Song Yinhua is watering the fruit trees with spiritual spring water in the orchard.
Every tree was laden with fruit.
This year's orchard has had another bumper harvest.
She signed a contract with a restaurant in the county town, and every autumn when it's harvest season, she calls the restaurant to notify them to come over.
When Song Caixing saw this orchard, she became envious.
She recalled the scene when the new house was first built, and she and her older sister planted the fruit seedlings one by one and watered them together.
But now the eldest sister owns this orchard, while she has nothing.
"Cai Xing?" Hearing the wolfhound barking, Song Yinhua turned around and saw Song Cai Xing. She happily came over to greet her, "When did you get back?"
"I came back yesterday." Song Caixing looked at the fruit trees laden with fruit. "Big sister, with so much fruit on these trees, they must be worth a lot of money, right?"
Song Yinhua sensed something was off about Song Caixing's words.
"It's all hard-earned money."
"These fruit trees were planted by you and me back then, how come they belong to you alone now?"
"Caixing, what do you mean by that?"
"I'm also my parents' daughter. I helped plant the fruit trees back then. Why should the fruit trees bear fruit and the money be yours alone? Why don't I get a share?" Song Caixing desperately wanted the money. "We're all my parents' daughters. Why do you get a share of what belongs to your family and I don't?"
Hearing Song Caixing's words, Li Wenxiu, who was standing nearby, felt that Song Caixing was trying to seize her family's property.
The entire town, and even the entire small county, tacitly agrees that once a girl grows up and gets married, the house and land belong to her son, who is responsible for taking care of his parents in their old age and seeing them off when they die.
Every household does this.
I've never heard of a married daughter running back to fight with her brothers for a house and land.
“Caixing, the house and land here belong to my parents. I never thought of taking them for myself,” Song Yinhua said.
"Since you don't have any, then you have to hand over the money you paid for the fruit last year. Also, the fruit is almost ready for harvest this year, so you have to hand over all the money you paid for selling the fruit."
"Cai Xing, you are making things difficult for me."
"Big sister, you can't take what belongs to us!"
"What did I rob you of? I bought these fruit trees with my own money and planted them myself. I've been taking care of them all these years. I finally managed to get them to bear fruit and sell them for money, and now you all come here demanding a share?"
“The house and land belong to Mom and Dad, and what grows on the land naturally belongs to them too. We are all Mom and Dad’s daughters, so we should all have a share,” Song Caixing said matter-of-factly. “If you hadn’t absorbed our good fortune, would the fruit trees have grown so well? Would your wonton shop have made so much money?”
Song Yinhua seemed to have figured something out, "Caixing, you not only want the orchard, but you're also eyeing my wonton shop?"
“That originally belonged to us, what do you mean by coveting it?” Song Caixing recited the lines that Song Qiuxue had secretly taught her, “The fortune teller said that you are so rich now because you have absorbed the blessings of all of us.”
Seeing that the two sisters were about to start arguing, Tang Suxiang stepped in as a peacemaker, "Stop arguing, you're all sisters. I think we should just split it equally. How much money did the fruit trees make each year, and how much profit did the wonton shop make? Let's take out the money and split it equally. That's the only fair way."
"Why should I share the hard-earned money I've worked so hard for?" Song Yinhua retorted.
Song Caixing became anxious, "Big sister, you are so rich because you have absorbed our good fortune. These fruit trees and wonton shops are supported by our good fortune. You should share them with us."
“Cai Xing, I’m glad you’ve come back to see me, but if you’re here to cause trouble, then I have nothing to say to you. I’m telling you now, I won’t give you a single penny, whether it’s the money from selling the fruit or the profits from the wonton shop.” Song Yinhua turned around and continued watering the fruit trees with the spiritual spring water.
Enraged, Song Caixing followed, snatched the water ladle from Song Yinhua's hand, and threw it on the ground. "Big sister, you can't be so selfish..."
"Don't bully my mom!" Little Hua, who was just over three years old, rushed over and stood in front of Song Yinhua when she heard the sound of the water ladle being smashed.
Looking at the little flower, Song Caixing guessed that she was her daughter.
Song Yinhua gently patted Xiao Xiaohua's back. "This is Mommy's little sister. She didn't bully Mommy. She just accidentally dropped the water ladle. Go play by yourself. Mommy has something to say to her."
The child, not understanding the adult world, believed it and ran off to play, with several black wolfhounds following behind.
Song Caixing watched the little flower run away, "She is..."
Li Wenxiu didn't know that Xiaoxiaohua was Song Caixing's daughter, so she explained to Song Caixing, "That child was picked up by my eldest sister in the back mountain. She's my eldest sister's only child now."
Tang Suxiang advised Song Yinhua, "Yinhua, your husband is dead. Now the surrounding villages are all saying that you cursed your husband to death. No one dares to marry you. You don't have any children of your own. What do you need so much money for? Why not take out all the money and divide it equally? When you get old, Wenxiu's children and my Hanwen's children can take care of you."
"Aunt, do you mean I have to take out more money and divide it between Hanwen and Xuewen?"
Song Caixing and Li Wenxiu's expressions changed. Why should their aunt's family get a share of their family's money?
Tang Suxiang said with a smile, "Your uncle and your father are brothers, and they are both your grandparents' children. Cai Xing just said that the fortune teller said that you have absorbed the good fortune of everyone in our Song family, which is why you are so rich. My Hanwen and Xuewen are also grandsons of the Song family, so of course they should have a share."
Li Wenxiu said, "Aunt, why should our family's money be divided among your son?"
"It's all because of the silver flower that it has drained the good fortune from our Song family!" Tang Suxiang said.
Song Caixing changed her tune, saying, "My eldest sister stole our good fortune, what does that have to do with your family?"
“Caixing, you didn’t say that at first. You said that Yinhua had absorbed all the good fortune of our Song family, which is why we are so rich!”
“I never said that. I said my eldest sister is so rich because she absorbed the good fortune from me, my parents, my second brother and sister-in-law. It has nothing to do with your family.”
"It has nothing to do with my family, so why did you come to my house looking for me?"
Song Caixing was rendered speechless by Tang Suxiang's words.
It was her third sister, Song Qiuxue, who told her that she couldn't handle Song Yinhua by herself, so she asked Tang Suxiang for help, saying that her great-uncle had already spoken to Tang Suxiang.
She didn't know that Tang Suxiang also wanted a share of the money.
Song Caixing and Tang Suxiang had a falling out, and the group parted on bad terms.
Not long after Song Yinhua, her mentally ill mother-in-law, and her daughter finished dinner, Song Caixing came to visit again.
She came alone.
Song Yinhua sent her daughter to play aside and invited Song Caixing into the house to sit down.
"Big sister, is she my daughter?" With Li Wenxiu and Tang Suxiang present that afternoon, she couldn't ask directly.
Song Yinhua nodded, "Caixing, if you have any difficulties, you can just tell me. Don't use such unreasonable methods to snatch it. Doing so will not benefit anyone."
At this moment, Song Caixing's tears fell.
"Sister, I didn't want to either. I got married two years ago. The man I married gambled and frequented brothels and became addicted to drugs. If I can't pay him, he beats me. I have no choice but to do this."
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