After the whole family was swept away, I lay down flat

Chapter 1058 Worry
After breakfast, everyone dispersed.

Haixiya, Haichang'an and Haijiao all had to go on errands, Xiao Shitou also had homework to do, and Hu received the task of preparing two meals from her mother-in-law Ma, and had to go to the kitchen to inquire about the purchases. For a while, only Ma and Haitang were left in the room.

Ma sent her trusted assistant Aunt Cui to help her daughter-in-law, then leaned back on the pillow beside the kang and let out a long sigh.

Haitang came close to her and asked in a low voice, "Grandma, weren't you reluctant to go back to our hometown to worship our ancestors? Why didn't you stop Grandpa?"

"How can I stop him? I have already persuaded him." Ma sighed again, and she looked much more relaxed. "Well, if he wants to come back, then go back. He is in good health these days, and I am not that weak. From the capital back to Jianghaitun, almost all the way is the official road. Even if there is a dirt road in the countryside, it is not bumpy. I heard that the Jiang family once spent a lot of effort to renovate the road into the village, and now the Hai family can be said to have benefited from it."

Ma didn't want to go back to her hometown in Yongping. First, she had just married into the Hai family when she was young. First, she suffered the death of her father, then she was bullied by the eldest son of her husband's family, and then her mother-in-law died of illness. Not long after, she and her husband left home for the northwest... She didn't have any happy memories there, and she had no good feelings towards the Hai family. It was frustrating enough to follow her family away from their hometown Chang'an. She had to go back to the old house in her hometown that she had no good feelings for. How could she be happy? !

Secondly, she had just moved into a new house in Beijing this year. Her grandchildren would be preparing for weddings in the spring. She was very happy and had many things to do. How could she spare half a month to travel far away? Traveling in the winter was not a comfortable thing. She didn't want to make herself suffer.

However, no matter how reluctant she was, she couldn't reject her husband's decision. Moreover, her husband had good reasons for returning home, and she felt she had no confidence to oppose his decision just because of her own ideas.

She struggled for a long time last night, but was finally persuaded by her husband. Now she used the same reason to persuade her granddaughter: "Although it is hard to travel in winter, there are some things that your grandfather cannot do without. I have no choice. You see, the eldest house is full of women and children, and Baozhu is still young. How can he withstand the embarrassment of those old men in the tribe? Your cousin is even more disappointed and doesn't want to quarrel with the tribe members anymore. Even though they seem to have changed their attitude and are willing to greet your cousin with a smile, who knows what they are thinking in their hearts? Maybe they are just pretending to be friendly. When they get to the tribe and see that she has no one to rely on, they will use tricks to make things difficult for her! If I go with your grandfather, I can also protect your cousin a little and prevent the people in the tribe from messing around, right?"

Hai Xiya and the Ma couple both saw clearly that although the elders had changed their attitude and were willing to speak well of Fang because the Queen Mother had rewarded her, that was also because Fang had repeatedly promised that she would never return to the Hai family's eldest house to manage the household affairs. If Fang did not return to the family to take charge, and Hai Baozhu had to continue studying abroad, the family affairs would still be handled by the elders of the family. The elders welcomed Fang back to their hometown to worship their ancestors, which would only bring glory to the Hai family, but would not affect their own interests, so they were willing to change their attitude.

If Fang were to return to the clan and take power, I'm afraid the clan elders wouldn't be so happy about it.

But Hai Baozhu still hoped that Fang could go home and take charge of the family affairs as before, so that he could study with peace of mind. He knew that Fang would manage the family well. However, this was not what the elders wanted. In order to dispel Hai Baozhu's idea, it was unknown what bad words they would say to Fang. Hai Xiya and his wife returning home together would shock the clan members and prevent them from talking nonsense. However, there was another most important thing, which was Hai Xiya's plan to buy land.

He had already found his colleagues in the Ministry of Revenue to inquire about the news of the fields around Jianghaitun. The fields that the Jiang family was going to sell included those that had been annexed from the Hai family in the past, and those that were inherited from their ancestors. No one had taken action on these fields for the time being, but considering that the Jiang family had a branch of the family who had taken refuge with the powerful officials and had already entered the capital, they might one day set their sights on this part of the family's fields. Hai Xiya didn't want to see anyone from the Jiang family occupy the fields again, so he planned to go back to his hometown in person to make a deal with the owners of the fields from the branch of the Jiang family, complete the transfer procedures, and not give anyone the opportunity to take advantage of the situation. He was an official of the Ministry of Revenue of the current dynasty. No matter whether it was the county where Jianghaitun was located or the Yongping Prefecture, no official would dare to deliberately prevent him from completing a normal land transaction.

Hai Xiya is not young anymore, he can feel his energy gradually declining, he knows he will have to retire in a few years. He is inclined to return to his hometown to retire, thinking that when he retires, his children and grandchildren will have established themselves in the officialdom, and his cousin will have his own career and friends, so he won't need to worry about them anymore, he can go back to his hometown and live the leisurely life he wants for a few years. Buying more good land is also a guarantee for his future life, otherwise what is the point of working hard outside for decades and saving so much wealth?

In addition to buying land and supporting the eldest son and mother, Hai Xiya was also worried about the situation within the family.

In the past, he knew that he was a branch of the eldest family, and would not inherit the position of the patriarch, nor was he interested in this position. He had planned for himself to be vacant in the army a long time ago, and originally wanted to join the Shanhai Guard, move out of the old house, and split up the family in disguise. Later, for the sake of his cousin Xie Wenzai, he changed his original plan and went to the northwest. He had no intention of asking about the affairs of the family. Even if he saw that his eldest brother Hai Dongya was acting in an unreasonable way, he never intervened. Because he knew that his eldest brother would not listen to his advice.

But now that he is back, he is angry when he learns about what happened in the tribe over the years.

The decline of the eldest branch of the family was due to the fact that two consecutive generations of family heads were mediocre and incompetent, and they refused to listen to the advice of capable people, so they made the family worse and worse. After Fang took over the power, although she was capable, she was suppressed by the Jiang family and had no time to reverse the decline. After marrying into the Jiang family, she was able to control the power of the Hai family through her daughter, old servants and the Hai family members, allowing the Hai family to maintain a certain standard of living and not be ruined. This was her best effort. But when she divorced and left the Jiang family, she was expelled by the ungrateful Hai family members, and the situation in the family became more and more corrupt.

Those elders were unable to resist the oppression of the powerful Jiang family, and they could not suppress their desire to be in power, so they excluded dissidents in the family. Many of the properties lost by the Hai family were returned by the government, but they did not know how to manage them, so the financial difficulties of the family did not improve much. Although several elders had more private wealth, ordinary members of the family were still poor. The elderly without children and grandchildren had no one to support them, and could only rely on the help of kind relatives and friends to barely maintain food and clothing; there were several poor families, whose daughters were over 20 years old, but because they had no dowry, they were unwilling to lower themselves, and they had not yet discussed marriages, and their sons had not been able to get married; the children who dropped out of school were unable to continue their studies, and the younger generation who had studied well in their early years were actually unable to pay the tuition, so they planned to change their tracks and go to the county government to work as a minor official, or even go into business!
All of these should have been solved by the elders in charge of clan affairs, but they turned a blind eye to it. All day long, they either thought about getting more clan property into their own pockets or trying to persuade Hai Baozhu, the heir of the eldest house, to abandon his stepmother and obey their orders. How could a competent clan leader do this? Even if the elders were not the head of the clan, since they were in power, they should fulfill their responsibilities!
Therefore, when Hai Xiya returns to his hometown this time, he has to reorganize the tribe and get the tribe's atmosphere back on track.

Today's update is late, cough...