Chapter 5 Want to split up? Spit out the money

The second brother and his wife have already sharpened their knives, just waiting for someone to bring it up.

Xu Ping threw a piece of dry firewood into the stove, stood up, and patted the straw crumbs on her trouser legs. "Since life has come to this, we have no choice but to separate."

Not long after, Mrs. Liu and the two sons of the Zhai family sat in the main room and talked seriously about dividing the family property.

Mrs. Liu had a lot of cash on hand, which was something everyone in the village knew. The biggest loss for her from the division of the family was that she would not be able to get the money that the third son would send home in the future.

This put her in a very difficult position.

After much thought and some ideological struggle, I decided to split up the family. It's really stressful for a large family to take care of two burdens.

At this time, Wang Ziru was so hungry that her stomach acid was about to burst out.

She hesitated for a while, let Baoer lie in the quilt to warm himself, and then she went into the kitchen.

Inside the thatched shed, the two sisters-in-law were preparing to cook. On the chopping board were the dishes for that night, including potato and radish slices, which had already been cut.

When they saw Wang Ziru come in, the eldest and second sister-in-law's faces looked extremely ugly.

"Third brother's wife, are you awake now?" Xu Ping asked.

"Awake? Did I sleep?" Wang Ziru walked to the earthen stove and picked up the spatula. "Where's the oil?"

I saw Wang Ziru coming out to help cook.

Sister-in-law Liu Xiangqin came over with an oil can in her arms, put it directly on the chopping board, and had no intention of taking the initiative to talk to Wang Ziru.

Wang Ziru scooped a large spoonful of pork fat with a spoon and threw it into the pot to boil radish slices.

Seeing this, Liu Xiangqin frowned deeply in pain. She simply dropped the oil can and turned around and walked out of the thatched hut.

During the meal, several children ate with gusto, saying one after another: "The food tonight smells so good."

But when Mrs. Liu saw the oil coming out of the dishes, her eyes widened, and she got up to look for her oil can in the kitchen. But there was a big hole missing from the lard, and she immediately flew into a rage.

She came out holding the oil can, pointed at Wang Ziru and scolded her, "You spendthrift woman, you don't know how to manage the household at all! This lard is so expensive, and you're wasting it like this."

Wang Ziru felt aggrieved, but she didn't want to argue. She just took a bowl of corn grits porridge and gulped it down.

At the dinner table, the other two daughters-in-law of the Zhai family brought up the issue of dividing the family property again.

Liu Xiangqin put down her chopsticks and said seriously, "We can't live like this anymore. We have to separate. We can't live with her anymore. Otherwise, we don't know how much trouble will come out of this."

Xu Ping continued, "Yes, we should separate! If we don't separate, we won't cook or go to the fields. Why should we work so hard while she enjoys a leisurely life?"

Listening to what her two sisters-in-law said, Wang Ziru sneered in her heart.

I'm eating my man's share and spending my man's money, why didn't I listen to what you said?

Mrs. Liu felt that she had lost her dignity as the only one in the family. After listening to what her two daughters-in-law said, although she was reluctant in her heart, she also felt that Wang Ziru had gone too far this time.

She glared at Wang Ziru fiercely and said, "You guys decide what to do. If this family is to be divided, it's because of Wang Ziru's pressure."

"Brother, since everyone agrees to split up, you can go and invite the village chief after dinner." said the second brother Zhai Jiahao.

As the eldest son in the family, Zhai Qingsong felt that he had the responsibility to lead his three younger brothers and sisters-in-law.

But now everyone in the family dislikes Wang Ziru, so they can only separate and live separately.

After dinner, Wang Ziru never entered the thatched hut again.

I sat in the side room holding Bao'er and warmed myself by the fire.

Inside the thatched hut, the two daughters-in-law of the Zhai family were working while scolding Wang Ziru for being a good-for-nothing.

Wang Ziru was not in a hurry to fight back against them. She was just waiting for the time to separate the family and then make them suffer.

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Village chief Li and Mr. Zhang, the most respected man in the village, were invited to the Zhai family yard by Zhai Qingsong.

The main room was full of people.

Wang Ziru was worried that Bao'er's body, which had finally warmed up, would catch a cold, so she sent Bao'er back to the room, "Be good, Bao'er, go to sleep first, and mom will be back to accompany you in a while."

"Okay, Mom, then you have to come back soon. I'm afraid of the dark."

The little guy stretched out his two little arms from under the quilt, hugged Wang Ziru's neck tightly and spoke coquettishly.

"Don't be afraid! With mom here, bad guys won't dare to bully our baby."

"..." Baoer blinked and let go obediently.

Wang Ziru continued to light the kerosene lamp in the room to give Baoer a sense of security.

Then he turned around and went back to the main room and sat down.

In the main room was a square table where the family ate. At this moment, the village chief was sitting beside the table and had already laid out all the field maps of the Zhai family.

Mrs. Liu sat close to the village chief, afraid of missing out on the important event. "Village Chief Li, you know that my husband died early, so today when we divide the family property, we must take not a penny of the old-age land. The terraced field outside the yard is my old-age land."

"Mom! Are you too greedy? The terraced field in front is the best rice field in our family. It's close to home and it saves effort to pick up manure. If you get it, what will we eat?" Liu Xiangqin was immediately dissatisfied and protested loudly before her husband could say anything.

Xu Ping was also unhappy and said, "Since the eldest sister-in-law also said that this is the best paddy field in the family and the closest to home, it is natural that the eldest and second eldest families will each get half."

Wang Ziru listened to her two sisters-in-law and didn't take the third branch seriously at all.

He didn't say anything, just waited quietly for the two women to start arguing.

The village chief looked at Mrs. Liu in embarrassment and said, "Sister Wang, I think your two daughters-in-law are right. The rice field in front of your house is long and flat, suitable for growing rice. You should give it to them."

At this time, Liu Xiangqin was fed up and shouted, "No! The paddy field in front of the door must be divided up for our boss."

"Why do you want to keep it all for yourself?" Xu Ping gave up.

Liu Xiangqin sneered and glared at Xu Ping, "Since you like to farm the land in front of your house, I'll give you the big piece of land behind the house."

"Don't be ridiculous! Everyone knows that this land behind the house is dry land and rice cannot be grown. Besides, there is a forest behind the house and no sunlight can penetrate it. It's useless to grow anything there." Xu Ping was not to be outdone and exposed Liu Xiangqin's plan in public.

But Liu Xiangqin insisted that the rice field in front of the Zhai family's yard must be given to the eldest brother.

Otherwise, let's just get along like this.

Xu Ping and his wife were so angry that they almost vomited blood.

Now that the issue of separation has been put on the table, is it still possible to get along?

The second son Zhai Jiahao could not help but say, "Forget it! We are not giving it to outsiders. Big brother, since the eldest sister-in-law likes the rice field at the door, I will give it to you."

"Zhai Jiahao, are you crazy?!"

Hearing Xu Ping's anxious scolding, Zhai Jiahao said, "Then give us Xiao Wangqiu, Da Wangqiu, and Tianjiamenkou, these three paddy fields."

Hearing this, Zhai Qingsong couldn't help but mutter in his heart that the second brother was really good at retreating in order to advance.

The three rice fields he mentioned were all square and large in size. They were the rice fields on the flat plain that everyone in the village envied and were easy to cultivate and harvest.

Liu Xiangqin objected vehemently, "The land in front of the Tian family can only be given to us!"

"On what grounds?"

"Because we are the oldest! You can ask mom if the oldest should be given the food first, and then it will be your turn, the second oldest?"

Xu Ping was choked for a moment and looked at her mother-in-law hurriedly, "Mom, who said that the first child should be given the land before the second child? According to what you said, then the third child will not get any paddy field in the end?"

These words were blurted out in a hurry, and as soon as she finished speaking, Xu Ping felt that she had messed up.

Several pairs of eyes then turned to the third daughter-in-law who had been sitting in the main room without saying a word.

Mrs. Liu was also shocked. Given the violent reaction of that villain in the afternoon, she shouldn't have been so calm.

Was she waiting for Xu Ping to say this?

"Brother Zhang, can you say something?" Mrs. Liu looked at Mr. Zhang opposite her expectantly.

Mr. Zhang held a pipe in his mouth and puffed on it. At this time, he was also smiling kindly and knocking on the pipe at the corner of the table. "Since you invited me here as a witness, I will also say a few fair words."