"The second daughter-in-law, the fourth daughter-in-law, clean up the dishes and chopsticks!" Mu Hong said slowly.

"Yes." Liu and Xu, who were named, stood up one after another and responded, although Liu was unwilling, but his father-in-law's words did not dare to be disobedient, and Liu was also looking forward to the separation of the family for a while, so the depression and reluctance in his heart were gone, and he quickly cleaned up the two tables of dishes and chopsticks with Xu.

The people who stayed in the hall, after Liu and Xu cleaned up the tables, all rearranged the tables and chairs, and then sat down in turn.

Naturally, the second elder of the Mu family sat on the main seat, then Mu Jinghai and his wife and daughter in the long room, Mu Jingshan and his wife and daughter in the second room, and then Mu Jing took the Chu family and Mu Yunxue brothers and sisters, and then Mu Jinglei took his wife and daughter, as for the sister-in-law Mu Ruxia, she naturally sat next to the Li family, above several brothers.

Everyone sat down, Mu Hong chatted with Mu Jinghai and Mu Jingshan for a while, but they looked like a father and a son, and it was not until Liu and Xu sat down that the three stopped talking.

Mu Hong first looked at everyone in the hall, with a smile on his face, but there was a sense of happiness full of children and grandchildren, and then Mu Hong cleared his throat and said loudly: "It's rare for the family to get together today, and the autumn harvest has passed, and you all have families and have your own children." People in the village generally split up after the youngest son gets married, these years in order to provide for the people in the long house to study, you have also worked hard, now Zhiyao, Zhixu and Zhijin are about to reach the age of saying kiss, the family has not much money for the long house to study these years, so I want to divide the family first, and then you don't need to study in the long house, you will work hard for two more years, and when Zhiyao they reach the age of saying kiss, your bride price money is also there. ”

Mu Hong looked like I cared about you very much, but Mu Yunxue pouted when she heard it, for the partiality of the second elder of the Mu family, Mu Yunxue sometimes suspected that Mu Jingze and Mu Jinglei were picked up, otherwise how could they treat it so differently, although the palms and backs of the hands are all meat, but the meat on the back of the hands is probably only bones.

Mu Yunxue was in her heart here, and Mu Hong had already continued: "I have already discussed the matter of dividing the family with your mother, and the family has a total of forty acres of land, two shops, and twelve rooms in this courtyard and twenty-six taels of silver. ”

"Let's talk about the two shops at home, who is still running by whom, the people in the long house want to study, and they will have to take scientific research in the future, there are many places that need money along the way, so the long house is a little more, forty acres of land to the long house twenty acres, the remaining twenty acres I and your mother are five acres, the second room and your little sister Ruxia each five acres, ten brick houses in this yard, eight of which are for the second room, two for Ruxia, three and four rooms for one person and a thatched house, twenty-six taels of silver, me and your mother ten taels, Ten taels were given to Ruxia as a dowry, and the remaining six taels were given to Zhiyao to marry later. Mu Hong said cracklingly.

Mu Yunxue was a little speechless after listening to the arrangement of the second elder of the Mu family for the separation, such a division is really "fair", and in the end, the third and fourth rooms took over and only got a dilapidated thatched house, with the most effort, and the least in the end, this is really boundless.

After Mu Hong finished speaking, he began to ask for the opinions of several sons, Mu Jinghai and Mu Jingshan naturally agreed, and Mu Jingze and Mu Jinglei would not say anything if they had any opinions in their hearts, so such an extremely unfair division was given like this.

Mu Yunxue was a little uncomfortable with this unfair separation, but it was only for a while, as long as she could divide the family, how to divide Mu Yunxue felt that it didn't matter.

"As for the annual filial piety, your mother and I decided to follow the long house in the future, and the rest of the rooms will be given ten taels of silver every year." Mu Hong said slowly.

"Ten taels!" After listening to the annual filial piety of ten taels of silver, the first one to stand up against it was Liu, "Dad, the best year in this village will give the old man a tael of silver, ten taels You want our lives, then it is better not to divide the family!" ”

"More than ten taels, don't you know what you've been hiding from me all these years, if you're not satisfied, then we'll split up again." Mu Hong was even more angry at someone who disobeyed him, especially if it was his daughter-in-law who disobeyed him.

As soon as Liu heard Mu Hong say that he wanted to re-divide, he immediately did not agree, and his own family divided a shop, eight rooms, five acres of land and six taels of silver, although it was not much more than the long house, but it was a lot more than the three rooms and four rooms, and the silver under his own family had already bought a two-entry courtyard in the town over the years, just waiting for the day when the family was divided, and the family moved to the town to live, if it was re-divided, the share of the long house would definitely not move, but the share of their own house could not be said, maybe the two old ones would divide their share to the three rooms and four rooms, I don't dare.

Thinking about it like this, Liu's will be silent, ten taels will be ten taels, anyway, the shop will not only earn so much a month.

Seeing that Liu stopped talking, Mu Hong asked the opinions of everyone present again, but no one spoke up, so the matter was settled, and then everyone present who was dismissed just waited for the clan elder to come to witness tomorrow and sign and seal.

Mu Yunxue followed Mu Jingze, the Chu family, the eldest brother and the third brother back to the house, the Chu family first let Mu Yunxue wash up and sleep, and he sat on the kang to discuss things with Mu Jingze, Mu Zhijin, and Mu Zhiyi.

"Jing Ze, I have been looking forward to this family for a long time, but my father and mother only gave us a thatched house, and in the future, we will be filial to them for ten taels of silver every year, how can we live in the future!" Chu Shi said, the brows that were originally stretched out because of the separation furrowed again, but in his heart, he was thinking about how to live after the separation.

"Dad, you're not grandma's own child, are you?" , Mu Zhiyi looked at Mu Jing with a pair of confused eyes and said.

"Zhiyi can't talk nonsense!" Mu Jing severely reprimanded Mu Zhiyi, but his heart was a little sad because of Mu Zhiyi's words, and recalled that his father and mother had been indifferent to him over the years, no matter how much he did, he was not as good as the eldest brother and the second brother, and he thought that as long as he was more father, he would always see his own good day, but now it seems that his father and mother are afraid that there are only the eldest brother and the second brother, as well as the younger sister.

Mu Jing didn't want to think about it, and he didn't want to think about it, but patted his wife Chu's hand comfortingly and said: "It's okay, it's a big deal that I go to the town to help people, and if I sit down and remove ten taels of silver a year, I can still have some left, and I always have to live a good life." ”

Chu Shi felt her husband's wide and warm palm, and when she came into contact with her husband's reassuring eyes, her originally flustered heart calmed down at once, her eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and she nodded at Mu Jingze and said, "Well, I believe you!" ”

"Daddy, I'm going to sleep." Mu Zhiyi looked at his father and mother who showed his affection a little speechlessly, and rolled his eyes helplessly, his own mother is too easy to deceive, his father works for people a month without eating or drinking, and he will only pay eleven or twelve taels of silver a year, except for the ten taels of silver from his grandmother's filial piety, his family can not still eat chaff, it seems that he will have to rely on himself in the future.

Thinking like this, Mu Zhiyi began to build a blueprint for the future in his little brain, as for what kind of blueprint it was, no one except Mu Zhiyi himself didn't know.