There was a dead silence in the room, and Mr. Xue's face was ashen, and he opened his lower lip, but he didn't know what to say.
Xue Qingshan blushed and scolded: "Well, you are the third and fourth, your wings are growing hard, right? You are not afraid of making your father angry! And you, you stinky boy, you have not grown all your hair, so Dare to make trouble! All your books have been read into the belly of a dog? You are everywhere, if it weren't for you, why would the family be so troubled!"
He stretched out his hand to hit someone, and Zhao'er pulled Xue Tingxiang away and clamped his big palm.
"Uncle, talk to talk, how to start, you are a scholar! What's the reason for the trouble at home because of the dog, why is it so trouble at home, don't you know it?"
Xue Qingshan is tall, and in addition to having grown a little over the years, he looks tall and strong. Standing in front of him with a small body like Zhao'er is undoubtedly a man's arm blocking the car, but he is a big man, and he can't even pull away after a few swings: "Let go! What are you, when is the Xue family? It's your turn to speak!"
Zhao'er sneered: "I don't count anything, and I never feel comfortable spending other people's hard-earned money!"
"you… "
"Okay, shut up for me! Shut up!" Mr. Xue drank hysterically, and the kang table banged loudly.
It was quiet below, and Mr. Xue on the kang was as stiff as a stone.
After a long while, he started to move, and very slowly he took out the cut tobacco from the cigarette bag, stuffed it into the cigarette pot and lit it.
Zhao'er threw away his hand, and Xue Qingshan quickly retracted his hand. He sucked in the cold air and opened his sleeves. Sure enough, there were a few red fingerprints on the underside of his wrist.
Where did this bitch's strength come from!
Mr. Xue took several puffs of cigarettes before he calmed down. He looked at these people in front of him with a painful look. These people are his children and grandchildren, but now they are making trouble for money.
Whose fault is it
Mr. Xue was a little surprised. He admits that the family is a bit biased towards the big house, but the big house is the door of the family. Shanzi is smart and good at reading, not to mention his talent. He has been praised since he was a child.
If a humble family wants to stand out, they can only do their best to provide for one person. That's how his grandfather came out back then. Later, he passed the exam as a scholar and benefited the entire Xue family. He always felt that he was right, but now he is not so sure.
For a time, Mr. Xue was in a state of confusion, and many pictures flashed through his mind.
There is the joy of the eldest when he first entered school, the pride of his being a child in the examination, the eldest grandson showing superhuman intelligence, and he laments the successors; Worried and unwilling faces, there are many, many more...
And all of this, once again fixed, became the following faces with different thoughts.
Mr. Xue opened his mouth again, and he heard a hoarse and dry voice: "Okay, if you want to share, I will give it to you!"
"Father!" Xue Qingshan did not dare to believe.
Mr. Yang was so panicked that he didn't know what to do, so he looked at his man, and then went to see Mr. Xue. Seeing Mr. Xue's appearance really didn't seem like a joke, she suddenly moved and shouted into the inner room, "Mother, don't you care?!"
Mr. Xue suddenly felt a burst of unbearable irritability, and shouted angrily: "Shut up for me! This family is still in charge of the old man!"
Immediately, no one dared to make a sound, and the door curtain that was lifted inside was lowered again.
"Tell me, how do you want to divide?"
The people in the third and fourth rooms looked at each other, and then went to see Xue Tingxiang, but this time Xue Tingxiang didn't speak.
Afraid that things would go wrong again, Mrs Sun stepped forward and said, "Just as Gou'er said just now, divide the land in the family. By the way, there are houses, and each family belongs to each family."
Zhao'er suddenly said, "What about our house? Do we live in the current one, or move back to the old one?"
Speaking of this, it is necessary to say that the house where the second room lives now is not the second room.
The Xue family's house is similar to the house in the countryside, generally in the form of a triple courtyard. The three rooms in the main room are lived by Mr. Xue, Mrs. Zhao and his little daughter Xue Cui'e, and the other room is the granary, which is used to store food and some more valuable things.
On the left and right are the east and west wing rooms, the stove room, the cowshed, the warehouse, the pigsty, the chicken coop and the vegetable field.
In the past, the Xue family's house was enough to live in, but after several Xue Qingshan brothers got married and each gave birth to a child, the Xue family's house became tense.
At that time, the Xue family was relatively wealthy. The eldest Xue Qingshan built a house when they got married, and the second Xue Qinghuai also built it when they got married. By the time the third child got married, the Xue family's money had already begun to get nervous, so they said that they would cover it slowly.
This slowdown has been slowing down for so many years.
At that time, when the couple left, Xue Qinghuai hadn't married yet and lived in a house by himself.
After he got married, he gave birth to hairy eggs again, and one room was no longer enough, so Mr. Xue took the initiative to change the second-bedroom house to the fourth-bedroom, and the two children of the second-bedroom moved into that room.
It is possible to live in such a change, but since it is involved in dividing the house, it is natural to make it clear.
Hearing this, Sun shi's face immediately turned bad.
Mr. Yang sneered at the corner of his mouth, and the dog bit the dog's hair. But before she could put away her smile, she saw Mrs. Sun gritted her teeth and said, "Zhao'er, if you want this room, the fourth aunt will give it back to you."
Since then, Zhao'er has changed somewhat towards Sun.
Don't look at the fact that Mr. Sun usually compliments the big house and likes to run against the people in the other two houses, but when it comes to right and wrong, today is also a little unexpected.
Zhao'er shook his head: "Fourth aunt, I don't want to care about your house. Since we talk about dividing the house and land, we must make it clear. Your family has a large population, and we don't want your house, but the one behind the house. Give us a piece of land."
The land behind the house was purchased by the Xue family a long time ago. This kind of homestead in the village is not expensive, with a total of more than two acres, and it cost more than two taels of silver. The Xue family had long said that they would build a house, but Nian Nian said that they would build a house, but there was no money left in their hands, so the land was empty and there was a vegetable plot.
"This—" Mr. Sun hesitated: "How can a house and land be the same?"
"Fourth aunt, I want the land, not the house. Anyway, the dog and I can't use it now. We can build it ourselves when we have the money."
"That's alright, just let the fourth aunt and uncle take advantage of you, the land is supposed to belong to the whole family, and the fourth room will be given to the second room. When you build a house one day, your fourth uncle and I will be together. to help you all…”
"Give me another two taels of silver." Xue Qinghuai suddenly interrupted.
Hearing this, Mr. Sun was stunned for a moment, and then he gritted his teeth and said, "Okay, I'll make up two taels of silver, and I'll make it up to you when your fourth uncle and I have money in our hands."
Zhao'er hurriedly refused: "If you don't want money, how can you ask for money from the fourth uncle and aunt."
"This must be given. Listen to Fourth Uncle." Xue Qinghuai said firmly.
Having said that, it's not easy to push Zhao'er any further, it's just the default.
The two families here are talking to me, but Mr. Xue's face over there is ugly and scary.
It's hard to help my child, divide it, divide it early, good morning!
"Is there anything else?"
"The cattle, pigs, chickens and other livestock at home..."
Xue Qinghuai grabbed Sun's hand and said, "Forget these things."
"Without cows, what should I do when farming?"
"There is only one cow at home..."
The kang table was slammed by Mr. Xue: "Are you finished? Now I'll tell you."
He propped up the kang table and sat up straighter: "Your mother and I are not dead yet, Cui'e is married at the end of the year, and the dowry has not yet been purchased. According to the old rules, your mother and I are going to follow the big house, but our two old people still To eat and drink, the land in the house is not divided into four parts, but five parts."
"The family has a total of 32 acres of land, divided into five shares. The family has six acres, and the extra two acres are used for the second room. The second and the eldest are close in age. He acquired the craftsmanship of a carpenter. His craftsmanship is good, and he is famous in eight villages in ten miles and eight villages.
"As for the six acres shared by your mother and I, we will be in our hands before we die. If we die, we will share it among the four families. The cattle in the family are shared, and the two pigs are still young, so they will be killed at the end of the year. Chickens are also divided in the same way. If you want to keep them together, you can raise them together. If you don’t want to keep them together, you can raise them separately. If you have enough food rations, you will have enough to eat this year’s harvest.”
It is said that they all want to split up the family, but when Mr. Xue talks about this as if he were settling accounts, everyone feels uncomfortable.
"But let's talk about it first, since you are arguing about splitting up the family, your mother and I will not care about the marriage in the future."
Sun's accompaniment smiled: "Naturally, I can't let my parents take care of it anymore."
"As for Cui'e, when she gets married, you will be brothers and sisters-in-law. If you have the heart, you can add some more. If you don't, it's fine. If your mother and I have these six acres of land, I don't need any support from you. Say it again."
At this time, the door curtain of the inner room was suddenly lifted, and a person rushed out from inside.
It is the Zhao family who has endured for a long time.
"Why don't you support him? Raising such an old son is for nothing? All of them are blood-sucking leeches, and they are white-eyed wolves! Now I have to settle the account with the old lady. Is the account of the one that the old lady gave birth to you? Does it count for you to grow up with shit and piss? Now that you are grown up, you have to separate your family from your family, and you will not support your parents if you divide the family’s belongings. If your mother can spare you, neither will your ancestors!”
Zhao's words were so sharp that the two Xue Qingbai brothers bowed their heads in shame and did not dare to speak, with all kinds of emotions churning in their hearts.
Xue Qingbai has always been the most filial of the sons and the most obedient to his parents. Hearing these words, my heart is quite uncomfortable, and I regret very much why I opened this mouth.
"Mother, why don't we..."
Zhou Shi's voice sounded in vain and interrupted him: "Mother, why don't you give it, even if Dad says no, we will give it! Whatever is the custom in the village, we will give it, don't look at our split, but We are still living together, and we will still be filial to you and father in the future. The reason why we want to split up is not because we don’t want to be filial to father and you, but because the family is not rich, and it is a problem who is close to who is not close. You say yes no?"
These words successfully made Xue Qingbai stop. Yes, it is natural to support parents, but there is no younger brother to support the elder brother's family.
"To put it bluntly, you guys just think that the old people spend too much money!" Zhao Shi sneered.
The following people didn't say anything. Isn't this obvious
Zhao Shi smiled even colder: "Okay, you have the ability, you want to live by yourself. You think that the old people are spending money on the family, then if the old people have the ability in the future, you must not come up and post it shamelessly. !"
Zhao's words embarrassed everyone.
Yang Shi pretended to be on the side: "We are handsome and have no ability. Uncles and aunts don't look down on us. How can they come to our light in the future..."
The words have been said like this, and if you don't say a word, you will be dead begging and wanting to get rid of others.
Zhao'er sneered and said, "Don't worry, auntie, even if the dog and I are too poor to beg for food, we won't come to your house to beg."
Mrs. Zhou also said, "Don't worry, Sister-in-law, we know what kind of life we have. We'll be the muddy legs thrown in the soil all our lives, and we can't change it! If you don't want to be prosperous, you don't have that kind of life."
Seeing this, Sun shi naturally couldn't be silent any longer. To put it bluntly, now Sanfang is a grasshopper on a rope, no matter how snobbish she is, she has no face to die at this time.
She was about to say something when a loud bang sounded in vain.
But it was Mr. Xue who lifted the kang table.