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Fu Tinghan looked behind him and chuckled: "Maybe you can ask the beauty herself."

Zhao Ming turned around and met Zhao Hanzhang's eyes. He was startled and immediately sat up with a serious look on his face, "When did Sanniang come?"

Zhao Hanzhang glanced at his face and saw that his eyes were blurred and he was obviously drunk, "When my cousin was discussing beauties."

Zhao Hanzhang picked up the wine flask and smelled the wine. He thought it tasted pretty good, so he sat cross-legged on the other side of the low table and filled up a wine glass himself.

She took a sip, nodded approvingly and said, "This wine is good."

Zhao Ming:......

He looked at Fu Tinghan, who was sitting opposite, and saw that he didn't mind at all, and even refilled it for her.

"It is said that Fu Zhongshu is an upright and old-fashioned man, but I didn't expect that his grandson is different from him."

Fu Tinghan said: "That is the world's misunderstanding of my grandfather. He is not that kind of person."

Zhao Hanzhang nodded in agreement, "If Grandfather Fu is like what the rumors say, he will not let Mr. Fu Dalang accompany me to carry the coffin back home."

Although the purpose of bringing Fu Tinghan back to Runan was to kill him first and then show off, even Zhao Zhongyu sent someone to ask for money, and Fu Zhi had not yet sent anyone to pick up Fu Tinghan, which shows that he did not object to Fu Tinghan staying in Runan to observe filial piety.

Zhao Ming saw that she wanted to drink, so he stretched out his hand to hold her down, "Sanniang, although you have been filial piety, you are still observing filial piety now, and you shouldn't drink."

Zhao Hanzhang stopped and asked him curiously, "Is my cousin worried? Why are you drinking during the day?"

Zhao Ming shook his head, "No worries, just drink if you want."

At this point, he might have felt embarrassed, and after a pause he burst into laughter and pushed the wine glass back to Zhao Hanzhang, "That's all, that's all, keeping filial piety is about the heart, not the deeds. Drink it if you want. "

Zhao Hanzhang did not move.

Zhao Ming took the wine bottle and poured himself a glass, then tilted his head and drank, twirling the wine glass and sneered: "Keep filial piety? Nowadays, etiquette is ruined. Who cares whether you keep it or not?"

Zhao Hanzhang: "My uncle said this, and I dare not move even more."

Zhao Ming waved his hand and said, "I'm not talking about you. I know you are good. Just seeing how you protected your grandfather's coffin on the way to escape shows your filial piety."

Zhao Hanzhang picked up the wine glass and took a sip, "Cousin, why don't you tell me what's bothering you? Maybe we can help?"

Zhao Ming saw that she was really drinking when she said she was drinking, and the corner of his mouth slightly raised: "You are not bad, you are not hypocritical, you are a real villain!"

Zhao Hanzhang: "...Cousin, I only had two sips of wine, so I won't turn into a villain, right?"

Zhao Ming snorted and said, "Don't think I don't know, you have bad intentions."

"If you are the husband, then for the sake of the long-term stability of the Zhao family, I will stand on your side and take back the position of patriarch from the second wife, but you are a girl," Zhao Ming glanced at Fu Tinghan sitting opposite, with a look on his face. Complex, "I don't know if your future husband is really innocent or a hypocrite."

"But no matter it's the former or the latter, I won't support you," Zhao Ming said: "The clan feels sorry for you when you lost your father when you were young, and I don't mind helping you from time to time, but if you want me to stand on your side to deal with the second wife, Or it is impossible to get more property from Zhao's Wubao."

Zhao Hanzhang looked at Fu Tinghan in surprise.

Fu Tinghan shook his head slightly at her. He didn't mention her a word since he came here. They just talked about wine, oh, and beauty.

"It's not what he said, it's what I guessed," Zhao Ming asked, "Tell me, why did you come back in person this time?"

"My cousin is so powerful," Zhao Hanzhang said, "Much more powerful than my uncle. Grandfather never thought of handing over the position of clan leader to you?"

Zhao Ming raised his eyes and glanced at her, "Sowing discord, intimidating and tempting? This is of no use to me. The position of clan leader can only be paid by your direct descendants. Even if Zhao Ji fails, there is still your brother. Let me let you go as soon as possible. My brother is married and has a child, so just raise him up."

Zhao Hanzhang: "...You would rather choose a baby who doesn't know when he will be reincarnated to be the leader of the clan, than choose someone smart and powerful right now?"

Zhao Ming looked at her curiously, "This is a clan rule. The clan leader is always the direct descendant. What's so strange about this?"

When a family divides its property, the eldest son gets 70% of it, and the other children get the remaining 30%.

The same goes for the family.

Therefore, the direct branch continues to enjoy the most assets and resources of the family. Naturally, they also have the greatest responsibilities.

Whenever anything happens, the direct descendants take the lead.

That's Zhao Changyu.

Their eldest house and two bedrooms accounted for nearly half of the land and assets inside and outside Zhao's Wubao. This was just two bedrooms. You must know that there were thousands of Zhao clan members.

They occupy the largest share of the property. In addition to the tenants and long-term workers at home, more of the land is sub-leased to tribesmen with less land, and they only receive a small amount of land rent.

In addition, the clan also provides financial support to the elderly, weak, women and children in the clan every year, and Zhao Changyu takes the lead in all these.

Not to mention major events such as building Wubao, Zhao Changyu basically paid for it.

So are all the assets in Zhao Changyu's hands his?

You can say yes, you can say no.

It says yes because they are all in the name of the direct branch, but it says no because it actually belongs to the entire Zhao clan.

Because of Zhao Changyu's long-term contribution, everyone in the Zhao family firmly believes that the patriarch should be the direct descendant.

If Zhao Ming dares to show that he wants to be the clan leader, his father will scold him to death without waiting for the clan members to speak.

However, he was different from his father, and even from most people in the clan. Zhao Ming had doubts deep down in his heart, "Can Zhao Ji really be a good leader of the clan?"

He approached Zhao Hanzhang, stared at hers, looked straight into her heart, and asked word for word: "Sanniang, you really don't mind, you don't mind if he abandons you for a long time." Don’t you, the Fang family, mind that they took your life?”

Zhao Hanzhang looked back at Zhao Ming steadily, her eyes firm and never moved a bit. The two looked at each other for a long time. She raised the corner of her mouth and said with a chuckle: "What do you think?"

Zhao Ming looked at her for a while, sat up straight, looked at her with a half-smile and said, "I guess you can't."

Zhao Hanzhang poured himself and him a glass of wine, picked up the wine glass and touched his glass gently, "Cousin, your concerns are correct. Can Zhao Ji really be a good leader of the clan?"

Zhao Hanzhang drank all the wine in the glass and twirled the glass and said: "There is another sentence that is right. Keeping filial piety depends on the heart. I promised my grandfather that I would protect my mother and Erlang. I also know that the most worrying thing in his heart is , besides Erlang, it’s the Zhao family.”

"So, even for my grandfather, I will not harm the Zhao family, not at all."

Zhao Ming pondered.

Zhao Hanzhang put down his wine glass and stood up, "My uncle is drunk. Fu Dalangjun and I will go first. By the way, my uncle is drinking in the garden today. I'm afraid he doesn't know that my uncle sent an aide to take over the family property. At this time, My fifth uncle is probably looking for you."

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