Chapter 24 (2/2)

“This–” Mrs. Sun said hesitantly, “How can the house and the land be the same?”

“The fourth aunt, I need land, but I don’t need a house. Anyway, Gou’er and I don’t need it now. We will build house when we have money in the future.”

“That is fine, you can think that the fourth aunt and fourth uncle are taking advantage of you, the land belongs to every small family logically. In that case, we will give the land to you. When you built the house, we will also help you… ”

“We will give another two silvers,” Xue Qinghuai suddenly said.

After hearing this, Mrs. Sun froze for a moment, then immediately gritted her teeth and said, “Okay, two more silvers, until your uncle and I have the money in hand to make up for you.”

Zhao’er refused to say, “No, we can’t take your money.”

“That’s what we should give. You should do as I say,” XueQinghuai insisted.

In this way, it’s not easy to refuse any more. She had to agree.

They were talking lively. But Mr. Xue’s face was frightening.

You can’t control children all the time. It’s better to divide them early!

“Is there anything else?”

“The cattle, pigs and chickens in the family…”

Xue Qinghuai took Mrs. Sun’s hand and said, “No more questions.”

“No cattle, what can we do when farming?”

“The whole family only has one cattle… ”

The bed table was clapped with a thud by Mr. Xue. He said, “Are you finished? That’s it. Now It’s my turn.”

He held up the bed table and sat up straightly, “Your mother and I are not dead yet. Cuie will be married at the end of the year, and the dowry has not yet been arranged. According to the tradition, your mother and I are going to live with the eldest family, but we two still need to eat and drink, so the land at home is not divided into four parts, but five parts.”

“There are thirty-two acres of land in the family, divided into five parts. Each family has six acres of land, and the extra two acres is for Zhao’er and Tingxiang. The second brother and the eldest brother are close to each other on age. The second brother went to work for his family early. Later, he learned the craftsmanship of a carpenter. He has a good craftsmanship. He was famous in nearby areas, and he also made a lot of money for our family. The second brother made great efforts in the several acres of land that we bought later.

“As for the six acres that your mother and I own, as long as we don’t die, it’s ours. If we die, we will share them equally among the four families. The cattle in the family is considered public. The two pigs are still young, and we can kill them and share the meat at the end of the year. Chickens are also divided in this way. If you want to raise them together, you can raise them together. If you don’t want to put them together, you can raise them separately. As for the rations, you will have enough to eat until this year’s harvest.”

Although they all want to separate family, when Mr. Xue talked about it like an accountant, everyone felt uncomfortable.

“But there is an important point, since you are quarreling to separate family, your mother and I don’t care about the marriage between each house.”

Mrs. Sun smiled and said, “It is sure that we can’t let father and mother again manage.”

“As for Cuie, when she is married, as the brothers and sisters-in-law, you can give some gifts if you wanted to, but not if you don’t want to. Your mother and I don’t need your support for the six acres of land we have. We’ll talk about it when we’re too old to do anything.”

At this time, the curtain of the inner room was suddenly lifted and a person rushed out of it.

It is Zhao family who has been bearing for a long time.

“Why don’t we need them to support us? Is it in vain to raise such big sons? All of you are bloodsucking leeches. You are all ungrateful people! Now how dare you to make a account with me? How do you repay for your mother gave birth to you? Do you think it’s OK for me to bring up all of you? Now you are grown up and want to separate family. And you don’t want to support your father and me. Even if I can forgive you, but the ancestors can’t.

Mrs. Zhao’s words are so sharp that Xue Qingbai and his brother look down in shame and dare not talk. And their feelings are complex.

Xue Qingbai has always been the most filial and obedient in the Xue family. Hearing these words, his heart was quite upset, and he regretted to say those words.

Mrs. Zhou said, “Mom, how about we… ”

Zhou’s voice interrupted him, “Mom, we won’t do that. Even if dad says no, we will still foster you and dad! we will do by the village’s conventions. Although we have separated family, we still live together and will be filial to you and dad in the future. The reason why we want to separate our family is not that we don’t want to be filial to father and you, but that our family is not rich. It’s a difficulty of who is more important in the family, isn’t it?”

These words made Xue Qingbai be silent. Yes, it ’s reasonable to support father and mother, but there is no younger brother to support the elder brother and his family.

“To put it bluntly, all of you care that eldest brother spend too much money!” Mrs. Zhao sneered.

These people didn’t speak again. And it’s clear.

Mrs. Zhao’s smile was even colder, “Yes, you have the ability, you want to live by yourself. You think the eldest people have spent their family money, then if they have the ability in the future, you must not regret for your behaviors and want to get some benefits from them!”

Mrs. Zhao’s words embarrassed everyone.

Mrs. Yang said in a pretentious way, “Juncai has no talent or ability, neither the uncles nor the aunts look down on us, how can they get benefits from us in the future …”

Everything is said like this. If they still don’t say anything, and they will be regarded as beggars who have no dignity.

Zhao’er sneered, “Don’t worry, auntie, even if Gou’er and I are too poor to beg for food, we won’t go to your house to beg.”

Mrs. Zhou also said, “The eldest sister-in-law, you can rest assured that we know what our life is. We can’t change the the identity of farmer for the whole lifetime! We don’t want to be successful and rich, ad we don’t have that fate.”

Seeing this, Mrs. Suns couldn’t be silent. To put it bluntly, now the third sister-in-law had problem, no matter how snobbish she is, she has no face to be silent at this time.

What she was about to say, there was a loud noise.

It was Mr. Xue who lifted the bed table.