Chapter 13 Why Do You Hate Me Now?
"ah?"
Faced with Sang Yongjing's puzzled gaze, Sang Yu nodded again, indicating that he had heard correctly.
Twenty kilograms of grain seeds is neither too much nor too little.
If spread on the ground, it can plant about two acres of land, but a family of so many people can only eat it for less than ten days.
Everyone is now injured. They were forced to go on the road every day under the whip. If they suddenly stop to rest, there is no guarantee that they will not fall ill suddenly.
In this case, there is no difference between whether it is grain or not. It is grain, just take it and eat it.
If I save and don't eat, it will be a question whether my weak body can survive until next spring.
The most important thing right now is to find a place to live.
Sang Yu touched his chin and looked around, and found an officer who was standing guard at the edge.
She walked over to him and smiled flatteringly, "Brother Cha, I have a question for you. Where do we refugees live?"
The officer on guard glanced at her sideways, and didn't want to answer, so he pretended not to hear.
But seeing that she looked about the same age as her younger sister, he softened his heart and said, "My Lord hasn't arranged a place for you to stay. It's still early, so go out and find a dilapidated temple to stay in temporarily."
No matter what their identities and status were in the capital before, when they arrived in Lingnan County, they were just a group of refugees.
If it weren't for the purpose of getting the strong laborers to work and reclaim the wasteland, the governor of Lingnan County would not have bothered to do what he did today.
The smile on Sang Yu's face froze instantly. What had she heard? No accommodation arranged?
She had already made plans to sleep in a cowshed with a group of people at night, but the reality was far more cruel than she had expected. There was not even a cowshed.
The Sang family members saw Sang Yu leave triumphantly and return dejected. Sang Yongjing hurriedly asked, "Yu'er, what happened?"
Sang Yu shook her head slightly, a smile returning to her face: "Nothing, can we go now?"
There will always be a way when you reach the mountain. Just like what the police officer just said, it is not impossible to find a dilapidated temple to stay temporarily.
"I just asked, we can leave at any time, as long as we don't leave Lingnan County, we can stay anywhere."
The county magistrate was not concerned about their future movements; they could leave at any time after registering.
"Okay, let's find a place to stay first."
Sang Yu didn't plan to wait here foolishly until everyone realized that if they didn't find a place to rest immediately, they would have to sleep in the wilderness. By then, I'm afraid they wouldn't even be able to squeeze into the dilapidated temple.
Although they were used to sleeping in the wilderness during this period, who would want to sleep in the cold night when there was a house to shelter from the wind and rain?
When I wake up every morning, there are even beads of dew on my hair and eyelashes.
The family was about to leave when a group of people came from a distance. They were most of the Sang family, led by Sang Yongfeng.
They were numerous and powerful, and soon surrounded Sang Yu's family. Even if they wanted to leave, they couldn't for the time being.
Sang Yongjing stood in front of the family, staring at his brother warily: "Brother, what do you mean by this?"
Unlike the disheveled Sang Yongjing, Sang Yongfeng, who was standing opposite him, had eaten well and slept soundly along the way, and was served by concubines and maids.
He was dressed neatly and had a crown on his head.
Just standing there at this moment, his aura was much higher.
Sang Yongfeng glanced at him lightly, then lowered his head and looked at his hands, as if there were some priceless treasure in them.
His tone was very calm: "Fourth brother, it's time to hand mother back to the care of the eldest wife."
The way he spoke didn't look like a filial son who wanted to invite his mother back home to take care of her. Instead, it looked more like he had to complete some kind of task that had to be done.
Sang Yongjing was very angry at his behavior. He took a step forward and looked directly into his brother's eyes.
"Brother, today I will call you brother for the last time."
"I didn't hate you when my whole family was exiled. I knew that when power changes, there will always be sacrifices, and you were also implicated.
Even though you withheld our family's food rations on the road, I didn't hate you because I knew you would feed your mother first.
Even though you failed to take good care of my mother before, I still don’t hate you.”
His words were so powerful that everyone present was stunned for a moment.
Sang Yongfeng, who had been looking at his hands carelessly, was also startled. He raised his eyes and looked at his useless fourth brother again, whom he usually looked down upon the most.
"Then why do you hate me now?"
“…”
Sang Yongjing did not answer directly. It was not that he did not know how to answer, but he knew clearly that if he really said that, his brother would probably not be able to do it in the future.
He didn't want to say it, but Sang Yu wanted to say it. She had long been disgusted with the behavior of the eldest branch of the Sang family. With the way they did things, they would sooner or later cause trouble in the future.
Instead of worrying all day about the disaster that may come at any time, it is better to separate the family and put an end to it as soon as possible.
This is why she subtly flatters the eldest wife in front of her family every day, saying today how the eldest wife bullies Sang Xingjia, and tomorrow how the eldest wife is unfilial.
After all this, no matter how good-tempered Sang Yongjing was, he couldn't help but feel some resentment towards the first wife, not to mention that the first wife was biased and unpopular in her actions.
"It's not appropriate for my father to say this, so let me tell my uncle." Sang Yu stepped forward and stood beside Sang Yongjing with a sweet smile on her face.
But she forgot that her face was covered with black ash, and when she smiled, she could only show her mouthful of white teeth. Smiling was even scarier than not smiling.
"What do you say? Who are you to talk to me?"
Even Sang Yongjing looked down on him, so how could Sang Yongfeng look down on his daughter? What qualifications did a yellow-haired girl have to talk to him?
"If you think about it, my uncle and I are relatives, right? It's just a matter of speaking to my nephews. I'm sure my uncle won't refuse."
Sang Yu was not intimidated by his aura at all and answered calmly and composedly.
When she replied, her speech was not fast, and each word was clear and spoken slowly.
This time his behavior was quite decent. Sang Yongfeng raised his eyebrows and said, "You are quite sharp-tongued. Go ahead."
Sang Yu smiled again, but her words were filled with poison: "My uncle didn't take good care of my grandmother before, so my father brought her to live with him to take care of her."
"Later, Sister Zhu did come to visit once, but she came empty-handed, said some cold words, and then left. Grandmother was seriously ill, but Uncle never showed up."
Upon hearing this, Sang Yongfeng was about to say something to defend himself, but Sang Yu changed the subject and uttered a few words at a very fast speed.
"Why is it that now that we've arrived in Lingnan, Uncle wants to take Grandma back again? Are we used to the hard work being done by the fourth house, while the eldest house comes to pick the fruit?"
These words were truly heartbreaking. All four branches of the Sang family were present, along with a number of servants and maids, both large and small. Sang Yu's words were equivalent to cursing Sang Yongfeng in the face.
Scolding him for being afraid of hardship and greedy for credit, scolding him for being hypocritically filial and irresponsible, scolding him for being mean and ungrateful, is almost the same as slapping him in the face in public.
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