Chapter 102: Separation
Thank you for your pink tickets, at eight o'clock in the evening, the reborn girl and the crossing girl are finally going to meet again
==============================
The second old man, He Sida, shook his hand and lifted Li Shi on the chair, and said with a bitter face, Do you still have the face to say that your mother's house? Look at your Aunt Nie, eating us, wearing ours, and disgusting us Yu'er. Think about your father, Master Li, every time I see my eldest brother, I can't wait to salute him. Do you expect these people to intercede for us? They don't coax you to sell it, it's pretty much the same. - You don't care about today's affairs, I'll just call the shots. ”
For the first time in his life, the second master got angry, threw the second wife Li alone in the house, and went to the cultivation and reading hall.
In the cultivation and reading hall, Mrs. He sat at the top, and the eldest man He Siping sat on the Nanmu armchair on the left. The second master sat alone on the right, a little lonely.
Today, when the Li family scolded Aunt Nie in the courtyard of the second room, they did not avoid people. In addition, Xu Youxin wanted the people of the He family to do something about the second wife, the Li family, and these words naturally reached the ears of Mrs. He.
These things made Mrs. He very angry and sad, she has to be strong all her life, and the only selfishness she has ever had is to make a good life big, and make up for it a little. Thinking that they are all relatives, the two families will naturally receive the love of the eldest child, and helping each other is the way to prosper the family. Who knows that the second family was ruined.
Seeing the second master sitting here, Mrs. He couldn't help but keep counting the second master He Sida.
Pile by pile, starting from when Xu Gang got married, to marrying a wife and having children for him, and subsidizing their second room for so many years, the second master's head is getting lower and lower, and he looks like he has no place to be ashamed.
Xu see, take advantage of Mrs. He's tea to drink, and say to Mrs. He, you are angry. Speaking of which, this matter is actually not the second brother's. Besides, our Xin'er Fu has a great life, haven't we all turned danger into a disaster? - Mother, don't count the second brother anymore. ”
Mrs. He really felt sad. She has been poor all her life, and she has never coveted what she doesn't belong to. And what Lao 2 did has touched Mrs. He's bottom line. She has never put a shelf on them, nor has she let them calm down in the morning and dusk, she just hopes to compare hearts to hearts, and live together as a family in harmony. But now it seems that there are some people who can't teach it.
"Come on, call me the old 2." Old Mrs. He commanded.
The mother-in-law of the cultivation and reading hall answered, went to the courtyard of the second room, and called the second wife, Li.
Although Li was a little embarrassed, he thought that the silver was the largest, so he was still embarrassed.
When he came to the cultivation and reading hall, Li saw Mrs. He with a red face, and greeted the eldest master and Xu, and sat on the chair next to the second master.
When Mrs. He saw that everyone was here, she said that our He family was young, and there were only two of you, and I still thought that you were of the same heart and stronger than outsiders. Now, it seems, it's mine. The palms and backs of my hands are full of meat, and I can't turn to one side to dig into the other side's wall. ”
When Li heard this, he muttered in his heart.
When the eldest man He Siping heard his mother say this, he hurriedly got up and said that they are not filial, and they can't let the family be harmonious and let their mother enjoy her old age in peace. ”
Mrs. He waved his hand to sit down, and said to him sadly, you don't need to say it. You and you are both filial, of course. You are the boss, and I will follow you from now on. ”
Xu hurriedly stood up and said with a smile, of course my mother followed us. There is an old man in the family, if there is a treasure, it is my mother who has deviated from us. "Say to the second master again, the second brother, don't fight with us."
The second old man got up and smiled, Dao Niang can take turns to live in our two houses......"
Li tugged at his shirt on the side, and the second master shut up.
Mrs. He looked at it coldly, and saw that the second was still so afraid of his wife like a tiger. There was no other way but to divide them and toss them horizontally and vertically.
"Since I said that I will divide the family today, I will put the account here." Mrs. He beckoned her mother-in-law to take two books.
Searching for the account book, Mrs. He said to the underneath that this account book was the family business of our He family before the boss got married. After the boss got married, the boss used the dowry to subsidize our He family, and it was not until the boss won the top prize in the examination and became an official that he did not use the boss's dowry. "I flipped through another account, and said that this account book is to remember how much dowry silver our He family has shared."
Xu never expected that Mrs. He would remember these accounts of old sesame seeds and rotten grains clearly, and she was also a little embarrassed, got up and lowered her hands to serve her mother, these old things, what is it doing? ”
Mrs. He looked at Xu and said with a smile, "It's a small thing for you, but it's a big thing for me." I, He Yingniang, have been doing right all my life, sitting up straight, and have never been sneaky and coveted other people's homes. Your dowry is your private property. You used it to supplement our He family, it is your affection. Even if you don't take it out, no one will say you don't say a word. ”
Xu Xian said, I married into the He family, and I am the He family. When my mother said this, it was a bad idea. He smiled and quipped, didn't my mother treat it as the He family?
Mrs. He is not as articulate as Xu Lingling, and she has to think about it for a while, and then she explains that it is not that she does not regard you as the He family, but that you marry into the He family, and our He family should support you. As the old saying goes, marry a man, marry a man, dress and eat. When you married into our He family, not only did you take care of the housework for our He family, gave birth to children, and even took out the dowry silver for the eldest to go to school, and also provided the family's food, clothing, and food. ”
Speaking of this, Mrs. He's eyes turned a little red.
At that time, the He family was still poor. Mrs. He was unwilling to accept the dowry silver to support the family, but there were priorities, and she couldn't let Yamato delay going to school for the sake of her backbone. Everything is inferior, only reading is high. Mrs. He would rather eat bran vegetables than make offerings. Since then, she has worked harder in the fields, and carefully recorded every expense, planning that one day in the future, when the He family has a bright future, she will pay back all the silver to her eldest son.
I really didn't expect this day to come so soon.
Xu saw that Mrs. He was emotional, and her eyes were red. It is really rare to see a mother-in-law like Mrs. He. Xu has seen how many mothers-in-law have squeezed out the dowry, and the dowry they have held, not only supporting a family, but even a family.
And Xu's family is rich, and the dowry silver she took out back then was only a drop in the bucket. Besides, with the spleen of the old lady He, the dowry silver is enough to get food and clothing, and she will definitely not think about living a rich and expensive life, so it really doesn't cost much.
But with such a little help, Mrs. He wrote it down carefully, and she kept saving money to make up for it.
Such a person is really respectful and convincing from the bottom of my heart.
When it came to this, Xu didn't want to say kind words.
Obviously, this account has been pressed on Mrs. He's heart for many years. It's better to let the old man settle this account.
"Mama Ning, read it to me." Mrs. He handed the account book to Mama Ning.
Mama Ning smiled and took the account book, unfolded it, and read out the amount of money that year was converted into silver one by one.
From Xu Marrying to He Siping's champion entering the Hanlin Academy as an official, a total of five years. In the past five years, the entire cost of the He family was only one thousand taels of silver.
"Our He family used to have only ten acres of thin land. Later, the boss became an official and successively added some fields. Today, we have 200 acres of land, as well as two small farms in my hometown. In addition to our own food, I have had the rest of the grain produced in the fields all these years sold in the store, and we got a total of 1,200 taels of silver. Except for the 1,000 taels returned to the boss, the remaining 200 taels will be divided equally between the two of you. The two small Zhuangzi in your hometown, one for each of you. In addition, the 200 acres of land are near this capital, I have already told the boss, as our He family's sacrificial field, the eldest is the eldest son, and the sacrificial field is the family property, of course, it is managed by the old family. Every year, in addition to keeping a copy for future generations, half of the rest will be given to the old two families. ”
Mrs. He neatly finished the housework, picked up the teacup, took a sip of tea, and moistened her throat.
“? In the past ten years, just such a little silver and land property? "Lee's ears are a little unpleasant. The three-entry mansion of the He family alone is worth 10,000 taels of silver, and the expenses of these subordinates of the He family cost hundreds of taels of silver every month. There are also Southeast Salt Farm and Sea Salt Shop...... Who would believe that there is no silver?
Li ignored the pull of the second master, stood up and said Niang, you can't be biased to the armpits, right? The eldest lord He Siping listened to Li's words, his face turned pale, and he asked, Is it possible that in your eyes, I am a corrupt official? ”
Li choked, and said with a smile No, no, of course not...... It's just, it's just, my mother talked for a long time, and I didn't talk about ...... shop."
Mrs. He looked at the Li family and said coldly that our He family has no shops. ”
Li was unwilling, pointing to so many shops in Xu Dao's sister-in-law, as well as the Southeast Salt Farm and Haiyan Shop, would he say that there are no shops? - Aren't they all the eldest lords who have become officials and can be the private property of the sister-in-law? Even if the sister-in-law used the dowry to subsidize the family back then, but the mother paid it off just now, so the sea salt shop couldn't just give it to her without knowing it."
Mrs. He laughed angrily and said, Do you want to see your sister-in-law's dowry list? By the way, show your dowry list to your sister-in-law? ”
It doesn't matter if people are poor, but just because they are poor, they can't be sarcastic and try to drill crooked ways. A gentleman loves money and takes it in a proper way, and he can't just because he is poor, he is bent on robbing the rich and helping the poor, and taking other people's as his own.
The old lady now regrets very much that she didn't bring her eyes to see people at the beginning, and married the old 2 to such a short-sighted and unscrupulous person.
But then again, who has a bad sore on the top of the head and pus on the soles of the feet that can be seen at a glance? It's all over time, accumulated over time, and it takes a lot of things to see the real chapter. Before the second wife got married, she was also the daughter of an official family raised in a deep boudoir. When they look at each other, they are also gentle and kind, and they are reasonable. It's just that when she was a girl, she was poor, and after she got married, she unfortunately saw the wealth of others, and the heart that refused to lie was finally revealed......
Hearing Mrs. He talk about the dowry, Li's face turned red and he bowed his head and said nothing. The dowry lists of the two sons are on file with Mrs. He. When Mrs. He mentioned the dowry, she didn't look down on the Li family, but beat her, don't think that they have to meet and divide half. The most important thing in being a man is to keep his score at all times.
Seeing this, Xu turned around and whispered a few words to the big girl Hui Qiu, and Hui Qiu took the order and left.
After a while, it was autumn, and he was holding a few points of the store's deed paper in his hand.
Xu took the deed paper of the store, and said to the second brother and sister of Li Shidao, you keep saying that these shops were purchased by the eldest master after he became an official. Here are the deeds of my shops, do you want to take a look at the above days, is it before the big man became an official, or after he became an official? - These deeds are all in the official government, if you don't believe it, you can also go to Shuntian Mansion to check it. ”
Li bit his lower lip, reached out and took the shop deed paper handed by Xu Hand, and it took a lot of effort to understand what was written on the deed paper. Judging from the red paint stamped with the seal, it was really the year of Xu Yue's marriage. ——At that time, Master He was still studying hard at home, preparing for the government exam.
"Now you believe it, right? There are not many words - the house where our He family lives now is also your sister-in-law's marriage. Speaking of which, after arriving in the capital, most of these household expenses are also subsidized by your sister-in-law. I don't have a conscience for all this silver, and I didn't calculate it with your sister-in-law...... "It's not that I don't want to count it, it's just that the expenses in the capital are too big, and Mrs. He has kept accounts a few times, even if she works day and night, without eating or drinking, she can't earn so much silver to supplement her eldest daughter-in-law." But he has become a big official, and the dignity of the official body cannot be ignored. She can't let her family continue to live in a narrow house in a cold house for the sake of peace in her heart, so that she has no dignity as an official.
"Now that you've split up today, you have to move out quickly. But before you move out, you'll have to give me a kneeling shrine. If you don't kneel for three days and three nights, don't think about it," Old Lady He continued to pour salt on Li's wounds.
Lee's eyes darkened for a while. She didn't dare, she had been planning for so long, but she didn't even hear the words of Mrs. He asking her to kneel in the ancestral hall after she didn't share a hundred taels of silver.
Xu looked at it lightly and didn't say anything. - Li is self-inflicted, she will not be indiscriminate and pity her.
The eldest lord He Siping saw his younger brother mourning, and he was a little unbearable, and you don't have to worry about the expenses of the second master He Sida Dao Ningfeng's schooling, it's all on me. There are also two nieces' dowries, and I will also ask your sister-in-law to help you make up for it. "He Ningfeng is the eldest son of the second master, He Sida. In addition to the eldest daughter He Ningyu, the second master also has a concubine, He Ningchun.
Xu smiled and nodded, which was regarded as supporting the scene for the eldest master's words. ——In front of outsiders, Xu has always been obedient to the eldest master, giving him enough face.
Mrs. He glanced at Mama Ning and dragged the second wife, Li, to the ancestral hall.
The He family is sparsely populated. A major event such as splitting up in someone else's house will not stop if it doesn't go about for a year and a half. But in He's house, it was done in a few days.
After the separation, He Ningxin listened to Xu talk to her about these things in the house, and she kept sighing in her heart.
"You don't have to worry about these things anymore, your cousin has also been found, and she has also been married to the Nie family. You can dress up and come with me tomorrow to attend the flower party in the Anjun Palace. Xu gently pinned a strand of He Ningxin's hair behind her ear and said with pity.
be