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Chapter 142 Patriarchal Law
Wang Jinyi asked: "Anything else?"
The clan woman hesitated and answered: "This is the content of the three days."
"What is the fourth day?"
"It's the clan law."
"Okay, let's start learning clan rules tomorrow."
"Master, if it's alright, I'll go ask my mother to endorse the book."
After saying this, he performed the salute according to the clan etiquette requirements, then took three steps back before turning around and leaving.
Wang Jinyi secretly glanced at Zhu Yu and Qing Yu who were standing straight by the door. Both of them were standing there with their eyes on their noses and their noses on their hearts, with no distractions in their minds.
Hearing the young lady say goodbye, he glanced at his own lady and found that she raised her eyebrows at the two of them, blinked her eyes, and quickly knelt down to salute and retreated to the door.
After going out, I let out a long sigh of relief. Hey! I can finally breathe freely.
This situation lasted for two days. On the morning of the third day, the clan leader sat in the main hall and inspected Wang Jinyi's learning results of the clan etiquette and laws over the past few days. In fact, this was unnecessary!
In their previous life, Wang Jinyi and Chen Zhiyuan signed up for a "Brainstorming" memory class so as not to delay their studies or affect their time together. At that time, Wang Jinyi always felt that learning these messy methods affected their normal understanding of memory.
Chen Zhiyuan would always coax her to continue studying. Although they were in different places, they were taking the same memory class.
After finishing the course, Wang Jinyi selected some unfamiliar knowledge that he was not interested in in order to test whether this method of memorization was effective. After studying a few lessons, he found that this method was effective.
It is especially useful when you are cramming for certain courses.
Even my roommates always ask themselves:
"We go to class together and live in the same room. When did you sneak away to review? Don't you sleep at night?"
Wang Jinyi would teach them at length:
"...If you don't sleep, your memory will decline, your growth will be affected, you won't grow taller, and you'll age faster..."
Until I got tired of talking to people, and no one asked me anymore how I remembered it.
I no longer doubted my amazing memory, and the doubt disappeared, but I also lost my best friend who shared the same dormitory with me.
Because everyone keeps their distance from me, thinking that I am just pretending, but in fact I am learning secretly.
Wang Jinyi has always felt that being strong does not mean you run one more step than others, but that you have to surpass others by one lap, so that others will no longer care about you.
If you are only a little bit better than others, you cannot avoid others from using tricks on you. But if you are faster than the person behind you by more than one lap, so that he is far behind you, he will not be able to reach you even if he wants to use tricks on you.
In fact, sometimes when you look back, it feels great to see that others are so tired that they can’t catch up with you.
In the main hall, the clan wife was the host, accompanied by her mother. Wang Jinyi stood in the center of the hall observing etiquette, from the costumes for festivals, celebrations, weddings, funerals, sacrifices, and rituals.
Wang Jinyi recited and demonstrated them one by one. Afterwards, the clan wife asked about the clan law. This time, she didn't need to recite, but asked a practical question.
"In the Wang clan, an uncle and nephew live next to each other. When they were renovating their house, they found that the wall between them was dangerous, so they decided to rebuild it. Who should pay for it? Who should do the repairs? How high should the wall be built? If there is a dispute, which department should be reported to the clan leader for mediation?"
Wang Jinyi thought that it was fortunate that she was an adult, otherwise, if she were to ask a three-year-old child to answer such complicated social situations, he would probably not be able to do so even if he racked his brains.
But let's not say that although this matter seems to be a headache, it is very realistic. Wang Jinyi thought about it and followed the principle of "clan kinship" in the patriarchal clan law:
"In principle, the cost should be shared equally, but if one of the two families has a higher house or roof ridge than the other, the wall will be raised one foot and a half higher than the height of the other family's wall (about 1.5 meters). The part that is higher will be paid by the one with the higher house.
If there is a dispute, it will be assessed by the clan members. If the two families do not dispute the facts, the matter is settled. If there is a dispute, it will be assessed collectively by the clan elders. If they serve, the matter will be resolved. If they are dissatisfied, the clan law department will investigate and make the decision. "
Wang Jinyi asked tentatively:
"Master, is Jin'er right?"
In fact, Wang Jinyi understood a little bit, that is, people of the same clan comfort each other first, then the elders of the same clan judge according to their experience, and finally the clan law judges. Why does this look familiar?
It's like when kids in a family are fighting, first the mother tries to persuade them, then the father, and finally the parents use family rules. This process of taking measures, hehe, it's really satisfying to watch!
The wife nodded in approval and said calmly:
"Let's review it together at the end."
"There are oxen in the clan. During the spring ploughing season, the mountain land, sloping land and fertile fields belong to each household. The distribution is uneven. There are 100 farmers and three oxen. How should the use of the oxen be allocated?"
Wang Jinyi stared with puzzled eyes, her eyebrows flickered slightly, and she was grateful that her IQ was online for a second. She quickly determined that this was a word problem with insufficient known conditions, so she asked three questions in a row:
"Chief, how many acres of mountain land, sloping land, and fertile fields can be cultivated by oxen every day? Which of the three plots of land needs to be cultivated urgently? Which manpower can cultivate it?"
The wife did not answer, but nodded in agreement, and then asked:
""Someone from the Wang clan married a member of the Wang clan. Do you remember the rules in the clan law?"
"Remember that it is forbidden within three generations. Those who do not marry will be punished. Those who marry first and then report it will be punished by law! Those who have sex first and then report it will all be punished for adultery.
If the crime affects the immediate family, males over ten years old will be whipped 5 to times, and females over ten years old will kneel in the ancestral temple and recite the ancestral law for five days, two hours a day, with the clan members supervising.
Wang Jinyi fully agreed with this point, because the genetic science of the previous life clearly showed that the conclusion of "inbreeding gives birth to fools" was extremely obvious. The more distant the genetic relationship, the more beneficial it would be to the next generation.
At that time, Chen Zhiyuan joked:
"In the past five generations of our two families, there has been no one with the surname Wang..."
At that time, Wang Jinyi laughed at his IQ. The two argued and drew relationship diagrams of three and five generations of relatives. Finally, they happily discovered that the mothers of both families had the surname Guo.
The two were really nervous about this for a while. They went home to investigate and used their holidays to visit the two families' relatives of the past two generations. Later, they finally found out that most of the Chen family members came from a mountainous area called Nanfeng Mountain.
As for Wang Jinyi's family, it was found that more than three generations had all come from Xunshui area, and it seemed that the relatives on both sides had never had any intersection.
When Wang Jinyi thought of this, something suddenly seemed to fly through his head like a meteor, leaving a trail of light and shadow. He didn't catch any trace of it, but it seemed like something flashed, and it seemed very important? !
This morning's assessment ended with Wang Jinyi's objective and calm answer.
"Tomorrow morning we will conduct an assessment of the abnormal part of the clan rules and the malicious incidents." The clan leader left a few words before leaving, then walked away slowly with his hands behind his back.