The patriarch of the Xiao Chen family is Chen Zeqi, and he is Chen Guangrong's father. The prosperity of the Xiao Chen family naturally has a great relationship with the foundation laid by his predecessors. However, in the past ten years, the Xiao Chen family has really grown very fast. This is all Chen Zeqi's contribution. In order to revitalize the Xiao Chen family, he has done almost everything. He often says: As long as you can get enough benefits, let alone your wife, I can even give up.

With this kind of enlightenment, almost everything will go against one's strength. However, the Xiao Chen family has a fatal weakness, that is, this family has not only no scholars, but also no clan elders. Although the Chen family has no scholars, at least two clan leaders can take charge of the helm. Moreover, the Chen family's wealth is so rich that it will definitely last for two or three hundred years and will not decline. At that time, most of them will have their own scholars.

The disadvantages of the Xiao Chen family are very obvious. It is not that as long as people get older, they can become the elder of the clan. At least they have enough talents and can live beyond the age of 60 to be qualified. Although Chen Zeqi is indeed very talented, he is really working too hard for the family. Now his health is getting worse and worse. Whether he can live beyond the age of 60 is another saying.

Chen Zeqi's struggle was not only for the family, but also for himself. He hoped that his descendants could inherit the position of patriarch, but the eldest son Chen Guangrong was really unable to support him. Fortunately, although his youngest son Chen Guangxin was still young, he was quite clever in his behavior and doing things. As long as he was trained, it would not be difficult to take over his squad.

However, some time ago, when the eldest son Chen Guangrong came back from the barbarian land, he changed a lot, and became calm and willing to help his family.

He was quite pleased that it was definitely a good thing for his son to get better. However, before he could be happy for a few days, he received a bad news. Chen Zeyi, which had been opened in the barbarian land, suddenly stopped. He had not sent Xueyan over for a month. This incident made him very alert. He had sent someone to find out what was going on.

Xueyan sold very well in Heluo City, and there were many rich people here. When Xueyan arrived here, the cost price increased by more than three times. Xueyan’s business investment alone was enough to support the entire Chen family and had a slight surplus. Speaking of this, he had to admire his sixth brother Chen Zeyi. It was indeed a business genius. If he hadn’t used some tricks and made the sixth brother make some mistakes when he was young, and the sixth brother was not the eldest son, maybe the position of the clan leader would not be his turn.

Many aristocratic families are inquiring about the origin of the Xiao Chen family. They only know that they are from the barbarians, but no one knows what happened. In order to ensure that they can enjoy this business exclusively and not let people from other families get involved, Chen Zeqi kept the matter confidential. Even Huilian's father and fifth brother didn't know what kind of things his daughter had married out of the house, but only knew that she had exchanged for a lot of gold.

Now, Xueyan's business has almost accounted for more than half of the monthly profits for the Chen family. This business cannot be lost, but at this time, there was a problem with Yan Road. When his hair was about to turn white, he heard the news that Huilian appeared at home.

This is great! Chen Zeqi estimated that Huilian had mostly escaped from the barbarian land back to Heluo City, which made the nobles on the barbarian side cut off the salt road. He hurriedly brought ten people over to put Huilian under house arrest and asked his sixth brother Chen Zeyi to send Huilian back, and at the same time, he brought generous gifts to apologize. He must bring Yanlu's business back.

As a result, as soon as he arrived at his fifth brother, he first saw his fifth brother, holding a piece of rice paper full of words in his hand, but Huilian was not seen. He thought she was hidden. When he was about to get angry, he saw Chen Xiansong and Bai Qianxin.

Bai Qian's heart was so beautiful. Chen Tongqi exclaimed in his heart, then moved his eyes to Chen Xiansong, and then he was stunned. As the patriarch, he naturally knew who Huilian married, a scholar who was "traveled" in the barbarian land. According to the words of his sixth brother Chen Zeyi, this scholar should be a special talent secretly sent to the outside of the Chen family to "protect" and is very likely to have the talent in war studies.

"Chen Xiansong, Mr. Chen?" Chen Zeqi stared at Chen Xiansong for a while, and asked with some uncertainty.

He had seen the portraits brought back by his sixth brother Chen Zeyi, and the ink paintings of the Zhendan Kingdom, which focused on a similarity. With the insistence of these painters, almost all celebrities and good people looked the same; all villains, evil people, and murderous butchers had their hair and beards, their eyes were like bells, and their mouths were almost carved from the same mold.

But what is even more amazing is the arrests of the Zhendan Kingdom. They were holding these abstract portraits of prisoners and were able to catch prisoners from time to time according to the map. This is extremely strange.

The portrait Chen Zeyi got back, Chen Xiansong looked similar to that of Yan Shengren. If Chen Xiansong had seen that painting, he would definitely be speechless. He was obviously a young man with short hair, but in the portrait, he was a young man with long ponytail and long hair and then wearing a scholar's uniform. But Chen Zeqi recognized Chen Xiansong based on this painting with a bull head that was not right.

"It's Xiaosheng, who are you?" Chen Xiansong stood up and hugged his fists.

Chen Zeqi was overjoyed. It was the best thing to see the main master. He waved his hand and asked the guards behind him to leave. Since it was Chen Xiansong, it was normal for Huilian to follow him.

He stood in front of Chen Xiansong, then looked at the paper in Chen Zeqing's hand with a strange look, but because there was a guest, he suppressed his curiosity, and then he said to Chen Xiansong: "Mr. Chen, I have heard of your affairs for a long time. You are the same talent as I imagined, amazing Juelun. Since you are here, why not sit at my house? I have something to do, and I want to talk to you in detail."

"Are you talking about Yanlu?" Chen Xiansong laughed.

Chen Zeqi's expression was a little ugly. He didn't expect Chen Xiansong to be so direct. Moreover, Chen Zeqing didn't know who his daughter married. If he told it here, he would definitely ask for more benefits after knowing the truth of the matter. Thinking of this, he looked to the side in a blink of an eye. Sure enough, Chen Zeqing's face had already looked suspicious.

"It's a bit inconvenient here, and there are so many people talking." Chen Zeqi laughed.

Chen Xiansong looked outside. The ten guards just now were far away, and there were no maids or servants nearby. He asked strangely when he heard this: "There are so many people, there are four people here, your brothers, Sister Qianxin and I. Do you mean my father-in-law is an outsider, or is Sister Qianxin an outsider? This matter must be clear!"

Hearing Chen Xiansong's "stupid" words, Chen Zeqi's face was almost wrinkled with sorrow. He felt that the scholar in front of him could not hear what he meant? But the situation now could not help but he hesitate. He felt that his fifth brother's eyes had pierced like a needle.

"It turns out that the servants have already walked away, and I didn't notice it for a moment." Chen Zeqi pretended to look outside the door behind him for a while, and then sat in the position where Huilian was sitting just now. Then he said, "Young Master Chen, since you are quick to speak, I won't hide it anymore. Xue Yan's business has been cut off for almost a month, but you appeared in Heluo City and did not continue to stay in that...Kate Kingdom. Did something happen to you?"

"There is no accident. I just came back to relax and meet my father-in-law casually." Chen Xiansong replied slowly: "There is still my territory in Graystone Village, and snow salt is still producing. Everything is normal. The only abnormal thing is Chen Guangde. He did something very bad, so I decided to stop working with your Chen family."

"Mr. Chen, this is not right. Even if Chen Guangde makes mistakes, you shouldn't cut off Xueyan's business." Chen Zeqi said indignantly: "We should pay attention to the word "trust". If we don't even need credibility, how can we do business in the future. Therefore, I hope you will consider it again, and don't break the relationship between our two families because of a small matter. As for Chen Guangde, I will find time to punish him."

"Wait, what are you talking about? What about Yanlu? What does this matter have to do with my son? Didn't he go to another province to develop a business source? Why did he run to the barbarian land again? It seems that he still has a conflict with his son-in-law?"

Chen Xiansong looked at his father-in-law with some surprise: "Brother-in-law Chen Guangde arrived at the Kingdom of Kate. He is responsible for taking over Xueyan's business. As a father, you don't know?"

"No one has ever told me about this!" Chen Zeqing looked puzzled: "When he was assigned to another province to do business by his elder brother, I was still purchasing grain in Sumen County. When I came back, he had already set off for more than ten days. What happened? It seems that you have hidden something from me, son-in-law, you have to tell me well."

Chen Zeqing's face was also a little ugly.

Chen Xiansong looked at the two brothers, then shook his head and said, "It is difficult for a clean official to make up for family affairs. I don't care about your affairs and don't want to interfere. In this morning, I want to tell you that the leader of Chen Zeqi and Chen Guangde did something very bad. I was very angry. I didn't kill him. I was already showing mercy. How could I leave Xueyan's business to you again? To be honest, just because you are now, there is no word of trust between you, and I don't want to be with you in the future, so as not to be clear about me if I am sold by you one day. I am a straightforward person and I will just leave my words here. I want to ask for Xueyan's business from me. It's impossible, but if Huilian gives up, I can consider it."

As Huilian's man, Chen Xiansong would not want to force Huilian to turn against her family, but if she just picked it up so high and let it go, the people of the Xiao Chen family might think he is easy to bully. So he handed over the choice to Huilian. If the Xiao Chen family wants to obtain Huilian's forgiveness, they will definitely apologize to her. In this way, Huilian might be able to reconcile with her relatives.

Although Huilian kept saying that she no longer had anything to do with the Chen family, Chen Xiansong could see that she was actually quite painful in her heart. After all, she had lived here for more than ten years. Even if her father and elder brother were not very nice to her, her mother loved her very much. When she thought of rebelling against her parents' family in the future, she would be sad for a while, but maybe her mother would be implicated to a certain extent. This matter was like a thorn, and it was very uncomfortable to put it in her heart.

After saying that, Chen Xiansong began to bow his head and drink tea slowly. He planned to leave the Xiao Chen family after Huilian came out. He was not stupid. When he thought about many things, he knew a little, and then followed the clues and thought about it. Many things became clear. Now, the Xiao Chen family mostly caused some dirty things because of the heir dispute. Chen Guangde was sent to Kate Kingdom to take over Yanlu, which was Chen Zeqi's first step in his actions...

Chen Xiansong didn't want to pay attention to such a thing.

Chen Xiansong stopped talking, and the two brothers Chen Zeqing and Chen Zeqi also looked at each other without saying anything. Soon, Chen Zeqing also guessed something and his face became increasingly ugly.

Not long after, Huilian came out. After seeing Chen Zeqi, she was slightly surprised, then gave a gentle bow and said, "Thirteen has met uncle. It seems that you are still as tough as a year ago."

Chen Zeqi laughed very clearly: "No, no, your uncle is old, but you are getting more and more beautiful after getting married. Well, your husband is a talented man. You have to be a good wife and help your husband take care of all the affairs of the family."

"Yes!" Huilian gave a gentle bow again. She didn't hate her uncle. Although he agreed to marry her to the barbarians, it was not him who had the idea, but the sixth uncle Chen Zeyi. In addition, Chen Zeqi has always been quite kind to her since childhood, so she would not be angry with her uncle because of her elder brother and father. Besides, if he hadn't agreed, how could she meet such a good man as her husband?

"Thirteen, we're leaving." Chen Xiansong finished drinking the light tea in the cup and stood up, and Bai Qianxin also stood up.

Huilian bowed to her uncle again. When facing her father, she bit her lips gently, with an indescribable look in her eyes. Finally, she sighed softly and took a bow before leaving. No matter what, he was her father. It would not be too much to give a bow.

After the three of them left, Chen Zeqing looked at Chen Zeqi, with a dark face and said, "Brother, it seems that you have hidden a lot of things from me. I have trusted you so much before. Since my son-in-law has opened up a curtain on the matter, I also know some things. So, brother, don't mind telling me about other things once."

"Actually, there is nothing big." Chen Zeqi said calmly: "Hui Lian has indeed married into the barbarian land, but her husband is not a barbarian, but a scholar, that is, Chen Xiansong you just met. As a betrothal gift, we got a business on a salt road, and then I sent Guangde there to ask him to help take care of Xueyan's business."

"It sounds like you gave a fat man to Guangde." Chen Zeqing sneered: "But you actually have other selfish intentions. You are trying to transfer Guangde from Heluo City to keep him away from his family, and finally marginalize his influence in the family, right? Brother, I don't understand. Your eldest son Chen Guangrong is completely unstoppable. If you really let him be the head of the family in the future, it will only harm our entire family. You are so smart, you cannot not understand."

"That's just your random thoughts." Chen Zeqi still looked calm: "I sent Guangde over to believe in his ability. That salt road is too important to our entire family. Among the younger generation, he is the only one who has the ability to manage it."

"Besides, instead of questioning me now, it's better to think about how to convince the heads of the family to leave Guangde's life." Chen Zeqi stood up: "If I lose such a big business in Yanlu, even if I am the patriarch, I can't afford it. Even if Guangde can survive this time, even if he can live, his life will not be easy in the future."
Chapter completed!