Chapter 35: The Sandalwood Tree
In a few words, he reversed right and wrong, and pushed all the mistakes on Xi Feng and himself.
Xi Feng sneered, "Grandma, you said that I misunderstood this time, then, the sandalwood trees and nan trees on the forest tree Zhuangzi that gave us the second room when we split the family were cut down and sold by the people in the big house, and I also misunderstood?" ”
Xi Feng respectfully kowtowed to the old sect master, and complained, "In the forest Zhuangzi, the valuable ones are the thirty adult sandalwood trees, when Ah Gong was alive, he also accompanied his uncle to the Zhuangzi to see, and Ah Gong also promised to wait for his uncle to give his uncle a sandalwood coffin after a hundred years, this matter, when Ah Gong was dying, he also specially explained it to my father, but I didn't expect that as soon as my grandfather's funeral was over, my uncle took someone to Zhuangzi and cut down all the thirty sandalwood trees and sold them, and the silver sold did not give us a penny for two rooms. ”
"Our second room was only known after the uncle sold the tree, uncle, that Zhuangzi, since the second room was given to us when the family was divided, the tree on the Zhuangzi is also our second room, why did the people in the big house cut it down and sell it?"
"I didn't say a word, and I didn't give a penny to the second room for silver, what is the difference between this and bandits and robbers?"
"Uncle, although our Xi family is not a scholarly family, a family of cultivators and scholars, but it is also a well-known squire in Hangzhou, and the uncle has made such a shameless behavior, which is the face of our Xi family."
"My dad thought that he was a brother, so he didn't make a big deal and suffered this loss, but in the next few years, the people in the big house became more and more excessive, and almost forced our second room to a dead end."
Xi Feng said as he spoke, tears condensed in his eyes, and he choked up and told everything that Dafang had done over the years, not a single thing he had hidden.
"A hundred acres of rice harvested in a high-quality paddy field, how much grain does it get, tens of thousands of catties, people's grain and oil shops buy seven cents a pound of rice, but the uncle's grain and oil shop, buy my family's rice, only willing to give five cents a catty, but also eat scales, obviously 30,000 catties, I have to say 25,000 catties, less than a lot of silver...... Forced to buy and sell, woo...... Force my father to sell him food, and use my grandmother to suppress my father and mother......"
"Uncle, if it weren't for the people in the second room being forced by the people in the big room, we wouldn't have fought back, if we were really patient, we would have no way to live......"
"Invite our uncle to come today, we don't want to do anything else, we just want our uncle to help us and seek justice for us."
Ruan Shi and Xi Tongfang were also beside Xi Feng, and they also knelt down, kowtowed to the old sect master, and begged the old sect master to uphold justice for the second room.
The old sect master's face turned pale, and he glared at Xi Tonglin angrily, "What Ah Feng said is true?" Xi Tonglin, did you really cut down and sell all the thirty adult sandalwood trees on the two-room forest Zhuangzi? ”
A sandalwood tree, from planting to adulthood, takes hundreds of years, and then grows a wood that can make a coffin, and another hundred years, and a sandalwood tree needs to be planted and raised for two or three hundred years before it can be cut down to make a coffin.
To make a coffin, you only need four pieces of wood, a coffin cover, a coffin bottom, and two pieces on the left and right sides of the coffin, which does not need small wood grafting, the grafted coffin is unlucky, no one buys it, so, a sandalwood tree, at least to grow to three people around the hug, can be cut to make a coffin, if it is thin, it is useless to cut, can not make coffin materials, make the coffin too narrow, and can not be used.