"Shut up, all of you. Whoever wants me to kneel, get out!" Boss Jia finally couldn't hold back his anger and yelled at his relatives.
"…" Everyone was shocked when they saw Boss Jia's angry face.
"Little Peng, how can you say that? We are all relatives. Even if we break the bones, we are still connected!" Aunt quickly said, "Fine, don't kneel. You are now a noble. It's okay if you don't kneel. It's just a formality. As long as you have our family in your heart, it's fine!"
"Okay, since it's like this, I'll leave now!" Boss Jia really didn't want to pay attention to these relatives. He turned around and prepared to leave.
"Little Peng, wait. There's one more thing that you have to agree to!" Aunt quickly pulled Boss Jia's arm and said.
"What is it?" Boss Jia frowned and asked.
"You see, you mentioned it when you got married. We are a big family. It was passed down from Jia Yi's ancestor. These are all things that have to be left behind for future generations!"
"But our family's genealogy was burned in the cowshed more than ten years ago. Now, there isn't even a complete genealogy in the family. So, we were thinking whether we should pool together a sum of money to renovate the genealogy so that the children of the Jia family can have a root! "Aunt said with a smile.
"Okay!" Boss Jia actually agreed in one breath.
"How many families are there in our family now?" Boss Jia asked again.
"About a hundred families …" Aunt didn't know what Boss Jia meant. She couldn't give an answer at the moment. She could only make a rough estimate.
"Then how much does it cost to renovate the genealogy?" Boss Jia asked again.
"Well, that's what we're thinking. You're a noble now. You have status, status, and money. Naturally, the genealogy has to be built to a higher standard. So, we agreed that it would cost about one million! "
"One million!" Boss Jia's eyes widened. In 2020, renovating the genealogy would indeed cost about one million. But this was 1994. How could there be a genealogy of one million people?
Boss Jia understood that these relatives of his couldn't get the money directly, and he didn't want to continue this relationship, so they borrowed the money from the Xiu Genealogy Book to make some money.
If he really spent one million to complete the genealogy, it would be amazing if he could spend 50,000 of it on the genealogy. The remaining 950,000 would probably be divided among his relatives. That was a huge sum of money!
However, Boss Jia already knew what they were thinking, so he smiled and said, "Okay, I agree!"
"Really!" The relatives were pleasantly surprised, but in the next second, Boss Jia continued, "I'm a fair person, so let's split the bill. Since the total cost is one million, and we have 100 households, then it will be ten thousand. Go find my secretary later and ask him to take you to the finance department to withdraw 10,000 yuan. "
"By the way, the genealogy must be done as soon as possible. I'll be able to see it by this time next year at the latest. Thank you for your hard work!"
"…" The relatives' faces changed immediately. This Jia Yapeng was indeed the chief profiteer of Hua Xia. He was too cunning and too stingy. He actually wanted to share the one million cost with everyone, and the total cost was only ten thousand!
God pity them, ten thousand yuan wasn't even enough to get someone to straighten out the order of their ancestors!
It seemed that they had to pay a loss this time!
"Hmph, profiteer, profiteer. I didn't expect that there would be a profiteer in our Jia family!" Finally, someone among the relatives couldn't help but say in a sarcastic tone.
Boss Jia looked towards the source of the voice, and found a young man wearing a vest that exposed his entire upper body, which was full of tattoos.
It seemed that the Jia family not only had profiteers, but also gangsters.
Seeing that Boss Jia was looking at him, the gangster immediately shrank his head. It seemed that he was still a gangster with no guts.
"Honey, the guests are waiting for us to propose a toast! Hurry up! " At this moment, Zhu Qiushui, who was wearing a phoenix cloak and a red crown, walked to Boss Jia's side and whispered to him. She looked graceful and elegant, and at the same time, extremely beautiful.
Seeing Zhu Qiushui, many men present were stunned. They didn't see her clearly on the stage, but now that they saw her in person, they finally understood what it meant to be extremely beautiful. No wonder Jia Yapeng, the richest man in the country, would marry such a woman. She was really too beautiful!
"Let's go!" Boss Jia said immediately. He didn't want to stay with these rotten relatives for a second longer.
"Wait!" An old voice said. It was Great Granduncle. "Peng, if you are only willing to pay ten thousand yuan for the genealogy, fine, I promise you. Anyway, no matter how much you pay, the genealogy must be done!" “
"Granduncle!" Hearing Granduncle's words, the nearby relatives were anxious. How could this matter be settled? If Jia Yapeng only paid ten thousand yuan, they didn't have the money to do the genealogy!
Great! Then follow my secretary to get the money! Boss Jia was also stunned. However, if ten thousand yuan was enough to get rid of these rotten relatives, Boss Jia didn't have to waste his time thinking.
"However, Peng Xi Gui, there is something that this old man needs to tell you in advance!" Great Granduncle said.
What is it? Boss Jia narrowed his eyes and asked.
Great Granduncle said slowly, "Your daughter-in-law doesn't have the right to be listed in the genealogy of our Jia family!
What? " Boss Jia was stunned. Then, he looked at his wife and realized that Zhu Qiushui's face was full of grievances.
As a daughter-in-law, she couldn't be listed in the genealogy. This meant that she couldn't be worshipped and remembered by future generations. In the feudal era, this was enough to force people to death.
Even in the modern era, this was an extremely humiliating thing.
Great Granduncle, don't be angry. This is the rule of our ancestors! Great Granduncle said, "In the family, women with unknown identities cannot be listed in the genealogy. Only women with a clean family background are qualified to be listed in the genealogy. Otherwise, it would be a disgrace to the family and would be looked down upon by outsiders!"
Great Granduncle wasn't talking nonsense. There was indeed such a rule in the genealogy. This was also one of the biggest bad habits in the feudal era of Hua Xia. That was, women had no status to speak of.
The biggest point was in the genealogy.
After a woman was born, she wasn't qualified to be listed in the genealogy of her father's line. Because a daughter couldn't carry on the family line, she wasn't qualified to be listed in the genealogy.
The only way a woman could be listed in the genealogy was to follow her husband and be listed in the genealogy as his wife. She couldn't even have a name. She could only be listed in the genealogy.
Even so, there were many difficulties.
First of all, only the legal wife was qualified to be listed in the genealogy. Concubines and the like definitely couldn't be listed in the genealogy.
However, don't think that being the legal wife was enough. You still had to give birth to a child, and it had to be a son … or the husband's other concubines had to give birth to a son. In any case, this line had to be passed down in order to be qualified to be listed in the genealogy.
In addition, the genealogy also had extremely strict requirements for the identity of the wife. She had to be a woman with a clean family background and a good family that could be checked for three generations. If she was a prostitute bought from outside or a woman whose identity was unknown and whose parents were unknown, even if she became the legal wife, she still couldn't be listed in the genealogy.
Now, Great Granduncle was using this point to block Zhu Qiushui, saying that she wasn't qualified to be listed in the genealogy.
"Nonsense!" Boss Jia was angry again on the spot. "My wife's family background, I told you clearly just now. She is the descendant of the dignified Ming Dynasty's Emperor Taizu. How can she not be qualified to be listed in our family's genealogy? How can her family background be unknown?"
"This is just talk. Not only did her parents not come, but we also didn't even see a relative. We don't even know whose bastard she is!" Great Granduncle said coldly.
At this time, Zhu Qiushui could no longer hold back the grievances in her heart. Tears began to flow down her face.
"Li Xu …" Boss Jia took a deep breath. He realized that he was completely wasting time talking to these relatives, so he decided to use a straightforward method.
"Who said that my precious niece has no relatives?" At this moment, a faint voice that was filled with majesty and an imposing aura spoke.
"This …" Boss Jia and Zhu Qiushui were stunned for a moment. Then, they turned their heads to look. Zhu Qiushui couldn't help but throw herself into the other party's arms and cry, "Uncle! You're finally here! Uncle … Wuwuwu … "
On the other side, Boss Jia was stunned. Zhu Qiushui's uncle actually came!
Why did he come here himself??
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