Gui Chongyang's algorithm is to liquidate the family property of Mei's family house that was "managed" by Mei Tongsheng.

Mei Tong's angry beard has to be cocked, it is really ridiculous, "Song Law" is to mention "the household is absolute, and all the property is given to the maid and the daughter of the family", but now it is the Ming Dynasty, using the "Da Ming Law", which is clearly written "If there is no same sect should be inherited, the daughter born will inherit the share", the Mei family has not died, he is Mei Da's younger brother, it is the inheritance of the eldest brother's family property, where is like this kid said, the long house property should belong to Mei's aunt and nephew.

"Little scoundrel, don't talk nonsense!" Mei Tongsheng snorted coldly.

Gui Chongyang blinked and said, "Huh? Could it be that I am mistaken, my aunt's family is not a family, and there are heirs or grandchildren in her name? ”

Mei Tongsheng was dumbfounded, according to the rules, the male Ding of the same clan inherited not only the family property, but also the incense offering, because of the inheritance of incense, he had more inheritance rights than the maiden in the room.

The so-called "household extinction" means that there is no male on the household registration, and the countryside people commonly call it "no household head". The Mei family has long been separated, after Mei Da died of his son, the old couple couldn't stand it and left one after another, but it was also because the only son died, the blood was cut off, and they lost hope in life, and became a "desperate head", so they died depressed.

Mei Tongsheng only has two sons, the eldest son died in the "Nine Ding Difficulty", and there is only one second son, how can he be willing to pass on to his dead brother, even if he is nominally naturalized; is the eldest grandson left by the eldest son, with outstanding reading qualifications, it is impossible to say that it is the hope of the family, and he is reluctant to put it in the name of the long house, so the family property of the long house is all collected, but Mei Tongsheng has not thought about the incense of the long house.

According to the world, Mei Da and his wife did not have an adopted son or step-heir during their lifetime, but there are still men in the clan, so it should be "life succession", that is, the clan refers to people as heirs, inheriting the incense of Mei Da and his wife, inheriting this house property, on the contrary, there is no "life succession", then the maid has the right to inherit the property.

When Mei Da and his wife died one after another, Mei was still a maid, not to mention Mei Duo, who was babbling.

If the Mei family is calculated according to the "household absolute", Mei and Mei Duo are qualified to share the Mei family's property, so Gui Chongyang said the distribution.

Mei Xiucai saw that his old father was asked, looked at Gui Chongyang twice, saw that he was a scholar, and said: "If you read, you must understand, and you must not know half of it, and you must not pretend to understand." Although I was not naturalized, I carried the flag for my uncle and aunt. In these years, every festival is also for uncles and aunts to sacrifice incense. ”

Rural customs, the old man sends, and the filial son raises the flag.

Mei Xiucai is not naturalized, but she is a nephew, and she has already acted as a filial son, so she is naturally regarded as a "successor".

Gui Chongyang suddenly realized: "So that's the case, the second master of the in-laws and the second uncle of Mei Gao Yi actually took nothing and used the family property of the aunt and grandmother as the dowry of the aunt and cousin, which is really admirable." ”

This is what Mei Tongsheng released when he accepted Mei's family's birth, but he just wanted face, and he once gave Mei a penny.

Mei Xiucai didn't expect Gui Chongyang to be so difficult, and frowned: "Human favor is human affection, law is law, and how to analyze production is naturally a law." ”

Gui Chongyang pondered: "According to the law? My aunt and grandmother and my aunt and grandfather have no heirs and grandchildren under their names, so what does Second Uncle Mei mean to count according to 'two rooms'? ”

Mei Xiucai nodded and said, "That's exactly the truth." ”

Gui Chongyang said: "In that case, the dowries of my aunt and Cousin Mei will have to be prepared by Second Uncle Mei?" ”

"That's nature." Mei Xiucai nodded. He has fame and self-proclaimed status, so naturally his appearance will not be so ugly. There is no clear provision in the "Da Ming Law", but the folk agreement is commonly known as that a maid can get a dowry and her biological mother's dowry.

Mei's "married" for many years, and now it's ridiculous to mention the dowry, but who made the second uncle Mei write a white note to Mei's as a dowry under the pretext that the family's money was all in the family, and the dowry was eight taels of silver, and the field had an interest to make up for it.

In the countryside, sons are favored over daughters, and there are not one or two daughters who marry naked; Mei Tongsheng's "generosity" was not less publicized, in order to cover the fig leaf of embezzlement of orphan girls' family property.

Gui Chongyang asked the inside story before, and despised Mei Tongsheng fiercely, but he was also relieved. Fortunately, Mei Tongsheng made a white dowry back then, otherwise this kind of family elder encroachment on family property is really not good.

Gui Chongyang clapped his hands and said: "That's really good, the Gui family didn't have anyone who could call the shots before, and they have been confused all these years." Brothers, settle accounts, although the aunt and the second master of the in-laws are uncles and nephews, but now after all, they are two surnames, it is better to settle it as soon as possible, otherwise the Mei family's poems and books are handed down, and it is not good to spread the news that the uncle embezzled the niece's marriage; and Cousin Mei here, since you are a member of the Mei family, there is no reason to eat our Gui family's meal in vain; The Gui family has raised Cousin Mei for more than ten years, and this food, clothing, and throwing away expenses, should the funds for raising them also be calculated? ”

Not only did the Mei father and son listen straightly, but even the other three were dumbfounded.

Mei Tongsheng blew his beard and glared: "Shaft, are you crazy about money?" Mei's dowry is Mei's business, what does it matter to your unknown Huangkou child? Mei Duo has been a cow and a horse in the Gui family for many years, and the old man still wants to sue the Gui family for abducting people! ”

Mei Tongsheng was mad and began to intimidate. It's just a casual remark, is the yamen so easy to enter? Of course, the people are afraid of lawsuits, and the scholars are even more incapable of getting involved in right and wrong, otherwise they will have a flawed evaluation of their character, and their future will be ruined.

Mei Xiucai looked at Gui Chongyang and said: "This is the Gui family and the Mei family, it really has nothing to do with outsiders, so I don't have to worry about the little brother." ”

The father and son saw Gui Chongyang's difficulty, and invariably denied Gui Chongyang's identity.

Even if Gui Chongyang is Gui Yuan's son? Now Gui Yuan's justifiable wife is Mei's, Gui Chongyang can only be regarded as an "outer room", and without the nod of Mei's "mother-in-law", he can't enter the Gui family's household registration. As Mei's mother's family, they can naturally make decisions for Mei's. As for the fifth master Jiang in the town, even if he has a relationship now, he is just a son-in-law, and the two surnames are others, so it is not good to support the Gui family on the surface.

Gui Chongyang's small chest straightened up, and said: "The younger generation is naturalized today, and he is the head of the Gui family's house, otherwise he wouldn't have to worry about this." My aunt has eight taels of 'dowry', and she puts the money in her hand to make money, and she has been earning interest for more than ten years, and she always has to add a few taels of silver. Cousin Mei entered the Gui family at the age of two and a half, and has been eleven and a half years now, spring, summer, autumn and winter, clothes in all seasons; Three meals a day, snacks, reading and literacy, and the craftsmanship of female red embroidery, are all thrown away, and these must be calculated clearly before Cousin Mei gets married. The two places add up, don't you have to settle the calculations with the Mei family? ”

Mei and the others naturally got Gui Chongyang's words before, and knew that he would be the master of Mei Duo, but they didn't expect that it would be such a way, not to guard against the Mei family, but to take the initiative to ask the Mei family for "child support" and Mei's previous dowry silver, which was an unexpected shock.

fell into the eyes of Mei's father and son, and the reaction of the three of them proved that Gui Chongyang's words were not fake, but really meant to ask for silver. Their father and son were dark and greedy, and naturally Gui Chongyang was a member of his generation, and secretly scolded him shamelessly, but he didn't take him to heart, after all, the teenage child had just come back from other places, and he probably wanted to go crazy with money.

Mei Tongsheng snorted coldly: "Throwing away the fee? Accounts? If it weren't for your Gui family, how could my nephew die in vain, and how could Duo girl become an orphan? Your Gui family has created evil, and raising orphans is not a proper righteousness. ”

In the end, he is a brazen reader, this time his kung fu head has turned a corner, and looking at Gui Chongyang is like watching a clown jumping beam.

Mei Xiucai also helped: "Evil, if it weren't for the old village chief losing the silver and Gui Yuan stealing the silver, so many people in the village would not have died innocently." ”

The father and son had a dark heart, and when they saw that Gui Chongyang was not good, they turned over the events of more than ten years ago, just to remind the villagers not to accept Gui Chongyang.

At the gate, there are many shadows, and several villagers have been gathered to watch the excitement. The words of Mei's father and son are for those people.

Gui Chongyang did not refute, but shed tears and choked up: "Thirteen years ago, nine people died, five of them were from the Gui family, and my grandfather also vomited blood and died, that's six lives!" After my grandfather lost his silver, he scattered all his family wealth to make up for it, and the two uncles and grandfathers also gave up their family property, if it weren't for someone who fell into the well and lowered the price of the land, the sixty acres of high-quality land should have been enough for two hundred taels of silver. The wicked man who has lost his conscience has killed several people for the sake of a few dozen taels of silver, and God has eyes and looks at it, so that the wicked will get retribution, cut off their children and grandchildren, and will not die a good death. ”

Who in the village doesn't know that the sixty acres of land of the three brothers of the Gui family are now under the name of the village chief Du; However, thirteen years ago, even if Village Chief Du used the means, he would not really buy land in his own name, but sent others away. When the land fell into the hands of Village Chief Du, Village Chief Du only said that he bought it at a high price, and he did not want the land in his village to be occupied by outsiders.

Therefore, Gui Chongyang's words cannot be said to be that he is scolding Village Chief Du.

In fact, Gui Dahai was able to be the village chief back then, and he couldn't say that his family was rich, but his life was quite passable, but Gui Yuanluo's last serious illness cost a lot of money, so that the family had no savings, and he could only sell land in case of trouble.

Land is the lifeblood of the Zhuang family, and Gui Dahai not only sold his own land, but also sold the land of his two younger brothers in order to make up for the loss of silver. It was sixty acres of land, and the onlookers next to them were also embarrassed when they remembered the ability of the three brothers of the Gui family and the days when the Gui family was increasing day by day.

No one mentioned this matter before, and everyone blamed the "difficulty of Jiuding" on Gui Dahai's father and son, and now that Gui Chongyang has unraveled it, people have thought that the "profiteer" who bought land at a low price is not innocent. It is a good field of 60 acres of whole land, even if it is sold urgently, ordinary farmers cannot afford to sell it, but the rich households in the town like this kind of land preparation that are connected together.

If it weren't for the "profiteers" not intervening, the Gui family's land would have been sold at a normal price, and two hundred taels of silver would have been enough, and there would have been no need to pay for it, and the nine people would not have died. The "profiteer" was known to Village Chief Du, and he also sold the Gui family's land to Village Chief Du.

The villagers listening outside the door exchanged their heads and ears, thinking of Village Chief Du, their expressions were a little subtle. Why didn't I think that this village chief Du was also involved in those nine lives?

Mei's father and son listened and felt that it was not good, this was to "overturn the case" for the incident thirteen years ago?