"How's it going? Go to a few more houses, don't just listen to one. ”

Lu Weimang sat in the study, looking at the officials who came to report.

The complaining woman who suddenly appeared in the morning had already gone back at this time, because of her situation, Lu Weimang had already taken it, and said that she would consider it again and again for her and deal with it well, so that the old woman's emotions calmed down and returned home to wait for the opening of the hall three days later.

After listening to the old woman's statement, Lu Weimang went down to investigate with the servant, and after a day, the servant finally returned in the evening.

This case is not a murder or theft, and there are no clues to be traced, but it is just a simple and clear family matter, so the official went to visit for a day, and restored the beginning and end of the Zhang family's wife suing her son for unfilial piety.

As the woman's married daughter said, the late old man Zhang was born in a big family, because there were many brothers in the family, he grew up hungry when he was a child, so since he was a teenager, he was determined to go out of Zhangjia Village and move to the town with his whole family. This home, of course, is the small home after he got married, not the home where he was born.

Because of the large number of brothers and the preference of his parents, Old Man Zhang was not close to his family.

For this dream, since he got married, he got up early every day and watched five watches, and was the first to go to the field every day to serve the crops and reclaim the wasteland.

With this hard work, he supported his three children and sent them to the village to teach them.

In addition to working in the fields, he would go to various places to work as a coolie to earn money every winter when he was busy, leaving his wife and children at home.

This is going to talk about the character of the old man Zhang, he is silent by nature, he doesn't talk much to his parents and brothers, and he never forces others to work as hard as him, so his wife marries the old man Zhang, and only cooks at home and takes care of the children every day, which makes the villagers envious.

This is how he worked day after day, and over the decades, he saved a "huge amount of money", and he became the first person in Zhangjiacun to buy a house in the city as a farmer instead of studying for the imperial examination in Zhangjia Village for decades.

All of a sudden, Zhangjiacun was in an uproar.

But I didn't know that Old Man Zhang's body had already been overdrawn year after year, and he had lost his life, but after entering the city for a year, he died.

Because Old Man Zhang has a good reputation in the township and is a well-known hard-working man, his two sons married a woman who had passed school as his wife early.

You must know that even in Jincheng, there are not many Mengxue women, which shows that everyone's recognition of Old Man Zhang actually married into the Zhang family as the daughter of a solid family.

Old man Zhang's daughter also married into a wealthy family in Jincheng because she had been educated.

The three children got married, and the old man Zhang also bought a house in the city, left the village with his wife and children, and went to live in the city, which can be regarded as completing his lifelong goal. It stands to reason that he is also smiling when he leaves. Who knows, as soon as Old Man Zhang left, his wife and children under the halo of Old Man Zhang were exposed, and his wife wanted to bury Old Man Zhang because she was grateful for her husband's treatment for decades, but Old Man Zhang's two sons were unwilling to pay this money, they only lived with their mother since they were children, and they were not close to their father, so they just wanted to bury their father in a thin coffin.

Old man Zhang's widow refused, and after discussing and arguing with his two sons to no avail, she asked the old man for help. The villagers only felt that as soon as the old man Zhang left, he would only deal with his two sons in the future, and they would persuade the old woman to marry her husband and her husband to die, so she would not insist anymore and listen to her son.

is such a simple case, if it weren't for the old woman and her son fighting up, they wouldn't have handed the case to Lu Weimang.

"My lord, the neighbors and relatives of the Zhang family in the past said that this Zhang family is a kind and reasonable person, but the two sons have become relatives, and they have been under one roof for a long time, and it is inevitable that there will be times when the pot touches the bowl, so this time the old man Zhang's funeral, the two sons quarreled a few words because of the contradictions over the years, and the second child said that his parents took special care of the boss, and he had to study for a few more years. said that he used so much money from the family, and the two had separated at this time, and the eldest should contribute more money for his father's funeral. But the eldest didn't think so, but felt that the two were both father and son, and the eldest son should have accounted for the majority of the family property, but the father was in charge before he died, and the two sons divided the house and money equally, and jointly supported their mother. Therefore, the funeral expenses should also be half for one person. Therefore, the old man Zhang passed away for a month, and the two quarreled several times, but they did not set the cost of who would pay more and who would pay less, and finally the two unanimously decided to handle it from Jane, and the two brothers separated in the future, and their house wall was also built. ”

Speaking of this, the official was a little untimely excited, "My lord, do you know that these two brothers are really interesting. The courtyard of the city was facing south, and they built two walls of the courtyard, and the three north houses were divided into three parts. The room in the middle belonged to the old lady. If anyone is a pension wife in a month, the old lady will go to the toilet at whose house, you say, they are like this, is it also absolute? ”

The official was like gossiping, jokingly talking about the separation of the two sons, but Lu Weimang couldn't laugh when he heard it.

The joys and sorrows of life are not connected, but outsiders only see gossip about the life and death of others.

A teenager who has never gone to school is determined to take his family out of the village facing the loess and into the city to earn a living. His dream in life finally came true before he died.

When such an admirable old man died, before his family made a fuss, outsiders were left to watch the excitement. So what do people want in this life? And what can be left?

Lu Weimang didn't know whether to applaud him or feel sorry for him.

"You go and bring Lao Zhangtou's two sons here."

Lu Weimang said to the official in front of him.

The officer's face was a little embarrassed, "My lord, the day we set to open the court and decide the case is tomorrow, and if you announce them today, I'm afraid they won't come." ”

The official paused, and then continued, "Both of them studied for a few years when they were young, and they were literate and hyphenated, and now they work as buddies in the grocery store. Among them, the boss of the Zhang family is valued by the shopkeeper because of his outstanding learning, and he wants to focus on training. And when they went to find out about the situation with the two brothers of the Zhang family, they said that they had something to do every day and did not violate the law, so we have no right to summon them at will, and when the court opens, they will naturally arrive. ”

Lu Weimang smiled, "Sure enough, I have read the book, and it is reasonable to deal with the officials." ”

The official nodded, "Yes, my lord." In the final analysis, this matter is a family matter, and our yamen is not good to interfere. This old man's parents died early, he and his brothers are also cold, no one stands up for him, and the old woman Zhang should be a husband and a son, so from the plaintiff's side, no one can justifiably complain for him. What's more, if the old man is still there, I'm afraid he will choose to keep the funeral simple, after all, he has been frugal all his life. ”

Lu Weimang nodded, and suddenly thought, "How did this old man die?" ”

The official was stunned for a moment, "It seems that he has a bad disease." ”

Lu Weimang asked, "How long did it take from getting sick to dying?" ”

The official recalled the villagers' discussions, "I heard that it was half a month, when he vomited blood as soon as he ate, he was sent to the hospital, and the doctors said that he was exhausted and his life was short." So he didn't do much to cure it, so he died of weakness at home. ”

Lu Weimang understood, "That is, he didn't die suddenly, so in the half month he was dying, did he explain how to handle his funeral?" ”

The official thought about it again, and finally said, "Very few people know this. Old man Zhang had a serious illness in the city, and the news reached the village, and his relatives and brothers had already left before they could take time to see him. Moreover, his two sons did not want to stop working every day, so they only waited for their father to die before asking for leave to go home to take care of the funeral. So before he died, only his wife was by his side. Her wife said that before his death, Old Man Zhang always talked about the days when he was a child and followed his parents to pick up ears of wheat in the field, so she wanted to take Old Man Zhang back to the village and bury him in a beautiful way. But his two sons said that their father had been thinking about going to the city all his life, so the funeral should be handled in the city simply. ”

Lu Weimang understood, "Okay, since the two sons of the Zhang family can't come, they can only be separated from the court tomorrow." ”

(End of chapter)