Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2405 Rectifying the Family Business ([-])

"Is there no food relief in the ancestral hall?"

"The patriarch is dead, the elders are dead, fleeing, and there is no one who can talk. Besides, this trip to the soldiers has been a disaster. Money and food have been robbed. If it weren't for the Australians After coming, I sent some food relief, and I don’t know how many people will starve to death.” Chen Yue was full of grievances, “Besides, now that the second uncle is in power and in charge of the ancestral hall, no one can talk well.”

The second uncle Chen Yue spoke of was actually her own father.However, Chen Yue despised and hated this father, and did not treat him as a relative at all.

"What? The second uncle is in power?" Chen Lin was taken aback when he heard that. The second uncle ate, drank, prostituted and gambled on weekdays, and did a lot of absurd things.Back then in the weaving workshop, he had stolen and sold the silks and satins that were ready to be delivered, but in the end the weaving workshop had to pay and apologize, which made Chen Lin's father very embarrassed.From then on, he was not allowed to enter the weaving workshop, and he was only given some pocket money every month.

Even if there are no elders in the clan, whoever is in charge should not be the turn of this prodigal son!

Chen Lin's family is one of the three branches handed down from Chen's parents' house, and it is the official line of the direct line.Although his father had never served as the head of the clan, he had always been a clan elder who kept his promises.He has always been in charge of the case.

The father is dead, and the brother is in charge of the case. This is considered a true story, but the second uncle is famous for his absurdity. What do the clan think?

"Why don't you let third uncle be in charge of the case?"

Chen Yue looked around and said, "I'll talk about it later. You just came back, so you should go home and have a look."

Chen Lin was full of suspicion, but he knew that the girl must have something difficult to say, so he didn't ask any more questions.My sister is right, since they are all back, we should go home first.

The three returned home together.But here is the same as what Chen Yue said, the walls collapsed and the houses collapsed, full of devastation.There is not even a hut where you can live in the huge three-entry courtyard.Many potholes of different sizes were left in the yard.

Needless to say, everything in the house was looted, and most of the furniture was damaged.Although these furniture are not expensive, they have been passed down from generation to generation from the ancestors. They have been repaired, maintained, and added to each generation. They have been with the family day and night, and now only the wreckage is left on the ground.For some unknown reason, the soldiers smashed them all to pieces and threw them on the ground.

My father's favorite jasmine tree was originally as thick as a bowl, and it was full of flowers in summer. The fragrance can be smelled all the way outside the courtyard.But it was cut off in the middle.

Looking at the mess in the courtyard, Chen Lin sighed, what a catastrophe!
Chen Yue thought that he was feeling sorry for the family business, so she comforted her, "Brother Ah Lin, it's good that you are fine. Now that my father is gone, you are the backbone of the whole family..."

His mother passed away early, and his father had no continuation, only a concubine, but he had no children and died last year.After his father left, only he and this girl were left in the family.

Thinking of this, he felt sad for a while, and asked, "Where is Dad's coffin now?"

"Abba's body was only found two months ago," Chen Yue said with tears rolling down her cheeks, "it's so soaked that it's only recognized by the third uncle from a stamp that he carried with him... the elders said so The dead body could not be preserved, so it was better to bury it quickly—it was buried on the same day.”

Thinking of his father's tragic situation, Chen Lin couldn't help crying like rain, and said after a long time: "Ah Yue, go and prepare incense burning paper for me, and I'll go to pay my respects to my father's grave."

The two went to pay their respects at the ancestral grave. Chen Lin saw that the cemetery was disturbed too much. All the sacrificial vessels in the cemetery had been looted, and all the doors and windows had been destroyed.After weeping and offering sacrifices in front of the father's grave, the two brothers and sisters got up.Chen Lin proposed to visit the weaving workshop, but Chen Yue shook his head and said:
"Brother, it's better not to go to Zhifang."

"What? Was it also destroyed?"

"There was no damage to the weaving workshop - the rebels just took away the stock, the house and the loom, and the damage was not much. It restarted a month ago..."

"Start work?" Chen Lin was taken aback. After the war, there was nothing left to do, and now the clansmen could not even eat.Where can I get the money to start working?
Silk weaving is a very costly business, and buying raw silk is all cash.The sold silks and satins have to wait for three quarters to reconcile accounts before getting paid back.Since the rebels have looted the raw silk stocks, how can they start work without raw materials?Even if the clan pays for repurchases, it is winter and the silkworms haven't even hatched yet, so where do the silkworm cocoons come from?
"How can we start work without raw silk?" Chen Lin turned around and was about to leave, "Let's go to the weaving workshop!"

Chen Yue grabbed his arm: "Brother! I won't stop you if you want to visit, but I have a few words to tell you first..."

Chen Lin was surprised. Knowing that there was something strange, he stopped and said, "Tell me."

"Brother Ah Lin, Second Uncle is in charge of the weaving workshop now..."

Chen Lin was stunned, and sneered, "It's not surprising. He's now in charge of the ancestral hall." He suddenly thought of something, and asked, "Why did the elders in the clan let him be in charge of the case?"

Chen Yue looked around and saw that there was no one around, so she dragged Chen Lin into the cemetery, found a place to sit down, and said in a low voice:
"Brother Ah Lin... don't get angry. I'll tell you quietly, Second Uncle is hooking up with the Kun thief!"

"What?!" Chen Lin was taken aback, and hurriedly asked, "Really?"

"Yeah!" Chen Yue nodded heavily, and continued: "When the rebellious soldiers ransacked Nansha, everyone was scrambling for their lives and ran away—I went to Sanliang City, my aunt's natal home, with my third uncle and my family, and hid It took more than two months. Later, the Australians issued a notice saying that the ground in Guangzhou was calm, and the fleeing people could go back to their hometowns. There are no travel expenses, and there are free shuttle boats in major cities and towns. I I watched it with my third uncle's family for a few days, and saw that it was safe, so I took the Australian boat and went home together.

"I went back to the village and saw that most of the escaped people had come back. Everyone was busy cleaning up the houses and collecting the corpses. The Australians also gave some money and rice to the village for relief. When the second uncle ran away, he met Australians. , I don’t know why, so I got the officer of Nansha Village’s ‘liaison officer’.”

"This is not an official, Zuo is just a Baojia class."

"But he trembled through this 'liaison officer'. The elders in the clan also looked up to him because he could communicate with Australians. Let him go to work. Unexpectedly, it didn't take long before he borrowed Australians' He was forced to let him be the case manager of the ancestral hall. The elders in the clan had to run away to death, and the rest had no idea. After being urged by him like this, they could only let him be the case manager. The third uncle If I refused, I had a big fight with him in the ancestral hall, and left the next day."

Chen Lin understood that his useless second uncle took advantage of the troubled times to seize power.Needless to say, the weaving workshop was also taken away by him.The third uncle has a calm temperament and is the most calm among the three brothers.He had never seen his third uncle lose his temper when he was young, and he could get into a big fight with his second uncle, and he ran away angrily.It's definitely not all because he was in charge of the case. "

"Where did third uncle go?"

"Third Uncle's family went back to Sanliang—I was supposed to take me with me. I thought you hadn't heard from me, Brother, and I wanted to stay when you came back."

He suddenly thought of another question, and asked: "There is no raw silk on the market now. And the second uncle has never been in charge of the weaving workshop. Who is in charge of the weaving workshop?"

Chen Yue looked around again before saying, "Now the weaving workshop is in charge of the Kun people."

"What?!" Chen Lin's jaw almost dropped in shock.Australians still come to the village to run weaving workshops?This was beyond his expectation.Quickly asked: "Is it real or fake?"

"It's fake hair—in fact, they didn't shave their heads. It's just that they can speak Kun, and they brought a lot of new machines—all shipped by Australians! The second uncle also said that these people came from Qiongzhou Prefecture, He's the right man for the Australians," he said.

as predicted!The second uncle is incapable of managing and operating the weaving workshop. If the weaving workshop falls into his hands, the only result is that it will be stolen and sold out.It is obviously because of these fake hair that it is able to operate now.

But what is the intention of these fake kuns who came to Nansha to open weaving workshops?When it comes to silk reeling and silk weaving, there are many workshops in and outside Guangzhou.Why go to Nansha on purpose?

He became more and more confused, but since the man in front of the door had meddled in the weaving workshop, the possibility of him taking it back was very slim.

"You must not go head-to-head with Second Uncle," Chen Yue reminded, "Second Uncle now has the backing of a gangster, and no one in the village dares to provoke him. , was caught by him and beaten in the ancestral hall, saying that he would be fined a stone of rice. Everyone went to intercede and promised to pay when the rice was harvested next year, so he was released."

"In the end, he is only one person, and the village lets him mess around? Even if the Australians support him, it is just a few fake kuns. I have seen a lot of fake kuns in Guangzhou. The Australians are the strictest in restraining their subordinates, and they are not allowed to do anything. For something illegal, these fake men would not dare to come out to support him openly."

"Well, I don't know. People in the village were terrified when they heard the words 'thieves' and 'Australians'—Brother Alin, do you still remember the Australians besieging Guangzhou a few years ago?"

Of course he remembered it.The Australian warships sailed along the river, collecting food and grass everywhere.Anyone who dared to resist and refuse to obey was slaughtered, and there were not many big families who broke their families.

"...The most irritating thing is that those foreign surnames who used to work in the weaving workshop, now have fake hair to back them up, and are win over by the second uncle. They are all willing to be the second uncle's minions and run amok in the village. Now the people of the Chen family Instead, I dare not speak out loud.”

Chen Lin didn't make a sound. He thought that even if his father was gone, the elders in the clan would be able to maintain a good situation. With a hundred yuan loaned by his cousin, he could slowly renovate the house, restore the weaving workshop, and reorganize the family business.

Now it seems that I want to be simple.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Sister, I'd better go for a walk in the village. See the situation."

(End of this chapter)