Chapter 4 (1/2)
Translator: Atlas Studios Editor: Atlas Studios
Ren Hanlin and Ren Wenxu took turns voicing their opinions. They had endured Ren Jie for so long. Therefore, they stepped forward and spewed the words that they had brewed for a month.
“Humph!” Wan Hong secretly snorted in his heart. He lifted the teacup slowly and took a sip. That was not the first time he saw this scene. Those old fellows seemed to enjoy the moment too. The next process that followed would be Ren Jie continuously apologizing and sucking up to them.
Even though there was nothing wrong with Ren Jie, who was a junior, to compromise and admit his wrongdoings to these family clan elders, he was ultimately still the family head.
Every time he thought about that, Wan Hong would feel shame for Ren Jie. He remembered how impressive Ren Jie’s father was in the past. Ren Tianxing had succeeded to the family head position at the age of sixteen; he could lead the family clan soldiers to battle the evil cult at eighteen; he commanded troops at war at twenty and defeated fifteen small nations in three years. The huge battles he consecutively started had shocked the world. At twenty-five, he had reached the Yin Yang Realm and became a part of the strongest martial artists in the Jade Capital. He was the strongest martial artist amongst the younger practitioners. Afterward, he brought the Ren family to the pinnacle of its glory.
At thirty, he resigned from the bestowed title as a duke with an external surname. After he was thirty-five, his power was too deep to be measured. In nineteen years, he had led the Ren family from the weakest of the five biggest family clans to the second strongest, right after the imperial family of the Clear Jade Dynasty. The family clan was so strong that it could almost compete with the imperial family.
Despite the resistance that was present, it was his son who forcefully succeeded to the position as the family head in the end due to his eminence. That made Ren Jie the first person at the Body Refinement Realm who succeeded to the position as family head throughout the years. Moreover, he was a pile of rubbish who was only at the fifth level of the Body Refinement Realm at seventeen. Nevertheless, he was still the family head.
Wan Hong sneered and was prepared to enjoy the show while the three big elders Ren Hanlin, Ren Wenxu and Ren Junyang continued taking turns to express their opinions. Concurrently, Ren Jie’s expression turned darker and darker.
He was initially listening humbly to the words of these elders. Since he was clueless, the best thing to do was to listen. However, the more he heard, the weirder he felt. He became increasingly annoyed with each comment. What the f*ck is this?
More importantly, he found no relevant information in the brain of the original Ren Jie. This r*scal! He was really optimistic. It is obvious that this is not the first time that this kind of incident happened, yet he managed to throw it to the back of his mind and did not have any strong memories of such incidents.
Ren Jie quickly gathered the little information that he had. He then realized that the original Ren Jie’s father, or rather, his father, was that incredible. He led the Ren family to the prime of its glory. Ren Jie discovered some useful information somehow. When Ren Tianxing was the family head, the only thing that the elders needed to do was to listen to instructions.
There was no such thing as the Elders’ Union. The elders did not have any authority. You would receive authority once you had the capabilities. Your contributions to the family clan would grant you the equivalent authority. Otherwise, you would be told to know your place and wait for the most basic resources allocated to you for cultivation.
Afterward, it was only when Ren Jie became the family head that Ren Tianxing created the Elders’ Union, which comprised of seven people, including these three elders, Ren Jie’s sixth uncle Ren Tianzong, second uncle Ren Tianheng, fifth uncle Ren Tianqi and the first elder Ren Hongtu, who was constantly in secluded cultivation.
F*ck. Aren’t they f*cking regents?
Ren Jie immediately thought of the existence of regents such as Oboi in historical novels and television shows.
Compared to the Earth that he knew, the Ren family was even more impressive than the imperial families in those eras.
Looking at those people talking excessively, Ren Jie felt more and more upset. He was already unhappy that he came to this universe. Now that he was faced with such a situation, he became even more annoyed.
It was obvious that these old guys were throwing out orders once they had power in their hands. They were assuming unwarranted authority by using a made-up directive to order people around.
They had the authority to do so, but they were going overboard by restricting minor things such as his allowance and expenses. Ren Jie was the esteemed family head, after all. Although Ren Jie bought the high-quality spring water and fire cloud sparrow tongues under the influence of that guy Gao Ren, he remembered how delightful they were.
Furthermore, ten thousand taels of gold might sound like a lot of money, but it was nothing to the Ren family. Silver was the basic currency used in the Clear Jade Dynasty, then there were gold and jade coins. Ten taels of silver were equivalent to one tael of gold while ten taels of gold were equivalent to one jade coin. Ten thousand taels of gold was merely a thousand jade coins. That was a few years of income for an ordinary person, but not for the Ren family.
The crux of the problem was not regarding his spending. Those guys were merely trying to find fault in him. Originally, there were no restrictions for the family head, but when it came to him, not only was there the Elders’ Union, the allowance was reduced from a hundred thousand taels of gold each month, which was equivalent to ten thousand jade coins, to five thousand jade coins. Now they wanted to cut it even further.
He was the one and only family head in the Ren family. Even the family heads of family clans ten times smaller than the Ren family could use the gold freely.
They are not f*cking treating me as the family head. They are controlling me like a young emperor and are ordering me around.
Ren Jie did not care about how he was before, but the situation he heard now made him increasingly angry.
“Bang… Smash!” There was specially brewed tea beside Ren Jie’s huge seat. It was the type of high-quality spiritual tea that money could not buy. However, the teacup and the table were swept away by Ren Jie. They landed in the middle of the conference hall and smashed apart in between Ren Junyang and the other three people.
“Ah…”