Sun walked over and helped Li and said, "Sister-in-law, you don't have to worry, I and the head of the family still have some money in our hands, and we will take it all out to save the eldest brother." ”

Tang Tiexiong also said: "Yes, sister-in-law, you don't have to worry, even if we don't have so much money in our hands, I will go out to borrow money to save my eldest brother from prison." ”

Although he knew that this was a lie to everyone, only the second family in the main room said this so bluntly, and Li's moved tears fell: "You have a heart." ”

Zhang said in a strange manner: "Since the second child said this, there is nothing to do with us?" Let's go! ”

Li Shi glanced at the others, and said with a fixed gaze: "You really refuse to take out a penny to save your eldest brother?" I don't believe you don't have any money,"

Tang Tiequan and Tang Tiefeng didn't dare to squeak, because their mother-in-law was pulling their clothes behind, and Old Man Tang looked at this scene and said: "Old woman, I know that you have hidden more than 20 taels of silver in private, and you will take them out and give them to the eldest daughter-in-law!" ”

Zhang looked at the old man in disbelief and said, "Why? The boss is not my own son, why do you want me to take the money out to save him, I know that your heart has been towards the son of the previous child, but you can't be so unreasonable, those money are all I worked hard to save for the elderly, why let me take it out to save the boss, he is not my biological son. ”

Old man Tang heard that Zhang's left side was not his own son, and the right side kept the pension money, and said angrily: "Over the years, you have saved so much money, and most of it is given to you by the boss, and now the boss is in trouble, shouldn't you take out the money?" ”

"You said it was for me, and what was given to me was mine, why should I take out my money to save others." Zhang said that he would not give a penny even if he died.

Old man Tang said again: "Just don't look at these, the boss has grown up by your side since he was a child, how to say that there is also a trace of family affection, and you should take out a little money to save the boss." ”

Zhang snorted: "I don't regard him as my own son, it doesn't matter to me whether he is dead or alive,"

"You...... You ......" Old Man Tang couldn't say a word, so he could only say: "Then you give me the part of the money that belongs to me, and I can give it to the boss!" ”

Zhang shook his head and said: "Don't give it, in the future, you will be supported by the fourth child, if there is a case, this money will have to be kept for you to see a doctor, you are right, the fourth." ”

Tang Tiequan originally shrugged his head and didn't know what to say, but when he heard her mother single out his name, it was impossible for him to pretend to be deaf and dumb and said, "Dad, what my mother said is true." "If I don't know that my mother-in-law is happy, he will save my eldest brother, but now in this year, my mother-in-law finally has a baby, and the family's money can only be kept to raise the baby, and it is impossible to take it out to save the eldest brother.

Although Li was supported by the second brother and sister, his hand unconsciously pinched her arm, and he was furious: "Fourth brother, you really refuse to save your eldest brother." ”

Tang Tiequan's face turned crimson and said: "Sister-in-law, don't embarrass me, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read, and now I can only plan for my own small family." ”

Huang stood up from behind and said: "Sister-in-law, even if you can't raise so much money, the eldest brother will be in prison for two or three years, but now food is as expensive as gold, and the family can't afford to eat rice, maybe they will starve to death one day, and they can't talk about saving the eldest brother." ”

Li Shi laughed at them twice and said, "I know what I said," and asked Tang Tiefeng again: "Third child, do you remember what your daughter-in-law said when your son was sick and went to the town to help me and your eldest brother?" ”

Tang Tiefeng's face was sneering and he didn't know how to speak, Ma handed the baby in his arms into his arms, stood up and said to Li: "Sister-in-law, I remember what I said, when I said that you and the eldest brother this kindness, I will not forget, but at this time, just like the fourth brother and sister, if you give you all the money in the family, it doesn't matter if the adults are hungry, but how can the babies stand it, just me and the head of the family are sorry for you, and we can't do anything about the eldest brother." ”

"Eldest daughter-in-law, you see it! It's not that we won't help you, but we have to live," Zhang said in a different tone.

Li Shi looked around at all the people in the room, and laughed twice: "It's really a time of trouble to see the truth, how can I and the head forget that you are white-eyed wolves who can't be fed, even if you are good, you won't appreciate it, hehe, if the head of the family sees this scene, how can I feel chills in my heart?" ”

Tang Liang stood up at this time, saw that his mother had been talking to the main room for a long time, and said angrily: "The third uncle and the fourth uncle are my father's younger brothers, my father is now in prison, you are selfish and ignore my father for yourself, you are really my good uncle,"

Tang Tiequan was said by Tang Liang, and his face turned pale and said, "How can you talk to me like this, don't forget that I am an elder." ”

"Hmph, you don't care about my father, you don't care about his life or death, you fourth uncle don't want it." Tang Liang said in a disdainful tone.

Huang Shi said dissatisfiedly: "Tang Liang, I have read the books in the dog's stomach all these years, how can you say this about your fourth uncle,"

"The Taoist gentleman in the book has something to do, I don't know what the fourth aunt said?"

Huang Shi touched a big nail without being soft or hard, glared at Tang Liang angrily and said: "Hmph, don't think that if you are admitted to Xiucai, you can make irresponsible remarks about us, if you have the ability, you don't come to ask us to save your father." ”

"Fourth aunt, have you heard this sentence, it was born from the same root, why be too anxious to fry each other." Tang Liang said to him left and right.

"Don't talk to me about what you have," Huang didn't dare to be too angry, for fear of moving the fetus.

Tang Liang said: "Hehe, fourth aunt, you are right," and said to the third uncle: "Third uncle, fourth uncle treated my father and mother like this, I can still understand, but you and the third aunt actually said such things, which makes me very puzzled, when you ask us, my father and mother will help you without blinking, and now my father is in trouble, and it doesn't mean that he will not pay you back in the future, so you will say this to us, in the past?" ”

Tang Tiefeng was forced to blush and said, "Okay, don't say it, I'll take the money to save your father." ”

Ma Shi dragged him and said: "No, we can't help anything about this matter, although the eldest brother has helped us, but we can't let the babies starve in order to repay the favor, and this money can't be borrowed." ”

Tang Liang looked at the third aunt and said, "What you said is true. ”

In the past, I thought that the eldest brother's Tang Yang and Tang Liang brothers would be admitted to Xiucai, and their family might be able to take care of them at a critical time, but now that the eldest brother is in prison, if they are sentenced, Tang Yang and his brothers may not be able to take the exam again, and they will not be able to get ahead one day, so Ma said: "Of course." ”

Tang Liang said to the Li family: "Mother, the so-called hot and cold world is like this, we don't want such relatives, what do you say?" ”

Tang Yang also stood up at this time and said: "Dudao'er doesn't think the mother is ugly, and the dog doesn't think the family is poor, this sentence is really defiled by using it on you,"

Li Shi saw his son nodding firmly at her, and said, "I'll ask you once at the last time, are you willing to pay to save your eldest brother." ”

Zhang glanced at her and said, "What else do you ask, what they said just now is so clear, don't you still want to listen to it again?" ”

Li glanced at his father-in-law and said, "Dad, although you have been asking everyone to pay to save the master, you have never spoken to everyone like the last time Tang Mei had an accident,"

Old man Tang bowed his head and didn't know what to say, he did have a little weak-hearted, if it was impossible to say that he was not in a hurry, but when he heard the words of the second child, his heart was half at ease, and he always felt that the second child could do his best to save the boss, and what the third and fourth said also made sense, and he couldn't force them to pay to save the boss and starve the babies at home.

Li Shi began to say at this time: "Since you don't help, our relatives will do it, or completely cut off, and anyone in the province will be upset when they think of this matter, what do you say?" ”

Hearing this, Old Man Tang said with a bad face: "Eldest daughter-in-law, what do you say?" It's all a family, how can you say that you can break it, don't sow discord here, and let the babies misunderstand everyone. ”

Li snorted: "Misunderstanding? Did they hear what their uncles and aunts were saying? Dad, you used to be biased, but now you are in a deep prison in charge, you are still biased towards the third brother and the fourth brother, are you the father of the family?"

Tang Tiexiong said: "Sister-in-law, don't be sad, I will go out to ask for food and make it up for my eldest brother, and I will never let my eldest brother go to prison,"

Sun soothed: "Yes, sister-in-law, I will also take on more embroidery work to earn money,"

Li patted her hand and said, "Your eldest brother and I only need to have your relatives, and the others will be completely cut off from today." ”

Zhang thought that the eldest daughter-in-law was scaring the old man, so he said disapprerovitously: "You really don't plan to recognize our family, do you?" ”

Li nodded and said, "What's the use of thinking about you, just fly by yourself when the catastrophe comes,"

"Don't scare us here, if you have the ability to sign and draw a pledge, completely break this relationship." Zhang took advantage of the situation and said.

Li Shi couldn't wait for her to say this, tunnel: "Yang'er, you go back to our house to get pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, Liang'er, you go and invite Li Zheng and let him be a witness for us." ”

Tang Yang agreed, trotted out of Lu to go home to get pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and Tang Liang followed him later.

Old Tang saw the eldest daughter-in-law and said seriously: "You don't mean it seriously." ”

"Dad, how can this kind of thing be said nonsense, since the uncles are unwilling to contribute, what is the use of this blood relatives coming, you have made us chill again and again, if the head of the family knows that you treat him like this, even if the heart is cold, there is me and the baby by my side to cover me with heat, hehe...... It's good for you Qianfan, and you don't appreciate it," Li said helplessly to his father-in-law.

"You...... You ......" Old Man Tang pointed to Li's face and said angrily.

Li didn't know anything, but still stood by as I was, letting him curse her as much as he wanted.

After a while, Tang Yang came back with his things, and then Tang Liang took Li Zheng into the house, and Li Zheng said to Li Zheng: "Today, please come over and be a witness to our old Tang family." ”

Li asked with questions: "What is so formal, I have to come over to meet people." ”

Li Shi didn't answer, and said to the people in the house: "If you don't plan to save your eldest brother from prison, just put a handprint on it, and our relatives can be regarded as having done it." He said to Li Zheng: "Please come here, is this for you?" ”

Li just wanted to ask what happened to Tang Tiezhu, but when he saw that the Tang family's faces were dark, he didn't dare to ask, and looked at Uncle Tang again, he also glared at the Li family with an angry face, so he could only sit aside and pretend to be transparent.

Zhang snorted: "Don't scare us, think we don't dare to press?" ”

Li opened his mouth and said to Tang Yang: "Yang'er, my mother knows that you are good at writing, so I will help my mother write a letter of severance,"

Tang Yang responded, bowed his head and wrote, and after he finished writing, read it to everyone: "Now because Tang Tiezhu was framed and imprisoned in prison, his wife and children went back to the ancestral house for help, but his father and mother, all the brothers are unwilling to help, look at this scene, Tang Tiezhu's wife Li, even for her husband's heart, so she set up this document, and the ancestral house people cut off the relationship, since then cut off the robe and cut off righteousness, relatives like passers-by, the clerk Tang Yang, the painter: Tang Tiezhu's wife Li, Tang Tiezhu's father, Tang Tiezhu's third brother Tang Tiexiong and his wife, Tang Tiezhu's fourth brother Tang Tiefeng and his wife, The witness is Tang Qingming in Tangjia Village. ”

Li Shi looked at Zhang Shi and said, "Mother-in-law, if you press this handprint, this will be the last time I will call your mother-in-law." ”

Zhang sneered: "I have a daughter-in-law, there is no shortage of you mother, hum," he said, putting his thumb into the ink and pressing his handprint on the paperwork.

Li looked at the third and fourth families again, and saw that they had regressed, so he said, "If you don't agree, you will pay to rescue your eldest brother." ”

Ma and Huang stood up together, like a mother-in-law, pressed their handprints on the paperwork, Tang Tiefeng and Tang Tiequan saw that their mother-in-law had already pressed their handprints, and they also pressed them together.

Li Shi glanced at his father-in-law and said, "Dad, it's your turn,"

Old man Tang shook his head and said, "If you don't press it, you can't press anything." ”

Li said: "Dad, if you think about the mother of the family, for the sake of the family and us, you will press this handprint!" ”

Old man Tang thought of what the dead old woman said to him, put his hand into the ink unconsciously, pressed the handprint, and said when his eyes were clear: This is to break off the father-son relationship with the boss.

Li Shi looked at Li Zheng with an embarrassed face again: "Please help me press a handprint!" ”

What can Rizheng say? The Tang family had already pressed their fingerprints, and he was just here to prove it, so he could only follow the Tang family to put their fingerprints on his name.

After Li saw that his father-in-law had finished pressing, he also pressed it and said to the people in the house: "From now on, we will no longer be a family, and we will be passers-by when we meet in the future, but if there is a difficulty in asking us for help, we will not take care of one or two." ”

Holding the paperwork in his arms, he said to Tang Tiexiong and his wife: "In the future, I will only have one relative with you, and the children will only have you as an uncle. ”

Li took the babies out of the house, Tang Tiexiong and his wife followed, and Li said: "You won't regret the choice you made today." After speaking, he didn't wait for Tang Tiexiong and his wife to speak, and let Tang Liang drive the whole family away in an ox cart.