Girl, there's something wrong with you

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I don't have that much talent.

Will they treat me better?

Some messy, inexplicable and abnormal thoughts began to gather in Cheng Jinyang's mind as time passed in the dream.

Although he wanted to complain, Zheng Qiupei was obviously in over his head at this moment, but after all, he was in a possessed state and couldn't speak, so he could only endure it extremely uncomfortably.

At the same time, he also saw clearly something wrong with Zheng Qiupei.

So humbling.

This girl is very sensitive to the emotional state of others and attaches great importance to her relationships with her cousins.

Cousin Zheng Wengong has a pretty good impression of her. After all, she is his cousin in terms of seniority and has a good personality. Cousin Liu, on the other hand, smiles in front of her face and is a model of MMP behind her back. Not only does she have strong hostility towards her, but she also often Fanning the flames and exaggerating in front of Zheng Wengong.

For example, once the old patriarch adopts Zheng Qiupei, won't she get married when she becomes the patriarch in the future? As long as she finds a husband within the Zheng family, the power of the patriarch will inevitably fall into the hands of her husband's family.

Zheng Qiupei himself has no parents, nor any biological brothers or sisters. His only relative is his cousin Zheng Wengong. In order to control his wife's successful seizure of power, her future husband would have to do everything possible to exclude Zheng Wengong's family from the center of power? Even if you don't think about our future, you still have to think about our children.

Zheng Qiupei must not be adopted by the old patriarch!

Zheng Wengong's attitude was also very wavering. Every time Liu whispered something in his ear, his attitude towards Zheng Qiupei became a little distant. Then Zheng Qiupei tried to restore the relationship, but he felt guilty again and changed his attitude again.

Perhaps it was for this reason that Zheng Qiupei kept working hard to please his cousin and his family, to the point where even Cheng Jinyang couldn't stand it.

For example, Zheng Qiupei likes to compete with the maid at home to do laundry, cooking, picking up garbage and cleaning, which makes Liu privately complain that she "doesn't have the appearance of a young lady". Zheng Wengong was very pleased and felt that "she has such thoughts and is very sensible", which made Liu just roll her eyes in anger.

Of course, no matter how talented a person is, he cannot do all the maid's work, so Zheng Qiupei spontaneously became the head maid, and often told the maids in detail about Master Zheng and Mrs. Zheng's living habits and how they should take care of them. They are a family.

This made Liu even more disgusted. When Zheng Wengong's fourth son was one month old, relatives came to visit to have full moon wine. Mrs. Liu slowly came to the kitchen door and saw Zheng Qiupei talking to the maids about dinner:

"...My sister-in-law has just recovered after giving birth. Her diet is still mainly light, with more fruits and not so much meat. It will increase the burden on the gastrointestinal tract..."

"Xiao Pei!" Mrs. Liu grabbed the door frame and exclaimed exaggeratedly, trying to pull her out of the kitchen tremblingly. She said with a smile, "What are you busy in the kitchen? Are you instructing the maids to work again? Don't be particular. It’s such a trivial matter, your relatives are waiting outside to talk to you!”

Then the attention of relatives outside was attracted. In any case, an eldest lady who is obsessed with housekeeping can easily leave the stereotype of "not doing her job properly", which can be regarded as a negative evaluation in aristocratic families - after all, only tribesmen who are not talented enough will be keen on housework and family affairs (for example, Sister Yuexian).

"Sister-in-law." Zheng Qiupei bit her lower lip. Through the possessed perception, Cheng Jinyang knew that she fully understood Liu's intention in saying these words. However, at this time, Sister Xiaopei did not have any anger or disgust, only full of grievance and sadness.

She wanted to defend herself, but she didn't want to anger her sister-in-law, so she could only nod silently, cover her face and hold back tears and walked out.

After leaving home, Zheng Qiupei walked alone in the clan's land, and unknowingly came to the clan leader's office.

Uncle Zheng Junming usually works here, and only occasionally goes back to his son and daughter-in-law's house to stay. When he saw Zheng Qiupei knocking on the door and coming in with a sad expression on his face, he felt a little puzzled and confused.

"What's the matter, Xiaopei?" Zheng Junming motioned for her to sit down first.

However, Zheng Qiupei refused to say anything and just shook his head.

After about ten minutes, she spoke in a low voice:

"uncle."

"Um?"

"I don't want to compete with my cousin for the position of heir to the clan leader." Zheng Qiupei said in a low voice.

Zheng Junming's brows wrinkled.

He did have the intention of letting Zheng Qiupei adopt his name, but that was just a preliminary idea. Who would talk nonsense in front of Zheng Qiupei?

"Xiao Pei." Zheng Junming picked up a piece of information and said slowly, "Take it and take a look first."

Zheng Qiupei took it silently and looked at it carefully before showing a somewhat surprised expression.

This document shows that Zheng Wengong's second son's talent results in pedigree appraisal have been improved to a guaranteed level of four and a sprint to level three, and the probability of entering the third level is as high as 35%, which is only 20% lower than his own.

"Uncle, what do you mean?" Zheng Qiupei asked softly.

"I'm still thinking about it." Zheng Junming clasped his hands on the table and said in a deep voice, "My grandson, Dehui... he has the same potential to sprint to the third level as you, and he is qualified to become the heir of the clan leader. "

"But your probability of entering the third level is 20% higher than his probability, which is a considerable number. Although the pedigree identification may not be accurate, the actual results will not be known until you are forty years old, but the clan leader The heir cannot be established until thirty years later, do you understand what I mean?"

"Understood." Zheng Qiupei bit her lower lip, "If you are still considering whether to choose between me or him, then I am willing to quit."

"You..." Zheng Junming was speechless for a while, then said after a while, "Aren't you willing to adopt me?"

"No." Zheng Qiupei shook his head and said, "My uncle treats me very well. If I were to become my parents again, I would also be very grateful to you."

"Then you are worried about Wen Gong's attitude towards you?" Zheng Junming frowned again.

"I don't want my cousin's family to have any dissatisfaction with me because of this incident." Zheng Qiupei said in a bitter tone, "I don't want to be the leader of the clan either."

"You have to understand what you are giving up." Zheng Junming sighed, "If I establish Dehui as his heir, you will not be able to have a higher bloodline talent than him, and it will still be a full 20% more. Do you understand? ? This will arouse unnecessary ideas and ambitions among some tribesmen."

"If you choose to give up the position of heir, then your external pedigree identification results will have to be revised, at least downgraded by a whole level, to a guarantee of five and four, unable to reach the third rank... And this will undoubtedly seriously affect your status in the clan. The prestige, status and treatment here, unless you really succeed in being promoted to the third level after the age of forty. You, are you really willing to give up what you originally deserved?"

"Uncle." Zheng Qiupei said seriously, "prestige, status and treatment, do you think these are more important than family?"

Zheng Junming was speechless for a moment.

After a long while, he weakly held his forehead and waved weakly with his other hand, indicating that she could leave.

Zheng Qiupei walked out of the patriarch's office in silence and came to the window in the corridor, looking at the setting sun in the distance.

"I did the right thing," she said to herself.

"I don't have many relatives to begin with, and I don't want them to hate me."

"What do you think?" She suddenly looked at the half-open window on the side.

The reflected figure on the window pane revealed Cheng Jinyang's face.

Let me briefly explain: The genealogy identification results of Zheng Dehui and Zheng Qiupei are false to the outside world (the basic operation of the family). Zheng Dehui actually sprinted to the third level at 35%, and Zheng Qiupei sprinted to the third level at 55%. However, Zheng Qiupei falsely reported that she was guaranteed to win four out of five, so that it would not affect Zheng Dehui's succession to the position of patriarch until she was forty years old. After the age of forty, the clan leader's position is consolidated and his relative influence becomes smaller. In addition, the age bug has also been corrected. In this chapter, it is Zheng Wengong’s fourth son who holds the Full Moon Wine Festival. Zheng Dehui, the second son who later became the patriarch, was a few years older than Zheng Qiupei.