Chapter 1644: As long as I want

Hearing Ye Chen's words, Ye Changkong was extremely depressed.

He understood Ye Chen's meaning. From now on, no matter whether he lived in the Ye family or stayed in Yanjing, he, Ye Chen, had officially returned to the Ye family.

Ye Changkong cursed inwardly: "This kid doing this is a bit disgusting..."

However, in front of the Old Master, he didn't dare to say anything randomly.

Thus, he could only say with a laugh: "Good, good, good! It's good to be back!"

The Old Master turned to introduce Ye Chen to his third uncle Ye Changyun, fourth uncle Ye Changjun, aunt Ye Zhangmin, and younger aunt Ye Changxiu.

When introducing Ye Zhangmin, Ye Zhangmin's expression was very diligent, and she said with an excited face: "Chen'er, Auntie has waited for you for so many years, you finally returned! Your parents' spirits in heaven will definitely be very comforted!"

As she spoke, she choked up hypocritically a few times, but no tears flowed out.

Ye Chen was also used to this set of Ye Zhangmin's. Ye Zhangmin was, after all, the eldest daughter of the Ye family with noble birth. In popular terms, this was definitely an old princess.

The old princess had been arrogant and domineering all her life, and had never needed to bow her head to anyone, so it was understandable that this acting wasn't very good.

After all, this kind of old princess didn't have the energy to study and improve her acting skills.

Ye Chen could also see that she had tried her best to act, it was just that her tears really didn't listen to her.

Thus, Ye Chen smiled slightly and said politely: "Thank you, Auntie."

On the contrary, the younger aunt Ye Changxiu, who had been silent, was already red-eyed without saying a word.

When the Old Master introduced her, her tears couldn't be held back anymore. She grabbed Ye Chen's hand and cried while choking up: "Chen'er, don't leave again this time..."

Looking at the younger aunt who was about forty years old, Ye Chen couldn't help but recall his childhood.

Younger Aunt Ye Changxiu was a full cycle older than him. When he was a child, he was a small child, and she was a big child.

At that time, he was very clingy to her because she would take him out to play every day after school.

And she was very clingy to his father because among the brothers and sisters, she had the best relationship with his father.

And Ye Chen's father back then doted on this youngest sister the most, basically treating her like a daughter, giving her whatever she wanted, so the relationship between the siblings was indeed very harmonious despite the age difference.

In Ye Chen's memory, Younger Aunt's personality was very lively and cheerful, and unlike Ye Zhangmin, she didn't have so many small thoughts.

At that time, Ye Zhangmin was close to Ye Changkong and deliberately distanced herself from his father Ye Changying.

The reason was that Ye Zhangmin felt that the heir to the Ye family would definitely be the eldest son Ye Changkong, so she had already developed the consciousness of taking sides early on.

Younger Aunt, on the other hand, never had those complicated thoughts.

When Ye Chen followed his parents and left home, Younger Aunt Ye Changxiu was studying abroad. Ye Chen's memory of her was still stuck on the scene when she graduated from high school and everyone sent her abroad.

At that time, Younger Aunt was still a youthful girl, but now, she had already reached the age of forty.

Seeing Younger Aunt's true feelings, Ye Chen couldn't help but sigh in his heart, and said respectfully: "Younger Aunt, don't worry, I returned this time to recognize my ancestors and return to the clan. Even if I leave Yanjing temporarily in the future, I won't break my connection with the Ye family."

Ye Chen's words were already very clear.

After returning to the Ye family this time, he would definitely still go back to Jin Ling, but he had already officially recognized his ancestors and returned to the clan, so he would officially become a member of the Ye family's direct line from now on.

Hearing this, Ye Zhongquan and Ye Changxiu were naturally happy, but everyone else felt very unhappy.

Ye Chen's "recognizing ancestors and returning to the clan" meant that there was another competitor in the future battle for family property.

After the Old Master led Ye Chen to greet everyone one by one, the rest were those of the same generation as Ye Chen.

The oldest was Ye Feng, followed by Ye Hao, and several other relatively young younger brothers and sisters.

Except for Ye Feng and Ye Hao, the rest of these rich second generations who had been pampered since childhood had no feelings for this relative who had been away from home for twenty years, so everyone just exchanged a few polite words on the surface.

Seeing that Ye Chen had met everyone one by one, Ye Zhongquan checked the time and said excitedly: "Chen'er's return is a great thing. Let's go in and sit down. Let's have a good chat. When the time comes in a moment, the outside relatives should come to pay their respects."

Seeing the Old Master's instruction, everyone moved to the main hall of the Ye family villa together.

Helena had been following Ye Feng, wanting to find an opportunity to communicate with Ye Chen alone, but seeing the current situation, it was impossible, so she had to give up for the time being.

At this time, inside the main hall of the Ye family villa.

In the center of the spacious main hall, according to the ancestral teachings, several chairs made of yellow rosewood were arranged in a fan shape.

In the center of the fan shape was the Old Master's main seat, and on both sides of the main seat were more than ten chairs each.

These were the seats for the direct members of the Ye family.

And around the fan shape, more than a hundred simple folding chairs were neatly placed. These were prepared for the outside relatives.

Ye Zhongquan pulled Ye Chen to the main seat, pointed directly at the seat on his right, and said to Ye Chen: "Chen'er, if your father were alive, the seat on my right would be his. Now that he is gone, and you have returned to the Ye family, this seat naturally belongs to you!"

Ye Zhongquan let Ye Chen sit on his right side directly, a move that surprised everyone.

Because according to the rules, when outside relatives come to pay their respects in a moment, the Old Master sits in the main seat, the eldest son sits in the lower left seat, the second son sits in the lower right seat, and the sons sit in order from left to right, before it's the turn of the grandchildren.

After the grandchildren sit, the daughters and granddaughters sit on the outermost side.

As for outsiders like grandsons-in-law and granddaughters-in-law, they are not allowed to participate, so Ye Zhangmin and Ye Changxiu's husbands and children didn't come.

Since the second son Ye Changying had passed away, according to the old rules, Ye Changying's seat should be postponed to the third son Ye Changyun.

During the last Ancestor Worship Ceremony twelve years ago, Ye Changyun did indeed replace Ye Changying's seat.

However, this time, Ye Zhongquan didn't give Ye Changyun a chance.

Ye Changkong felt that the Old Master was favoring Ye Chen too much, so he couldn't help but say: "Dad, Chen'er just returned, I understand you feel sorry for him, but these rules shouldn't be changed casually. Changying is gone, this seat should be taken by Changyun. Chen'er should still sit with his cousin Xiao Feng!"

Ye Changyun felt slightly more comfortable.

Seeing Ye Chen about to replace his seat, he was the most unhappy in his heart.

But he didn't dare to argue with the Old Master. Fortunately, his eldest brother stood up to say a fair word for himself.

Ye Zhongquan scoffed at Ye Changkong's words and said indifferently: "Rules are made by people! I am the head of the Ye family, I say how to arrange it, and that's how it will be arranged."

After speaking, he looked at Ye Chen and said unquestioningly: "Chen'er, you sit here!"

Ye Chen naturally had no opinion.

Now, he was not only going to sit beside Old Master Ye, but in the near future, he was also going to replace Old Master Ye and sit in the Old Master's main seat.

So, offending his eldest uncle and third uncle today was just a small appetizer.

One day, he would offend all the Ye family members.

But he didn't care. As the saying goes, if you want to wear the crown, you must bear its weight.

If he wanted the Ye family to submit, he had to offend all the Ye family members first.

Then, he would govern their stinky tempers one by one until they were obedient!

Only in this way could he sit firmly in the position of the head of the Ye family.

Thus, he smiled slightly and said without thinking: "Good! Then I'll sit here!"

After speaking, he sat down directly!

Having said that, he sat straight down with a thud!