Chapter 572: Resentment
When Xu got off the carriage in the front yard of the Chengenhou Mansion, he only felt that his hands and feet were weak, his eyes were black, and the whole person seemed to have received a major blow.
She was really devastated. Because she had just witnessed the separation of the Xu family's two rooms, she was still a witness. The moment she signed her name on the separation agreement, she really wanted to faint, but she couldn't sign it. The Xu family was begging her to sign, and if she didn't sign, it would be impossible to change the outcome of the separation, so what could she do? Even if they are separated, they are still close relatives, and they can still live together amicably and help each other, instead of dying after they are separated.
But even so, Xu still feels sad when he recalls the situation when he separated the family.
Xu's family room is separated from the second room, but the family is not separated. In fact, the two rooms originally lived in the east and west roads of the house separately, separated by walls and lanes, and communicated with each other through small doors. If the family is not separated, you only need to seal this small door, and the second room can open a door facing the street to communicate with the outside world independently. The second room is not stupid to do this, and it is not stupid to find a house to move, but it costs a lot of money, which is time-consuming, laborious and expensive, and the house in the inner city of the capital is not cheap. They are used to living in their current residence, and there is no need to move, they only need to expand the small kitchen that originally belonged to the second bedroom into a normal kitchen, and then adjust the use of some house courtyards.
There was no objection to this from the long house, only Grandma Xu had accumulated a lot of resentment in her heart, and whispered a few gossips, saying that she could have left half of the house in the second room to her children and grandchildren, or rented it out to supplement the family or something. No one took her words seriously, she just mentioned it casually, and was persuaded by Xu Xiu to pull her sleeve and whisper, and she kept silent. As for the original garden assigned to the long house, she only pouted and didn't say a word.
The place of residence was solved, as well as the problem of property in the family. In this regard, the two rooms of the Xu family fought for an earth-shattering situation and refused to give an inch. Although the main dispute is between the two concubines, their respective husbands are also helping. Look at their red-faced posture, onlookers - ah no, the witnesses all feel that even if the Xu family has not reached the point of separation, after this battle, it will never be possible to live under the same roof again. Both sides seem to have torn their faces, where are they still thinking about their flesh and blood affection? Look at the four juniors, Xu Zheng, Xu Rong, Xu Xiu, and Xu Lan, which one is not dumbfounded? They have grown so big, it is probably the first time they have seen their own parents sweeping the floor, right?
Xu Zheng later turned his head directly to enjoy the scenery outside the window, as if he didn't want to see the faces of the elders arguing over property anymore. The others were indifferent to this, and their attention was attracted by both sides of the quarrel, only Xu Shi, who looked at the back of his nephew with great heartache, and understood that this child's always high temperament was probably affected like never before.
So, what kind of family should be divided? Let the children see it, what good will it do to them? Xu Zheng is the hope of the Xu family, the future of the Xu family, what if it affects his heart?
Xu's eyes were red and he thought so, so he ignored the dissuasion of his two sons, forcibly entered this dispute of separation, and personally presided over the division of the property of the Xu family's two rooms. She is not only an elder, but also a noble status, and she has worked hard for the Xu family. The plan she proposed, at least on the surface, seemed to be very fair, others couldn't find anything wrong, and those who were dissatisfied were of low rank and couldn't oppose it, and finally it was decided.
In fact, in terms of property, there is nothing to fight for. Master Xu is the heir of the family, and he also bears the heavy responsibility of incense sacrifices, and the family property naturally accounts for the majority. The ancestral property of the prince naturally belongs to him, and the sacrificial fields and clan fields in his hometown are also obtained by the long house, and the second room only gets a small part. It's just that Mrs. Xu is not in the land and real estate purchased in the capital during his lifetime, when he was on his deathbed, this part of the industry was divided, and now it is also divided according to the division at that time, the long house got seventy percent, the second room got three percent, and the house was divided into half.
At this point, it seems that the benefits of the Xu family's room are more, and the second room is more at a loss. However, this is just all the land owned by the Xu family. The Xu family naturally has other industries, some houses, shops and so on, most of which are accompanied by the daughters of the Xu family when they marry in, and some are purchased by the old lady or two masters of the Xu family themselves. There is nothing to say about the property that men buy, and whoever spends the money will belong to whomever he spends. The property of the female dependents is naturally owned by each other. The problem is that the few shops that Mrs. Xu married in back then are now located in prosperous roads, and the rent is expensive, which brings a lot of income to the Xu family every year. There is also a grange where she married, although it is not in Beijing, but because of the large area, the head of the village is shrewd and capable, and there is an income of more than 2,000 taels every year, which is a big piece of fat. These properties are actually owned by Second Master Xu. This made Grandma Xu a little unbearable.
In the past, the Xu family lived together and shared wealth, and there was no property that should be owned by anyone, except for the dowry of the living daughters, other properties were counted in the public, and the dowry of Mrs. Xu was naturally the same. After Grandma Xu took charge of the house, she only saw the accounts of these grange shops, and felt that with these, she could also make the long house rich, but she never expected that they would return to the second room, how could she be willing? Even if it is the old lady's marriage, the eldest master Xu and the second master Xu are both the sons of the old lady, at least they should be divided equally, right? There is no reason to belong to the younger son alone.
However, it was useless for her to be unwilling. In this regard, even the Xu family and Uncle Xu have to say a fair word. Before Mrs. Xu died, she was indeed like this. The eldest son only got a small part of the marriage of her old man, most of which went to the younger son, because of the family's property, the eldest son got the big head, so her private property should be given to the younger son, this is for fairness, and it is also to subsidize the younger son's family and make them more comfortable. In fact, since Mrs. Xu and Mrs. Xu didn't expect that their sons would divide the family, how to divide these properties was also shared by the two sons, so they didn't think too much about dividing the property. Where did you expect that something that was decided decades ago would still cause controversy today?
Grandma Xu was unwilling, but Xu Rong didn't know when she invited the servants of the family to ask the meaning of Master Xu, who had had a stroke. Master Xu wanted face, and he was unwilling to fight with his brother for property in front of insiders, so he admitted the fate of his deceased mother. So this piece of big fat meat still fell into the bowl of Second Master Xu. Grandma Xu looked at the concubine angrily, only to get a smug and provocative look.
After the real estate is divided, it is a floating wealth. Gold, silver, jewelry, and the like are all small heads, and the collection of antique paintings and calligraphy is the focus. In this part, because Xu Zheng was in Xu's family's room, the Xu family was also partial to him, so he asked the long house to rob most of the past. The second room was unwilling, but he couldn't resist the Xu family, and in the end, he could only give in under the resentful eyes of Xu's second grandmother.
Divided here, Xu Er's grandmother looked at Xu repeatedly, although she didn't dare to say some things clearly, but the resentment in her heart became more and more. She could see that her aunt and grandmother were biased towards the long house. Knowing that Xu Rong also went to school and had a talent for reading, he was about to marry Qin Jinrong, but his aunt and grandmother still favored Xu Zheng. In this case, what are they doing in the second room with the kindness of their aunt and grandmother? Their in-laws are the sons of their aunts, so it would be good to be closer to their in-laws in the future. My aunt and grandmother are old and confused, so let's retire and relax early.
The separation continues.
The bride money of the four granddaughters was divided separately from the time they were born, and the amount that each of them should receive was also included in the name of each house. There is not much money, each of the grandchildren is 1,000 taels, the granddaughter has a dowry of 800 taels, the granddaughter is only 500 taels, and the rest of the families add separately. In this part, everyone has nothing to fight about, at most, they secretly regret why they don't have two more sons.
The cash in the public middle school, because Grandma Xu took out her son's marriage, the examination and the election of officials for the reason, Xu Zheng was biased against Xu Zheng, feeling that the current property of the Xu family's second room was already a lot, and their population was not large, so there was no need for so much cash, so he advocated that most of it belonged to the long house. The second master and his wife accepted this arrangement coldly, and the second grandmother Xu could only look at Xu resentfully again and kept silent.
Finally, it was distributed to the servants. The male and female servants in the two rooms have been much less after the changes in the family, and those who remain now are either the servants of the world, or the powerful people who the masters really can't live without. There is another trouble involved here, since you are a servant, you may be a family with different masters, parents in the long room, children in the second room, or the husband in the long room, the wife in the second room, and so on. If each of his servants is owned by each house, it is very unkind to forcibly separate the flesh and blood of each person. So for the sake of the belonging of these servants, the two rooms tore apart again.
Grandma Xu struggled to get almost all the subordinates she wanted, and stuffed many old servants who were deacons in the long room but made her feel in the way to the second room, feeling satisfied. Grandma Xu Er was so angry that she jumped to her feet, who wants to provide for those old and immortal pensions?! Her henchman also took a fancy to two girls, and wanted to marry her as a daughter-in-law, but now she asked her to snatch it, how could she be willing?!
However, Hsu intervened again. This time, naturally, the long room was cheap, and the second room could only be aggrieved. Mrs. Xu was silent for a while, then gave her daughter-in-law a look, told her to shut up, and accepted the arrangement. Xu Er's grandmother was full of incomprehension, angry and aggrieved, and her resentment towards Changfang and the Xu family deepened.
In the end, the friendship between the two members of the Xu family has worn out a lot. Xu thought that she had done a big thing, but when she looked back at the resentful gaze handed over by the second room of the Xu family, she was deeply shocked again. But what if she was biased towards the long house? Just because she said something for Second Master Xu to fight for that piece of fat, Grandma Xu was also dissatisfied with her. Ignoring the dissuasion of his sons, the Xu family insisted on interfering in the separation of her mother's brothers, and the result was that both members of the Xu family had resentment towards her. Her hard work was thankless, and all her hard work was in vain. How does this make her not uncomfortable?
When she returned to Songfudo, she immediately fainted, and that night she developed a fever and became ill.