The house burns down

  Wu got anxious when she heard this, and immediately stood up and ran back.

  Chang'an was stunned for a while, and then he ran out of the bamboo forest.

  Before he reached the door of his house, he saw thick smoke coming out of his kitchen.

  Many villagers wanted to go in to put out the fire, but the gate was blocked by Song Baqi.

  He heard him shouting in the yard: "This old house is mine, I can burn it if I want, that rebellious son and his family quickly move out for me, otherwise I will burn down the three main rooms too!"

  Song Sanshun stood outside the door and listened to his father's words, feeling sad.

  Just now, his father suddenly knocked on the door and said he wanted to talk to him about something. Song Sanshun didn't doubt him and walked out of the yard.

  As a result, his father asked him to move out as soon as he opened his mouth, and said that this old house was the ancestral home and could only be left to the eldest son.

  Song Sanshun was of course unwilling, and the two quarreled. Unexpectedly, Song Baqi rushed into the yard, closed the gate with his backhand, and threatened Song Sanshun that if he didn't move, he would burn the house and not let him live in it.

  Song Sanshun was furious and retorted: "If you want to burn it, then burn it!"

  As a result, Song Baqi really set the house on fire.

  "Song Baqi! Are you crazy? Do you know that arson is a serious crime? Do you want to go to jail?" The clan leader also rushed over. Seeing Song Baqi being so idiotic, his beard curled up in anger.

  Song Baqi sneered in the yard: "I burned my own house, what's the big crime?"

  "Well, since you are stubborn, the Song family dare not keep you, a big Buddha, so leave the clan quickly! Don't bring trouble to the clan members!"

  "Leave the clan if you want to!" Song Baqi said disdainfully.

  His granddaughter said that many people would die in the future due to the severe drought. Even the clan leader's family moved away from this place, and there would be only a few people left in the whole village.

  What clan would there be by then? Everyone had fled to escape the famine.

  The clan leader was so angry that he turned around and summoned the clan elders to open the ancestral hall to ask for the family tree. He wanted to erase Song Baqi from the clan genealogy.

  At this time, Song Laoliu and the villagers had brought a ladder, climbed up the high wall and climbed in, pushed away Song Baqi who was blocking them, and opened the gate.

  People brought basins of water from home to put out the fire, but the weather was dry and the fire spread directly to the three main rooms next to the kitchen. It was not enough to put it out with a few basins of water.

  Song Sanshun had already rushed into the main room, and with the help of the villagers, he rescued all the food, clothing, bedding and other items in the house, and even the farm tools, baskets, ropes, benches and tables were not spared and moved out.

  Finally, Song Sanshun rushed into the house again to check it out, and took out the Guanyin statue made by his niece from the wall and put it in his arms.

  After all the things in the three rooms were moved out, the fire burned through the roof.

  The whole village looked at the blazing fire, sighed in their hearts, and looked at Song Baqi with contempt.

  Song Sanshun had such a father, which was really unlucky for eight lifetimes.

  Song Baqi was a little panicked when he saw the fire spread to the main house, but he calmed down immediately when he thought of his wife's words.

  As long as he had the well, he would not be afraid that these villagers would not bow to him in the future.

  "Uncle Baqi, let's go to the ancestral hall." Song Laoliu and two villagers carried Song Baqi and walked quickly to the ancestral hall.

  Song Sanshun and his wife followed with Chang'an in their arms.

  Chang'an lay on his aunt's shoulder and saw the fire on the thatched cottage rising high. He was very scared and kept praying that it would not burn quickly.

  What if the fire burned the vegetable garden behind the house? In that case, he would have no vegetables to eat.

  But the fire was merciless and soon burned down the thatched cottage.     Changan pursed his lips and wanted to cry. He turned his head and saw his aunt crying. He wiped her tears quickly, "Aunt, don't cry. Changan will build you a big house in the future."

  Wu wiped her tears with her sleeves and hummed softly.

  A group of people came to the ancestral hall and saw the clan leader and several elders sitting on both sides of the incense table in the ancestral hall, looking at Song Baqi with a serious face.

  "Song Baqi! Kneel down!" The clan leader shouted.

  Song Baqi did not hesitate and knelt down directly.

  He knew that what he did today was a bit too much, but for the sake of a good life in the future, he did not regret it.

  The sons have different relationships. Since he has decided to live with the eldest son and let the step-grandfather take care of him in his old age, he must give up the interests of the other two sons.

  The clan leader looked coldly at Song Baqi who was kneeling on the ground in silence, and said, "Song Baqi, you disregard human ethics and treat your own son's family harshly. Now you burn down the house just to force your son's family to leave so that you can occupy the well. Are there any elders like you in the world?"

  Song Baqi frowned and argued, "Brother, I burned the house because San Shun was disobedient and unfilial. This is my family affair and I will handle it."

  The clan leader sneered, "Song Baqi, Song Baqi, you are almost at the age of knowing the destiny, why do you speak and act so absurdly? Even chickens and dogs protect their cubs, are you even worse than them?"

  Song Baqi frowned and said nothing.

  The clan leader continued, "Although our Song family is not a powerful family, we cannot allow people like you to ruin the family's reputation. Today, the clan elders and all the villagers are here. The clan has decided to expel you from the clan, so that outsiders will not think that all the members of our Song family are like you and cannot distinguish right from wrong. As for your arson, I will report it to the inspection department truthfully and let him judge whether it constitutes a crime."

  Song Baqi was anxious when he heard it: "I just burned my own house, what's the crime?"

  "Humph, it's not up to you and me to decide whether it's guilty or not." An elder said.

  After that, several people burned incense and prayed, explained the reason to the ancestors, and asked for the family tree. The clan leader personally wrote and erased Song Baqi's name from the family tree.

  In addition, the names of Song Erxiao and Song Sanshun were rewritten and directly added to his grandfather's name, and annotated.

  Song Baqi watched the clan leader and the clan elders remove his name, and suddenly felt fear and couldn't help crying.

  Was he wrong? He was right!

  It was all because of Sanshun, the unfilial son, who forced him into a dead end.

  Song Baqi wiped his tears and looked at his third son fiercely: "Now that I have been expelled from the clan, are you satisfied? Rebellious son! What good will happen to your family if I lose the clan? Why don't you just die?"

  Song Sanshun ignored him and kowtowed to the ancestral tablets several times, saying: "The unfilial son Song Sanshun asks the ancestors to allow me to sever the father-son relationship with my biological father Song Baqi. I am willing to shorten my life by twenty years."

  After that, he kowtowed several times.

  Song Baqi's hands trembled with anger, "Okay! Okay! Sever the father-son relationship with your father, what a skill! In this case, you and your wife will move out of the old house today! You are not allowed to step into it anymore! From now on, we will be separated!"

  Song Sanshun didn't even look at his father, but looked straight at the clan leader and the elders: "Uncle, please be a witness to this matter."

  The clan leader pondered for a moment and asked several elders in a low voice.

  Several elders argued for a few words and finally agreed.

  Now Song Sanshun's house was burned down by his biological father, and he was almost killed by his biological father and his stepbrother last time. All these things have made the two of them no longer have a father-son relationship.

  Moreover, Song Baqi is too much. Not only did he recognize a foreign bastard as his eldest son, but he also suppressed his biological son everywhere. It is very incomprehensible, and the elders of the clan have long been dissatisfied with him.

  "You and your father have severed the blood relationship, and you must sign a severance document."

  An elder stroked his beard and said, "The document must be sent to the government office for filing, and the kinship on the household registration must be changed. Sanshun, once you propose to sever the relationship, you may have to be beaten with dozens of boards."

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