Chapter 139
After making up his mind, Yin Dazhu asked someone to go to the town that afternoon to tell Yin Yuanzhi, who was a waiter at a tavern in the town, to go home.
After Yin Yuanzhi came back, he called his three sons to the main house early the next morning.
Split up the family?
Yin Zheng was a little surprised when Yin Dazhu and Wu said they wanted to split up. Although he had expected that Yin Dazhu and Wu would eventually break up, he had thought it would take some time, not so soon.
Thinking about this, Yin Zheng glanced at Yin Youcai standing beside him. The reason for splitting up the family so quickly must have been because of him, otherwise Yin Dazhu and Wu Shi would not have given up on him so quickly and made up their minds to split him up.
After all, they did get a lot of benefits from him. Although his legs are in trouble now, given their temperament, they are determined to try to see if they can squeeze some more benefits out of him.
"As the saying goes, a tree branches out when it's grown up, and when the sons grow up, the family splits up." Yin Dazhu glanced at his three sons, especially at Yin Youcai and Yin Yuanzhi, who had been called back from his waiter job in town. "Now that you're all grown up, it's inevitable that there will be quarrels and arguments when the whole family lives together. Besides, Lihua is pregnant again, and with so many children and grandchildren in the family, it's inevitable that there will be too much room. So your mother and I thought about it all night and decided to divide the family while we're still alive, so as to avoid any unhappiness among the brothers in the future."
Lihua is Yin Youcai's daughter-in-law Zhang Lihua, the daughter of the owner of a tavern in the town. Now she lives with Yin Youcai in a rented house in the town so that she can take care of Yin Youcai nearby.
After continuing to say a lot about how families need to help each other, Yin Dazhu ended with one sentence: "This is what your mother and I think. Do you have any different ideas about dividing the family?"
When he said this, he looked at Yin Zheng intently.
Yin Youcai was the first to express his opinion: "I don't have any objection. This house originally belonged to my parents. If they want to divide it, then they can. I have no objection as a son."
This division of the family was in his best interest. His parents loved him the most, so he would definitely get the most. Besides, he was going to take the imperial examination next year, so if he didn't divide the family now and get rid of his eldest and third brothers, who would be the burdens, he might be blamed for his passing. Then, dividing the family would give people a reason to criticize him.
Thinking of this, Yin Youcai became more eager to split up the family business.
Yin Yuanzhi hesitated for a while. Dividing the family would neither benefit nor harm him. However, after hearing from his third brother that his second brother had deliberately indulged in eating and drinking, and had ruined all the flour, new rice and laying hens in the house, he thought it would be better to divide the family to avoid any trouble in the future.
Yin Yuanzhi didn't object, so the next one was Yin Zheng.
Yin Dazhu and his wife had originally not planned to invite Yin Zheng to the division of the family property. They would have just informed him of the result of the division. However, remembering his gloomy look with a knife in his hand a few days ago, they decided to invite him anyway so that he would know that they were fair in the division and avoid any trouble that would make the villagers laugh at him.
Yin Zheng raised his eyes, his dark gaze tinged with something heavier. He looked at them and said, "As long as Mom and Dad divide it fairly, I have no objection."
If they were truly fair in this division, he would...
Wu snorted coldly, interrupting his thoughts. "Fair? When have your father and I ever been biased? If you weren't such a greedy elder brother, so intolerant of your younger brother, so unwilling to see him do well, and so accusing the whole village of your father and I of mistreating you and favoring your younger brother, how could I possibly be even more unfair to you..."
The last few thoughts in Yin Zheng's mind were completely dissipated by Wu's words. The emotions in his eyes sank into the depths of his eyes, turning into darkness. He quietly looked at Wu's face as she said these words.
Seeing Yin Zheng remain silent, Wu felt a little relieved, as she felt that she had hit the nail on the head.
Seeing that the three had no objections, Yin Dazhu continued, "The family has a total of three acres of high-quality land, four acres of medium-quality land, and eight acres of low-quality land. According to my opinion, the three acres of high-quality land will give the third wife two acres, and the eldest wife one acre. The middle land will give the eldest wife and the third wife two acres each. The eight acres of low-quality land will give the eldest wife three acres, the second wife two acres, and the third wife three acres."
"There's a bamboo grove on the hill behind our house, but it's not worth much. Yuanzhi, you'll have a waiter job in town, so give this bamboo grove to Youcai. He can sell some and earn some money from writing. Besides that, we still have 45 taels of silver, which your mother and I have saved bit by bit over the years. The eldest son will get 13 taels, the third son will get 18 taels for his studies, and the remaining 14 taels will be for your mother and my coffin, so don't worry about it. As for the second son, you don't have a family to support, so you don't need much money by yourself, so you can take one tael from your mother and me."
"As for this house, the eldest and the third will each have half. While your mother and I are here, the house will remain as it is. When we're gone, you can just build a wall in the middle."
"The third and the eldest got the bigger share, so the two of us old folks will be taken care of by the eldest and the third in turn. As for the second, because of your leg, I thought you wouldn't be able to take care of us, so I gave you a smaller share. You won't need us to take care of us in the future."
In other words, Yin Yuanzhi was allocated one mu of superior land, two mu of medium land, three mu of inferior land, plus thirteen taels of silver and half of an old house.
Yin Youcai was allocated two acres of superior land, two acres of medium land, three acres of inferior land, a bamboo forest, eighteen taels of silver, and half of the old house.
Yin Zheng was allocated two mu of inferior land and one tael of silver.
Yin Zheng looked up at Yin Dazhu and Wu, and seeing that they were serious, he raised his hand and threw the crutch out.
"Bang!" A loud noise startled several people in the room.
Yin Zheng threw the object too hard and a big hole was made in the wall, which shows how angry he was.
Yin Zheng took this opportunity to make a big fuss, acting like an honest man who was forced into anger.
As the argument intensified, a hint of sarcasm appeared in his eyes, which usually showed no emotion: "If Mom and Dad really want to separate like this, it would be better to write a letter of severance and stop all contact from now on!"
Yin Dazhu and Wu, hurt by Yin Zheng's gaze, were so angry that they slammed the table and scolded him for being unfilial.
Seeing Yin Zheng's unstable figure when arguing because he had no crutches, the hesitant Yin Youcai's eyes flashed, and he felt that the idea of breaking off the engagement was a good one. It would directly prevent him from passing the imperial examination and having his second brother come to him to ask for money.
So he pretended to try to mediate, but in fact he was just stirring up trouble, repeatedly trying to get Yin Dazhu and Wu to write the letter of severance.
The quarrel between Yin Zheng, Yin Dazhu and Wu became louder and louder, and eventually they started to smash and throw things in the house.
The noise got out, and Li Fangsheng, who heard their quarrel next door, was stunned. He quickly turned around to find the village chief and the clan leader.
When they first heard that Yin Dazhu wanted to divide the family business, the clan leader, village chief and others were surprised for a while. After they realized why he wanted to divide the family business, they couldn't help but spit on Yin Dazhu and his wife in their hearts.
Bah! When Yin Zheng was healthy, he didn't split up the family, holding him tightly in his hands, wishing to suck all his blood and bones. When Yin Zheng got into trouble, couldn't work or earn money, and couldn't wait for him to recover from his injuries, he rushed to split him up. How could they not know what he was thinking?
I don’t know if this kid Yin Er did something bad in his previous life, so he has to deal with such a pair of biased and confused parents in this life.
When he heard that Yin Dazhu and his wife were going to write a letter of severance to Yin Erxiaozi because of the division of the family property, he didn't bother to spit on them and hurried to their house with his crutches to persuade them to stop them.
The breaking off of an engagement had never happened before in their Lijia Village, and they absolutely could not allow this incident to damage the reputation of their Lijia Village.
The village chief and clan leader who came to dissuade them were dumbfounded when they heard how they divided the property. Even the villagers who heard the commotion and came to watch were stunned.
This family is so ruthless, it's no wonder that the second kid Yin is making a fuss. Who wouldn't make a fuss? We have the same parents, so why are they treating him like this?!
In response to the scolding from the clan leader and village chief, Wu, who did not feel she was wrong, retorted, "This is all the wealth that my old man and I have inherited. Of course, we, as parents, have the final say on how to divide it."
When the villagers gathered outside the door heard what Wu said, they couldn't help but laugh out loud in contempt.
Does Yin Da really think that the villagers don’t know about his family affairs?
The Yin family had only eight acres of low-quality farmland and two acres of medium-quality farmland. After paying taxes on the harvest, the remaining grain was barely enough to feed themselves. This was why the villagers laughed when they heard that they had to support Yin Youcai's schooling.
The three acres of high-quality farmland and two acres of medium-quality farmland that the Yin family has now were all earned bit by bit by the young man Yin Zheng after he became an adult.
They said that Yin Zheng had a leg injury and could not take care of them, and they would not need Yin Zheng to support them in their old age. In order to prevent him from having an excuse to not support them in the future, they understood that Yin Zheng gave him less of the family property.
When this was said, everyone in the village laughed.
Why did Yin Zheng's leg get injured? Wasn't it because they forced him to go to the mountains to hunt roe deer when he had a fever, so they could sell them to Yin Youcai as a salary?
Now that this person is injured and can't work or earn money, they can't wait to separate him out. Calling it separation is a nice way of putting it, but it's clearly driving him out.
This was the first time they had heard of someone forcing one son to death for the sake of another son in all these years.
The more the villagers thought about it, the more they felt sorry for Yin Zheng. If they put themselves in Yin Zheng's shoes, they couldn't help but feel chilled.
When Yin Erzhu from the west of the village heard the news, he couldn't help laughing out loud. He picked up his hoe and came to see his elder brother making fun of him. The younger generation in the family couldn't stop him.
It was because his parents' uneven distribution of the family property had caused him to avoid his eldest brother, Yin Dazhu, for years. He had never expected that after all these years, his eldest brother would completely inherit his father's biased and unequal character. Even more unexpected was that he would go even further than his father had done, giving his nephew Yin Zheng only two acres of low-quality land and one ounce of silver, leaving him with no place to live. This was truly hilarious.
After arriving, Yin Erzhu added fuel to the fire, fanning the flames as much as he could, saying whatever was unpleasant and hurtful, and for a while the whole scene was in chaos.
Jiaojiao, who was squatting outside the yard playing with Yin Genmiao's grandson, was slow to react after Li Sanwa reminded her that her father was being bullied again.
Jiaojiao immediately stood up by supporting herself on the ground, angrily dragging the wooden stick that Li Sanwa and the others were playing with, and turned around and ran into the yard panting.
Before Jiaojiao could squeeze into the house, she was picked up by Chen, who was standing by the door watching the excitement: "The adults are talking inside, little kids can't go in."
After this period of time, Jiaojiao, who could already understand some words, frowned and said, "Daddy is being bullied. Jiaojiao wants to go and help!"
Chen, knowing that the father he was talking about was actually his father, smiled and touched Jiaojiao's head: "It's okay, your village chief has already gone in to help your father."
"Really?" Jiaojiao looked at her expectantly with her little face tilted up.
"Really." Chen took the small wooden stick from his hand and said patiently, "Your village chief grandfather is the most powerful man in the village. No one is not afraid of him. With him around, your father won't be bullied. And your uncle Changqing is here too. Jiaojiao won't go, okay?"
"No." Jiaojiao shook her head and said to Chen seriously, "Daddy is being bullied and feels bad. Jiaojiao wants to stay with Daddy and comfort him."
Chen looked at Jiaojiao's stern little face and worried eyes, and her heart seemed to have been struck. She couldn't help but soften and said immediately, "Okay, Auntie will carry you in to find Daddy right away."
After he finished speaking, he really squeezed in with Jiaojiao in his arms.
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