On this day, Liu Bicao and Shen Jinqian went to the town to sell the prey they hunted, and by the way, they took the herbs and the eggs from the praise to the town to sell. I caught a few more ducks and put them in the bamboo forest. The previous rabbits kept a female rabbit and a male rabbit to carry their cubs.

"The family now has a total of seven taels of silver and more than 400 yuan, or we will go to Lizheng to buy it from the wasteland in the back mountain, plant different fruit trees, and sell the fruit. The bamboo forest behind is also large, let's buy more chickens and ducks to raise, adult chickens can also be sold, eggs and duck eggs can also be saved up and sold. Bicao looked at the silver in the house, and was a little worried, the house at home must be changed, and there are two younger brothers who will marry in the future, and two younger sisters who will marry and ask for a dowry.

"Okay, I'll go to the town tomorrow and the day after tomorrow to buy more chickens and ducks and come back, and the chickens and ducks that grow up can be sold to restaurants in the town, as well as those in the county, in the town, and some big families." Shen Jinqian usually walks darts and knows a lot of people, so Liu Bicao can imagine it as soon as he says it.

"Now that the autumn harvest has passed, I can also go to the embroidery room to pick up the embroidery work, and wait for a while for the hairy chestnuts on the mountain to come out, let's go up the mountain to pick the hairy chestnuts and make chestnut cakes, and go to the county to sell them before the year." Liu Bicao sat against him, thinking in his heart, "After the New Year, I will go to Lizheng to buy wasteland and plant fruit trees." ”

Liu Bicao kept thinking in her head: "By the way, I heard my father say two days ago that the big pond in front of our house is our own?" ”

Shen Jinqian nodded: "It's ours, what's wrong?" ”

"We have to clean it out, buy some fish fry and put it in it, and we can also plant lotus roots." Liu Bicao was a little excited, that pond is so big, if you raise fish, how much do you have to raise.

"Okay, but we have to go to Lizheng first to get the title deed back." Seeing Bi's puzzled eyes, he couldn't help but smile and stretched out his hand to wrap her in his arms, "At that time, the red-eyed people in the village can't look for trouble." ”

Both of them are very capable of doing things, and they got things done in two days. The title deeds of the pond were completed, and the chickens and ducks were bought back and placed in the bamboo forest.

Shen's father knew that he wanted to raise fish, so he took Shen Jinxin to tidy up the pond every day, and as for Shen Jinqian, because he knew a lot of people when he was walking darts, he went to the town and county every day to find fish fry and fish farmers.

"Brother Shen, Li Zheng asked me to gather at the entrance of the village." On this day, Father Shen and Shen Jinxin were about to clean up the pond, and they heard Uncle Chen's message.

"What does his uncle know?" Father Shen hurriedly asked. Generally, there is no big thing, and the whole village will not be allowed to gather at the entrance of the village.

Uncle Chen shook his head, he didn't know the specific situation, he only knew that Li Zheng went to the town and came back to let the whole village gather.

"Boss, what do you think will be a big deal?" Shen's mother was a little worried, after all, the last time she was letting everyone gather at the entrance of the village was seven or eight years ago.

Shen's father was not sure in his heart, but he comforted the family, went back to the room and cleaned up and went to the entrance of the village with Shen Jinqian.

"Uncle Shen and Jin Qian are here." Uncle Chen's son Chen Youshun saw the two coming, and hurriedly gave up his seat to Shen's father, and he and Shen Jinqian stood behind the two old men.

"Say, what the hell is it that we are gathering here?"

Aunt Wang's head shouted loudly: "The last time we gathered at the entrance of the village was a conscription, I think, this time it will not be good." ”

As soon as the words came out, someone immediately snorted three times: "I said Wang Laosi, can you say something nice with your stinky mouth?" ”

Just as Wang Laosi was arguing with everyone, Li Zheng came and waved his hand to signal everyone to be quiet.

"I called everyone here this time, there is something, and everyone has listened carefully." Rimasa cleared his throat.

Li Zheng didn't say it all at once, and was silent for a while, until someone in the crowd urged him to start talking again.

"In the county, the construction of the river is subject to conscription, and all adult men in the family who have reached the age of fifteen must go." Li Zheng frowned, "Of course, a person who doesn't go will have three taels of silver." Everyone went back to discuss, and someone from the county would come the day after tomorrow. ”

"Oh my God, this doesn't let people live...... ......" Aunt Wang immediately cried, there were four adult men in her family, and if she didn't go, she would get twelve taels of silver.

Not to mention that many women wiped their tears, but the heads of the family all had sad faces. Everyone knows how hard it is to serve in conscription, and it is difficult to say whether you can talk about coming back, and if you don't go, you have to pay money.

"What? Conscription? Shen Jinxin listened to Shen Jinqian's words, and immediately jumped to his feet, "Dad, ...... our family?" ”

Liu Bicao hugged Shen He and sat aside, and after all, the only adult men in the Shen family were Shen's father, Shen Jinqian, and Shen Jinxin, who had just reached the age, and if they didn't go, they would be nine taels of silver.

The Shen family can get this silver, that is, the Shen family's family has been hollowed out again, but this is nothing compared to the lives of the family.

Putting down Shen He and going to the house, he took out the silver from the cabinet, counted it, and took out the money he had quietly saved in the Liu family before he got married.

"Dad, mother." Liu Bicao took out the box containing the silver and put it on the table, "Let's give money." ”

When Liu Bicao entered the house, Shen Jinqian knew that she was going to get the silver.

"Bicao is right, our family pays for it, but no one comes out." Shen Jinqian knew how much money he had in the family, and he also guessed that Liu Bicao took his own money to make up for it.

Shen Jinxin and Shen Mei saw that their sister-in-law took the money out, and they also went to the room to take out the money they had saved on weekdays.

"Daddy, big brother and sister-in-law." Shen Mei took out the copper coins in her purse, a little embarrassed, "This is what I usually save by doing needlework, not much." ”

"It's mine, and not much." Shen Jinxin also put the money on the table.

Liu Bicao was about to refuse, but Shen's mother took the copper coin and handed it to Liu Bicao: "Bicao, take it." This is Xiaomei and Jinxin's intentions, as a member of this family, they should contribute to this family. ”

After Shen Jinqian nodded, Liu Bicao took the money, and after the last time Liu Bo'an's incident, Liu Bicao felt once again that this was called home.

The Shen family worked together to solve the matter, but many family members in the village quarreled, split up and even fought because of this incident.

This is the case with the Liu family.

"Have you all figured it out, is our family paying or man?" In the Liujiatang house, Mrs. Liu and Liu Dazhu sat on a stool, and the room was full of people.

Liu Dalei's brothers didn't speak, and Liu Sanlei went out when he got married, so he just stood here and listened, and didn't speak.

"Boss, boss, daughter-in-law, you say." Old woman Liu didn't speak when she saw anyone, so she asked out loud.

"Mother, maybe I can come back if I go, I have discussed it with Da Lei, and we will pay for it." Zhou glanced at everyone and said, "But mother, you also know that our money is all handed over to the public......

Without waiting for Zhou's words to finish, Wang didn't agree, and jumped out: "Sister-in-law means that this money is used by the public?" That's not good, there are three people in your big house, and there is only one person in our second room, so how much the public will give you a big house, and how much we will get in the second room. ”

The money that is not divided is used together, and the more it is used, the less it is divided, there are three adult men in the big house, and there is only one Liu Erlei in the second room, so the Wang family naturally does not agree.

"Enough, what a quarrel." Liu Dazhu generally doesn't speak at home, but when he speaks, he is very prestigious, and even Mrs. Liu doesn't dare to do it, and the Wang family naturally doesn't dare to do it.

For a while, no one in the room dared to speak, Liu Dazhu took two puffs of cigarette, "I and your fourth brother's money will be paid out, and you will figure out your own way." ”

Needless to say about the Wang family this time, the Zhou family couldn't help but stand up first: "Dad, why do we have to find our own way, our money is all paid to the public, and we haven't kept a penny, now let us figure out our own way, isn't this forcing us to die." ”

Liu Dalei didn't expect his father to say this, and he didn't pull his daughter-in-law.

The eldest granddaughter-in-law of the Liu family, who is also the eldest daughter-in-law of the Zhou family, saw her mother-in-law sitting on the ground crying, and she also cried with her.

"Grandma, you usually love Xianggong the most, how can you bear to watch Xianggong suffer." Liu hugged Mrs. Liu's thigh.

"My hard-working Erlei, usually you work hard to earn money and hand it over, but now you don't care about your life or death, what if you go to me and the child." The Wang family did not show weakness, howled dryly, and pulled Dabao and Xiaobao.

Mrs. Liu was so noisy that her head hurt and pushed Liu away. She knows that the big room and the second room have private money, which she discussed with Liu Dazhu last night.

"What are you crying about, your mother and I are not dead." Liu Dazhu smashed a bowl with his hand, "Don't think I don't know that you are hiding private money, don't cry poor for me." ”

"Dad, we really don't have money in the second room, a few days ago, the dowry of the dead girl in Bicao was given to the fourth brother to marry his daughter-in-law, and we can also pay it out ourselves, and the fourth brother wants to return the money to our second room."

Liu Silei didn't say that he didn't have any money, even if he didn't take out the money, he avoided the Wang family: "Second sister-in-law, what are you talking about, the money has been decided, where did I get the money." ”

"You don't have it, that mother has private money, mother, you can help the fourth brother take it out." Wang looked at Old Lady Liu again.

How could Mrs. Liu, who loves money as much as her life, come up with money? kicked Wang away: "Hmph, that's my coffin book, for you?" Don't even think about it. He looked at Zhou again: "This matter is settled, and I will pay my own money." After speaking, he and Liu Dazhu turned around and prepared to go back to the room.

"Separate! I'm going to break up! Liu Dalei shouted loudly, including Zhou, they couldn't believe Liu Dalei's words.

"Yes, we have to divide the family." The Zhou family has long wanted to split up, and he is tired and tired every day, and he has money to pay to his father, and in the end he makes a wedding dress for others.

Liu Dazhu turned around and slapped Liu Dalei, "Your mother and I are not dead yet, your fourth brother is not married yet, what kind of family do you share." ”

"That's it, big brother and sister-in-law." Liu Erlei also stood up to persuade, "Father and mother are fine, what do the family say about separation?" Liu Erlei knows the situation of his family, and it is a question of whether a family of five can support him.

Liu Dalei thought that he was working in the fields and couldn't eat more, and he hadn't seen the wages of his two sons working in the town for a short time, so he really didn't want to live such a life, and saw Zhou looking at him, gritted his teeth and said the word "separation".

Although Liu Dalei wanted to split up, Liu Dazhu and Liu's wife refused to agree for the sake of face, and with Liu Erlei and the Wang family on the side, the Liu family still did not divide the family.