Chapter 214 Joke, So many people!
Everyone's eyes fell on the mother and child, scanning them back and forth.
Song Chunxue knew that it was already a huge step forward for her eldest brother to take the initiative to ask this question.
In the past, he would have offered to give him the donkey for free if he wanted him to take care of the yard.
She wanted to gauge the boss's sincerity, so she asked, "How much are you planning to give?"
The eldest brother lowered his head and remained silent.
Song Zhizhu and the other three sisters looked at each other, but ultimately remained silent.
“I only have five hundred copper coins on hand. Mother said that since we've separated the family, she won't take care of me anymore, and I don't want to take advantage of her.” The eldest son looked down at his toes. “But I don't plan to divorce Chen Feng for the time being. It's not that I can't bear to part with her, but my child is still breastfeeding. I hope Mother can understand.”
Everyone fell silent.
“I’m not interfering in your private affairs, and you don’t need to take my opinions to heart.” She didn’t want to spoil her eldest son like before, so she changed her mind. “I don’t plan to ask for money for the old donkey, you can keep it. But I don’t plan to give away the one in my belly for free.”
The eldest brother nodded. "Of course."
“There’s also the firewood piled up here. You can use some of it. But I’m not not coming back. You can’t just waste it like nobody wants it. You can take some back to burn. The donkey needs grass too, but you need to pay more attention when you’re looking after the yard,” Song Chunxue said frankly. “If you don’t want to look after it, I can ask someone else to look after it. They might even be more attentive than you.”
The eldest brother gave a low "hmm".
Song Chunxue's sisters were somewhat surprised by her hard-heartedness, but considering Chen Feng's burial of the talisman, they didn't think of speaking up for their eldest sister.
It's truly disheartening to see a son raised like this.
"What about the sheep?" the eldest asked.
"You want to raise it?" Song Chunxue asked bluntly, "Can you afford to raise it?"
Song Zhizhu suddenly stood up. "The sesame seeds are almost dried. I'm going to thresh them."
Damn it, it's a good thing the eldest brother isn't his son, otherwise, judging by his self-righteous tone, he could easily stomp on him.
But he was, after all, an uncle, and the eldest son had always been like this since he was a child, spoiled terribly by the fifth son.
If the fifth brother can tolerate it, what can't he tolerate?
The second and third sisters got up. "We'll go wash the dishes."
Fourth Sister didn't want to stay any longer either, "I'm going to feed the pigs."
The fourth brother had long wanted to leave, saying, "I'm going to get an IV drip."
Sanwa sat still. He knew his eldest son's bad temper, and he wanted to keep an eye on things in case he angered his mother.
The eldest son was embarrassed and said, "I was just asking. If Mother is reluctant to buy it, I can raise it for you."
"Raise them for us?" Song Chunxue asked bluntly. "Can you even manage that? Chen Feng keeps nagging about it every day."
“She doesn’t dare now; if she keeps nagging me, I’ll hit her.”
Song Chunxue thought to herself, Chen Feng deserves it.
She didn't want to talk to the boss either.
“I’ll go find something for my second brother, so he doesn’t forget where the utensils are.” Song Chunxue looked at the third child. “You talk to the eldest son. Don’t forget, you’re in charge of half of this family now.”
Sanwa responded.
As the sound of everyone's footsteps faded into the distance, the eldest brother gave the third brother a cold look.
The third brother leaned lazily back in his chair. "Big brother, you're not convinced?"
No sooner had he finished speaking than the eldest brother suddenly stood up and threw a punch at the third brother.
Sanwa was prepared; he got up to dodge the punch and then punched the man in the face.
The punch missed its mark, grazing his face and sliding towards the boss's ear.
The eldest brother was completely enraged and, gritting his teeth, lunged at the third brother.
The third child remained relatively calm, raising his foot to kick the man's shin without holding back.
He had long disliked the boss, and his strength was both fierce and fast, giving the boss no chance to fight back.
With just a few kicks, the leader was knocked to the ground.
Seeing the eldest brother gritting his teeth and about to charge, the third brother chuckled and said unhurriedly, "You still think it's the old days? I was just a shepherd boy who ran so far every day. Even now that I've studied, I'm still stronger than you. Do you think you can beat me?"
The eldest brother was even angrier, and with a livid face, he lunged at him.
"You fucking shut up, don't think you can just..."
Sanwa grabbed his collar and said, "What did I brag about? The money you earned for your schooling came from herding sheep. I didn't rest for a single day in the dead of winter, my legs were trembling from the cold, and did I ever complain?"
He pinned the eldest brother to the ground and punched him hard in the nose. "Have you lost your conscience? Am I destined to herd sheep my whole life?"
"You're the eldest in the family, so the job of herding sheep should have fallen to you. They say an elder sister is like a mother and an elder brother is like a father, but I think you're a heartless and wicked bastard!"
The eldest brother's neck was being pressed down, his face turning ashen. He resisted several times, but was pushed back down by the third brother's strong arms.
His head slammed hard against the ground, and he was overwhelmed by unprecedented shame.
"Third Brother, I'll kill you! Get up now, I'm your older brother!"
The third child straddled him, pressing him down hard, even straining his chin.
"Ask yourself honestly, which head of household in this village is like you?"
"Explain yourself clearly. Where were you that night when the Wang and Cheng families tried to climb over the wall and the Taoist priest dislocated their legs?"
The eldest brother suddenly relaxed and quickly looked towards the door. Fortunately, there was no one else there.
"Is it what the Taoist priest said, that he misunderstood and thought I was taking advantage of the chaos?" The eldest brother chuckled. "Even if I were the biggest scoundrel, I would never help outsiders rob my own mother, would I?"
Sanwa stared intently at him, trying to find a flaw in his statement. "Who can say for sure?"
The eldest brother gave up struggling, turned his head and said, "I just wanted to help my mother that day, but the Taoist priest beat me to it. That afternoon, I heard someone urging me to go, and I couldn't rest easy that night, so I went to see him. Believe it or not."
Sanwa gritted his teeth, shoved him in the chest, and stood up. "You better not be lying!"
Outside the courtyard.
Everyone was busy threshing the grain and didn't know when the leader had left.
Last year's sesame harvest was excellent, with every sesame seed plump and full.
When Song Chunxue's older sisters saw that there was still a pile of grain that hadn't been properly winnowed from a few days ago at the door, and that some of it needed to be winnowed and cleaned, they pushed it all to the center of the field and winnowed it again and again until it was clean before putting it into bags.
They were going to stay overnight, and Song Chunxue originally wanted to add a kang (heated brick bed) to the east room, but everyone stopped her.
Although there are many people in the family, four people can sleep on one kang (a heated brick bed).
They came to visit and chat, not to sleep.
In the evening, they finally finished packing up all the grain and carried it all to the barn, stacking it up.
Seeing the abundance of food in Song Chunxue's home, the older sisters felt both envious and distressed.
Even the most capable third sister, upon seeing Song Chunxue's storeroom, knew that Song Chunxue had been treating her like an animal all these years.
Otherwise, how could she and Sanwa have managed to save up so much food?
The second sister and the fourth brother burst into tears.
"Fifth brother, you've suffered so much. How could you grow so much grain? How much land did you cultivate? How did you manage to survive all by yourself?"
Song Zhizhu couldn't help but sigh, "Luckily, you'll have an easier time from now on."
Song Chunxue lowered her head. She had been spinning like a top all year round. If she still couldn't save up enough food, what was the point of her efforts?
Just then, the Taoist priest slowly stepped through the doorway, holding his whisk.
"Wow, so many people!"
All eyes turned to him.
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