"Mother...... I ......"

Mu Chuntian had already thought a lot on the way back, still thinking about how to eliminate his mother's anger and not to break up, whether to take out the few taels of silver he had saved, etc., but now that Qiao Mu said a few words, he also felt that it seemed quite reasonable, he was not at home all the year round, he went home three or five days a month, and it was normal for his wife not to be easy to conceive, if he really went to the county seat, maybe he could really give him a son, if it was possible, of course he still hoped to have a biological son of his own.

In fact, in the past few years, the reason why he was willing to bring money home, in addition to the fact that he did have some guilt for his brother, was that he did not have a son, and I hope that now he is better for several brothers and the sons of several brothers, and the sons of the brothers' families can also give him filial piety.

Now that Qiao Mu said this, it seemed that he suddenly became much more enlightened, and he naturally became more hesitant to speak, and his heart did have a little wavering.

Qiao Mu didn't know what he thought, and thought that he still wanted to persuade himself not to separate the family, so he hurriedly said:

"Don't say any more, that's all.

I haven't eaten dinner yet, let your daughter-in-law go to the kitchen to help you watch and get some points, your eldest brother and sister haven't come back yet, and we'll talk about the separation when they come back.

Go your own way, every one of you.

I just happened to clean up the house, the third child, you come with me, there are still some things hidden at the bottom of the box in my bedroom, and they are placed under the bed, the bed is too heavy, I really can't move, you come into the house to help me move something. ”

The things at the bottom of the box that Qiao Mu said can't be considered good, but it's not bad, it's a whole box, nearly two hundred books, all of which are left by her dead ghost husband who has been dead for an unknown number of years, and the original body looks uncomfortable, but he is reluctant to sell it, so he puts it on the bed, so as not to look back at things and think about people, or want to sell things.

Don't think that books are worthless things.

In modern times, books are indeed not a valuable thing, a book is only a dozen or twenty yuan, when you encounter a discount, you can also discount the activity, if it is an expired journal or something, it is almost sold by the pound, seven or eight yuan a pound is more, the cheap three or five yuan a pound is also, if it is collected according to the waste, it is less than a piece, but that is the modern era when the traditional media is shrinking, in ancient society, the book itself is still very expensive, and a casual enlightenment book has to be sold for at least one or two dollars of silver, Thicker Four Books and Five Classics and the like, a book may not be sold for one or two silver, but four or five dollars is no problem.

If it is a long masterpiece such as the Zizhi Tongjian or the Historical Records, it will cost more than ten or twenty taels for a casual set, and if it is a hardcover one, it may be more expensive, and the one hand-copied by a celebrity is even more incredible, with a minimum of one hundred and eighty taels and a maximum of one thousand eight hundred taels.

Why is the poor family not as good as the family, because many poor families may not be able to afford a complete set of capital governance and general knowledge, a complete set of historical records, not to mention all kinds of other miscellaneous books, they can only make up a set of four books and five classics, if you accidentally get the content outside the four books and five classics in the exam, it is almost a dark eye, and you don't know at all.

At a time when the Hanmen could only barely read the Four Books and Five Classics without annotations, the children of the family might be reading the Four Books and Five Classics with the annotated versions of the Great Confucian and even the Sages, and other miscellaneous books and miscellaneous treatises could also be read casually, and the gap would not come.

Of course, the original husband obviously belongs to the category of the poor family, although the number of nearly two hundred books is a lot, but most of them are also some branches of Mengxue and the Four Books and Five Classics, and there are no real long works, so the value is limited, even if it is sold, it is estimated that it can only be sold for twenty or thirty taels.

Entering the house, the third child quickly lifted the bed board under the command of Qiao Mu, moved out the large box of books inside, and helped to put out the ashes on it, and then asked:

"Mother, what's in here?

There won't be a single box of gold! ”

Qiao Mu rolled his eyes suddenly, this child's imagination is not bad, it's a pity not to daydream:

"Dream of yours, if we have a box of gold at home, do I need to let you go to plough the fields, how good it would be to buy hundreds of acres of land directly from the local owner."

Inside is a book left by your father.

You won't need it in the future, and it just so happens that the family doesn't have much money to divide the family, so I just sell these books, and I can give each of you four or five taels.

lest one person or two be too stumbling. ”

"Are books so valuable?

Isn't it just a few pieces of paper? ”

Mu Chunshi was a little shocked, although he had never studied, he still knew the basic addition and subtraction, and each person was divided into four or five taels, so didn't it mean that this box of books had to be sold for at least twenty taels of silver?

"It's worth a lot, at least one dollar a copy, some thick ones are estimated to sell for three or four yuan, you don't care so much, let's move out first, and let your second brother take a few of you to the county seat tomorrow to sell the books, and then you divide it equally, quickly move the box out, and make my house dusty."

Qiao Mu explained two sentences casually, and asked him to hurry up, hurry out, this box has been in the belly of the bed for more than ten or twenty years, and when it is taken out, it is full of ash, which is really choking.

Mu Chunshi knew that the books in the box were very valuable, so he didn't dare to move them at will, and suddenly felt a little like the same hands and feet, and moved the box out step by step, and after moving out, he carefully put it down, and he didn't know what precious porcelain he was moving.

After that, a few people in the family waited for about ten minutes, the eldest Mu Chungeng and the eldest daughter Mu Chunmei rushed home, probably because of the reason that they were in a bit of a hurry to walk, they were still a little out of breath when they entered the house, Qiao Mu heard the sound of them coming in the house, and immediately took the prepared wooden box, walked out of the house, sat down and said:

"Since everyone is back, then the rest should come out quickly, don't delay the time."

"Mother, what are you doing with me coming back?"

Mu Chunmei still couldn't believe it, a person living in such a social environment, it was indeed hard to believe that the family would call one of his married daughters back, to put it mildly, this is really the sun coming out in the west.

"Don't ask, sit down and talk."

As he spoke, the adults in the other rooms also came out, and Qiao Mu immediately said:

"Now that everyone is here, I'll make a long story short, today I decided to split up, don't persuade me anymore, since it's been decided, it won't be changed, now I'll talk about how to divide it.

There are five taels of silver left in the house.

The five of you are one or two each, and the remaining three dollars are left to me, rice and flour grains and the like, because Chunmei you did not work at home, so I will not give it to you, although the second family did not go to the field, but he brought a lot of silver back every month, so the rice and flour grains are divided equally between the four of you, but the score is divided into five, and I also have to take a share, but my share can be less, after all, I am alone, eat less, as for the house at home, the family is just such a yard, and they still live in their own rooms, kitchen utensils or something, you can divide them if you want, If you don't want to divide it, you can use it together, as for the chickens and ducks raised at home, they are also divided equally, I don't want a chicken or a duck, just share it equally among the four of your families.

In the end, the most valuable thing in the family is the box of books in front of you, which is left by your father, I estimate that it should be worth about twenty or thirty taels when it is sold, and you will be free tomorrow under the leadership of the second child, go to the county town to sell this box of books, and the money sold will be divided equally, and one person should be able to share four or five taels of silver, as for the last remaining three acres of land in the family, in addition to the second brother, there are a few brothers one acre, and the second child you don't blame the mother for treating you badly, you still have a craft, and you can have some income every month, The three of them are really digging in the soil, and they can't survive with a little natural disaster, so they can leave one acre of land for each of them, so they can survive a small disaster.

It will not be ruined casually.

Or sell sons and daughters.

There is also Chunmei, in addition to being able to get a tael of silver this time, I also have a piece of tofu here, you stay at home tonight, I will teach you, but there is one thing you have to be psychologically prepared, making tofu is very hard, the so-called life has three hardships, hit the iron to support the boat and grind tofu, if you don't want to, it doesn't matter, if you want to, you stay. ”

As soon as Qiao Mu finished speaking, he directly opened the wooden box in his hand, took out five taels of silver and five taels of silver inside, and gave the title deed of three acres of land to the boss, and told the boss to go to the county seat tomorrow, and take it to the county government to separate the three acres of land, and then looked at the eldest daughter, wanting to see how she chose.