When Gong Zhuoliang and Qiao Yingze arrived at the old lady's room, they found that Master Qiao, Mrs. Qiao and Qiao Yingxuan had already arrived, and even Qiao Yuanyin and Qiao Yingzi, who were concubines, were brought in and sat beside them with confused faces.
The old lady was sitting majestically on the main seat, with no expression of joy or anger on her cold face, while Master Qiao was still indifferent, with a hint of impatience in his expression, and although Mrs. Qiao was sitting gracefully on the side He made a sound, but his eyes looked a little suspicious, and his eyes were aimed at the old lady from time to time. As for the person involved, Qiao Yingxuan sat silently in his seat, only his slightly stiff figure revealed the unrest in his heart.
Gong Zhuoliang and Qiao Yingze looked at each other, greeted the elders in a soft voice, and after being greeted by the brothers and sisters, they also sat silently in their seats, and the atmosphere in the room condensed for a while.
Wen Shu has always been thoughtful, and has already inquired about the news from the maid who came to tell the story from the old lady's courtyard, so on the way here, Gong Zhuoliang and Qiao Yingze heard her tell the general story. After giving birth, the maids reported the news to Mrs. Qiao, but Mrs. Qiao didn't pay much attention to it. She probably wanted to tell the old lady after the child was born, so she didn't report it to the old lady. Instead, she sent someone to find the midwife. serve.
As for the old lady, she heard the news after dinner, so she sent someone to Qiao Yingxuan's yard to watch, and only when the midwife said that the birth was coming soon, did she gather everyone together. As for what she was going to do , the maids will not know.
Others don't know, but Qiao Yingze and Gong Zhuoliang know it well in their hearts. The old lady wants to formally let them live alone after the child is born, and the gender of the child also determines whether they can be married. It's justifiable to leave.
If it's a boy, they will be 'forced away' in the name of adoption. If it's a girl, then they can be raised under Qiao Yingxuan's name. Naturally, there is no such thing as adoption, so their departure must be done by Qiao Yingze. The reason is that it is difficult to bear heavy responsibilities due to illness and weakness.
In this way, the husband and wife's position will be very passive. In terms of the family property that can be distributed, the difference must be more than 30,000 taels of silver... This is after Gong Zhuoliang read the general account books of the Qiao family at the old lady. the conclusion.
Gong Zhuoliang has specially studied the family separation system of this dynasty. According to the normal family separation method, the ancestral home and ancestral land are not divided among the heirs, those who have children are not divided into married women, and the rest of the public property is set aside for unmarried children to marry with silver. , and then equally divided into N+1 shares, two shares for the eldest son, and one share for the rest regardless of the eldest son.
Besides, the Qiao family, Mr. Qiao has been an official for twenty years, and most of them are parents' officials from outsiders. In the past three years, the magistrate still has 100,000 snowflakes in silver. , The family property accumulated in the past twenty years is also rich enough.
Among Gongzhong's properties, the house they live in now is worth more than 10,000 taels of silver. This is because the housing prices in Bocheng are relatively moderate.
Years later, when the rents and filial piety of all Zhuangzi shops have been paid, and the public wealth is increasing, according to Gong Zhuoliang's calculations, not to mention the ancestral home, ancestral field and private properties under the names of the members, the public property Excluding the more than 10,000 taels of marriage silver from the younger brothers and sisters, the total amount that can be divided must be more than 80,000 taels.
The Qiao family has only three sons now, so the public property has to be divided into four parts. Then Qiao Yingze would get more than 40,000 if he took two shares, which is equivalent to more than 20 million RMB. Then according to the rules, he can only get half of the 10,000 taels. If the family is strict, he may not even give half of it.
Although Gong Zhuoliang disdained to covet the tens of thousands of taels of money from Qiao's family, he didn't want to give the money to Mrs. Qiao for nothing, her stepmother was worse than that, and if his husband had no money, he might have to think about it again in the future. He felt that he was useless, so Gong Zhuoliang kept pretending to be wronged in front of the old lady during this time. He believed that with the old lady's love for Qiao Yingze, she would not let her precious grandson suffer!
Before waiting for half an hour, Xiangshu, who was taking over from Zhiqi by the old lady's side, came back with a baby in her arms, accompanied by a group of maids, and some of the maids who followed her were by Qiao Yingxuan's side, and by Mrs. Qiao's side, They all looked a little uneasy, who made the shelf of fragrant books so big, they picked up the children and carried them away. They were afraid of taking responsibility, so most of them followed, but they could enter the old lady's room casually, so they had to be careful with them all. stood outside the door.
"Back to the old lady, she is a young master."
Xiangshu carried the crying child into the house, bowed to the old lady, and saw the old lady's wink, and quickly bowed away from Qiao Yingxuan who came to greet him and wanted to hold the child, and sent the child to Gong Zhuoliang's hands superior.
"grandmother?"
Appropriately showing his surprise and bewilderment, Gong Zhuoliang looked at the old lady holding the newly born little guy for help.
Compared to his pretense, Qiao Yingze was really stung by the child's crying. He stared at this little thing with closed eyes and howling, he hesitated and reached out to pat it. After finding it was useless, he didn't know what to do.
"grandmother?"
At the same time, Qiao Yingxuan was the one who asked in surprise. Although he had promised his mother to send the child away and find a good family to raise him, he was also mentally prepared to never see the child again, but when things came to an end But I didn't expect such a scene. Isn't the grandmother very opposed to adopting the child to the elder brother
"Daughter-in-law, didn't you always want Xuan'er to take over the family, and you also wanted to adopt this child to Ze'er's room? Because of the restlessness in the house all day long, it's useless to make jokes for people, instead of waiting If you broke up this family, why don't I fulfill your wish today, while my old woman is still here, to separate this family, and only ask for the peace and harmony of my Qiao family!"
Hearing that Xiangshu said it was a boy, the old lady also secretly heaved a sigh of relief, her eyes looked around all the people present complicatedly, and finally landed on Mrs. Qiao, and she spoke in a stern tone.
The old lady was planning for today by letting go or even inducing those rumors before. As Gong Zhuoliang thought, the old lady who loves Qiao Yingze will definitely not damage his reputation. It should be recited by someone else, so naturally it should be the unkind and unvirtuous Mrs. Qiao.
"Mother-in-law? Daughter-in-law, how dare daughter-in-law do this! Mother-in-law, you are going to embarrass your daughter-in-law to death, this family is absolutely wrong!"
Mrs. Qiao felt a chill in her heart when she heard the old lady's words, and she knelt down in panic, her heart was in a mess, and following her movements, several stunned juniors They all knelt down in fear.
Mrs. Qiao didn't understand why the old lady would have the idea of separating the family for no reason. If such a crime fell on her, what face would she have to go out and meet people!
"Mother, what's the point of raising the family so well? There's nothing wrong with what your son and daughter-in-law are doing. Just take the lesson and don't let yourself get angry."
The only one who was still sitting, Master Qiao, also changed his face at this time, stood up and bowed to the old lady.
Although he was reluctant to lean towards her because of the strict management of the old lady since he was a child, and he was more in awe of this biological mother than being close to her, but he also knew that he was able to live today because of her old man, and it was precisely because of the support of the old lady that he now That's why he spends the whole day drinking and drinking and doesn't have to manage the family, but now he disagrees with the separation of the family, not to mention whether it's good or bad to spread the family separation, just say that he, the old man, is still there. Isn't it a curse for the son to divide the family
"As long as you parents can cherish Ze'er a little bit, why should my old woman give up her face to do this! How have you treated Ze'er all these years, you feel your conscience and ask yourself whether you are ashamed! What? Don't even talk about it, this matter is settled like this, Xiangshu, get the account book! Ze'er, you are weak and don't kneel, girl Yan, help your husband get up."
Speaking of this, everyone can see that the old lady has really made up her mind, and everyone can't speak anymore. And the old lady was in such a hurry to settle the matter so quickly, there was actually another reason besides the birth of the pretexted child.
It turned out that the old lady preferred the two good concubines who stopped the abortion pills, and one of them was just diagnosed yesterday and she was happy. She still kept this matter from being known, otherwise she would have to wait until the child was born to know the sex. If it is a boy, Qiao Yingze's share will be divided again, and the family will tell the matter after the division is over, then the child will be divided from the rest of the family's property in the future, and share with Qiao Yingze It doesn't matter, this is also a lesson the old lady taught Mrs. Qiao.
"Grandma..."
Madam Qiao looked at the stacks of account books that Xiangshu took out from the box next to her, and she knew that the old lady had planned it for a long time. She was afraid that the rumors that spread outside the year ago were all her own intentions, and she was so stupid. In her way, she handed over the keys to the public house for so long in vain, and let her touch the real estate!
Mrs. Qiao's face turned green with regret. If she had known that the old lady had plans to let Qiao Yingze's house go out, she should have held on to the key and not let go. By then, how many things she had concealed would not be all for herself. Xuan'er's!
"Zhuo Zhuo."
Standing up with Gong Zhuoliang, Qiao Yingze saw him frowned at the child crying, and then saw that he was about to put the baby's little hand into the child's own mouth, and hurriedly went over to stop his "harmful" behavior, and whispered to the maid Take it out to the nanny, and tell her to take it in quickly after feeding the baby.
After Qiao Yingze finished giving these instructions, seeing Gong Zhuoliang who was looking at him with an innocent expression, he knew that he was deliberately teasing him to divert his attention, so Qiao Yingze felt better because of the scene in front of him. Under the cover of his sleeves, he held Gong Zhuoliang's hand.
"Mother-in-law, as juniors, we naturally can't go against your decision. So what you mean is that only Ze'er and his wife should be separated, and the rest should stay at home, and then let Xuan'er take over the family?"
The Qiao family was originally separated from the big family, so the old lady is the elder with the highest status in the family. When she said that she wanted to separate the family, no one objected, so Mrs. Qiao quickly moved her mind I went to other aspects, anyway, I will lose my face, and now this is only a small branch, so I have to determine the identity of this heir for my precious son!
According to the laws of this dynasty, the so-called family divisions also have different sizes. The big one is to move the ancestral graves out of Shanli, and the genealogy has been completely reorganized. This is what the old lady did when she separated from her family. Now The tomb of Mrs. Qiao was built by them in Mr. Qiao's hometown.
As for Qiao Yingze and his current family, it is a small family. They are separated but still belong to the same family and still share the same family tree. In this way, it is equivalent to Qiao Yingxuan inheriting the position of patriarch. Although Qiao Yingze is the elder brother, But his position in the family ranks second, second only to Qiao Yingxuan.
"Yes, from now on, this family will be inherited by Xuan'er."
Things have come to this point today, the old lady is really disheartened, since her precious eldest grandson can't support the family, then what's the point of her continuing to fight
It's better to take advantage of this old bone to move, and train Xuan'er for a few years, don't let him be successful, don't become a person like his parents, she will have face to see her husband even if she goes.
With the old lady's permission, Mrs. Qiao finally felt more at ease. She thought that if you plotted against me like this, you just gave your precious grandson an extra ten thousand or twenty thousand taels of silver, but you lost the inheritance rights of the Qiao family. It's like having the golden egg but losing the hen that lays the golden egg...
Thinking about it this way, Mrs. Qiao suddenly felt that something was wrong. The old woman had been arguing with her for so many years, wasn't it just to let Qiao Yingze's house inherit the family property? Now why did he suddenly give up again, and put shit on my head like this... Could it be that there is something wrong with Qiao Yingze and his wife
Thinking of this, Mrs. Qiao couldn't help turning her eyes to Qiao Yingze and Gong Zhuoliang who were standing next to each other. She felt more and more that they were the main reason for the separation of the family, and she was the one who took the blame for them!
But Mrs. Qiao thought about it again, and the current development was what she wanted to see the most. This family had indeed fallen into her hands... Take advantage!
With the old lady's arbitrariness, Mrs. Qiao didn't make any troubles. Even if Master Qiao didn't want to, he couldn't change anything. As for the younger ones, they didn't have the right to speak, so the separation of the family was carried out very quickly. down.
The old lady has already divided the property of the business clearly. Excluding the two grandsons and one granddaughter's marriage silver of 12,000 li, the business still has a total of more than 86,000 taels of property to divide. The house belonged to Qiao Yingxuan, and other things were written down on paper for the three brothers to draw lots.
In the end, Qiao Yingze got a total of more than 43,000 taels of family property, and decided to officially move out on the sixth day of February, a good day for moving. He was busy until Haishi (21-23 o'clock), when everyone dispersed.
Not to mention how the old lady, Mrs. Qiao and Master Qiao all tossed and turned and couldn't sleep at night, Gong Zhuoliang and Qiao Yingze couldn't calm down for a long time after returning to the house... They can finally leave the Qiao's house justifiably!
"Sir, it's getting late, go to bed early."
Throwing Qiao Yingze on the bed and kissing several times, although Gong Zhuoliang was curious about what method Qiao Yingze used to persuade the old lady, he was not in a hurry at this moment. It's hard to get back after being destroyed, anyway, there is not enough time for romance tonight.
"Wait, Zhuo Zhuo, I'm a little worried about Ying Xuan, let him come over to see the child, I want to talk to him too."
Thinking of Qiao Yingxuan's silent and empty expression tonight, Qiao Yingze couldn't let it go, he was not as lucky as himself to have Zhuo Zhuo's company, but he didn't even have anyone around him who could speak his mind, so many things happened, He must have felt extremely uncomfortable.
"That's fine, I won't accompany you to see him, you two brothers can talk to each other when you are alone, so you can untie him."
Gong Zhuoliang also agreed when he heard the words, communication at this time is very important, the two brothers are not greedy for money, because it is not worth it if there is a gap between the families.
And just when Qiao Yingze sent a maid to call Qiao Yingxuan, the exhausted Qiao Yingxuan had just left Mrs. Qiao's place.
Returning to his own yard with heavy steps, Qiao Yingxuan remembered that he was going to send Jingshu away, so he casually asked the servant girl how Jingshu was, but the answer he got was that the person was gone...