It's far away, Donghua is southern, the summer is extremely hot, and now there is no good means to escape the heat, and Bingyuan Stone can't be used, it's too expensive, but human wisdom is endless.

For example, Mulan's household is a self-made simple cooling device. The material was moso bamboo, and as soon as the Muli Muyi brothers returned, they hurriedly split all the moso bamboos in half and installed these flowing water channels on the walls of several rooms.

Each family has its own large water containers, one placed high in the room and one in the corner, and the two containers are driven by a device to keep the same amount of water in both containers.

This kind of simple device is basically available in every household here, and the temperature of the house can be three or five degrees lower. Mu Lan likes this device very much, there is the fragrance of bamboo in the room, there is the sound of gurgling water, it feels like a midsummer night at the waterside of the bamboo forest, bringing a leisurely feeling.

If you don't like bamboo, such as wood oranges, put the petals you collected earlier in the water in your room, and the air will start to flow with a sweet floral scent.

Of course, no matter what is or where, mosquitoes cannot be avoided in summer.

Villagers usually smoke mugwort leaves at this time, but Mu Lan doesn't like the smell, so Mu Lan uses dried orange peel, thanks to Shen's adequate preparation, and Shen will also pick some jasmine and put it in Mu Lan's room.

But when it comes to summer, it's good to get rid of that, at least after a few boys come back, the house is lively. The people on the other side of the old courtyard also stopped. This pause lasted until the beginning of August, and the reason was that Mu Li went to Old Man Mu to discuss the separation, yes, it was a discussion, not a plea.

In addition to the old man Mu Jian who is still working in the middle of summer, the old man Mu is also on vacation, but it is only half a month. At three or four o'clock in the afternoon, everyone in the east courtyard gathered in the old courtyard, according to Muyi, this is a family business, of course, it is better for the whole family to go together. However, judging from Mu Lan, his father is obviously 'uneasy and kind'.

"Father, the separation was originally decided a few years ago, but now the children are older, and the East Courtyard is too small." Mu Li didn't say a word, and went straight to the topic, "I want to talk about the specific matters before inviting my uncle over, so that people can see jokes when the time comes." ”

Hearing Mu Li say this, Old Man Mu just paused first, then took a deep puff of dry smoke, and didn't speak, but Xiao Zhao jumped up first: "Boss, are you here to threaten your father?" Why is the East Courtyard smaller? Aren't you living well now? ”

Mu Li ignored Xiao Zhao's words, and just stared at Old Man Mu, but if he didn't speak, it didn't mean that others wouldn't speak, such as Liu.

"Auntie, this is standing and talking, and it doesn't hurt your back! This east courtyard is not small. Oh, I forgot, before I got married, this East Courtyard was really not small, let's just say that the three houses where my father-in-law and aunt live should also be East Courtyard! I'm curious, why wasn't this originally quite big East Courtyard when I came? Could it be that this yard also has its own shrinking function! ”

Liu is also a refusal to suffer: "Besides, the place where the 6 people on my aunt's side live is nearly two or three times larger than the place where I live with 10 people from my second brother and sister's family!" It's nice to live in this big house! ”

"Old family, this house was divided like this, but the eldest and second agreed to it!"

"Auntie, if my eldest brother and I didn't agree at the beginning, my eldest brother and I might not be able to return to our household registration! We came to ask my father about this matter, but my father didn't say anything, but my aunt was in a hurry, could it be that my aunt is in charge of the house now! ”

Speaking of the original division of the house, Mu Yi was on fire, and now he can't extinguish it.

At that time, Mu Li was only 19 years old, just out of the Yuan Hall, Xiao Zhao asked the old man Mu to let Mu Li go to join the army, because at that time a large-scale war broke out, at that time, the family of the army could get a subsidy of three gold coins first, although this matter was later stopped by the sixth grandmother who knew the situation, but after being known by the clan, the clan was shocked, a stepmother does not like the children of his ex-wife, this is human nature, but the one in front of her is her own sister.

After Mu Li's family knew about this, Mu Liwai almost suffered a stroke, if it wasn't for Mu Li's grandmother to stop him, it is estimated that Xiao Zhao's legs would have been broken at that time.

However, the consequence of this incident was that Xiao Zhao was imprisoned in the Mu family ancestral hall for two months, and was warned by the clan elders that if this happened again, he would be forcibly abandoned, which was also the main reason why Xiao Zhao did not dare to provoke Mu Li and Mu Yi brothers again.

Taking advantage of this incident, the clan forcibly separated the house of the old man Mu's family, but because of the insistence of the old man Mu, he did not divide the family in the end, but since that time, it has basically been separated, but because Mu Li was under the age of twenty at that time, he could not have an independent household registration, so the household registration of the brothers was taken over by the clan. As long as the old man Mu is here, the elder of the Songkou clan can testify, and the brothers can break away.

Speaking of this, Xiao Zhao's is dumbfounded, but she knows her unwillingness by looking at her expression, but who here will care about her feelings! To put it mildly, in the eyes of the people of the Eastern Courtyard, Xiao Zhao is a complete outsider, and he is not qualified to point fingers here.

Even if it is Old Man Mu, it is just for the sake of him taking the name of a father, otherwise Mu Li can directly ask the clan elder to come over to help, and now he comes to consult to give Old Man Mu face.

Old Man Mu obviously knows this, speaking of Old Man Mu, he has the characteristics of a feudal parent: eager to control his children single-handedly, caring about his own face, stubborn and greedy for money.

Old man Mu now knows that the separation of the family is inevitable, and his eldest son still has a certain understanding, that is, a person who does what he says.

But Old Man Mu was unwilling, because these two sons would be completely out of his control in the future, and once the family was separated, it was estimated that they would move out, and they would no longer be able to get anything from there. So now the old man Mu is thinking quickly about how to maximize his own interests.

"I have no opinion that you want to divide the family, but I will take back half of the house you live in, and you will give me a pension every year!" Old Man Mu thought about it carefully and put forward such a condition.

Hearing this condition, Mu Li secretly frowned, and Mu Yi directly snorted coldly: "Old man, do you know what it means to have a lack of human heart and swallow an elephant?" That's who you are now! ”

"Muyi! I'm your father, what's your tone? was ridiculed by his own son, and the old man Mu was also angry.

"Father-in-law, there is something wrong with what Ayi said, but this house now belongs to me and my sister-in-law, and this house was in the dowry at the beginning. No matter how you say it, there is no family that wants to share the daughter-in-law's things, so it doesn't matter anywhere! Shen spoke quietly.

There were many people in the village who knew about this East Courtyard as a dowry for the two brothers, so the Shen family was not so worried.

However, Old Man Mu's greed also made the Shen family look sideways.

No matter how much his son says that he doesn't give anything to the family, it's already very strange, and he still wants to dig things from his son's house. It's really 'breathtaking', isn't it!