Let's say that Zhou Xian, who is over half a hundred years old, really couldn't bear it and fell ill.

Everyone was shocked.

With Lu Gui as the mainstay, with seven hands and eight feet, he carried Zhou Xian home and lay flat on the bed. Everyone gathered around the bed, making a mess of porridge, and couldn't make up their minds for a while. Lu Gui was a little sober and brought brown sugar boiling water, but Zhou Xian couldn't drink it anymore.

Lu Gui didn't think much about it, and hurriedly drove the carriage. Hurry up to Hezhou City and invite a famous man to be silent.

Not long after, Gao Xi was invited.

I saw Gao Xi looking, tall and thin, wearing a pair of reading glasses and carrying a medicine box.

Gao Xi's medical skills can be regarded as brilliant. Before the collapse of the illness, he saw that Zhou Xianyintang was dark and his breath was weak, and he checked Zhou Xian's pulse again, which was heavy and weak. Then he walked outside, beckoned to the family, and signaled to come over.

Lu Gui was shocked, and knew that something was wrong, so he hurriedly walked over and asked urgently: "How is it?" ”

Gao Su shook his head and whispered: "Ling Zun's illness may not be curable, let's prepare for the future!" ”

As he said, more than ten days later, Zhou Xian was terminally ill and dying, and he was unable to return to heaven.

When he was dying, Zhou Xian took Zhou Jiang's hand and said, "Zhou Jiang, promise me that you must take good care of your younger brother." After I'm gone, don't break up! ”

Zhou Jiang agreed.

Zhou Xian called Zhou Hai to his side again and said, "Son, the most unrelieved thing for me is you!" In the future, I will see you create, so that you can do it yourself! Listen to Uncle Ru and treat him as a father. ”

Zhou Hai nodded tearfully.

Zhou Xian said to Lu Gui: "You have to take care of my two sons more, they are ignorant of the world and are prone to make mistakes." Especially the youngest son Zhou Hai, he ......"

Before he finished speaking, he pointed at Zhou Hai and died at the age of fifty-six.

Strange to say, the cow died that night.

The Zhou family, a group of people, including Lu Gui and Jiang Xian, cried like a tearful man when they saw the death of both humans and animals.

Lu Gui and Jiang Xian were busy.

According to local customs, report the funeral to relatives and friends, and then wear a shroud, buy a coffin, and hold a funeral. Only two Taoist priests were invited to do meritorious recommendations.

The funeral was extremely simple.

Zhou Xian's body was in the house and was left for seven days and seven nights. Lu Gui didn't close his eyes, so he stayed by the side when he was free. Because I can't afford to invite Mr. Yin and Yang to see feng shui, I casually went to the foot of Xincheng Mountain to find a yin cave cemetery to bury.

That morning was the time for Zhou Xian to "go up the mountain". Along the way, blowing and blowing, Zhou Jiang held the photo frame, Zhou Hai held the spirit card, wore linen and filial piety, lowered his head, and walked behind the coffin with tears in his eyes.

When I walked to the grave that had been dug and was about to be buried, suddenly, there was a vision in the sky, lightning and thunder, wind and sand, and a violent storm.

Carrying the coffin of the "Eight King Kongs", the coffin was hurriedly placed in the grave. Because the wind and rain were too fierce, the ropes didn't have time to untie, and they ran to the big locust tree next to them to hide from the rain.

After a while, the wind and rain stopped, and when I came out to look, the coffin had been buried by the loess. Everyone called it a miracle, and it was a miracle that had never been seen before.

It is said that this is a "heavenly burial"!

The Zhou family will have different people, either rich or expensive.

However, Zhou Hai didn't think that far. I only thought that after my father died, my brother and sister-in-law might have to split up and leave my family aside.

What can I do if I lose my support? Thinking of this, in front of his father's new grave, he cried even harder, cried more sadly, and almost lost his breath.

Zhang Cui persuaded: "People can't be resurrected after death, and there must be a road before the car reaches the mountain." Don't be too sad. If you hurt your body, you will be sorry for your father. ”

Zhou Shao, who was less than five years old, also held Zhou Hai's sleeve, pitifully, and said in a childish tone: "Dad, don't cry, don't cry!" ”

Zhou Hai stopped crying.

Sure enough, after Zhou Xian's death, less than two months later, Zhou Jiang and Wang Lan proposed to separate.

Zhou Jiang said: "We have no children and no daughters, so we don't have any burden. And the younger brother has Zhou Shao, as well as Zhang Cui, who eats with his mouth open and dresses with his mouth closed. We have suffered too much to feed his family. ”

Wang Lan nodded and said, "Yes!" After Zhou Shao's marriage in the future, we will have to add more people to increase our mouths, won't we suffer even more? ”

Zhou Jiang said: "When my father was alive, he prevented the family from separating. Now that my father has passed away, I can't take care of it, so I can mention the separation of the family earlier. ”

Wang Lan said: "This is the best. In the future, whether Zhou Hai and them have anything to eat or wear has nothing to do with us. ”

Zhou Jiang thought for a moment and said, "However, however, there is still a problem here. ”

Wang Lan asked, "What's the problem?" ”

Zhou Jiang said: "When my father was dying, he left his last words and told him not to separate the family. If you disobey your father's words today, you will be ridiculed and gossiped. ”

Wang Lan said: "Although my father has a will, he is dead, and it is not a holy decree. Moreover, there is a time for change in the decree. No matter how you do it, there is gossip. ”

Zhou Jiang even said that it was reasonable, and said: "Well, every family has a scripture that is difficult to read. Let these people who chew the root of their tongues say whatever they want, and don't care so much. ”

The husband and wife sang and harmonized, and secretly matched the farm furniture. Although the houses are also half each, they keep the good ones for themselves and the bad ones for Zhou Hai.

Wang Lan asked: "How to divide the horse and the cart?" ”

Zhou Jiang pondered for a long time and said, "The horses and carts are left to us." Lu Gui and his wife are almost sixty years old, and they are old servants. People are old, and it is obviously not good to do farm work, so let's give it to Zhou Hai! ”

Wang Lan asked again: "What about the three acres of land?" ”

Zhou Jiang asked rhetorically: "What do you think, how should it be divided?"

Wang Lan said: "These three acres of land are divided into two shares and shared equally. The good land and good soil are left for us, and the thin fields and thin soil are given to them. ”

Zhou Jiang said: "This is very good, invite relatives and friends to come and testify, so that it can be counted." ”

Wang Lan agreed.

That night, Zhou Jiang did not discuss with Zhou Hai in advance, so he asked someone to write the separation contract.

Everything is ready for deliberation.

The next day, I prepared food and drinks and set up four tables. Inviting relatives and friends to the house is nominally a dinner party, but in essence it is inviting them to be witnesses.

Zhou Hai and Zhou Shao were also invited to attend. Zhou Hai was still in the dark, and he didn't know why his brother and sister-in-law had a treat.

During the banquet, after three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, Zhou Jiang picked up the wine glass, stood up and said, "Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your help to me." This glass of wine, I will do it first as a respect! ”

With that, drink it all.

And the crowd drank it.

After Zhou Jiang finished drinking, he said, "I have something to announce today." ”

At this time, there was a lot of noise, and suddenly there was silence, and I heard Zhou Jiang say the next sentence: "I want to divide this family!" ”

Someone asked, "Okay, why do you divide it?" ”

Zhou Jiang replied: "After my father died, I was in charge of the house alone. I have limited ability, and I can't be a good family. In case something goes wrong, I'm afraid I'm sorry for my father, and I'm afraid of hurting my flesh and blood. ”

After a pause, Zhou Jiang said: "Please come to the senior relatives, just to please testify." ”

After that, he took out the family separation contract from the drawer and said: "It's all the same match, fair and selfless, bothering all the relatives, raising your hands and drawing a charge." ”

Zhou Hai was weak by nature, and when he heard that he was going to split up, he didn't dare to argue, he was sad from his heart, tears fell down in his eyes, and he couldn't stop crying alone.

Seeing this, Zhang Cui was very angry, and stepped forward alone to reason with Zhou Jiang.

Zhou Hai went to pull, and Zhang Cui threw it away.

Zhang Cui came to Zhou Jiang angrily and said, "When my father was dying, he told him not to divide the family. But he didn't die for a few days, his bones were not cold, and his brother took matters into his own hands and split up his family, so what was his heart? ”

There was a lot of discussion.

Zhou Jiang was afraid of gossiping, so he blushed, stiffened his head, and quibbled: "There is no banquet in the world that will not be dispersed. My father is a deceased person, how can his words be unchanging? ”

Zhang Cui was asked, and she didn't know what to say.

Zhou Jiang said again: "I wanted to give you horses and chariots, but my younger brother can't raise them, you don't dare to raise them as a woman, and your son is still too young to raise them." Therefore, we had no choice but to keep it. ”

Zhang Cui hurriedly said: "Horses and carts are the most applicable, but you made excuses and left them behind." ”

Zhou Jiang said: "That's not the case, I'm thinking about you." Now divide that one and a half acres of land, and ask Lu Gui to help you plant, so you don't have to starve to death. ”

Hearing the tone of his voice, Zhou Jiang had already planned. Zhang Cui knows that he can't do it, and he can only do so.

Everyone even thought that what Zhou Jiang said seemed to be reasonable.

But those relatives and elders all knew that the distribution was unfair, but none of them stood up and said a fair word for Zhou Jiang, and they all silently took the pen and drew it.

Early in the morning, Lu Gui went to Hezhou City to buy herbs for Zhou Shao, but he only knew that Zhou Jiang had a treat, but he didn't know about the separation.

Just as the time of the painting, Lu Gui returned.

As soon as I arrived at the door, I met Jiang Xian sweeping the floor.

Jiang Xian knew her husband, was nosy, and talked a lot, so she pulled Lu Gui to the side and said, "Zhou Jiang divided the family today, don't worry about it, save yourself from being disgusted!" ”

When Lu Gui heard this, he was taken aback and said: "When Mr. Zhou was dying, he asked not to divide the family, how did he divide the family?" Zhou Hai can't grow crops, how can he live? ”

After that, he turned around and left, going to find Zhou Jiang and say.

Jiang Xian persuaded: "It is difficult for a clean official to cut off family affairs. What's more, you are not a clean official, but just a servant, can you break it? A large group of relatives and elders came to the family, but they didn't say anything. You say, what's that? ”

Stop in front and don't let Lu Gui go.

Lu Gui said: "You old woman, get out of the way!" Having said that, I also have to figure it out and don't let down Mr. Zhou's life-saving grace to me. ”

After that, he pushed Jiang Xian away and walked straight to the courtyard.

Walking into the courtyard, Lu Gui saw four tables of banquets. Zhou Jiang was drinking, his face was flushed, and he was eating and drinking happily with others, so he couldn't ask rashly.

Lu Gui saw that no one paid attention to him, so he only stood beside him. I looked for Zhou Hai for a while, but I didn't see anyone.

At this time, the weather anomalies. It was still sunny just now, and suddenly, the sky was full of dark clouds, lightning and thunder, and it rained heavily for a while.

The people sitting at the table went into the house one after another to take shelter from the rain.

The banquet in the courtyard dam did not have time to evacuate. The dishes in those plates, the shochu in the wine glasses, were drenched in the rainwater, and they were drenched to a pulp.

It seems that this is a warning from God.