The Hou Family has also continued the tradition of having only one male heir into the third generation. Hou Shulian is the current head of the Hou Family. Given that the Hou Family has always had few descendants, he married and had children early. His son, Hou Ziwang, did the same, but he only had Hou Ling.
Therefore, at fifteen, Hou Ling was still young, and Patriarch Hou hadn't even reached fifty; they were quite young.
Hou Shulian was a man of settled calculations. However, since circumstances weren't as strong as others and they only had one seedling at home, the family had to yield and make concessions when pressured by the Lu Family. His son was an honest man who didn't amount to much, but his grandson, Hou Ling, was different from the usual Hou Family mold—extremely intelligent.