Chapter Seventy-Three: The House and the Pine Wood (I)
Mei Duo said to Gui Chun?
The villagers were both surprised and expected. Many people just gossip, thinking that the Gui family is not kind, and when Mei Duo did not have a dowry before, they did not mention the engagement; As soon as there was a dowry here, in less than half a month, it was ordered to his own family.
Those villagers who were worried about Mei Duo's dowry before, and wanted to say it to their sons, nephews, and nephews, they had to feel sour in their hearts and say a few crooked words, saying that Mei Duo was not serious and had a personal relationship with Gui Chun for a long time. However, because the Gui family has a Gui Wu, everyone has scruples, and the sour words are a few words in private.
It's just that although Mei Duo was raised by her aunt, she is the daughter of the Mei family, so she is engaged without going through the Mei family? Many villagers waited for the reaction of the Mei family, thinking that the father and son of the Mei family would definitely make trouble.
As a result, Mei Tongsheng's father and son did get the news, and went to Gui's second grandfather's house that day, but they didn't make noise with Gui's family, but went to the town with Mei Shunniang and Gui Wu.
When Mei Tongsheng mentioned the dowry "for" his niece and grandniece again, the total amount of dowry fields said to the outside world was not ten acres, but fifteen acres.
The second room of the Mei family has a total of only forty acres of land, of which there are ten acres of lower fields, you must know that this is not a lower field, but fifteen acres of middle fields, and even the Mei clan can't help but come over and ask.
If you dislike the land, you can give it to the clansmen at a low price. Now that the price of this land is higher day by day, it is not easy to buy good land, why do you want to bring it to other people's houses as a dowry?
Mei Tongsheng's face was stinky, and he was impatient to deal with these clansmen, and said: "Those five acres are the dowry of the Gui family, which was brought by the Gui family from the Gui family back then, which one should not be given to Shun Niang?" I haven't heard of the dowry brought by anyone's daughter-in-law, not to the flesh and blood of the family, but to the clansmen, what a joke! ”
Everyone surnamed Mei was stunned for a moment, and then they remembered this incident and walked away.
But no one said that Mei Tongsheng should not give away the five acres alone, but counted them in the ten acres. That's the case, it's either cheaper for Mei's aunt and nephew, or cheaper for Mei Tongsheng, anyway, looking at Mei Tongsheng's appearance, he didn't put his clan relatives in his eyes at all, and no one looked down on him, even if he didn't give Mei's aunt and nephew, everyone wouldn't be able to get it.
The reason for Mei Tongsheng's stinky face is not only the loss of five acres of land at the time of transfer, but also the document signed at Mei's "request".
This time, it's endless, right, first asked for Mei Duo's marriage right, and now he proposed it to Mei Qingzhu for succession. Although it is clearly written in the paperwork, the heir only inherits Mei Qingzhu's incense, and the second room of the Mei family is still owned by Mei Xiucai, and the houses and fields left behind belong to Mei Xiucai, and there is no remorse, but Mei Tongsheng is still unhappy.
Is it his negligence as an uncle, he only remembers his brother's incense, and forgets that there is no incense behind his nephew, but this matter of choosing an heir, Mei reminds him, what he is given to be an uncle is, and he has to make his own decisions? What does this make the people in the village think of him?
Although under the adjustment of Gui Wu, in the end, both sides took a step back, and the heir was determined by Mei's family, but the relevant succession matters were handled by Mei Tongsheng, but Mei Tongsheng still felt depressed.
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Different from the depressed atmosphere of the Mei family, there was a lively scene in the old mansion of the Gui family.
Everyone has the heart to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and the villagers of Mujia Village are naturally no exception. In addition to the six people who went up the mountain to cut wood and got 60 yuan the day before yesterday, today I heard that the Gui family started a house, and there are more than a dozen villagers who came to help.
Some are like the Zhang family, who feel that Gui Wu, the "fifth master", is bullish and willing to come over and hug his thighs; Some of them had an old relationship with the Gui family in the early years, and later broke off their friendship and wanted to take the opportunity to repair it.
Gui Wu does not refuse to come here, although Gui Chongyang is young, he can follow behind Gui Wu and entertain the villagers as the main family.
Only Gui's second grandmother and Yang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law muttered, and they had a lot of complaints about the people who broke off from the Gui family immediately after the Gui family's disaster. But it's just a few words behind the scenes, and there is still a lot of harmony in front of people. Even in-laws like the Geng family and the Yang family are not exempt from vulgarity, how can they find fault with the repeated attitude of outsiders towards the Gui family?
In the eyes of outsiders, the Gui family does not hold grudges and is magnificent.
Those who were still a little embarrassed before really regretted it and remembered the benefits of Guiri's reign.
The world is hot and cold, nothing more than that.
Among the villagers who came to the Gui family to help, there were also people from the Mei clan, who came up from the Mei family, including Mei Xiaoba's father, Mei Aoki.
As the name suggests, he is a little wooden, but he is not lazy in his work, and he has a lot of strength.
Mei Xiaoba also came twice during the period, and Mei Qingmu didn't beat and scolded this son, but the father and son got along much more strangely.
More than 20 strong laborers, demolition of the house is two days of work.
In the summer, sweating and working hard is uncomfortable, but I can't stand the good food of the Gui guy. There is a chicken every day at noon, a piece of fat every night, a steamed bun with millet and white noodles is enough, and there is mung bean soup with sugar all day long.
It's just that the two Shiba Dog and Liang Dakui, who want to come over and fill up the numbers indiscriminately, eat and drink, are embarrassed to mess around, and sell two strengths seriously.
When the old house was demolished, the green bricks that Gui Wu had ordered in advance also arrived, and there were two truckloads of good pine wood that were pulled in one day, and the car that came took away the pile of poplar that the Li family had compensated for.
Only then did the villagers realize that the new house of the Gui family's old house did not use poplar, but all of it was made of pine wood.
When this house is built, it will be more decent than the one occupied by the Li family. Of the more than 80 families in the village, only Duri's house is made of pine wood.
If you build this house, you can get a lot of money.
This time, it was not only the villagers who were surprised, but also the Gui family's own family members were also stunned.
The old house started and had two meals a day, all of which were handled by Gui's second grandmother with the Yang family and the Mei family, and they were going through a lot of hardships.
If it is a family in the city, widowhood is naturally chaste and quiet, but there is no need to live like that in the village, except for the wedding banquet, there is no other place to avoid it.
Seeing the two big carts of pine, Grandma Gui was dumbfounded, but she didn't say anything; Yang "suffered from heat stroke" after a while, saying that he was a little confused, and went back to the second room first.
Mei personally sent Yang back, and then went to get eight taels of silver and put it up, and after returning to the old house, he called Gui Wu to a secluded place and handed the silver to Gui Wu.
Gui Wu refused to accept it, and said: "It's just two carts of wood, why is my cousin so foreign?" My cousin is Chongyang's aunt, I'm not Chongyang's uncle anymore? ”
Even if he didn't care about blood and kinship, the notes that Chongyang helped him sort out were more than the money of two carts of pinewood.
Mei refused to ask for it no matter what: "If the fifth brother doesn't accept it, then I won't dare to use the pine wood." I will live in this house in the future, and there is an uncle who built a house for his nephew, but not a house for his cousin? I don't have more for the time being, even if you are a cousin's subsidy. If you don't accept it, this house will be passed directly to you, and I won't dare to live in it. ”
The price of pine is not comparable to poplar, and it is less than doubled, so that two carts of pine wood are calculated, and there are twenty taels of silver.
The thirty-six poplars that were pulled away before were not as good as those in the Gui family's woodland, but after all, the year was enough, and each tree could be sold for one hundred and fifty or sixty yuan, and thirty-six trees were counted, which was almost five yuan more, and it was only four taels of silver. Even if Mei's eight taels are added, there should be a few taels short of the pine money, so Mei's said so.
It's not that Mei is stubborn, but he really can't just ask for it.
Gui Wu took care of his cousin and nephew kindly, and he received this favor, but he couldn't help but consider it for Gui Wu.
Mei's has already seen that Jiang's fifth brother and sister are a beauty lamp, that is, they live on weekdays, and they have to drink two tonic pills every three or five days, this is a bottomless pit, and I don't know how much to fill in.
Now Gui Wu and his wife live in their hometown, but they will always have to return to the town like that, and they will have to pay money to buy a house and property when the time comes.
Gui Wu is not only Gui Chongyang's nephew, but also has two nephews. If Gui Chongyang builds a house, and Gui Wu has a big head, then it will be Gui Chun and Gui Qiu's turn, will Gui Wu's own uncle build it?
However, if every penny and penny are too clear, it will be too hurtful, so Mei calculated and gave the big head.
Gui Wu had no choice but to accept the eight taels of silver, turned around and gave Gui Chongyang in private, and said, "Cousin thinks too much, you take it first, and then give it to her as a family in the future." ”
Gui Chongyang refused to ask for it, and said: "If my aunt doesn't give it, my nephew will also give it, what will happen if I just accept the wood?" Although I know that the fifth uncle is really compensating for me, but my nephew is not bad at the moment, and the fifth uncle should not make it difficult for my nephew. The second aunt has asked twice, and the nephew said that the nephew bought it from the fifth uncle. For this, it's not good for a family to have a dislike ......"