Chapter 140
The atmosphere in the house was very bad. The village chief and the clan leader had originally come to persuade Yin Dazhu and his wife not to write the letter of severance, but after arriving, they changed their minds to persuade them not to split up the family in this way.
If parents divide their property unevenly, it can easily cause their children to become enemies. By dividing the property in this way, aren't they deliberately trying to force a quarrel between Yin Zheng and his brothers, and to force Yin Zheng, the son, to resent his parents?
Although the kindness of parents is greater than heaven, and children should never bear grudges against their parents, people are still people, not gods or Buddhas in heaven, and have seven emotions and six desires. How can they not blame their parents and feel jealous of their brothers when they are treated like this by their parents?
The angry Yin Dazhu and his wife refused to listen to a word the village chief and clan leader said. They believed that this was their family matter and the village chief and clan leader should not interfere. Besides, how could she and the old man be biased?
Yin Zheng is unfilial to his parents and is jealous and resentful of his younger brother. He is lucky to have two acres of land and one tael of silver, which is what he and the old man have. If he were in other families in the village, they would have beaten him to death with sticks.
Why aren't you grateful to them and are you arguing with them?!
The more the clan leader and the village chief tried to persuade them, the more Yin Dazhu and his wife disliked Yin Zheng. They even thought that the clan leader and his wife were trying so hard to persuade them not to sever the ties because Yin Zheng was afraid and didn't want to. So they said smugly, "If you don't want to sever the ties, that's fine. Just give your one tael of silver and two mu of land to Youcai, and your father and I won't write this letter of severance."
As soon as the words fell, the whole scene fell silent. Even Yin Erzhu, who had been adding fuel to the fire, was silenced by his sister-in-law's words.
He even began to wonder if his second nephew had been abducted or picked up by Yin Dazhu and Wu. Otherwise, it would be impossible to explain their attitude towards Yin Zheng.
Not to mention Yin Erzhu, even the village chief, clan leader and villagers who were watching the excitement outside the door were suspecting that Yin Zheng was not the biological son of Yin Dazhu and his wife.
Otherwise it would be difficult to explain why Yin Dazhu and his wife treated Yin Zheng like this?
Just when everyone was silent because of Wu's words, Chen squeezed in holding Jiaojiao.
Seeing Chen carrying Jiaojiao in, the village chief scolded: "Nonsense!"
How can you bring a baby into this kind of situation? What if you scare the baby?
Seeing her father-in-law's disapproving look, Chen subconsciously took a step back. Her mind, which had been confused by Jiaojiao's cuteness, came to her senses. After realizing that something was wrong, she was about to carry Jiaojiao out. However, Jiaojiao, who was in her arms, had already seen her father and immediately shouted, "Dad."
Yin Zheng turned his head when he heard Jiaojiao's voice.
Meeting her father's gaze, Jiaojiao reached out to him, looked at him with bright eyes and said, "Daddy, hold me."
Yin Zheng could never refuse Jiaojiao's request for a hug, so he went forward without hesitation and took Jiaojiao from Chen's arms.
As soon as she fell into her father's arms, Jiaojiao immediately patted her father's chest with her little hands and said in a tender voice, "Daddy is not uncomfortable. Jiaojiao will help you vent your anger."
As he said this, he turned his head and looked at Wu angrily, making a self-proclaimed ferocious expression to scare her, gnashing his teeth and saying viciously: "You bad mother-in-law, you are not allowed to bully Dad!"
The people present were touched by Jiaojiao's cute and fierce appearance, and at the same time felt that Yin Zheng had raised this little girl in vain. Look, she even knew how to protect Yin Zheng and vent his anger.
As for Wu, who was being stared at by Jiaojiao, she didn't think so. After being bullied by such a little bastard in front of so many people, how could she face the elder sisters in the village in the future?!
He immediately pointed at Yin Zheng's nose in a rage and said, "If you still recognize us as your father and mother, either throw this little bastard into the river and let him drown, or throw him away wherever I found him!"
As soon as these words came out, the faces of the elders in the room suddenly fell. Just as they were about to say something, Yin Zheng had already spoken: "Impossible!"
His voice was hoarse, and the look he gave Wu was terrifying.
Wu was so frightened that she took a step back. When she came to her senses, she felt so ashamed to retreat in front of so many people. She pointed at Yin Zheng and shouted to the elders with a distorted face: "See, it's him who doesn't want to recognize us, his father and mother. He is unfilial, not us who don't want him! You little bastard, you ungrateful wolf, I should have drowned him when I gave birth to him..."
The village chief slammed the table and roared, "Enough!"
The villagers outside the door shuddered. It was rare to see the village chief so angry!
"Enough? Enough!" Unexpectedly, Wu shouted back even louder: "I'd rather raise a pig or a dog than him. Once I'm fattened up, I can kill him and fill my stomach..."
This was followed by a series of unbearable insults.
Yin Zheng raised his right hand to cover Jiaojiao's ears and pressed him into his arms to prevent him from hearing the dirty words.
Although Jiaojiao couldn't hear clearly as he leaned against his father's arms with his ears covered, he was very sensitive to people's emotions. After realizing that she was scolding his father, he immediately turned his head and scolded back in a small voice. However, as he was still young, he kept saying the same thing: "Bad mother-in-law, don't bully my father!"
He spoke in a hurry and incoherently, and he got so angry that he started crying.
Yin Zheng looked down at him in his arms, sighed inwardly, turned around and walked out with Jiaojiao in his arms, gently wiping the red corners of his eyes with his fingertips as he walked.
The sunlight shone in from outside, and he looked incredibly gentle as he lowered his face to blend into the sunlight.
Seeing this scene, Mrs. Wu was dazed for a moment and subconsciously stopped talking.
Unconvinced, Jiaojiao poked her little head out of her father's arms, and with red eyes, she cursed at Wu, who was in a daze in the room, with some incomprehensible words. Wu was immediately so angry that she fell backwards. Just as she opened her mouth to curse, the tiles on the roof suddenly fell down and hit her on the head.
This time he wasn't just angry to the point of falling backwards, this time he was really hit to the point of falling backwards.
Seeing that Wu covered her head but couldn't stop the blood from flowing out from between her fingers, the people in the room were stunned for a moment, then hurried forward to check the situation.
The matter of dividing the family and severing the relationship was temporarily delayed because of this sudden incident. People in the village said that Mrs. Wu had done too many immoral things and was getting her retribution.
Mrs. Wu, who was recuperating at home, was so angry that she started cursing.
During the two days when Wu was recuperating from her injuries, Yin Youcai did not forget to add insult to injury and stir up trouble. Within two days, the issue of dividing the family and breaking off the relationship was brought up again.
The clan elders and village chiefs came to dissuade them again, but Wu was determined to divide the family this way.
This matter dragged on for nearly a month. The villagers who came to watch the excitement were tired, and the elderly elders could not stand the trouble anymore.
Finally, Li Maorong, the oldest among the elders, lifted his loose eyelids, half covering his eyeballs. He stared at Yin Dazhu with cloudy eyes for a long time before speaking, "Yin boy, are you sure you don't want this son?"
Feeling guilty when being looked at by the elders, Yin Dazhu lowered his head, moved his lips twice, and nodded heavily.
The elder withdrew his gaze, lowered his eyes to look at the crutch in his hand, and said in an old voice with a strong sense of majesty: "After all, this is your Yin family's business, and it has nothing to do with our Li family."
Yin Dazhu's heart skipped a beat at this, and he spoke incoherently, "I, the elder of the clan..."
The elder, who knew what he was going to say, waved his hand to interrupt him: "Don't worry, since your Yin family has joined our Li Village, we will not drive you away just because of your own family's affairs."
Hearing this, Yin Dazhu breathed a sigh of relief.
"We can't dissuade you from splitting up your family and severing your ties, and we shouldn't have. But since you're in our Li Village, we still have to persuade you on some matters. Let me ask you again, are you sure you want to split up your family and sever your ties?"
Yin Dazhu lowered his head and hesitated for a long time. He had originally been thinking of backing out because of the clan leader's words and was thinking of just giving up. Suddenly, Wu, who was standing beside him, gave him a nudge and said, "Old man, why are you hesitating? Didn't we already have an agreement?"
When Wu reminded him, Yin Dazhu remembered what the third brother said about the second brother only dragging their family down further. He also thought of the empty chicken coop in the yard. Finally, he gritted his teeth and nodded: "Yes, it's confirmed that we want to separate the family and sever ties."
The clan elder glanced at Wu, who shrank back in fear.
Seeing this, the elder looked away. "Well, call your third son in and have him write a letter of severance. Today, we old men and the village chief will bear witness. Once this letter of severance is written, the young man Yin Zheng will no longer have any relationship with your Yin family. From now on, you and Wu are not allowed to use your status as parents to ask for any benefits from the young man Yin Zheng, or force him to do anything for you. Do you agree?"
Yin Dazhu and Wu nodded hurriedly: "Agree, agree."
The elder lowered his eyelids to hide the disgust in his eyes: "Then let your third son come in and write!"
Yin Youcai came in to write the letter of severance of relationship. Several clan elders and village heads wrote their names as witnesses. Yin Dazhu and Wu both pressed their fingerprints because they could not write. Yin Zheng was also called in.
After listening to the village chief and elders, he stepped forward silently and wrote his name.
When he was doing labor service, he learned to write his own name from the old doctor, but that was all he could do.
The letter of severance was made in three copies, one for Yin Dazhu, one for Yin Zheng, and one for the elders of the clan.
After signing the letter of severance, Yin Zheng picked up the one or two taels of silver and the deed to two acres of inferior land on the table, thanked the village chief and the elders, and then walked out without even looking at Yin Dazhu and Wu from beginning to end.
Seeing this, Wu muttered to herself, calling him unfilial. The village chief, who heard it, glared at her unkindly.
Wu subconsciously stopped talking, knowing that the breaking of the engagement had already left a bad impression on the village chief, so she didn't dare to displease him with other things. After all, they still had to make a living in Lijia Village.
Seeing that the matter was over, Li Maorong stood up shakily with his crutches and left with the help of several other elders.
As soon as he left the Yin family's house, he handed the deed of severance to the village chief and asked him to find someone to take it to the county government office for justice: "When you go, tell the official everything about the Yin family."
As for why this is done, it is of course to avoid some trouble.
The village chief took the deed and asked doubtfully, "Uncle, are you helping that kid Yin Zheng?"
Li Maorong drooped his eyelids and said, "Yin Zheng was raised under the care of us old men. It's okay that we couldn't help him in the past, but now we can. As elders, we should help the younger generation to the best of our ability."
In fact, it is not just that. The more important reason is that when he was young, his parents divided the family property unfairly and favored his younger and older brothers. Now, looking at Yin Zheng, he can't help but want to help.
Yin Zheng returned to the house with the deed, poked the face of Jiaojiao who was sleeping soundly on the bed, and then began to pack up.
Near the foot of Wushan Mountain, the village chief had an unused old house. The village chief said he would lend it to him for the time being, and when he had money in the future, he would pay the rent together with the house.
Yin Zheng agreed. He only had one tael and seven cents in his hand now. Before there was an injection of fresh money, it would be better to save the money just in case.
After packing up his things, Yin Zheng sat by the bed waiting for Jiaojiao to wake up. Occasionally, he would reach out to touch Jiaojiao's black eyelashes, or pinch his perky little nose.
After about three quarters of an hour, Jiaojiao's eyelids began to tremble slightly, and soon she opened her eyes, revealing a pair of confused eyes.
When Jiaojiao woke up and saw her father beside the bed, she grinned, rolled over, and hugged her father's arm. She rubbed her head against him coquettishly and called out in a sticky voice, "Dad."
"Yeah." Yin Zheng picked him up, straightened his hair that was messy from sleeping, and said, "We're moving."
Jiaojiao was stunned for a moment, then she came to her senses, glanced at the large bundle on the ground, and nodded hurriedly: "Put Jiaojiao down, Jiaojiao will move, and will not live with this bad mother-in-law."
Seeing that Jiaojiao was not opposed to moving, Yin Zheng breathed a sigh of relief. After putting Jiaojiao down, he turned around to tidy up the bedding on the bed. When he finished, he turned around and saw Jiaojiao gritting her teeth and trying hard to drag the large bag on the ground.
Yin Zheng quickly squatted down and pulled Jiaojiao's hand. Sure enough, he saw marks on Jiaojiao's little hand from being squeezed too hard.
He gently rubbed the red marks on Jiaojiao's hands with his fingertips: "I can move the things, I don't need you."
Jiaojiao shook her head and said seriously, "Dad, take a rest. Jiaojiao will move."
After a month of being scolded by Mrs. Wu and being looked at with sympathy by the villagers, Jiaojiao felt that her father had become a poor little boy who was always bullied by others, and a strong desire to protect him had sprouted in her heart.
Knowing this, Yin Zheng felt helpless and didn't know how to explain it to him. He could only pick up Jiaojiao with one hand and picked up two large bags on the ground with one hand and walked out, using his strength to prove that he was not a poor little thing who needed to be taken care of and protected.
Of course, when he walked out, he did not forget to pretend that he had difficulty walking.
Jiaojiao, who was being carried out in her father's arms, was not convinced by her father's strength. Instead, she tilted her little head and asked her father with worried eyes whether she was heavy and whether she was crushing him, and kept saying that she could get down and walk.
“Not heavy.”
“No.”
"Need not."
"real."
Yin Zheng lowered his head and answered Jiaojiao's words without missing a word. There was no trace of impatience on his fierce face, and there was a deep tenderness in his dark eyes.
Yin Yuanzhi and Yin Youcai looked at Yin Zheng's back, and the emotions in their eyes were still somewhat complicated.
In fact, Yin Youcai often doubted whether his second brother Yin Zheng was his parents' biological son. He once asked his mother privately, and the answer he got was that he was a biological son. Therefore, he couldn't understand why his parents treated Yin Zheng like this.
Although he benefited from it, he could still be curious and puzzled.
If it was because of his studies, I haven't seen them treat my eldest brother like this!
Yin Youcai didn't understand, but Yin Yuanzhi understood a little bit. He turned around and looked at the main house which was silent.
My parents treated my second brother like this probably because his behavior when he was young seemed weird compared to other children!
When he was still young, he didn't understand why his parents looked at his second brother with such fear and disgust? They even privately told him to stay away from his second brother.
Now that I have been working as a waiter for several years, I have gained a lot of experience. Often when I think back to the expressions of my parents at that time, combined with my second brother's behavior that was out of tune with other children in the village, I guess that my parents at that time saw that my second brother's behavior was strange, and they couldn't find a suitable reason to explain it. I'm afraid they thought that my second brother was possessed by a wandering ghost from somewhere else when he was just born!
That's why their attitude towards the second brother has always been like that, fear mixed with disgust.
To be unfilial, Yin Yuanzhi found his parents' idea ridiculous.
Having worked as a waiter for so many years, he had also heard some businessmen from other places talking about how the child of so-and-so could read at the age of three, compose poetry at the age of five, and quote from classics at the age of seven.
From their words, he knew that many people who achieved great things had strange behaviors when they were young. That was because they were immortals with wisdom, so their behaviors seemed strange compared to ordinary children.
Maybe my second brother is the kind of person who will achieve great things when he grows up, but unfortunately he is mistaken by his parents as a ghost.
Yin Yuanzhi never told his parents what he had heard and his own guesses, because it would not benefit him and might even make his parents feel guilty towards his second brother and try their best to compensate him.
If they try hard to compensate the second brother, it will hurt his interests.
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