translation.en: Family members had bribed officials to interrupt the hereditary transfer of land by having the brothers declared dead, allowing them to inherit their father's share of the ancestral farmland.
translation.zh: 他们的亲戚贿赂当地官员 签署了这三兄弟的死亡声明， 由此中断三兄弟的土地继承程序 自己继承了这些土地。 这是他们的祖先留下的，属于三兄弟的父亲的土地。