Chapter 154
According to the rules of the Zhang family, when the person who takes over reaches the age of 35, the position of the head of the family will move downwards. This rule has been strictly followed from ancient times to the present, but it was broken here by Zhang Zhengchu.
Zhang Zhengchu has two sons. The eldest son is named Zhang Yinshan. He has been raised according to the specifications of the successor head of the family since he was a child. In order not to forget the roots of his ancestors, all the heads of the Zhang family have been miscellaneous cultivators.
It's a pity that Zhang Yinshan failed to deserve this kind of attention. He is really a miscellaneous cultivator. He learns a little bit of everything, but can't do anything. The talent is dull and inferior to other branches.
On the contrary, the second son Zhang Yanshan has been free and easy-going since he was a child, learning a little from the left and a little from the right, and has become an outstanding miscellaneous practitioner: he is the best in formations and spells, and even the hexagrams that require the most talent and the most labor-intensive God's puppetry skills are all outstanding.
Zhang Zhengchu didn't have too much trouble. Not long after his second son came of age, he became the designated next head of the family.
This was originally a good thing, but something unexpected happened halfway.
When Zhang Yanshan was 32 years old, he accidentally died while solving a huge vortex. Even if the vortex was later solved by a joint effort, he was left with his soul scattered and his soul destroyed. He died completely, leaving only two babbling children, who later became Zhang Lan and Zhang Yalin. .
It was the pain of losing a son, and there was no good successor. Zhang Zhengchu was hit hard. He aged a lot overnight. After that, he was not willing to show his face and became a semi-reclusive state.
Although he is semi-reclusive, he still has to take care of things that should be taken care of, such as the new successor.
Zhang Yanshan died, and the children he left behind were too young. It stands to reason that the position of the head of the family will naturally tilt towards his brother Zhang Yinshan.
But Zhang Zhengchu didn't.
He prefers his eldest son's daughter to his eldest son. That girl was nothing like her father. She performed exceptionally well at a young age. She was better than most of her peers when she was ten years old. By the time she was twenty, she was ready to reach the top.
This girl is Zhang Wanling.
In the eyes of many people, the Zhang family is actually a bit old-fashioned. I wonder if it is a bad habit of big families - other families have female heads appearing from time to time, but the Zhang family has lasted for thousands of years, but there has never been a female head.
When Zhang Yanshan just passed away and Zhang Wanling was gaining momentum, many people said that the Zhang family might make an exception.
But this case was not solved in the end.
The year after Zhang Yanshan's death, Zhang Wanling had a falling out with the old man. No one knows what happened. They only know that Zhang Wanling was kicked out of the family after that, and she accepted the "spirit" character shared by her peers, even though she had nothing to do with the family at all.
Zhou Xu: By the way, talking about this. Do you know why all magistrates and almost every family have a famous genealogy picture? My aunt said that many juniors nowadays don’t know the reason, they think it’s just to look good or to gain rankings. In fact, when something serious happens, other judges can be summoned. Anyway, I haven’t seen anything specific, so this is the theory.
Zhou Xu: My aunt quietly told me that at that time, the old man called people from other families over, including the Qi family, the Li family, and the senior Zhong family and the Zhuang family. Those who were close and had contacts with each other were all there. I edited the famous genealogy diagram and told everyone that Zhang Wanling was possessed by evil spirits and said some crazy and rebellious things. From now on, he has nothing to do with the family and should not be mentioned at all.
First, he experienced the pain of losing his son, and then encountered the antagonism between his blood relatives. It is said that Zhang Zhengchu's vitality was severely damaged and he no longer showed up at all. He would delegate everything to others to handle. Later, Zhang Lan and Zhang Yalin became adults and did not dare to disturb Zhang Zhengchu unless something big happened.
However, no matter who shows his face, others still have to give the Zhang family face. If the head of the family says that there is no such person as Zhang Wanling, then other families will pretend that there is no such person. I only mention it once or twice in private, but never say it on the table.
In this way, Zhang Wanling... no, Zhang Wan was almost isolated from most of her peers in the world, like a carefree person, entering and exiting the cage alone where no one could see her.
But there are also a few marginalized characters who, out of public view, have some connection with her. For example, Zhou Xu’s mother, Zhang Biling.
Zhou Xu: My mother said she ran quite far and was not too sad. Anyway, I don’t quite understand how I feel quite contented after having no relationship with my biological grandfather. But sometimes if you think about it, it’s pretty cool.
This second disease is very contradictory.
He had been listening to those who said Zhang Wan was unjust and unfilial since he was a child, and while he followed the crowd and felt that she was wrong, he instinctively admired her aura of "cutting off ties" with her family and remaining calm.
He might have been struggling for a while, and there was a short period of time between the two messages. After a while, he continued: It is said that she had a child in the second year after she left, and it was Xie Wen who was sick. My mother wrote to her at the time. I was fine this morning after my fever went down, so I decided to read a book at home, and I actually found those letters.
This chuunibyou actually said as if showing off: Oh, that’s right! Have you ever seen what Bingyangzi was like when he was a child? I saw it today. There were two photos in the letter.
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When I smelled it, I moved my fingers to this point and immediately stopped feeling sluggish.
Although he knew that since Xie Wen could "turn into" a dismissed judge from the Zhang family, no one would doubt it after all these years. He would definitely make a thorough account of the past, and maybe he would throw out a puppet and make him look like he was when he was a child. , let him grow up slowly like the golden-winged roc.