In the twenty-third year of the lunar month, it is the day when every family sacrifices to the stove to send the gods back to heaven for debriefing. Everyone sent a lot of good words to the prince of Xizao in the highest central institution of the heavenly court, praying that the coming year would be smooth and rainy, the country and the people would be safe, the whole family would be safe and auspicious, everything would go smoothly, and the folk customs would make it very important. As soon as the sky dawned, the rooster was still standing on the treetop branches with a beautiful and beautiful tail, lighting up its crisp and melodious singing voice, and some families in the nearby villages had set off firecrackers, accompanied by the smoke rising from the cooking, exuding a refreshing smell of gunpowder, which broke the tranquility of the winter countryside for a while, and opened the prelude to the arrival of the new year.

Wu Xiaojun got up early in the morning, cleaned the kitchen with his mother, had breakfast, prepared a steamer and chopping wood, and reorganized the steamed bread noodles prepared yesterday for the steaming festival. As soon as I arrived at the hall and pulled a small stool to sit down and rest, there was a knock on the door outside, accompanied by the sound of bicycles, the second sister Xiaomei took her two little nephews into the yard. Wu Xiaojun hurriedly got up to greet him, picked up his little nephew, who had just turned more than a year old, and asked, "Second sister, why are you here?" ”

"I have steamed the steamed buns the day before yesterday, and I am idle at home, so come and see if my mother has steamed it, and if there is anything to help."

"You came just in time, steamed steamed buns today, didn't you just mix the noodles again, you came before you had time to kick your breath, hurry up to the hall and talk to our father, rest for a while."

Xiaomei parked her bicycle and came to the house to sit next to her father Wu Pingshun. The eldest nephew Dongdong couldn't wait to get off the back seat of the bicycle and ran to Wu Pingshun's side, and when he pounced on his body, he touched his jacket pocket, and kept saying, "Grandpa, give me a dime to buy candy to eat." ”

Wu Pingshun's eyes narrowed into a slit happily, "Dongdong is good, is it okay for grandpa to give you two cents?" ”

"Dad, don't give money to the child, let him know that he wants money to buy things at such a young age, and you can't spoil him."

"A child, and he is not sensible, giving it is to make him happy."

"Grandpa is so good, I'll go out and buy candy for you too." Took the money and ran out.

"It just so happens that Xiaojun is also there, a few days ago I met my second sister-in-law Qiu Ping back to her parents' house, she said that the eldest brother told others in the village that he wanted to build a house for the world to marry a daughter-in-law, I don't know if you heard about it in the village? And Qiu Ping also said that they also want that piece of land, and it is convenient to separate the east and west by a road. Xiaomei looked at the two and asked.

The homestead in the north of the pit was originally the wheat farm of the ancestors of the Wuping Shun family, and the south side is the largest pit in the village, which usually accumulates a lot of water for fish farming. After the eldest brother Wu Pingming grew up, his father built a house for him in the northern half and settled down, and in front of Pingming and himself, he said that he would take the apricot tree as the boundary and the southern half for himself.

Soon after the implementation of the policy, the eldest nephew Wu Xiaoliang and the eldest son Wu Xiaofu built a house elsewhere, which was not occupied. Later, when the team divided the homestead, Ping Ming cut down the apricot tree that marked the boundary of the land in advance, insisting that his father did not say that he would give Pingshun a share of land until the edge of the pit was all his, no matter what he said, he did not agree to give it to Wu Pingshun. For this reason, the two made a big quarrel and went to the brigade, and the cadres of the brigade came forward to mediate. Wu Pingshun also resolutely refused to give in, and called his mother and eldest sister Wu Xue to the brigade to testify, and her mother remembered it vividly and told her about the situation in detail, but Wu Xue insisted that she didn't know that there was such a thing. The angry Wu Pingshun has never had any contact with Wu Xue for five or six years. The cadres of the brigade saw that the mediation was ineffective, and left it alone on the grounds that the housework was settled privately, and in addition, Wu Pingshun was given a homestead at the entrance of the village. This is the land left by the ancestors, no matter what, you must have your own share, Ping Ming is stupid and does not give it, which makes it difficult for Wu Pingshun.

The second son has married a daughter-in-law, and they are still living together without building a house and separating the family. The effect is more honest, but also timid and afraid, daughter-in-law Qiuping is also the kind of person who lacks a string, self-centered, scheming, and often speaks inappropriately to annoy people. If the house is built for him alone at the entrance of the village, more than 200 meters away from the main village, once he is bullied and stolen by others, even if he goes to the village to call people, if that is the case, he will take effect of the strength of the two of them There will be endless troublesome words, not only complaining about himself for a lifetime, but also harming him.

Wu Pingshun thought about it repeatedly, and he definitely couldn't build a house to the entrance of the village, but if he didn't build it to the north of the pit, there was really no other place. But Pingming, this guy has always relied on life and death, and it is useless to grind his mouth and fart just by talking about it, thinking about it, and simply gritting his teeth. Taking advantage of Pingming and Xiaoliang going on a business trip to other places, he asked Xiaofu and Xiaoliang to forcibly pull soil to build a brick wall overnight. When Wu Pingming's father and son returned, the foundation of the wall had already been built with seven layers of bricks, and the mud wall was about to start below.

Wu Pingshun's good intentions and good intentions were not recognized by Xiaoqi, who knew that Pingming was arrogant and unreasonable, and he was afraid that he would often find trouble after living with him as a neighbor, and his life would be difficult, so he was unwilling to build his house there. I had to build a house at the entrance of the village, so I quarreled with Wu Pingshun several times for this. After all, it was Wu Pingshun who was in charge, and he forced Xiaoqi to build a house in Kengbei, but Xiaoqi's arm couldn't twist his thighs, so he had no choice but to agree to build the house with Pingming. From then on, as Xiaoqi expected, Pingming looked for trouble from time to time, and Xiaoqi sprinkled all the dissatisfaction and resentment in his heart on Wu Pingshun, and the rift between father and son deepened day by day.

When Wu Pingming's father and son saw that Wu Pingshun had built a house in front of their house, they were angry and angry, and they picked up the bricks that the guy had built like crazy. Wu Pingshun couldn't give up, he was going to work hard with the grappling hook and Pingming, and many men, women and children from all over the village came to watch the excitement.

Unfortunately, Wu Pingshun was beaten by Xiaoliang and his head was broken and bleeding and he couldn't stand up on the ground, Wu Xiaoliang said fiercely, "What are you, openly robbing our family's land to build a house, it's just a lawless bandit, you don't even have dog shit in this place, it's all mine, I won't give you an inch, all the bricks you built are picked up and thrown into the pit, you have the ability to roll where to roll." As he spoke, he kicked Wu Pingshun a few more times.

Wu Pingshun was beaten by his nephew, ashamed, angry and anxious, several elders couldn't see him, pulled him up and sent him to the mother of the third brother Wu Pingchun's family, and then Wu Xiaoliang was called to the house by his grandmother. As soon as Wu Pingshun saw Xiao Liang, he was immediately furious, and he picked up the kitchen knife on the board and threw it at Xiao Liang, Xiao Liang couldn't quench the back of the knife and smashed it on the face bone of his right leg, and he knelt on the ground with a painful "oops" and "plop". Wu Pingshun picked up the rolling pin and hit him on the back, but Wu Pingchun stepped forward and grabbed his wrist.

Grandma cried bitterly and said, "Xiaoliang, you are not too young, what is your uncle doing to your father to you to your brothers and sisters, you should know best in your heart, do you still have a little conscience, and you actually did this to him." When you beat him and scolded him, did you ever think about who often went to see your father when he was in prison? When your father was pitifully thinking about you and your eldest sister Cuicui, who took you there in the middle of the night? Your father is not at home, and who went to Nanhe to build your house with a rack car and a rack car in the tenth winter of Layue? When you married your daughter-in-law and split up the family, your father didn't even give you pots and pans, did your uncle buy them for you when he saw you pitifully and silently braved the rain to buy them for you? Your mother is seriously ill, is it that your uncle is begging people to borrow money to take you to Pingdong for treatment? Have you forgotten all these piles? What's more, that piece of land was handed down by our ancestors, and your grandfather also said it himself in front of the two of them, I think not only your father is a bastard, you are also a bastard, and you are an ungrateful pig and a dog. ”

Wu Xiaoliang endured the pain, knelt on the ground without saying a word, kept wiping his tears and listened to his grandmother's chattering count, very ashamed, and also felt that his father should not eat alone, and he should not personally beat his own uncle, who was so kind to him, and cried bitterly and hugged his grandmother's leg and said, "Grandma, it's me who is wrong, I shouldn't have beaten my uncle, it's me who is not good, you can beat me happily." ”

"Beat you, I'm still afraid that I'll be tired, you say a happy thing, in the end let your uncle build a house?"

"Let, let, let, I won't stop him again, so I'll go back and tell my father, give that piece of land to my uncle, and let my uncle build a house with peace of mind." He turned around and knelt down in front of Wu Pingshun and cried and begged Wu Pingshun to say, "Uncle, you have a lot, for the sake of me that you have grown up and have always taken care of me, forgive me for the foolish things I did this time, and I will never be disrespectful to you again in the future." ”

For the children in several juniors, Wu Pingshun's most optimistic and favorite is Wu Xiaoliang, the young man is flexible, shrewd and capable, and the two often go out together to do some speculative business. Seeing his pitiful and sincere repentant appearance, he was very distressed, his heart was soft and sad for a while, and he said angrily, "Don't kneel on the ground, hurry up, think about what your father did right, isn't what your dead grandfather said is useless at all, doesn't it count." ”

Wu Xiaoliang discussed with his father in the middle of the night, and finally Wu Pingming agreed to let Wu Pingshun build a house in front of his door, but he put forward a harsh condition, he must replace the part of the village entrance by the roadside according to the width of the north of the pit, and said, "The ground at the entrance of the village is ten zhang eight feet two long from north to south, and the ground in the north of the pit is three zhang six feet eight, Wu Ping obediently measures seven zhang and one foot four from south to north, and the rest is his." Otherwise, I will not agree. Wu Pingshun didn't know the reason, he just wanted to find a step for himself and deliberately make things difficult for himself, he should be forgiven and understood, as long as he let him build a house in Kengbei, it didn't matter what conditions he proposed, so he agreed to his conditions.

After a few days, Xiaofu Xiaoqi and others found that Ping Ming was constantly measuring the land with cloth from south to north at the entrance of the village, which was a little suspicious, and he didn't know what he wanted to do, anyway, the land was dead, and he could measure it as much as he liked, so he didn't take it to heart.

Ten days later, under the witness of several village notaries, Wu Pingshun was dumbfounded when he took a ruler and measured it on the spot, only to find that Pingming was still a thief, he was too cunning, and he fell for him again.