It turned out that after Xiaoding left, the Tian family washed up and cooked breakfast. Before he could eat it, he saw Zhou swaggering through the door and walking in.

The courtyard gate of the Tian family is just a fence gate made of short wooden poles. Because the poor family has nothing, they don't worry about thieves, so they don't usually lock it, and anyone can open the door and come in.

"Grandma, why are you here?" Xiao'e said with a cold face. When Tian Dabao was forcibly driven out by Tian Caishen and Zhou, Xiao'e already remembered it, and she didn't forget the scene at that time.

Tian Dabao is the eldest, and at the beginning, Tian Caishen and Zhou both liked this eldest son very much. At that time, the main labor in the family was Tian Dabao, except for Tian Caishen.

The Tian family has 17 acres of land in the south of the village, all of which were left by the ancestors of the Tian family. The land in the south of the village is barren, and only one season can be planted a year. Every spring planting and autumn harvest, Tian Caishen takes several sons to work in the field. These four sons of Tian Caishen, the two treasures and the three treasures inherited the body of Tian Caishen, tall and strong; Only Tian Sibao looks like Zhou, thin and withered. These four sons work, Erbao and Sanbao like to steal and play tricks, Tian Sibao was younger at the time, and he was still studying in the school, and he couldn't do much work in the field occasionally. Therefore, there are more than ten people in a family, and the main ones who work are Tian Caishen and Tian Dabao.

As a result, there was a year of government conscription, and each family had to send at least one male to serve in the military.

Tian family, Tian God of Wealth naturally can't go; Tian Sibao has not yet become a Ding, and he can't go. Those who can go can only choose one of the two treasures and three treasures.

Tian Caishen looked at his three sons: Erbao and Sanbao lowered their heads and shrank back, one holding his arm and saying that he accidentally injured his arm; One walked on crutches and said he had sprained his leg while working; Only Tian Dabao stood stupidly at the front and said nothing. Tian Caishen sighed and said, "Dabao, you go." So Tian Dabao went into service with the rest of the village.

As a result, after only half a year of walking, Tian Dabao was carried back by his fellow villagers. On the battlefield, Tian Dabao lost half of his right leg and almost lost his life.

After months in bed, he spent almost all of his family's savings. At the beginning, Tian Caishen was still very guilty, if he hadn't let Dabao go to service, Dabao would not have become disabled. But after a long time, the little guilt in Tian Caishen's heart was wiped out little by little. Instead, there is - disgust.

The same went to the battlefield, how did the rest of the people in the village come back intact, why did you lose your legs? It's not because you're useless! Once such an idea sprouts, it will quickly grow crazy in the heart.

At that time, Tian Dabao's children were still young and could not work in the fields. And Xiaofu was just born not long ago, and Li was still in confinement, and he couldn't work in the field. Besides, Li's body has always been thin, and even if he can work, he can't do much.

Tian Caishen saw that Tian Dabao's family ate and drank for nothing all day long, and there was no one who could work, and he was unhappy in his heart. Zhou's even scolded Tian Dabao's family all day long without a nose and face, scolding Tian Dabao for being a mourning star and a broom star, and ruining all the good homes. is also clamoring to sell Xiaoding and Xiaoya, who are just about ten years old. Fortunately, Tian Caishen was not so mad that he sold his own grandchildren for money, and stopped the Zhou family.

And the two treasures and the three treasures also treat the big treasure family with blank eyes. After all, they all live under one roof, and now that there is less Tian Dabao working in the field, there will naturally be more work to be done by the second and third treasures.

Tian Dabao's family was treated coldly in the Tian family, and they could only rely on a little bit of cold scorching to survive every day, and sometimes even there was no leftovers left, so they could only starve first and wait for the next meal. But Tian Dabao didn't dare to say a word about this.

However, the disaster is not a one-way street, this year caught up with the drought, and the bankers seriously reduced production. So Tian Caishen finally made up his mind: to split up.

Divide the burden of Tian Dabao's family to eat for nothing, so that the family can have a better life, who wants to feed a family of people who can't work for nothing?

In the end, under the witness of Village Chief He, Tian Caishen and Tian Dabao signed the separation documents.

In view of the fact that Tian Dabao's family has no ability to live, Tian Caishen does not require Tian Dabao to pay him pension money at the end of each year, but at the same time, the family will not give Tian Dabao anything, including houses and fields.

This is a pure body and left to fend for itself. Despite Tian Dabao's begging, he was still driven out of the old mansion by Tian Caishen and Zhou.

On the day he was kicked out, Tian Dabao had nowhere to go. Fortunately, the village chief He saw that his family was pitiful, so he assigned a piece of land in the west of the village to Tian Dabao for temporary use, which was regarded as lending it to Tian Dabao, and when Tian Dabao had the money and could buy this land, he would help Tian Dabao go to the town to register in the register.

After that, the Li family went back to his parents' house to borrow a few hundred dollars, and Tian Dabao limped to find a few familiar neighbors to help, built two thatched houses, and found the Xue housekeeper of the Xue landlord's family in the east of the village, and rented two acres of thin land from the Xue family. I can barely make ends meet.

When the family first separated, Xiao'e was very young, but she also remembered it clearly. She will never forget the tragic scene when her family was kicked out by her grandparents and had nothing to go to. Therefore, she did not have a good impression of this grandparents.

Zhou got twenty or thirty catties of wolf meat from Xiao Ding and Zhao Laixi yesterday, and as a result, a family of more than ten people ate one meal at noon yesterday and one meal at night, and they all ate it this morning.

After eating in the morning, Zhou came out of the house, and happened to see Zhao Laixi passing by the door with a bunch of tattered clothes in his arms, so he secretly wondered, where did Zhao Laixi get so many clothes? Where is he going? Could it be that their family sold the wolf and got the silver?

Thinking of the silver, Zhou's heart became lively, thinking that he must go over to see, if there is really silver, he must grab it, that fool dares to beat grandpa and uncle! Can sending a few catties of wolf meat be done? That's not going to work!

So, Zhou swaggered to Tian Dabao's house.

As soon as he entered the courtyard, Zhou felt different. She noticed that there was an extra donkey cart in the yard, and on the donkey cart lay a young girl she didn't know. Came to relatives? Tian Dabao is his own son, and his relatives know him, but who is this girl?

Then Zhou saw that Tian Dabao's family's clothes had changed into new clothes. Has their family become rich? Zhou was puzzled. It was even more certain that there must be silver in the house, otherwise how could he buy new clothes to wear for no reason. The situation at Tian Dabao's family, she knows it best in her heart.

Seeing Xiao'e stopped in front of him, Zhou snorted coldly, pushed away the thin Xiao'e, and broke into the house.

"Mother, ...... are you," Tian Dabao said on crutches.

"I'll take a look......" Zhou didn't say much, and when she entered the house, she saw the new bedding on the bed, and thought, sure enough, she made a fortune, it seems that the wolf they sold for a lot of money.

Zhou squatted down directly and pulled out the broken wooden box under the bed. The box was not locked, and after lifting the lid, Zhou's eyes immediately lit up......

The seventeen taels of silver that Xiao Ding gave to Tian Dabao last night were impressively placed on the clothes in the box.

Tian Dabao's house didn't have decent furniture, and after receiving the money last night, Tian Dabao put it in the box. I didn't expect my wife to be too familiar with my home, so I turned over this box directly when I entered the house.

Actually, there's nothing to turn around anywhere else.

Seventeen taels of silver is not a small amount for the peasant households in the countryside, and some of them may not even be able to earn so much silver even after working for half a lifetime.

Although the Tian Caishen family is not rich, it is not the poorest. The Tian family has their own field, Tian Caishen can also do it when he is young, and after Tian Dabao separates the family, the family is even less burdensome, and the family has saved a few taels of silver over the years. It's just that compared with these seventeen taels of silver, the few taels of silver at home are not worth mentioning.

So, Zhou put the silver in his arms, turned around happily and walked out......