Chapter 24

There was a dead silence in the room, Mr. Xue's face was ashen, he parted his lower lip, but he didn't know what to say.

Xue Qingshan blushed and cursed loudly: "Well, you are the third and fourth, your wings have grown hard, right? You are not afraid of making dad angry! And you, you brat, your hair hasn't even grown yet. Dare to stir up trouble! You have read all your books into the belly of a dog? You are everywhere, if it weren't for you, why would there be such a mess at home!"

He stretched out his hand and wanted to hit someone, Zhao'er pulled Xue Tingxiang away, and clamped the big palm he slapped.

"Uncle, talk is all about talking, why did you start? You are a scholar! What else is there because of the dog's house, why is it like this at home, don't you know in your own mind?"

Xue Qingshan is tall, plus he has put on weight over the years, making him look tall and strong. Standing in front of him with a small body like Zhao'er is undoubtedly holding back the car with his arms, but he is a big man, and he couldn't move away even after a few swings: "Let go! What are you, when is the Xue family going?" It's your turn to speak!"

Zhao'er sneered: "I don't count anything, just one thing, I never feel at ease spending other people's hard-earned money!"

"you……"

"Okay, shut up! Shut up!" Mr. Xue yelled almost hysterically, and he slapped the kang table loudly.

It was quiet down there, and Mr. Xue on the kang was as stiff as a rock.

It took him a while before he could move. He slowly took out shredded tobacco from the pouch, stuffed it into the pot and lit it.

Zhao'er threw away his hand, Xue Qingshan quickly retracted his hand. He sucked in the air-conditioning, opened his sleeves, and sure enough, there were a few red fingerprints on the lower part of his wrist.

Where did this damn girl get her strength from!

Mr. Xue took several deep puffs of cigarettes before he calmed down. He looked at these people in front of him with painful eyes. These people were all his descendants, but now they made such a fuss for money.

Whose fault is it?

Mr. Xue was a little stunned. He admits that the family favors the older one, but the older one is the one who established the family. Shanzi was smart when he was young, and he is good at reading, not to mention handsome, and has been praised since he was a child.

If a small family from a poor family wants to get ahead, they can only use the whole family's strength to provide for one person. That's how his master got out back then. Later, he passed the examination 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 while, Mr. Xue was in a state of confusion, and many pictures flashed through his mind.

There are the joy of the eldest son when he was just starting school, the pride of his passing the school entrance examination, the elder grandson showing superhuman intelligence, and he lamented that there are successors; Worried and unwilling faces, and many, many more...

And all of this was frozen again, and 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 share it with you!"

"Father!" Xue Qingshan didn't dare to answer.

Yang was also so panicked that she didn't know what to do. She looked at her man, and then at Mr. Xue. Seeing that Mr. Xue's appearance really didn't look like a joke, she suddenly made a move, and shouted hastily into the back room: "Mother, don't you care?!"

Mr. Xue suddenly felt an unbearable irritability, and shouted angrily: "Shut up! This family is still my boss!"

Immediately, everyone was afraid 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 room and the fourth room looked at each other, and went to see Xue Tingxiang again, but Xue Tingxiang didn't speak this time.

Afraid that things might get worse, Sun took a step forward and said, "Just like Gou'er said just now, divide the family's land. By the way, there are still houses, and each family belongs to each family."

Zhao'er suddenly said, "Then what about our house? Do we live in this place now, or do we move back to the old place?"

Let me talk about this, the house that Erfang lives in is not Erfang's.

Xue's house is similar to the houses in the country, generally in the form of a courtyard. The three rooms in the main room are where Mr. Xue, Mrs. Zhao and the little girl Xue Cuie live, and the other room is a granary, which is used to store grain and some more expensive things.

On the left and right are the east and west wing rooms, the stove room, the cowshed, the barn, and the pigsty, chicken coop and vegetable field are behind.

In the past, Xue's house was enough to live in, but since Xue Qingshan brothers got married and had children, Xue's house became tense.

At that time, the Xue family was relatively well-off. The eldest Xue Qingshan built a house when they got married, and the second son Xue Qinghuai also built a house when they got married. When the third child got married, the Xue family's money had already started to become tense, so they said to cover it slowly.

This slowdown has been slowed down for so many years.

When the second-bedroom couple left, Xue Qinghuai was still unmarried and lived in a room by himself.

After he got married and gave birth again, one room was no longer enough, so Mr. Xue decided to change the second room to the fourth room, and the two children of the second room moved into that room.

It's okay to live in this way, but since it's about sharing the house, it's natural to make it clear.

Hearing this, Sun's complexion immediately turned bad.

Yang twitched the corners of her mouth sarcastically, and the dog bit the dog. But before she put away her smile, Sun gritted her teeth and said, "Zhaoer, if you want this room, Fourth Aunt will return it to you."

Since then, Zhao'er's attitude towards the Sun family has changed somewhat.

Regardless of the fact that Mrs. Sun usually flatters the big house and likes to squeeze people from the other two houses, but when it comes to right and wrong, it is a bit unexpected today.

Zhao'er shook her head: "Fourth Aunt, I don't want to ask you to ask for a house. Since we are talking about the distribution of houses and land, we must make it clear. Your family has a large population, and we don't want your house, but the area behind the house Give us a piece of land."

The land behind the house was bought by Xue's family long ago. This kind of homestead in the village is not expensive, with a total of more than two acres, it only cost more than two taels of silver. The Xue family had long said they wanted to build a house, but every year they said they would build it, and every year they didn't have any money left, so the land was left empty to make a vegetable field.

"This—" Mrs. Sun hesitated, "How can a house and land be counted the same?"

"Fourth Aunt, I want the land, not the house. Anyway, the dog and I don't need it right now. When we have money, we can build it ourselves."

"That's fine, let's assume that your fourth aunt and fourth uncle have taken advantage of you. The land is supposed to belong to a family, and our fourth room will be given to the second room. When you start a house someday, your fourth uncle and I will be together. I'm going to help you all..."

"Give me another two taels of silver." Xue Qinghuai interrupted suddenly.

When Mrs. Sun heard the words, she was stunned for a moment, then gritted her teeth and said, "Okay, make up another two taels of silver, and I will give it to you when your fourth uncle and I have money."

Zhao'er hurriedly refused: "I don't want money, how can I ask for money from my fourth uncle and aunt."

"It has to be given to Fourth Uncle." Xue Qinghuai said firmly.

Having said that, it's not easy to push Zhao'er anymore, it just defaults.

The two families here are talking back and forth, while Mr. Xue's expression on the other side is frighteningly ugly.

Children can't help themselves, let's divide, early division, good morning!

"Is there anything else?"

"The cattle, pigs, and chickens at home..."

Xue Qinghuai gave Sun a hand and said, "Forget about these things."

"Without cattle, what should I do when farming?"

"There is only one cow at home..."

The kang table was slammed by Mr. Xue: "Have you finished talking? It's finished, now let me talk."

He supported the Kang table and sat up straight: "Your mother and I are not dead yet, Cui'e is getting married at the end of the year, and the dowry has not been paid yet. According to the old rules, your mother and I will follow the big house, but we two old things are still there. To eat and drink, so the family land is not divided into four, but five."

"The family has a total of 32 mu of land, which is divided into five shares. The family has six mu. The extra two mu are given to the second room. I learned the craft of a carpenter. He is well-known for his craftsmanship and is well-known in ten miles and eight villages. He also made a lot of money for the family. The second child contributed a lot to our family's acquisition of a few acres of land later.

"As for the six acres shared by your mother and I, we have it in our hands if we live. If we die, the four families share it equally. The cows in the family are considered common, and the two pigs are still young. They will be slaughtered and divided at the end of the year. The chickens are also divided in this 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 the rations are enough, they will be enough to eat this year’s harvest.”

It is said that they all want to separate the family, but when Mr. Xue talked about it as if he was settling accounts, everyone felt uncomfortable.

"But let me tell you something first, since you two are arguing about the separation of the family, your mother and I will not care about the future marriage of each house."

Mrs. Sun accompanied her with a smile: "Of course I can't let my parents take care of me anymore."

"As for Cui'e, when she gets married, you are brothers and sisters-in-law. If you have the heart, you can give me something. If you don't, it's fine. Your mother and I have six acres of land and don't need you to support me. When I get old, I can't do it anymore. Say it again."

At this time, the door curtain of the back room was suddenly lifted, and a person rushed out from inside.

It was the Zhao family who had been forbearing for a long time.

"Why don't you support them? Raising such a big son is for nothing? All of them are blood-sucking leeches, they are white-eyed wolves! Now it's time to settle the score with the old lady. Is it worthwhile for the old lady to give birth to you? Does it count if you grow up with shit and piss? Now that you have grown up, you have to separate from your family. If you divide the family's things and don't support your parents, the old mother can forgive you, and the ancestors can't forgive!"

Mrs. Zhao's words were so sharp that Xue Qingbai and his brothers bowed their heads in shame and did not dare to speak. There were all kinds of emotions in their hearts, which were mixed.

Xue Qingbai has always been the most filial among several sons, and also the most obedient to his parents. Hearing these words, I felt quite uncomfortable, and regretted how I opened my mouth.

"Mom, how about we..."

Zhou's voice sounded in vain, and interrupted him: "Mother, why don't you give it to me? Even if Dad says no, we will give it to you! We will give it to you according to the village's custom, even though we have separated, but We are still living together, and we will still be filial to you and Dad in the future. The reason we want to separate is not because we don’t want to be filial to Dad and you, but because our family is not rich. no?"

These words successfully silenced Xue Qingbai. Yes, it is natural to take care of parents, but no younger brother takes care of the elder brother's family.

"To put it bluntly, you guys think that the boss spends too much money!" Mrs. Zhao sneered.

The few people below said nothing, isn't this obvious, and they need to say it clearly.

Mrs. Zhao smiled even colder: "Okay, you have the ability, you want to live on your own. You think the old man is spending money from the family, so if the old man has the ability in the future, you must not post it in a shameless manner. !"

Zhao's words made everyone embarrassed.

Yang Shi said hypocritically at the side: "We have no talent for being talented. Uncles and aunts look down on us, so how can we come to gain our favor in the future..."

After all the words have been said, if you don't say a word, you will be begging for nothing and want to get others' money.

Zhao'er sneered and said, "Auntie, don't worry, even if the dog and I are poor enough to beg for food, we won't come to your house to beg."

Zhou also said: "Sister-in-law, don't worry, we know what our fate is. We will be muddy legs thrown in the ground all our lives, and we can't change it! If you don't want to get rich, you don't have that fate to get rich."

Seeing this, Sun naturally couldn't keep silent anymore. To put it bluntly, now Sanfang is a grasshopper on the same rope, no matter how snobbish she is, she has no face to pretend to be dead here.

She was about to say something when a loud bang sounded in vain.

It was Mr. Xue who lifted the Kang table.