Capítulo 1313: Chapter 68: The Last Day of Year Three in Ming Country (Part 2)
No choice, the population has increased now.
Mu Yuming and his wife, Wang Yunxiao and his wife, along with the youngest daughter Mu Qingqing, and Zhou Qing Jiang Yinyin who took care of Mu Qingqing.
One car couldn’t fit them all.
Of course, compared to other mbers of the Mu Family, they were relatively low-key.
Many bring their whole family along, numbering ten or more, with everyone from kids to elders joining the fray.
To put it nicely, it’s bringing family along to see the old man, to wish him a happy New Year.
To put it badly… the old man is on the verge of passing, if you don’t make yourself known now, how will you have a share when it cos to dividing the inheritance?
Here at King Mu’s Mansion, it’s still the old rules, family won and children are arranged separately, while the n of the household sit in the main hall.
In a place like King Mu’s Mansion, a ho of generations of military leaders, you generally wouldn’t encounter those soap opera-like plots with second and third wives fighting and being sarcastically petty.
Anyone who’s led troops for long carries a heavy aura of authority, and won’t have the patience for talk of emotions or reason; when you’re being sarcastically petty, thinking the other party will leave embarrassed, a smack to the face may have already landed.
Unless the family has completely declined, like Jia Mansion in Dream of the Red Chamber, where every man fails to inherit the legacy of their ancestors and they can only rest on their laurels, then naturally various scandals and scraps would arise.
While King Mu’s Mansion might show signs of this trend, it’s far from being at that stage.
By the old man’s standards, saying the younger generation of the family is completely useless isn’t baseless.
In reality, Mu Yuheng and Mu Yushu’s generation is faring quite well, at least they are key leaders in significant departnts.
Even those with distant relations like Mu Yuming and Mu Yusha are young elites.
Veronica… Mu Yusha was pulled out from the kitchen.
The Archbishop’s heart hasn’t changed, for once he cos ho he heads directly to the kitchen, grabs a two to three pound pork knuckle, and starts gnawing on it.
Halfway through gnawing, she was dragged out and forcibly placed at the main table.
Sitting here as well were Mu Yuming and Wang Yunxiao, along with the direct line of the Mu Family’s core mbers.
Military rules differ from those of the civil servant system, lacking the “ethics and morals,” or any form of hierarchical dogma.
There’s never been talk of a frontier general mourning for three years because their mother died, before figuring out how to return to work.
As long as you have capability and loyalty, even those with different last nas are regarded like family.
They might even be taken in as godsons.
Though Veronica is often ignored and barely noticeable in the mansion, her being surnad Mu, being a Miss of the Mu Family is not questioned by a single person.
This matter traces back to her father’s generation, when State Duke Mu set out on an expedition to the Northwest, her father’s cavalry regint was betrayed by an internal spy during Rakshasa’s political strife, leading them to defect in desperation.
State Duke Mu treated this defector generously, and after surrendering, her father indeed contributed greatly to that war, being finally adopted as State Duke Mu’s godson.
The term “godson” in a military family parallels personal soldiers and attendants, notably seen with that famous clerk Lu during the era of the Three Kingdoms, or positively exemplified by Prince Mu, who upheld peace in southern Yunnan.
She is indeed a Commandery Princess of King Mu’s Mansion, even having a conferral from the Forr Dynasty, being able to enter and exit freely within the Imperial City of the Thousand-Year Dynasty World.
A re Commandery Princess cannot sit at the main table of King Mu’s Mansion, but the Archbishop of Qianjin Church can.
He can even sit beside the old man.
Qianjin Church was previously a semi-public quasi-military organization, possessing independent forces and the ability to produce arms.
Now it’s just been reorganized, not dissolved.
It’s akin to restructuring the Military Commission into the Secret Service, disbanding ten thousand patriotic national salvation troops, becoming more professional.
Her direct superior now is the current President Xu Ziwei.
Among all the n seated at this table, not one holds a higher status than her.
If she didn’t attend, the banquet couldn’t comnce.
Even in the past couple of years, when the old man held his birthday at ho, he’d hardly show up, at most calling in a few grandchildren he favored for private chats. This ti he surprisingly made a public appearance.
Visibly, he indeed aged quite a lot.
“Half of you here are bastards!”
As soon as the old man spoke, it was a critical hit to everyone.
“Damn it, if I don’t call, nobody cos back to see . How many tis can you still see ? Each one of you is always busy outside, only when encountering trouble do you rember you have this ho!”
“The other half are worse than bastards! Just loitering around without doing serious work, scheming about when I’ll die for you to claim inheritance. Don’t you see what’s left in this mansion for you to divide?”
Put like this, everyone could accept it.
The old man was just irritated, viewing everyone unpleasantly, delivering an indiscriminate strike.
But what made him irritated?
The old man cursed a couple of tis, seeing the puzzled and bewildered looks from all children and grandchildren present, couldn’t help but sigh, saying: “So of you work in key departnts and may already know, soon there will be significant events happening.”
Those who understood his words wore solemn expressions, those who didn’t were bewildered.
What matters could the old man regard as significant?
The old man didn’t want to waste words explaining further.
If you haven’t entered this circle, don’t expect a few sentences could deliver clarity.
It’s like those amateurs assembling computers; if they’re unwilling to even Google, don’t expect to help them solve real problems.
The reason for not booting up might not be hardware-related; it could be they simply didn’t plug in the power.
“Our Mu Family has, from the Forr Dynasty until now, for a hundred years, though can’t boast of achieving great rits, at least has upheld the duty and loyalty, and has a clear conscience. After I’m gone, I hope you maintain this initial intention. Even if no particular achievents are made, it’s fine, as long as you don’t tarnish the family na.”
“I hope that a hundred years from now, when future generations ntion the Mu Family, they praise us as good n, rather than laugh at us.”
The old man tapped his cane, continuing: “These past years, I’ve rarely involved myself with world affairs, nor is there anyone in the house who can preside over situations. Who will take this ho, be its leader next, is sothing I can’t and you can’t decide.”
Those who didn’t comprehend this continued to stay bewildered.
The old man’s aning was quite simple: under the sweeping tide, no one can guarantee what remains of King Mu’s Mansion.
Only those who survive in the end have the qualification to beco the Family Head.
“And another thing, which you might not know, Yusha, you say it.”
The old man turned to look at Veronica, who was trying hard to act adult-like.
With Wang Yunxiao’s understanding of her, she was likely still thinking about the unfinished pork knuckle.
“Ahem…”
Veronica coughed, then seriously said: “The President will deliver a speech via radio broadcast tonight.”
“Huh? Broadcast?”
All present finally understood, then instantly buzzed with excitent.
“What ti? Such a big event, how could there be no news about it?”
“The official speech will be published collectively by major newspapers on the first day of the New Year. As for tonight’s speech, the news hasn’t been spread because radio broadcasts themselves aren’t widespread.”
This year, radio sets that asure the size of half a washing machine are just hitting the market, at a price that’s prohibitive for many, leaving only a few wealthy individuals to buy them and flaunt at ho.
The matching radio stations are also newly developing, lacking promotional experience, simultaneously airing music and opera, reciting poetry and essays, only occasionally delivering news and advertisents.
Because the audience isn’t professional and doesn’t know how to use them, the promotion effects are unsatisfactory.
No one anticipated, at the beginning of this New Year, that the President would deliver his speech to the nation in this manner.
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