Li Qingxia had originally thought he would finish updating the genealogy in half a month, then return to Northern Xinjiang and simply wait.
He had never expected to stay in his hometown for over a month.
Li Anmin ultimately agreed to Li Qingxia's plan and added all the names from his branch.
Just as Li Qingxia had expected, everyone in the Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter Four Branches mainly checked whether the additions to their own branch were correct. Hardly anyone bothered with the people added to the other branches.
Why meddle so much? They were not from one's own branch. To put it bluntly, they were already beyond the five degrees of mourning kinship.
They merely shared the same ancestor.
Li Qingxia stayed in his own house, occasionally attending meetings when Li Anmin notified him. These mainly concerned whether to accept other offshoots into the genealogy-their four branches were the main line, but there were other offshoots. Some were on record and could continue adding their descendants to the genealogy; others came forward themselves, saying that a member of a certain generation of the Li Family had left, settled somewhere, and founded their branch.
Some of these cases were complicated. Some involved people who had gone missing and established separate branches, whose descendants later found their roots. Others involved people recorded as dead in the original genealogy, only for an offshoot to turn up and say they had not died at the time. Cases like these required all the branches to meet and discuss whether to admit them.
Li Qingxia played the agreeable fellow at these meetings and generally said nothing. If anyone asked his opinion, anything was fine with him.
He had already decided to hand the leadership of his branch over to Li Anmin anyway, so there