Han Tiansheng sat cross-legged on the kang and glanced at everyone in the Ye family.
"Have you decided to split up?"
Zhou Shuimei sighed on her wrinkled face, "My son is grown up and I can't control him anymore. If they want to divide it, then so be it! I don't bother to worry about it anymore."
Han Tiansheng laughed, "You are right to think so. Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. We are all old, so don't worry about those things. They still have to live their own lives. How many years can we worry about them?"
There are countless mothers-in-law like Zhou Shuimei who hold the power at home in the village, and it is not uncommon. How many are there who are sensible and do not bully their daughters-in-law?
Zhou Shuimei nodded and said, "It just so happens that your uncle is here, so he can be a witness for us. You all know the situation of our family. I will live with the eldest family in the future, so they should get more. The two rooms, the east and west rooms, will be given to the eldest family, and the room you are living in now will be given to you, the second brother.
There wasn't much food at home, so I decided to give 20 kilograms of sweet potatoes, 10 kilograms of corn, and 10 kilograms of wheat to the second brother's family, and the rest to the first brother's family."
These days, every household didn't have much surplus food, so it was beyond Ye Qing's expectation that Zhou Shuimei could give so much. According to her understanding, this was almost half of the family's food.
"Four chickens, two for each family, one pig for each family. The total money in the house was one hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents, and you, a damn girl, took away most of it!"
Zhou Shuimei was furious when talking about this money. Han Tiansheng turned his head and looked at Ye Qing in surprise when he heard it.
Ye Qing retorted without any guilt, "Who told you not to give me money to send my mother to the hospital? My mother can't wait."
Zhou Shuimei glared at her fiercely and continued, "The first wife takes 90 yuan, and the rest goes to the second wife. You took 78.53 yuan from me, so you have to give back the rest! Just give me 34 yuan, and give it to me now!"
"Why do we get so little? This is not fair! We have worked hard, too!"
Ye Qing secretly cursed the old woman in his heart for being so evil-hearted. She gave birth to her own son, but his heart was biased towards his grandmother!
"Why? Because the eldest son has more male offspring! If it weren't for your brother, you wouldn't even get this little money! You little girls still want to share the money?"
"Why can't we share the money? Didn't we earn it? You kept asking us to work hard, but now you're not paying me! Grandpa Han, please judge for us. There are seven of us in this family. My little brother is still breastfeeding, and my mom can't do any heavy work after she's been in confinement. With such a small amount of money, won't my grandma kill us?"
Ye Qing's eyes turned red as she spoke, and Han Tiansheng looked quite pitiful.
"Mom, please give us more money. This little money is not enough for the whole family to eat and drink!"
Ye Erzhu also felt that his mother's share was a bit too little, and he felt unhappy.
"Uncle, what you said is wrong. Have you had nothing to eat and drink all these years? Besides, Qingqing and Fangfang will soon be talking to their in-laws. Once they get married, won't your family be smaller? Where can we spend so much money? It's not like our family. Jianhua still has to go to school, and he has to get married in two years, and we have to build a house! Chunhong is about to give birth, and everything costs money."
Since this matter concerns the interests of her family, Sun Erni no longer feels the pain in her waist and speaks with full energy.
"Why should we spend our money on your family's affairs? What does your marriage and childbirth have to do with us? If you say so, does that mean your family can also pay for my brother's education and marriage in the future?"
Ye Qing rolled his eyes speechlessly. This family was truly more shameless than the other. They took advantage of others and acted so righteously about it.
"Why should our family pay for your brother's marriage?!"
Ye Baozhu was so angry that she wanted to go up to her and argue with her, but Ye Qing raised his hand and waved it, scaring her back. She could still feel the slap on her face.
"Okay, stop arguing!"
After Zhou Shuimei shouted, Ye Baozhu stopped talking.
Ye Qing looked at Han Tiansheng who had been silent the whole time and said, "Grandpa Han, please give me your opinion. Is the way my grandma divided the property fair? I also know that when a family is divided, the eldest branch always gets the largest share, and we have no objection to that, but the difference can't be that big, right?"
Han Tiansheng cleared his throat and said with a smile, "What Qingqing said makes sense. Auntie, think about it again. Erzhu and his family of seven have to have enough food to eat, right?"
Being a witness is an offensive job. If someone is not satisfied with the distribution like now, he will definitely be scolded behind his back. But people have come to invite him, and he is the team leader, so he has to come.
He said so, and Zhou Shuimei couldn't refuse his face. She thought for a while and said, "Hey, look at this house, does it still look like a home? Since your uncle said so, then give the second room another ten yuan. There will be no more!"
"Erzhu, do you agree with what your mother said?"
Han Tiansheng turned his head and looked at Ye Erzhu who was standing beside him and asked.
Ye Erzhu glanced at Ye Qing, and when he saw that she didn't say anything, he nodded, "Okay, let's do as my mother says."
Zhou Shuimei snorted angrily when she heard this.
Han Tiansheng nodded. "Okay, I'll have the accountant divide out your family's public income this year, and we'll each have our own income from now on. His aunt, how do you plan to divide the private plot?"
Now it is a collective economy and all land belongs to the collective. However, in order to make it convenient for each household to grow their own vegetables, the brigade will allocate some land to each household according to the number of people, but growing grain is not allowed.
Zhou Shuimei said, "There are only three plots of private land in the family, so give one to the second child."
"Okay, then I will represent the brigade and allocate another piece of private land to Erzhu. It's just wasteland, so you have to open it up yourself."
Ye Erzhu hurriedly thanked him, "Thank you, sir. I can drive it myself!"
Wasteland is also land. No one will despise it. They will just feel lucky.
"Oh, I'm sorry to have worried you, Brother Han. Thank you!"
Zhou Shuimei was happy that her son got a piece of land for free, but the people in the first wife's house were not so happy. They were all extremely jealous.
Han Tiansheng smiled and waved his hands, "It's not easy for any of us, so let's help if we can."
Ye Erzhu is not the first one, and this is not a privilege. If some families in the village do not have enough private plots to divide up, the brigade will give them some wasteland as compensation.
"I think you have sorted out most of the things. Do you want to write an application? If not, I will go back first."
"Write! Thank you, Grandpa Han."
Ye Qing chuckled. The main reason for inviting him over was for this step, to prevent them from defaulting on their debt.
Han Tiansheng nodded and said, "Okay, then Jianguo, go to the village brigade and ask Accountant Liu for two pieces of paper and a pen, and also bring the ink."
"good."
Ye Jianguo nodded and trotted out.
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