C65 persuasion (2/2)
”A child's heart!” Fang Weicheng looked at Yu's and said.
”Yes, I am a child. People say that this old man is like a child. This child treats whoever is good to her, and so am I. In these past few days, you have always seen how embroidery treats us. What about the others? They just saved up some money in private, and now they want to buy things for us two old bastards to eat? ”
What Yu's said sounded vulgar, but it was reasonable. He was not wrong, usually there were some good stuff, they would hide it for these children to eat, how would they think of it as Yu's, it was basically impossible to avoid.
”Alright, then you can sit here, Ru Xiu. You should also listen to what I have to say and see if what I say makes sense or not.” As Fang Weicheng said this, he made Fang Ruxiu sit down.
Then, she dragged her cheeks with her hands as she listened to the two elders. From their words, Fang Ruxiu finally understood why Fang Weicheng didn't want to split up his family today, but still said the words ”branch family”.
It turned out not long ago he heard from someone that in a village not far from Xiaofang, there was a family whose eldest son quarreled with his youngest son over some trivial matters, and after that it developed into a fight. The eldest son had a large number of children in his family, so naturally he won. Now, only the eldest son, his parents and a large family lived in the cave at the head of the village without a place to stay.
Although his family was poor, his family members still maintained their dignity. He lived in the Fang Family's best legal house, other than when Spring and Autumn was busy, he did not need to do any other work. He would take his pipe around, walk around, and visit the fields and vegetables in his house. He would occasionally chat with the elderly people in the village, and together with Yu's, he would tend to the vegetables in the backyard.
If he lived in a cave, then he would rather live in the Fang family. Moreover, if it was according to what Fang Ruxiu said, then there really would be no harm in splitting up the family. After all, they were big branches of trees! After the branches, the leaves would become more luxuriant.
After thinking all of this through, he actually didn't want to wait until the afternoon. He ordered Fang Ru to go and call back all the people who were at home, then ordered the people who had come back to look for someone who hadn't returned in time, then ordered a few of his grandsons to invite the village's oldest daughter and clan leader, as well as a few other elderly people.
After that, the Yu's ordered the rest of the wives to clean up the place. After that, he arranged the stools and went to make tea and wash the cups.
Not long later, Fang Changgui and Fang Changfu who were working outside returned. Fang Changgeng and Fang Changheng had always been at home, and after that, the entire family was gathered.
The Yu's and Fang Weicheng had already moved their stools and sat in front. When Fang Weicheng saw that everyone had arrived, he let out a sigh and said, ”Everyone, sit down.”
Although everyone sat down, they were still a little nervous. They did not understand why Fang Weicheng suddenly said he wanted to gather them. Although they guessed that it was because of the branch families, they were still a little worried.
The brothers talked nonstop, but when they saw Fang Weicheng's dark face, no one dared to ask anything.
”Little sister, why has grandpa called us here?” At that time, Fang Yizheng was cutting firewood with Fang Yixue, but he was suddenly called down by Fang Yiyong, saying that his grandfather had urgent business with them and told them to come immediately, so they immediately dragged the firewood down the mountain.
Hearing Fang Yizheng's question, the other people all moved their heads over, wanting to hear what Fang Ru Xiu had said.
Fang Ruxiu was too lazy to keep them in suspense, so she softly said, ”Grandfather called you here to discuss matters regarding the branch family.”
”The branch family?” After everyone heard this, they were extremely surprised. Yeats asked: Didn't you guys say we would talk about the branch families tomorrow? I thought that the lordmaster was lying at the time, but who would've thought that it's actually true? ”
”Yeah.” Fang Ruzhu nodded and said, ”When our lord speaks, he is always pinning one mouthful of saliva after another. How can he be lying?”
Otherwise, Fang Weicheng would not necessarily split up his family on the second day. After all, when this person said it at that time, it was because of his anger that caused him to say it out loud. When he thought about it clearly on the second day, how could he possibly be willing to split up his family?
Therefore, Fang Ruxiu went over to provoke him and told him about the benefits of the branch family. In reality, the benefits of the branch family were very great. In the Heavenly Court, when the revolutionary war had just won, what was used was also the words of the socialist collective. In the end, however, it had fostered everyone's inertia, and after the reform and opening up to the outside world, the Heavenly Court had truly developed once again.