"Dad, you don't have to borrow money. I will find a way to get the money."
Xiang Changlin knew that Xiang Zhong had always been very concerned about his reputation and would not borrow money from others unless he had no other choice. So he was even more unwilling to let his sick father lose face and go to other people's houses to borrow money.
"Don't worry about it. I'll take care of the money. You can just take care of your health and build houses!"
Lin Cuixin slammed the table and took the responsibility on herself.
Xiang Changlin and Xiang Zhong smiled and said nothing more. It was useless to say more because they would find a way to raise the money anyway.
"Okay, let's leave it at that for now. Tomorrow you will help your brother make adobe bricks. I'm a little tired. You guys should go back to your room first."
"Okay, then Dad, you take a good rest."
"Um."
The next morning, while no one was home, he shouted outside Zhong Chao's door,
"Mother, come in!"
"Hey! Here they come!"
Lin Cuixin walked into the room quickly, looked at him and asked, "What's the matter?"
Xiang Zhong patted the earthen bed beside him and said, "Sit down, I want to tell you something."
Lin Cuixin smiled and went to sit on the kang with her legs crossed. "You can talk."
"I want to discuss the division of the family with you."
"Separation? Why are you thinking of separation?"
Lin Cuixin frowned, looking puzzled.
"Ah~ I thought about it all night last night. Changlin is going to build a house now. It will be divided sooner or later anyway. Why not ask the team leader to re-assign a residential plot before it is built? In the future, when the two brothers have more children, our small space will definitely not be enough to build a house. It is better to divide it now and save trouble in the future."
"How are we going to divide the family? What are we going to do after we divide the family? Apart from these two rooms and the chickens and pigs in the pen, there is nothing else in the house!"
His health is not good. If the family does not split up, the family can still work together. If the family splits up, who knows what will happen in the future. What will they do? When the family splits up, the eldest son usually follows. That would be too unfair to him.
"Didn't I tell you yesterday that my disease is incurable, so I'll live as long as I can? After we split up, we'll live alone with Chunling, and Qianjin and Changlin will live on their own. If they want to be filial, we'll give them some food. I don't want anything from them, as long as they can live a good life.
In a few years, Chunling will be able to find her husband's family. If I am gone, you will live with the eldest brother, and the second brother will also take care of you in your old age. The two brothers will not ignore you. "
"What nonsense are you talking about! You had a good idea, but you just closed your eyes and left me to suffer alone in this world! You have no conscience!"
Lin Cuixin felt a lump in her throat as if he was explaining her last wishes. She began to cry. "If you don't want to live, then I won't live either. This will save me from being a burden to the children!"
"Hey, why are you crying?"
Xiang Zhong felt bad seeing her crying and wanted to reach out to wipe her tears.
Lin Cuixin slapped his hand away and cried, "I've been married to you for more than 20 years, and you just said you don't want me anymore! You have no conscience! Even if you die, I will follow you and haunt you! You won't be able to rest in peace even as a ghost!"
Xiang Zhong didn't know whether to laugh or cry, "Where did I say I didn't want you? Am I not living well?"
"How can you live without taking medicine and seeing a doctor? Don't you know how your body is doing?"
"Alas, I don't want to embarrass the children."
Lin Cuixin raised her hand to wipe away her tears, and then said, "I agree to the division of the family, but your medicine cannot be discontinued, otherwise if you die first, I will follow you!"
It's better to split up the family now, so that the children can live their own lives in the future. As for Xiang Zhong's illness, she is still young and can do it. She has raised two sons to this age, and even if the family is divided, she can't ignore their father's illness.
"How can you be so stupid!"
The young and beautiful face she had when she first married me is now covered with wrinkles and has many more white hairs. She is only forty years old, but she looks like she is in her fifties. One can't help but sigh that time makes people grow old.
"Marry a chicken, follow the chicken; marry a dog, follow the dog. You want to abandon me? That's not possible! Tell the children about this tonight!"
"Alas, I have wronged you all these years. Blame me for not being able to give you a good life and making you suffer."
Lin Cuixin burst into laughter after hearing what he said, "I'm not wronged. I've never felt wronged since I followed you. If it weren't for you, I would have been sold to the mountains by that drunkard!"
Thinking of what happened back then, Xiang Zhongye grinned, "Back then, we emptied our family just to marry you, and your father still wasn't happy about it."
Lin Cuixin said with disgust, "He is not a human being! I was too stupid when I was young. If it were now, I would fight him to the death! Living is suffering anyway."
Xiang Zhong laughed, "Let's not talk about him anymore, he's dead anyway. So let's split up the family, and I'll tell the kids tonight."
Lin Cuixin nodded, "Yes."
The family was busy making adobe bricks during the day, and after dinner in the evening, Xiang Zhong directly talked about the division of the family at the dinner table.
"Dad, I don't care about the division of the family property. The second son is getting married soon, and it will be divided sooner or later anyway. But I don't agree with you two going out separately. After the division, you will live with Gui'e and me."
"QinJin is right. Dad and Mom, how can you two live separately? We all live in the same courtyard, so why should we separate?"
The eldest daughter-in-law, Li Gui'e, lost her parents when she was young, and depended on her grandmother for life. Last year, her only grandmother also passed away. She has been married to the Xiang family for four years, and her parents-in-law have always treated her very well. She has never been loved by her parents since she was a child, and she can no longer remember what her parents look like. Over the years, she has always treated her parents-in-law as her parents. Her father-in-law is in poor health, and they are the eldest children, so they naturally cannot abandon her parents-in-law, which would be too unfilial.
Seeing their son and daughter-in-law being so filial, Xiang Zhong and his wife felt very relieved, thinking that their love for them was not in vain.
"Your father and I know that you are filial. We have already decided on this matter. Let's leave it at that."
"No, if you two split up, then this family won't be split up either. Second brother, you say."
Xiang Qianjin was very firm in his stance on the matter of the two of them being separated, he would absolutely not agree to it.
"Why don't we just not separate yet? We can talk about it later. It's still too early now. We haven't even seen the shadow of the child yet. Let's build a room to live in first, and we can talk about it later when there's no more room."
Xiang Changlin pursed his lips, feeling a little uncomfortable. He didn't expect that his parents would consider his marriage to this extent.
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