Although Gu Meifeng is a few years younger than Gu Zhenhai, her eldest son Jiang Jianmin is older than Gu Qingbei. She got married when she was seventeen or eighteen, while Gu Zhen met Luan Huiying when he was twenty-five and gave birth to Gu Qingbei the following year.
At that time, people in the countryside got married very late. Grandma Gu wanted to find a wife for her youngest son at home, but he was always fighting outside, and no one knew when he would not be able to come back. Who would dare to marry their daughter to him? Even Grandma Gu could not let the girl become a widow before she got married, so she just let him do what he wanted. It was his fate to be single when he was old and couldn't find a wife.
Who could have thought that after so many years he would not only bring back his wife, but also give her such a big grandson. It was such a huge surprise.
"They have all gone to work. Although the grain has been distributed, the fields still need to be turned over to get rid of the pests that have frozen to death in the winter. It also allows the soil underneath to dry out. This will save a lot of trouble when planting next spring. Otherwise, it will be a waste of time to turn the soil after it has completely thawed.
Xiaocao has taken his nephews and nieces to help break up the corn. There are still many crops in the fields that have not been harvested. The next batch of cabbages and radishes are not only from our team, but also from our own family. Some of the ones that were planted early have already been harvested. As for our family, we planted late this year, so it will probably be harvested in the next few days.
The two novice farmers nodded. The crops planted by the Jiang family were considered early, as they were harvested ten days ago, and they are almost dry now.
It is said that being a farmer is the hardest life, so everyone wants to go to the city to work as a worker.
Every spring, we start to get busy with various spring plantings. After planting, we have to water and fertilize, and sometimes we have to weed the fields. If we don’t weed for a few days, the weeds will grow taller than the seedlings. Over time, the nutrients in the fields will be taken away by the weeds, and the crop yield will be affected.
Then starting from late September, the harvest will begin one after another. Peanuts, soybeans, sweet potatoes, cotton, rice and sorghum are basically harvested between late September and November. Then each family has to be busy with their own private plots, storing winter vegetables and chopping firewood.
But even though they work hard all year and harvest so much, they will end up showing off all their harvest during the few months of winter when they cannot work. At the end of the year, they will find that their work was in vain and they just made a profit.
For fear of delaying Gu Meifeng's work, the couple only sat for a few minutes and then left. Although Gu Meifeng wanted to keep them to chat for a while, she was also anxious to finish her work in the field, so she just asked them to come to her house for dinner next time they came back.
At the moment, Jiang's mother and Jiang Dongmei and her husband were pulling radishes and chopping cabbages in the backyard of the Jiang family. Jiang Mengxue and her husband came back and went straight to help.
Fortunately, Jiang Mengxue was wearing pants today because she felt cold. The mother and daughter were responsible for collecting the things, and the two men were responsible for transporting them to the front yard.
"Sister, how did the division of your family go yesterday?" In fact, this was what Jiang Mengxue was most curious about when she came back today. She was actually a gossipy person. It would be fine if she didn't know, but she couldn't just know half of it. Wouldn't that just whet her appetite?
Before Jiang Dongmei could speak, her mother snorted coldly, "Hmph, what else can they do? They even asked their daughter-in-law's family to come. Are they trying to divide the family property unfairly?"
It turned out that they simply greeted the guests yesterday morning and left it to the families of Jiang's second and third uncles to help entertain them. Jiang Youfu and Zhao Yun took Jiang Dachun, Jiang Daxia and Jiang Dongmei and her husband to the county. When they went there, Chen Dasao Li Min's family and brother-in-law Zhang Meina's family also rushed over after get off work at noon.
As for Chen Hua's uncle's family, Chen's father did not call them. At the beginning, Chen's mother even insisted that the matter must be presided over by her uncle. Chen's father's meaning was very simple. If the money borrowed from their family was returned, their family would still recognize her maternal relatives, otherwise there would be no contact at all.
Mother Chen was still hoping that her brother would come to support her, but she was stifled by these words. If they had wanted to, would they have waited so many years? Father Chen had been so upset at home recently that he wanted to send that bitch back to her parents' home. Now he just endured it because he was considering that his grandson was already so old, and it wouldn't be embarrassing enough to make such a fuss. If he still wanted him to recognize those blood-sucking worms, go to hell with them.
After the families were seated, Chen's father presided over the division of the family property, and the three relatives of the family came together to witness the division of the family property for the children, to ensure that the old couple were not partial to either of them.
If Chen's father had previously given most of the family property to his eldest son, who would have been responsible for supporting him in his old age, then after witnessing the discord among his brothers caused by his wife's blatant favoritism, he gave up this idea. What if the eldest son was unfilial in the future and the other two felt that he was biased, what would happen if all three families ignored them in the future?
Anyway, he has now divided his family property into four parts, one for each family and one for the old couple. After retirement, the three families will support each other together. As for which son is unfilial in the future, he has a pension anyway. As long as they want the money, they have to obey him. Otherwise, he won't need them even with his pension.
"Since all the relatives are here, I'll be frank. My children have already started their own families and careers, and my grandchildren are growing up day by day. The house is indeed a bit crowded. Let's take advantage of everyone being here today to divide the house up completely.
So, let me first share my thoughts. If you, eldest brother, second brother, or third brother, feel that anything is unfair, please speak up later. Since we've already decided to split up, we can't let this end in ambiguity and create further discord among you brothers. Since everyone's here, let's discuss a solution that everyone is satisfied with."
The brothers of the Chen family also nodded. Since they had all taken leave to come back today, they planned to solve the matter thoroughly and did not want to leave it half-way and make everyone uncomfortable.
Father Chen took out an account book. It was obvious that the book had been used for a long time. The surface was wrinkled and most of the leaves had been used.
"I started writing in this notebook the year my eldest brother started working. You all know what happened at home that year, so I won't go into details."
Mother Chen, who originally thought that she should be in charge of the situation today, lost her momentum in an instant and dared not get involved in the division of the family. She was really afraid that she would be sent back to her parents' home at such an old age. Not to mention the embarrassment, she only had one younger brother. How could those nephews care about her life or death? Although she felt sorry for her younger brother and nephews, she also knew what kind of people they were.
Father Chen glanced at her without saying anything. He mentioned this specifically to make her shut up. If he let her interfere in family affairs, then what would be the point of everything he was going to do today.
Ignoring everything else, Father Chen concentrated on organizing his account book and preparing for his next speech. When the others saw that the account books were taken out, they stopped being anxious, as they knew that today was not a simple division of the family business.
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