The old patriarch is indeed a thousand-year-old fox who has blessed Know-How.

Even Chen Jian at Zhihua Technology is not very clear about this matter.

I didn't expect that the old patriarch would be able to learn such important information.

Li Xiang pretended to be horrified and looked at the old patriarch, speechless for a long time.

The old patriarch continued with a somewhat proud smile:

"Li Xiang, I promise you to use this personal investment for free for at least one year."

Seeing that Li Xiang had no intention of expressing his stance, the old patriarch decided to take another dose of strong medicine and said:

"Don't worry! I won't bully you. As long as you make other reasonable requests, I will try my best to satisfy you with the authority of my clan leader. Of course, this also includes your mention of writing Zhang Ling Xiaodouzi into the family tree."

Li Xiang's frown relaxed a lot after hearing this.

But his expression was still solemn.

After all, the core secret of Zhihua Technology was discovered by an outsider.

Li Xiang must show serious concern to be more reasonable.

Zhang Ling looked at Li Xiang's face and looked a little ugly. She nervously stepped forward to help her and asked:

"Are you okay?"

She guessed that the old patriarch must be threatening the people or things that Li Xiang cares about most.

People?

She first thought of Xiaodouzi who had been playing with another little girl in the ancestral hall.

Zhang Ling wanted to move away with a worried face, and wanted to quickly confirm Xiaodouzi's safety.

Before Li could speak, the old patriarch smiled and explained:

"It's okay, you don't have to worry. He just heard incredible good news and needs to digest it."

It seems that these words were specifically said to Zhang Ling.

Li Xiang then nodded and looked at Zhang Ling and explained:

"That's right! It's rare for the patriarch to take such good care of my grandson. I'm just not used to it for a while."

The old patriarch looked at Zhang Ling kindly and said with a smile:

"After all, I am Li Xiang's grandfather, and I will never do anything to intentionally harm my grandson."

As expected of an old fox.

Such unintentional words came out of his mouth.

Always able to bring at least 50% confidence.

If it weren’t for Zhen Li Xiang who introduced the old patriarch’s ruthless character in advance.

Li Xiang really thought that the old patriarch was a simple and kind elder grandfather because of these words.

But Zhang Ling seems to have somewhat believed the old patriarch’s expression.

In a somewhat accusatory tone, he said that Li Xiang did not treat his elder grandfather with respect.

Everything went through a lot of twists and turns according to the setting of Zhen Li Xiang.

The old patriarch happily agreed to all three requests made by Li Xiang.

That is:

Article 2: After he takes over as the patriarch, he must be allowed to join the Li Group and have one vote of decision-making power in the Li Group.

Because Zhen Li Xiang has never been welcomed by the old patriarch.

No matter how outstanding he has been in the family?

The old patriarch never thought of letting Li Xiang join the Li Group.

Article 3: He has absolute say after taking over as the patriarch.

Even the old patriarch cannot use his status as an elder to interfere in all his decisions.

Perhaps the old patriarch agreed to these requests too readily.

Li Xiang, an outsider, also began to worry about the fate of the real Li Xiang.

Because like Zhang Ling, he also vaguely felt that the old patriarch was definitely planning a big conspiracy against the real Li Xiang.

A towering tree must have its roots;

The water that surrounds the mountain must have its source.

As we all know, filling in the musical score is only performed during the ancestor worship ceremony in the Year of the Dragon and Tiger.

Generally, when filling in the spectrum, the shaman should choose an auspicious day and auspicious time.

The shaman placed rice wine cups, shochu cups and cake trays according to the procedure.

I saw the old patriarch placing two incense dishes at each end of the sacred table, and then lighting a stick of incense in the incense burner.

After the incense burns for a while, firecrackers are set off in the courtyard, the clan leader reads the sacrificial words, and the whole clan kneels in front of the ancestral plank according to age, and the clan leader kowtows three times after reading the sacrificial words.

After the two shamans clean their hands, they stand on the stools and take down the ancestor box, remove the red cloth outside, and the shamans arrange the mandarin jackets representing the ancestors' deities on the sacred table on the west wall in order.

After the family tree is opened, it is also hung on the west wall. After unfolding, a yellow silk curtain is hung on it to prevent others from seeing the family tree directly.

It turns out that this is a hanging family tree.

This is different from a book-style family tree. It is a family tree that is hung or rolled up for collection.

Folks call it the axis of the family tree (referred to as the genealogy axis).

This kind of family tree is actually a kind of family tree scroll, which is generally larger in format, with stylized patterns and blanks for filling in.

In the past, patterns were usually drawn by hand by professional painters.

Patterns generally include halls, pavilions, pines and bamboos and other mascots.

There is an offering table painted in the pavilion, and a tablet with the words "enshrined for the ancestors of all generations" is placed on it.

Spaces of different sizes are drawn on both sides of the table, like tablets, to fill in the names of deceased ancestors, elders or people of the same clan.

The order of names is generally based on the topmost person with the highest seniority, and other elders are arranged in order by seniority.

When arranging, follow the traditional custom of men on the left and women on the right, and the husband and wife should be symmetrical.

The writer will report the list of living and dead members of each clan in the past 12 years, and the clan members will confirm it again.

The writer used a red pen to fill in the name of the person who was born under his father's name, and the name of the person who died used an ink pen to underline the red name in black.

If there is no child, it is necessary to adopt the next of kin (uncle, uncle, brother). Both families should be present to instruct the adoption in the name, and the person who writes the document should fill it out.

Under the instructions of the old patriarch, the writer successfully wrote the names of Zhang Ling and Xiaodouzi into the family tree.

It is worth noting that in the genealogy of the Li family, the words "match" and "marry" are used together when a man gets married, but it must be understood that there is a difference between these two words.

Matching and step-matching both refer to a woman’s first marriage;

Marry and step-marriage both refer to a woman remarrying (i.e. remarrying).

Therefore, Zhang Ling uses the word "match" in her genealogy.

It starts the moment the writer puts pen to paper!

The souls of their family of three seem to have begun to have an inexplicable bond.

Looking at the brush in the hand of the writer, dancing stroke by stroke, her mind began to recall all the beautiful moments quickly and unconsciously.

When I met Li Xiang on a blind date for the first time, he looked so lifelike as a migrant worker;

On the first date, she boldly asked him to take her with her to the barren mountains to see the wind turbines, standing in the wind and enjoying the refreshing feeling of the wind blowing every inch of her skin;

There were the laughter of Xiaodouzi calling Li Xiang daddy for the first time, and the family of three going to Disneyland for the first time.

……

When the names of a family of three appeared perfectly on the genealogy, the beautiful things in her mind ended appropriately.

She looked sideways to her side with a smile. From the moment their eyes met, she found that he was looking at her with tender eyes.

As Haizi described in "Summer Sun":

I think of children born during the day

It must be intentional

Come to the human world

You need to look at the sun

With your sweetheart

Walking on the street together

Get to know her

Also understand the sun

……

At that moment, time seemed to have stopped on purpose.

Let her know clearly.

Come to the human world and see the sweetheart who makes her happy.

At this moment, although we are not walking romantically together on the street.
To be continued...