Li Qingxia had Li Long drive him back to the Fourth Team the following morning.
When Gu Xiaoxia returned home the previous afternoon, she was delighted to see Li Qingxia. Li Long had told her before that one important reason his father had gone back to his hometown was to have their names entered in the genealogy.
Although Gu Xiaoxia, as a government official, did not particularly care about such things, she could appreciate that Li Qingxia's action showed regard for the women of the Li Family.
Whatever else, he was fighting to get their names into the genealogy. It must have cost money, thought, and effort, and she was quite touched.
As a university graduate from the old days, Gu Boyuan was not particularly progressive in his thinking. He had nothing but admiration for what Li Qingxia had done, so that evening he shared several good drinks with Old Li and praised him heartily.
Li Qingxia took out the genealogy for Li Long and the others to see, pointing proudly at the names as he said:
"I went back for a month or so and got this done. Now my mind's at ease. Handing the clan headship over to Anmin, I've done right by him too."
Li Qingxia knew that after he left, people from the various branches-or mainly from his own branch-would gradually study the genealogy and notice his little maneuver. The extra money he had contributed was really meant to silence objections.
In the other branches, the clan heads had reportedly contributed only a few hundred yuan at most, and some had paid no more than the other clan members.
After all, this was the new society. Clan heads did not receive more land than anyone else, nor did they run the production teams. There were village