Chapter 151 Patriarch

When Lu Quan came out, the undershirt on his back was wet with sweat again.

He lived for more than thirty years. The biggest disaster was a flood, leaving only him, his wife and children in his family.

Then this year, he picked up Lu Shege and came back.

He thought that he would never forget the ups and downs of the past six months until he died.

He expected that if he bought Dayun Mountain, the clan would not refuse it. It was just a broken mountain that could neither produce food nor open a mine.

But he didn't expect that things went smoothly beyond his expectation.

Lu Quan found Lu Yuanping and first mentioned that he wanted to move to Lujiazhuang, Dongyang County to buy land and build a house. As expected, Lu Yuanping was unwilling.

Lujiazhuang is close to Dongyang County. The descendants of the clan are prosperous, but there are few fields and even fewer homesteads.

If Lu Quan, who lives in a branch of Hexi, can go to Lujiazhuang and buy a piece of land to build a house, then those families in the clan who lack land to build houses will have to make trouble with him as the clan leader.

The largest village in the clan is Lujiazhuang, which is next to Lujiazhuang.

However, back then, when people mentioned Lujiazhuang, they all referred to Lujiazhuang, but they ignored the real Lujiazhuang in the village behind Lujiazhuang.

Among the hundreds of households in Lujiazhuang, only a dozen or so do not have the surname Lu.

It would be extremely difficult for Lu Quan to enter this Lujiazhuang.

However, Lu Yuanping gave Lu Quan a suggestion because he was a member of the Lu clan.

There is a village four or five miles away from Lujiazhuang, near the foot of Dayun Mountain, called Jizhuang. There are only a dozen households in Jizhuang, and the Lu family accounts for five. If Lu Quan wants to go to Jizhuang to buy land and build a house, Lu Yuanping said,

This can probably be done.

Lu Quan shook his head, he didn't want to go to Jizhuang.

Although there are also Lu family members in Jizhuang, Lu Quan also knows that they can hardly be regarded as real Lu family members, but the original refugees who came to Dongyang County. Among them, there was a family named Lu who received the favor of Lu Yuanshan's grandfather when he arrived here.

He recognized the Lu family of Dongyang County as his sect.

Lu Yuanshan's grandfather arranged for this family to build a house not far from Lujiazhuang. They were left with several families with other surnames from the same village as the Lu family. This family is here.

They gave birth to grandchildren, and the grandchildren gave birth to children, and gradually a small village was formed, which is now Jizhuang.

Although Lu Quan is a branch of the Lu family, he is still different from the people who believe in the sect. Of course he is not willing to live with the people who believe in the sect.

Lu Yuanping asked: "What do you think? Lujiazhuang really can't build a house for you on the allocated land."

Lu Quan rubbed his hands uneasily and squeaked for a long time before he asked cautiously: "Brother Yuanping, do you think you can sell Dayun Mountain to me? Then I will find someone to look at the place on the mountain.

I want to build a house for my two sons somewhere, so it’s not far from Lujiazhuang, right?”

The clan was busy with affairs today. When Lu Quan found Lu Yuanping, Lu Yuanping was a little impatient.

Fortunately, he has always been benevolent and righteous, which is one of the reasons why he can be the leader of the clan. Lu Quan is also a member of the Xiahexi clan. If he is too slow to treat him, it will be somewhat unfair in terms of his face.

It only took a few words, but Lu Yuanping could still spare the time.

Lu Yuanping did not expect that these few words would make him shocked and speechless for a long time.

Buy Shantou?

Buy Dayunshan?

Just to move to Dongyang County so that his son can study in the Lu family and grow up with the children of the clan?

Lu Yuanping felt that this Lu Quan either had too much money or had a bad mind.

If you have money, you can buy a house or a shop and be an uncle, so why bother moving to the clan and being controlled by others?

The Lu family today is not the Lu family back then.

Back then, the Lu family had accumulated money, land, and food through generations of direct descendants. Even if the clan members who came to join them could not receive promotion and wealth under the protection of the clan, they could at least protect their families from starvation.

Now that he is the clan leader, life is becoming more and more difficult. Without the blessing of his direct descendants, many things in the clan would be difficult to satisfy. After Lu Yuanshan's death, the clan only had two to three hundred acres more sacrificial land.

, it is mostly dry land, with less than a hundred acres of fertile land capable of growing rice and wheat.

As the patriarch of the Lu family, Lu Yuanping doesn't have the gold and silver to support his clan members at any time, so naturally he doesn't have the prestige that Lu Yuanshan does.

This time, the clan rebuilt the ancestral hall in the garden of Lu Yuanshan's home. He took the lead in donating twenty taels of silver. Some tribesmen said that he, the patriarch, did not care about the clan as much as Lu Yuanshan. To rebuild the ancestral hall, he only donated twenty taels of silver. In exchange for Lu Yuanshan,

There is no need for clan members to contribute money at all, at most they must provide effort.

Comparing him with Lu Yuanshan, this is the most unacceptable thing about Lu Yuanping.

As soon as he came out of his mother's womb, it was destined that no matter how powerful he was, he would never be able to compare with Lu Yuanshan. What could he do?

He felt bad for taking the twenty taels, and said that Lu Yuanshan didn't need any money from the clan. How could he compare with Lu Yuanshan? Even if his whole family cut meat, sold blood, and knocked out bone marrow, they couldn't raise so much money.

Fortunately, most of the tribesmen are still reasonable and know that Lu Yuanping has no money and only has the land left by his great-grandfather. Now he has only twenty or thirty acres of land.

He could give out twenty taels of silver, which was considered to be the most benevolent and righteous thing.

But he didn't expect that now, just an ordinary tribesman from Xiahexi wearing coarse linen clothes, would dare to say that he wanted to buy the mountain in front of him.

"Are you sure you want to buy the mountain?"

Seeing Lu Quan nod, Lu Yuanping couldn't wait to spread his hands and touch whether the tribesman named Lu Quan was confused, "Why did you buy the mountain? Even the trees on the mountain are sparse, and the mountain is full of stones, let alone planting.

land"

Lu Quan smiled honestly: "How can we not even plant on the ground? Forget about places with rocks, but we can also open up wasteland to plant peanuts and corn in places without rocks."

Lu Yuanping felt even more headache. Only a fool would spend hundreds of taels of silver to buy a mountain to grow peanuts and corns.

No, even a fool wouldn't do this.

Trying to calm down his emotions, Lu Yuanping asked hoarsely: "How much money have you prepared?"

Lu Quan, who was originally an honest man, immediately tightened his grip on his wallet: "No... I haven't prepared much."

Seeing his defensive look, Lu Yuanping's teeth even ached.

Lu Yuanping took a deep breath: "It is said that Lu Yuanshan bought these two mountains, Dayun Mountain and Xiaoyun Mountain, for four hundred taels of silver. I have nothing to hide, and it has not been a few years. Just ask, the clan members

We all know it. In fact, in my opinion, these two mountains together are not worth a hundred taels of silver."

He really thought so, that's why he said it.

After spending hundreds of taels, it was left here to grow weeds. Only a man like Lu Yuanshan, who had too much money and nowhere to spend it, could do this.

Lu Quan nodded desperately: "One hundred taels of silver can buy seven or eight acres of good land."

Lu Yuanping was almost happy with Lu Quan, and thought to himself, it turns out you know, and you are not stupid.

Lu Yuanping said earnestly: "If you really have money, go find some good land and buy it. It's better than buying this barren mountain with grass growing there."

Hearing this, Lu Quan immediately shook his head: "No, I want to buy a hilltop and build a big yard for the young man in my family."

This is what he promised Xiaosi that he would do it for him.
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