Chapter Ninety-Seven: The Newcomer of the Gui Family's Big House (Part I) (The First Monthly Pass)
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This Mei Tongsheng can't have changed his temperament, he is really willing to pay for his nephew to choose an heir
Not to mention that the other villagers in Mujia Village think it is rare, even the in-laws Du Li Zheng are a little confused.
This is even if it is to ease the relationship with the clan, Zhang Luo Zhang Luo is, there is no need to do the last step.
Even if Mei Tongsheng said before, the heir chosen only inherits the incense of Mei Qingzhu, and the incense in the second room of the Mei family is still inherited by his son Mei Qingbai. But even then, Mei Qingbai is a large branch of the second room, and Mei Qingzhu's branch is a small branch, and there is no reason why the family property is not divided.
The Mei family's second room left a total of one yard and forty acres of land. Needless to say, the yard was occupied by Mei Tongsheng's family; Forty acres of land, last time Mei divided fifteen acres of middle field, now there are only ten acres of lower field and fifteen acres of middle field, this is to divide a few acres to Mei Xiaoba
Even if there is no division of an acre of land, what about raising children
Although Mei Xiaoba is ten years old and doesn't need to be pulled since childhood, it is also the age when half the child eats Lao Tzu to death.
The villagers and the Mei clan were still watching and speculating, Mei Tongsheng took Mei Xiaoba, but he didn't even enter his own house, and went directly to the Gui family's old house.
I went to the old house of the Gui family
When Mei Tong was born, he was the only one left.
What else do you don't understand, sure enough, Mei Tongsheng is still Mei Tongsheng, and she is still stingy to the extreme. These nephews have a good reputation for succession, but they refuse to raise them themselves.
Everyone is really not surprised, and some people even suspect that Mei Tongsheng asked for the four taels or three dollars from the Mei family, and he couldn't say that he would have asked for two more dollars, otherwise he would not have gone to the old mansion of the Gui family and looked bitter and bitter.
There is someone who loves to ponder, and you have to suspect that Mei Tongsheng is deliberately "revenge" on her niece and disgusting the Gui family when she got the heir.
The heir is under the name of Mei Qingzhu and is Mei's own nephew. There is no one to raise, but it is not necessary to be raised by Mei's aunt.
Mei is the widow of the Gui family's big house, and in the past ten years, she has supported and sent the elderly in the Gui family, and she has worked hard without merit. She can make money on her own, and who can say anything if she wants to support her nephew
But after all, it is the old house of the Gui family, it is the place of the Gui family, you are a widow who enters the door, you bring your niece over, and you want to bring your nephew, where is the Gui family or the Mei family
Mei's is a woman, she has no flesh and blood of her own, and she will have to look at the face of her cheap son Gui Chongyang in the future, and with the appearance of raising her nephew, I am afraid that the situation will be even more difficult in the future.
Many villagers speculated like this and secretly scolded Mei Tongsheng for being unkind.
"It's all about studying, and his stomach is bad, why doesn't God kill him!" These are the words of Grandma Gui Er.
The old lady was worried about this, but she didn't think of worrying about anything.
When the old lady got the news, she hurried to the old mansion, and Mei Xiaoba had already settled down in the east chamber.
"First settle in the east chamber for a few days, separate the west chamber in a few days, or move to the east chamber." Gui Chongyang is the master.
According to the rules of housing, it is naturally expensive in the east chamber and the west chamber, so when building a house, the east chamber is also one inch higher than the west chamber, but when you really live in it, the east chamber is not as warm in winter as the west chamber and cool in summer, so the east chamber on this side of the old house does not arrange people to stay in the house, one is a guest room, and the other is a warehouse.
The two rooms in the west chamber, because they were used as Gui Chongyang's study, were made as inner and outer suites. The inner room is a study, and the outer room is a small hall.
Now that Mei Xiaoba is here, he will live permanently in the future, and since it is not good to live in the east chamber all the time, Gui Chongyang plans to renovate the west chamber.
In the final analysis, this is also Gui Chongyang's own negligence before, this persuasion of Mei Qingzhu to give Mei Qingzhu an heir was mentioned before building a house, but he didn't think of this when planning a new house.
Mei Shi did not object, took Mei Xiaoba's hand, and looked at the tears on the child's half body. Mei Duo sat on the side, her eyes were red, and she helped Mei Xiaoba with medicine.
Seeing the scene in front of her, Gui Er's grandmother swallowed as many "old man's words" as she could, and now she could only hope that Gui Chongyang could be as generous and lenient as he showed.
When everyone saw that Gui's second grandmother was coming, they all stood up.
Gui's second grandmother's face was a little fierce, and Mei Xiaoba got up with everyone, with an uneasy look on her face.
Looking at the scars on Mei Xiaoba's neck and arms, Grandma Gui Er sighed in her heart, her expression softened, and said, "Listen to your aunt's words in the future and get along with your cousin Chongyang." ”
Mei Xiaoba nodded busily and said, "I listen to my aunt and Brother Chongyang." ”
Today is a bit cruel for a ten-year-old. Disgusted by his biological father, disliked by his stepmother, disgusted by his uncle and aunt, and abandoned by his grandfather. If it weren't for Mei and Chongyang's reception, I wouldn't know where he was.
It is said that kittens that are discarded once will become clingy after being taken in by the new owner, for fear of being abandoned twice. Mei Xiaoba's now trembling little pitiful appearance is no different from an abandoned kitten.
Mei Xiaoba knew that she was nominally raised by her aunt, but in fact, it was Gui Chongyang, the head of the Gui family's house, who took her in.
Gui's second grandmother saw that Mei Xiaoba was honest and not a troublemaker, so she put her mind at ease, but she still called Mei out and instructed: "I know that you are soft-hearted, Xiaoba has become your brother's son, you can take care of it as an aunt if you are happy, but don't neglect Chongyang." This family, in the end, is still Chongyang, if you don't want to go one step further, you will not rely on your nephew in the future, but Chongyang. ”
Mei Shi helped Gui's second grandmother, and said with a grateful face: "Second aunt, don't worry, Chongyang in my heart is also a nephew, and I won't hurt the child's heart." ”
Nominally, Mei Xiaoba and Gui Chongyang are both "orphans", but Mei Xiaoba has a "biological father", as well as the same "born brother", and his grandparents and uncles are also alive, and he has more aunts and sisters; Here in Gui Chongyang, only cousins remain, and parents and grandparents are no longer there.
If you look at it from the perspective of kinship, Gui Chongyang is thinner and seems to be more pitiful. But Gui Chongyang is literate and literate, has a body of learning, and has an old house and heritage; Mei Xiaoba was here, but she was taken out of her biological father's house wearing only one clothes, and her relatives shirked the blame, and there was no one to support her, so she could only take refuge in her married aunt under the fence.
Gui Chongyang doesn't have to worry about the future, but Mei Xiaoba doesn't work hard, and even her livelihood will be a problem in the future. In this way, Mei Xiaoba is pitiful again.
Gui Er's grandmother was afraid that Mei's grasp would not be able to grasp the proportions, which would make Gui Chongyang dislike it, so she gave a special advice.
Mei is not a fool, there is always a first come and a first to come. Although they are all her nephews, it is closer to Mei Xiaoba, but without Gui Chongyang's proposal, Mei Xiaoba is just a nephew. Since Gui Chongyang can think about her, how could she bias Mei Xiaoba to stab Gui Chongyang's heart.
In the east wing, Mei Xiaoba looked at the door, saw that Mei had not come back, and said a little uneasily: "Isn't Grandma Gui disliked?"
was disgusted by her family and relatives once, and Mei Xiaoba was really scared.
Mei Duo smiled and said: "How can you not be foolish, the old man looks stricter, and he is the most loving." When she said this, she didn't know the bottom of her own heart.
In the end, this is the Gui family, not the Mei family, but there are three Mei family members.
When Gui Chongyang first came back, Mei Duo felt sorry for her aunt, thinking that her aunt had sent the old one, and she would pull the younger one of the Gui family in the future, she really owed the Gui family in her previous life; But after two months of getting along, Mei Duo knew that she was thinking too much, not her aunt raising Gui Chongyang, but really Gui Chongyang's filial piety to her aunt.
Now that Gui Chongyang has returned, the Gui family has not only changed to a new house, but the two aunts and nephews no longer have to work day and night for their livelihoods, and they are busy guarding the embroidery frame.
Gui Chongyang asked Gui Wu to buy a bunch of embroidery threads and materials, but it was not for Mei's aunt and nephew to embroider to make money, but to ask Mei Duo to embroider a dowry.
The land and silver retrieved from the Mei family, as well as the pine furniture that was added little by little in the warehouse in the East Chamber, Mei Duo knew that Gui Chongyang was the support of their aunt and nephew, and it was Gui Chongyang who was taking care of their aunt and nephew.
But no matter how kind Gui Chongyang is, it is not a reason for their aunt and nephew to make inch. Leaving Xiaoba to settle like this, is it really inappropriate?
Gui Chongyang is generous and generous, what do the people in the second room of the Gui family think of their aunts and nephews
Mei Duo was still nervous, and Gui Chongyang had already said to Mei Xiaoba: "Now that we have entered the house, we will be a family in the future, don't call me such a foreigner, you will follow me to call someone in the future." The second grandmother is a warm-hearted person, and she must have seen that the two of us were about the same age, and she was afraid that we would fight, so she asked her aunt to take a good look at us. I'm too weak to beat you. ”
Gui Chongyang was obviously talking nonsense, but he was serious, Mei Xiaoba immediately believed it, patted his chest and said: "I don't fight with Brother Chongyang, I will listen to ......Brother Chongyang in the future."