Protect Our Clan Leader

Chapter 464: Chapter 3: Shou Zhe! Being handsome is the original sin_2

Of course, he was the only one here, his children were all staying in the main residence, taken care of by Shounuo’s wife, and undergoing unified training of the clan.

The interior residence had been tidied up long ago. With the help of many house servants and the head of household, Wang Shouzhe and his party were quickly settled in.

This time, Elder Longyan came along with Wang Shouzhe.

After Wang Shounuo paid respects to Elder Longyan, the three of them held a small meeting together.

Elder Longyan’s visit to Longzuo County was low-profile this time, to avoid giving the impression of the main residence being vacant. Of course, Wang Shouzhe had not actually left the defenses of the main residence empty.

With his wife Liu Ruolan in charge, if ordinary Tianren Realm Cultivators dare to act recklessly in Ping’an Town, they most likely wouldn’t fare well.

“Third Brother, your assignment in the county town has resulted in your separation from your family, it’s difficult for you.” Wang Shouzhe clasped his hands in acknowledgment.

“Fourth Brother, what are you talking about?” Wang Shounuo quickly returned the gesture, “We are all part of the Wang family, and it is our duty to contribute to the family. I am incapable of handling big matters, so there is no hardship in doing small things within our sphere. Moreover, I rush home at the end of the year, it only takes eight or nine days.”

“Once the little ones at home grow older, I’ll let them follow Third Brother and learn to handle affairs.” said Wang Shouzhe, “With them here, you can go back to see your family every three or four months.”

Any clan that sends out members doesn’t dispatch their entire family. For example, sending his wife and children here to live together.

Doing so can indeed keep the family together, but over time, it will gradually cause the family to lose its cohesion and centripetal force.

If everyone works outside using their small families as units, it wouldn’t even take a hundred years for the whole family to disintegrate.

“It’s no problem.” Wang Shounuo said, “The growth of the family is not easy. Countless clan predecessors have paid the price of life for the family. I’m just doing my part for the family, Fourth Brother, you worry too much.”

Upon hearing this, Wang Shouzhe was also somewhat emotional.

In this world full of prominent families, the concept and ideology of many people’s families is very different from that of modern Chinese.

Like Wang Shounuo, his wife and children were all in the main residence, and once separated, it was for an entire year. To Wang Shounuo, it was all commonplace, suffering at most from longing, he was not reluctant at all.

His wife and children also thought that it is natural as long as the family needs it.

The rest of the clan members also didn’t think anything was out of the ordinary.

Only Wang Shouzhe, who was once a “modern man,” felt somewhat guilty towards Shounuo and his wife and children.

“Let’s not talk about this for now, let’s switch topics.” Wang Shouzhe sat down with Elder Longyan and Wang Shounuo and said, “You have been collecting news from the County town for the past two years, and you have been quite successful. Please tell us, how is the Wang family in Longzuo doing recently?”

This time at the Celestial Banquet, Elder Zhou Bo still couldn’t make himself available. Only the Family Head and Elder went very low-profile to the Wang family, gave a congratulatory gift. Soon afterward, they hurried back.

Although they didn’t say anything, Wang Shouzhe could guess that the Wang family in Longzuo must have encountered trouble.

It just seems that the other party does not want to entangle Changning Wang Clan, so they have been evasive, trying to solve it on their own.

But the Changning Wang Clan and the Wang family of Longzuo are of the same branch, not only have they been helped by the Wang family of Longzuo in the past, a few years ago in the incident at Fallen Eagle Gorge, Elder Zhou Bo even risked his life to personally take action to deal with Elder Hua Ye, and did not take any rewards afterwards.

With such a camaraderie, Wang Shouzhe naturally couldn’t just watch them in trouble and pretend to know nothing.

“Fourth Brother is right, the Wang family in Longzuo did encounter a problem.” Upon Wang Shouzhe’s mentioning of the matter, Wang Shounuo’s expression suddenly turned serious, “I carefully investigated through subtle inquires and the network I’ve built over the years, and I’ve finally uncovered part of the truth. Here’s what happened…”

Through Wang Shounuo’s account, Wang Shouzhe gradually understood everything.

As an old prominent family, the Wang family of Longzuo was once a Grade Five Prominent Family and had countless properties at their brightest time. However, due to continuous decline over the years and loss of ancestral property, apart from the untouched main residence and a few remaining stores, the clan now only relies on several farms outside the County Town for profit.

In recent years, the Wang family in Longzuo, following Wang Shouzhe’s suggestion, vacated some of the housing in the main residence for keen management of “the Purple Abode Palace”. They gradually accumulated a considerable fortune, and gradually had the thought of cultivating a second Tianren Realm cultivator and rising again, to restore their ancestral glory.

During the clearance of the past agreements of the family, they found a land lease agreement from three hundred and thirty years ago, which had actually expired thirty years ago.

Thus, Elder Zhou Bo tried to reclaim these two thousand acres or so of ancestral fields.

“But the other party kept evading, and conflicts eventually broke out between the two sides. Now the friction between the Wang family in Longzuo and this other family is escalating, and the conflict is deepening. If this continues, the Wang family in Longzuo is likely to suffer. Fourth Brother, my foundation in the County Town is too shallow, and I can’t get to the bottom of the details. But the other family is not weak, they should have one Tianren Realm mid-stage, and one Tianren Realm early-stage ancestor. Elder Zhou Bo is having difficulty coping and may be caught off guard.”