Recommendation Tickets, please.
This guidance, so distinctly in Xia Qingyun's style, truly suited Chen Xun's way of doing things.
But even as he took it in, he could not help silently grumbling in his heart: No wonder Father is so obedient under your palm, without the slightest temper...
At the same time, Chen Xun thought back to the beatings he had taken as a child.
It could be said that much of the foundation of his current personality came from Xia Qingyun's words and example.
Since childhood, he had watched this mother of his rule Chen Lin Village with absolute authority, acting with swift, decisive force.
Her authority was such that even her father-in-law—an elder of Chen Zixiu's standing—often chose to avoid her edge and tacitly give way.
Chen Zhang, on the other hand, was gentle and modest by nature, more like their father, Chen Yu.
He could not help muttering to himself: looking at it now, Mother had put far more effort into him than into his second brother, Chen Zhang.
Come to think of it, Mother did not seem to have that flaw of favoring "the youngest son and eldest grandson."
Thus, bringing the Si Clan into the "Zhaowu Roster" this time as its fourteenth family was a decision Chen Xun had made on his own.
The reason he valued the Si Clan was that the drive to climb upward in the Si clansmen suited his tastes very well.
Moreover, judging from how early the Si Clan had prepared, it was obvious that the mad ones were not limited to the siblings Si Bainin and Si Baining.
He admired that ambition.
In Chen Xun's view, the great tree that was the Chen Clan was large enough to fully accommodate capable families as they developed and grew