Chapter 132: Break up and head to Yongan Village
"Do you have any objections?"
The household registration official frowned slightly when he glanced at the Wei Jingluan brothers. What annoyed him most were people who had no sense of propriety.
"I, we..."
Shrinking his neck, Wei Jingluan was about to retreat, but Jiang Ruyi pinched him secretly. For the sake of a better life in the future, he plucked up the courage to say: "Sir, before exile, the Wei family did not split up, and it should not be divided into three households."
"Yes, we have always been one household."
Seeing this, Wei Jinghong hurriedly agreed, and Wang Lan and others nodded. They were penniless, and even the only clothes to cover their bodies were tattered. If they didn't rely on Wei Chengyi, they didn't know how to survive.
"Zhao Shan, what's going on?"
The household registration officer questioned unhappily. He divided the household registration according to the list handed over to him by the escort. It clearly stated on the list that the Wei family had split up. Why did these people insist that they had not split up?
"grown ups."
Before Zhao Shan could speak, Shen Xiangwan stepped out again, "Sir, this matter has nothing to do with the leader. Before the Wei family was exiled, they did not split up. But we were just exiled, and the old lady and her two sons, the second and third branches, thought that our eldest branch was a burden and penniless. Not only did they clamor for a split, they also forced us to death. In order to protect ourselves, as the head of the family and the lady, my husband and I divorced his stepwife on behalf of our deceased grandfather and expelled the second and third branches from the family. Sir, please look, this is the family tree, their names are no longer on the tree, and the old lady is my grandfather's second wife, she has no blood relationship with the eldest branch, and she is already dead. No matter how you look at it, we should not be in the same household with the second and third branches."
Shen Xiangwan said as she took out the family tree from her sleeve pocket. The second and third branches still wanted to suck their blood? She could only say that they were dreaming.
"Indeed."
Wei Chengyi also agreed. From beginning to end, he didn't even look at the people from the second and third rooms.
After taking the family tree and looking at it, the household registration officer nodded and said, "Indeed, they are no longer in the family tree."
"No, sir, they did it on purpose. We don't admit it."
"That's right. We have been exiled as members of the Wei family. How can you say that we are no longer members of the Wei family?"
The Wei Jingluan brothers became anxious and stood up one after another to refute. This was their last chance. If they couldn't get close to Wei Chengyi, they... they didn't know what to do.
"That's your business. I only recognize the family tree."
After handing the family tree back to Shen Xiangwan, the household registration officer walked back.
"But sir..."
"Ok?"
The Wei Jingluan brothers wanted to continue, but the household registration officer suddenly changed his previous calmness and looked stern, with obvious warnings on his face and eyes. The words that were about to come out of their mouths were stuck deep in their throats. No matter how Jiang Ruyi and Wang Lan tried to quietly pull them and hint at them to keep fighting, they didn't dare to say anything anymore.
"Zhang Yang, send the household registration to them."
After making sure that they would not cause any more trouble, the household registration officer pulled out a stack of papers from the booklet.
"Yes."
The yamen runner named Zhang Yang stepped forward, took the household registration with both hands, and delivered it to the heads of each household one by one. Wei Chengyi took it and glanced at it casually before giving it to Shen Xiangwan, who didn't bother to be polite with him. She put it into her sleeve pocket along with the family tree, actually sending it into the space, where it would never be damaged or lost.
"Zhang Yang, send someone to take them to Datong County."
Seeing that the household registration had been issued, the household registration officer gave one more instruction before turning around and leaving.
Zhang Yang bowed to his figure and turned around and said, "Brothers, it's time to get to work."
"Yes."
The yamen runners rushed forward, and the two families reflexively shrank their necks and followed the runners obediently. The people should not fight against the officials. Now no one can afford to provoke them. If they really make the yamen runners unhappy, who knows what consequences they will face?
"Let's go."
Wei Chengyi and Shen Xiangwan were still at the end of the team with their families. They did not squeeze into the ox cart with those people, but secretly gave some silver to the yamen runners and followed the ox cart alone.
Outside the city gate, Qingying was waiting there with a guard. The other guards had already returned to Datong County. When they saw Wei Chengyi and his companions coming out from afar, the two of them immediately pulled a donkey cart to greet them and greeted the yamen runners. Wei Chengyi and Shen Xiangwan got on the donkey cart with their family members in the envious gaze of everyone.
Chenzhou is really poor. Shen Xiangwan didn’t realize it when they first left the provincial capital. But when they entered the county town below and saw only low mud and straw houses, some even thatched houses, she finally realized how poor it was.
"what happened?"
Seeing that she didn't respond for a long time, Wei Chengyi asked in confusion.
"No."
Shaking his head, Shen Xiangwan took out the household registration from his sleeve pocket: "You guessed it right, we are indeed settled in Yong'an Village, Datong County."
"Don't worry, I've already made arrangements."
Reaching out and holding his hand, Wei Chengyi said softly.
"Ah."
Turning her head to meet his gaze, Shen Xiangwan smiled in relief. No matter what, at least they were about to settle down and wouldn't have to wander around anymore.
Datong County is located in the south of Chenzhou, surrounded by mountains. It is very poor and even the official road is bumpy. Donkey carts and several ox carts bumped along the way and took nearly an hour to reach Yong'an Village. In addition to Wei Chengyi and his party, there were also Wei Jingyi, Wei Jinghan, and the Shen family's main family, that is, the Jiang family.
"Wei Chengyi, Wei Jingyi, Wei Jinghan, Shen Xiangyang, get out of the car."
The ox cart stopped at the entrance of the village. Zhang Yang jumped off the cart, took out a booklet and named several household owners who had settled there.
Seeing that they had settled in the same village as Wei Chengyi, the families of Wei Jingyi and Wei Jinghan were very happy. It was not that they wanted to suck their blood like Wei Jingluan and the others did. After all, their family had a deep foundation, and as long as they behaved themselves, they could get help from them when they had problems, right?
Shen Xiangyue was equally happy, but her happiness only lasted for a few seconds, because she suddenly remembered that they were penniless, and the head of the household had become a bastard, Shen Xiangyang, because Shen Xiangdong and the others were dead. In the past, she had often bullied those bastards together with her mother and two brothers, so it would be strange that they could treat her well.
If Wei Chengyi could...
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but look at Wei Chengyi curiously again, but unfortunately, the other party only had Shen Xiangwan in his eyes and didn't pay attention to anything else at all.
"Wei Chengyi, we..."
"Meet the officer. I am Zhao Dashan, the head of Yong'an Village."
They were actually not in the same village. Wei Jingluan was quite unwilling and was about to say something when another louder voice suddenly sounded. He looked where the voice came from and saw a man who was about forty or fifty years old, tall but very dark and thin, jogging towards him.
【End of this chapter】
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