From the ashes: Return of the General

Chapter 419 Carrying out Family Law IV

The situation forced Mei Jingxuan to choose to bow her head for the time being, and he remembered the humiliation of today, and would definitely repay it to Mei Xin a hundred times in the future.

The old man stopped, took a sip of the tea handed by his grandson, put down the cup of tea and said with a long sigh: "Knowing your mistakes can make you better, today is for your elder brother's sake." I'll spare you this time for the time being. If you still don't know how to repent, and dare to beat people like today, and your elders don't look like elders, then you will get out of Mei's house and you will not be allowed to come back again. "

The mention of a thousand miles was destroyed by ant nests, and his children and grandchildren still have to rely on the big tree of the Mei family to survive, and they must also be protected by the great achievements of their ancestors, and they must not be destroyed by moths like him.

After thinking about it, he felt that the strength was not enough to deter him, and the clan elder immediately said: "Not only is Zhongkai not allowed to come back, he will also sever the father-son relationship with you. I will never recognize you again and raise you. In the future, you and Lin will be with you. These children have nothing to do with them. Even if you die, you will not be collected, and you will never be dressed in mourning."

"Zhongkai, you kneel down and swear in front of your ancestors. If your father doesn't know how to repent and make mistakes again and again, as his son, if you control him and recognize him, your mother will die badly, and your knees will be crippled." Children will be cut off from offspring."

Knowing that he is a filial child, he is very likely to become an official in the court in the future. In order to avoid trouble in the future, and to prevent someone from saying that he is not filial in the future, the clan elders decided to help him.Of course, these words are actually a bit heavy, but for Mei Jingxuan, who looks very much like Mrs. Mei, she can only act like this.

He has one foot in the coffin, the loess is buried up to the neck, and he will not be alive for a few years.He doesn't care what other people say, let alone what future generations say.Therefore, he might be a bad person for the good of future generations.At least in the future, Mei Zhongkai wouldn't have to worry about his father, and he wouldn't have to entangle him again, saving a lot of unnecessary trouble.

After studying hard for ten years in Han Chuang, Mei Zhongkai is not a nerd who only knows how to read.On the contrary, he is both filial and intelligent, and he recognizes the general situation and considers the overall situation. When he heard this, he immediately understood the good intentions of the clan elders.

Turning his head and subconsciously looking at his father, he frowned slightly, walked up to the back of the clan elder's chair, knelt down on the futon, looked at the tablets of the ancestors and swore: "The ancestors are above all, I, Mei Zhongkai I swear today in front of my ancestors. From now on, if my father, Mei Jingxuan, violates the ancestral precepts, does not abide by the family laws and regulations, does not care about the relationship between husband and wife, father and daughter, does not respect the old and love the young, it will insult the reputation of the Mei family. I will sever the father-son relationship with my ancestors, and I will never have any contact with them."

He paused for a moment, his eyes became firmer, and then he said word by word: "If I break this oath, my mother and I will die a good death. The sky will be struck by lightning and split into five horses. After death, we will fall into the eighteen levels of hell and never be reborn. .In addition, let me have no children and no daughters, no offspring!"

After finishing speaking, he kowtowed three times to the ancestral tablet, then got up and went to the clan elder and knelt down to salute again: "Please clan elder and all uncles and brothers to be witnesses for me, Zhong Kai, thank you very much!"

The sudden illness took heavy medicine, and I only hope that my father will be scruples in what he says and does in the future, understand the good intentions of the clan elders, and understand his filial piety as a son.

For Lin, he is her only son, and for Mei Wanzhi, he is the eldest brother, the only person they can rely on and trust now and in the future.So, he had to do it.Mei Jingxuan can abandon his wife and children, but he cannot abandon his mother and two younger sisters.Besides, he is the eldest son of the second household, so he should support the family.

Seeing that he is completely different from his father, he is a sensible and sensible boy, the clan elder nodded with satisfaction and said: "You are not young anymore, and you are the only son of the second bedroom. From now on, the second bedroom will be up to you Make the decision. Discuss with your elder sister if you don’t understand or can’t make up your mind. If your elder sister can’t make up your mind, come to me. I can’t write two plum characters in one stroke. What's more, the direct branch and the side branch are all in the same line, so you should walk around more on weekdays."

Since the death of Mei Zhannan's father, Mei Changxiu, the contact between the direct branch and the side branch has gradually decreased. In addition, Mei Zhannan has been defending the city of Liangzhou for many years and cannot return to the capital without being called. There are fewer and fewer, and there are only a handful of them in recent years.

It stands to reason that after her husband passed away and her son was away, Mrs. Mei should visit the elders more often, and be filial to those who are on holidays.Not to mention how many things to take, the minimum etiquette is to take the children and grandchildren to kowtow to the clan elders to say hello.Especially during the Chinese New Year, as a junior, she had to pay her respects to her elders.

Even if he is physically inconvenient and unwilling to go from the bottom of his heart, these sons below, especially Mei Jingxuan who has been in the capital, should go and see.It might be once a year, but she has never been there. Except for Mei Zhannan, her sons have never been to the clan elder's door, let alone to pay him New Year's greetings.

In fact, these are still relatively minor. The most serious and hateful thing is that after Mei Changxiu died, she would not allow people from her side to come to the house again.Over time, the elders of the clan also noticed it, and everyone understood it, and gradually they stopped coming.Therefore, the elders of the clan are always angry, and the descendants of these offshoots are also full of hostility towards the direct line.And if Mei Zhannan hadn't prepared extra generous gifts every year, the clan elders would have come forward to clean up Mrs. Mei, and the people in the side branch would not just be angry.

In the previous life, Mei Xin had heard his father talk about the grievances between the direct branch and the offshoot of the Mei family, but his father didn't say much at that time in order to protect his grandmother.The main reason is that the son doesn't talk about the mother's faults, and it's hard to say much in front of her, so she doesn't know that the two renunciations are all because of the grandmother.

I have to say that my grandfather was really blind to marry such a short-sighted and selfish wife.Fortunately, father is a sensible person and not as confused as Mei Jingxuan, otherwise the Mei family might have fought with the side branch people before the emperor issued an order to kill everyone.

Counting up, it means that the father's generation of the army has no side members, and the grandfather's brothers all died on the battlefield.

Thinking about it, it's really desolate. What my grandmother did was absolutely amazing, and it was really too much. Mei Xin got up and saluted and said very ashamedly: "What the old ancestor said is very true. It's because we juniors did not do well. We didn't pay respects to our uncles. , We were rude, and we made our ancestors worry about it. Don't worry, our ancestors, we will definitely correct it from today onwards. I will bring my brothers and sisters to the door to make amends tomorrow morning. I hope all uncles and aunts will forgive me!"

(End of this chapter)