, he saw two officers staring intently at him.
The slight upturn of his lips froze in place, making him look somewhat comical.
But the two officers didn't treat him with any courtesy.
"Clan Chief Lin, come with us to the yamen in a bit. We have some questions for you."
These words sounded polite enough, but Lin Tianfang's back was already sweating.
He had been a village chief before, so he knew perfectly well how difficult it was to get into the government office.
Previously, Lin Tianchang and his wife were taken in for questioning. Although they were not subjected to severe torture, they did not come out unscathed, and they still suffered some hardship.
If the two of them hadn't kept their mouths shut, they probably would be stuck in some mine right now.
But when he thought about his family's current situation, Lin Tian suddenly had a ridiculous thought: it would have been better if he had just accepted everything back then, and maybe he would still be alive now.
When Lin's father returned to the house, he was clearly in a bad mood. Lin Jiujiu took the initiative to tell her family what had happened at the door.
The Lin family members all cursed the Lin clan for being shameless.
Lin Luo went even further, saying, "We're not happy being the founding ancestors of our own clans, so why should we go out of our way to be someone else's grandson?"
Since they completely broke with the Lin family and went to the government office to get new household registration documents, they also picked up a new family genealogy book.
For now, only their family's name is listed.
Even knowing that the Duke of Zhenguo's family in the capital was their relative, they never thought of attaching themselves to them or being included in their family genealogy, let alone those who had never treated them to a meal.
On the contrary, it is those who only think about exploiting them.
No one with a completely intact brain would do something like this.
However, all the complaining is just a momentary venting and then it's over.
Everyone still has things to do, but they've all gone their separate ways.
Lin Jiujiu threw the younger girls, including Lin Xiaomei, into the study, leaving Ning Yi to continue teaching them to read and write.
In the afternoon, a separate martial arts class was held.
Lin Jiujiu asked her mother and Aunt Hu to take people to clean up an empty courtyard that was temporarily uninhabited, and to remove all the decorations in the middle of the courtyard.
Baili Chenyuan set up a barrier around the courtyard, preventing anyone without spiritual power from entering. This way, they would have another place to practice and engage in real combat.
Judging from what happened last night, if we only focus on improving our skills and neglect actual combat, we may suffer great losses in the future.
Fortunately, she still had quite a few martial arts manuals, which they could practice on their own, and she could also give them some pointers if they didn't understand something.
Having made these arrangements, she should consider going to the capital in a few days.
Lin Xian'er sent out so many people; she probably thought killing them would be an easy task.
But if no news is sent back after a long time, she will definitely become suspicious and send someone over to check again.
It's not good to be constantly on guard against this kind of thing; we need to address the root cause.
Originally, Lin Xian'er hadn't made this foolish move; she only intended to teach her a lesson and how to behave. Now it seems there's no need to keep her alive any longer.
Originally, Lin Jiujiu didn't think it would take several more days for the county government officials to discover the person who had been deliberately left behind.
But things happened much faster than she expected.
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