Sir, can you marry me?

Chapter 204

The eldest son of the third son Ling Yulou's adoptive son under the name of the deceased son Ling Yutang was settled, and Prime Minister Ling told his wife.The prime minister's wife was a little excited when she heard this, because in this way, her own son would be worshiped forever.She called her third daughter-in-law, Cui Shi, to have a heart-to-heart talk with her all afternoon.When Cui left, she had a satisfied smile on her face.

The adoptive son needs to open an ancestral hall to pray to the ancestors, and both the original parents of the adoptive person and the adopted parents must attend the adoption ceremony.Prime Minister Ling's eldest son, Ling Yulou, has passed away. He has a nominally original wife, but after his death, that wife was sent to a nunnery by the prime minister's wife to be shaved and turned into a nun. Therefore, no one in the eldest room attended Ling Jingquan's adoption ceremony.

On the morning of November [-]nd, the day chosen by Prime Minister Ling himself, firecrackers were fired in the prime minister's mansion, and the father and son of the Ling family brought three boys from Jingquan Jinghaijingyuan into their ancestral hall to offer incense and pray, and held the adoption ceremony.Mrs. Prime Minister, Mrs. Cui, the third young lady of the Ling family, Xiao Wenqing, the fourth young lady, and three girls, Qinglan, Xuelan, and Yulan, all dressed in costumes faced the gate of the ancestral hall, followed the men in the ancestral hall to kneel down, stand up, and kneel down again.

Cai Zeming, the eldest son-in-law of the Prime Minister’s Ministry of Rites, Liu Hanlin, the sixth son-in-law, the Minister of the Ministry of War, the right deputy governor of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment... seven or eight important officials were invited into the Ling family ancestral hall to observe the ceremony and testify.

The two daughters who were called back to watch the ceremony, Mrs. Cai and Mrs. Liu are daughters-in-law of other people's family who entered the genealogy of other people's family. Stand upright.Standing in the distance behind them were the concubines of Prime Minister Ling and Ling Yulou. These concubines were neither eligible to enter the family tree nor to worship in the ancestral hall, and could only stand and watch from a distance like the servants of the Ling family.

In the ancestral hall, after the men of the Ling family knelt down and worshiped their ancestors, Ling Jingquan went to his own father, Ling Yulou, and knelt down. He led to the spirit seat of the uncle Ling Yutang, bowed, offered incense, bowed three times and bowed nine times in a solemn and solemn manner, saying that the child Jingquan paid his respects to his father.

An old servant who specializes in managing the ancestral hall came over with a tray, kneeled respectfully in front of Prime Minister Ling, and held the tray high.The Ling family's family tree was placed on the tray, with pens and ink beside it.Prime Minister Ling opened the family tree, picked up the wolf hair and licked the ink, and began to revise the family tree, crossing out Ling Jingquan's name from the name of his third son Ling Yulou, and moving it to the name of the late eldest son Ling Yutang.As soon as the family tree was revised, Ling Jingquan has since been in the lineage of the eldest family, and has a relationship with his original parents as uncle and nephew, and he has become the first cousin of his original siblings.

On the occasion of opening the ancestral hall, Prime Minister Ling also erased the word "Ge" next to the name of his eldest granddaughter Ling Qinglan, and put incense on it to tell his ancestors that Ling Qinglan is his granddaughter of the third wife.That "Ge" was the surname of Ling Qinglan's biological mother, and this blackening indicated that Ling Qinglan was the daughter of the main family, the Cui family, and not the concubine daughter of the concubine with the surname Ge.

Prime Minister Ling finished revising the family tree.Ling Jingquan got up and walked to Ling Yulou, bowed his hands deeply, choked up and said, "Third Uncle." He originally didn't want to be adopted, but his grandfather and father repeatedly explained the pros and cons, and he agreed.

With mixed feelings, Ling Yulou stretched out his hand to support his former son, and said in a hoarse voice: "Nephew Jingquan." Jingquan is his eldest son, and he spent as much effort on him as his father did in cultivating his elder brother, but For the sake of the Ling family, he had no choice but to let his eldest son adopt him under the name of his elder brother.

"Fourth Uncle." Ling Jingquan bowed his hands to Ling Yuxuan and saluted, an embarrassing blush appeared on his Junya face.

Ling Jingquan also thought that his concubine younger brother Jing Yuan was more suitable to be adopted, but his father and grandfather both asked him to be adopted, and it was difficult for him to refuse.The Ling family now has an eldest grandson and a second son. According to the law of etiquette, the eldest grandson inherits the family business prior to the second son, but his eldest grandson was originally the eldest son of the second wife. Which uncle is more noble and more suitable to inherit the family business?Grandfather Ling Chengxiang was seventy-two, not only made himself confused, but also confused a lot of people.

Ling Yuxuan stretched out his hand to help his nephew who was eight years younger than himself, and said pleasantly, "Jingquan, you are the grandson of the eldest son, you must be cautious in your words and deeds in the future, think twice before doing things, and consider the gains and losses of the Ling family in everything." Because Wenqing was plotted against by his mother, he secretly sent someone to coerce and use it to bribe a maid beside his mother.The servant girl spread the news that the madam suggested to the Prime Minister the day before yesterday that since there is a noble grandson, he must be well nurtured.At that time, Xiangye stroked his beard and said nothing.

If you stroke your beard without saying a word, is that the default?
Ling Yuxuan was very puzzled, what did he do wrong that made his father think of changing the heir?Is it because his biological mother is so humble that even if he puts it under the name of his aunt, he is still not noble enough?
After Ling Yuxuan got the news, he sullenly confided his dissatisfaction to his closest person—his wife.Xiao Wenqing persuaded him at that time, what does it matter if he does not inherit the Ling family clan?Your father not only trained you to be an all-rounder in civil and military affairs, but also helped you to be promoted quickly to become a close minister of the emperor. Most of your current family property was given to you by your father without telling your family. What are you dissatisfied with?You are a majestic man, since the first generation ancestor of the Ling family in Beijing can start from scratch in the capital, you are only 26 years old and have surpassed your first generation ancestor, why can't you do better in the future?
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