"Mom—you love me the most, right? I promise to work hard in the future and never be lazy again. Don't chase me away, or I'll starve to death."
Although Li Mingyu said this, he had no burden in his heart. After he got a job, he occasionally gave his mother living expenses. Even after the family was divided, he was still his mother's most beloved youngest son!
Besides, if it wasn't obvious that his mother and his third sister-in-law were working together, then Li Mingyu would no longer be the most handsome guy on the street.
Even his little sister knows to hold her mother tightly, so how could he, the smartest and most obedient son, be left behind!
I don't know why my mother suddenly changed her attitude towards my eldest brother, but it's a good idea to keep up with current events.
Li Jianghai tapped his pipe and coughed heavily. "Minghua, go to the neighborhood committee and invite Director Zhang and the others! We need a witness for today's division of the family property to avoid any further wrangling later!"
Li Minghua squatted in the corner, his head down, and replied, "Hey, I'll go right away."
When he stood up, he kicked a stone away, and his mind was as clear as a mirror - Wu Xiaomei secretly sent half a pound of sugar to his mother's room last night, and today's drama must have been rehearsed long ago.
When I met someone who had just returned from the alley, I would ask, "Minghua, what are you doing in such a hurry at noon?"
"Find the neighborhood committee to preside over the division!" Li Minghua deliberately shouted at the top of his voice, startling the old hens in the yard and making them fly away.
Director Wang arrived faster than expected, followed by two young staff members wearing red armbands.
As soon as I entered the yard, I saw Li Mingyu sitting on the ground sobbing, and Li Guifang's trouser legs were wrinkled by him.
Everyone in the yard was talking about it.
As Director Zhang entered the room, the yard suddenly became quiet. Only Li Mingyu was left there, sobbing and muttering, like a young wife who had suffered a great injustice.
Seeing him like this, Li Guifang felt both angry and amused. She raised her foot and gently kicked him: "Alright, stop acting. Hurry up and get up! Stop embarrassing yourself here!"
When Li Mingyu heard this, he immediately stopped crying, quickly got up, and patted the dirt off his knees.
He approached Li Guifang in a servile manner and said, "Mom, I'm just afraid that you'll really kick me out!"
Li Guifang rolled her eyes at him. "Kick you out? You're dreaming! Even if the family is divided, you still have to pay every penny of the living expenses you're supposed to pay!"
What a joke! The fourth and fifth sons haven't gotten married yet. They have to live with her whether the family is divided or not. This son is just playing tricks!
Li Mingyu chuckled: "Of course, it's only natural for a son to be filial to you!"
Director Zhang cleared his throat and looked around: "Old Li family, are you really going to split up?"
Li Jianghai nodded, folding his pipe behind his waist and said, "Divide! When a tree grows up, it branches out; when a son grows up, he separates from his family. It's only a matter of time."
Director Zhang is no longer surprised. There have been many cases of family separation in the past two years.
The older generation of parents were no longer around, so there was no reason to divide the family. After a few polite words of persuasion, he got straight to the point, "Have you decided how to divide the family yet?"
Li Guifang snorted coldly: "What are you still discussing? Just follow the rules! The eldest and the third are already married, so what should be divided should be divided, and whoever should leave should leave.
The fourth and fifth children are not married yet, so they are living with us two for the time being.
The eldest brother went to college with the support of the whole family. He promised that he would take care of his younger brothers and sisters when they got married and found jobs.
Now it seems that he doesn’t have that ability, so I don’t rely on him for work, but everything else at home has nothing to do with him!
We spent two thousand to transfer the ownership of these rooms two years ago. Now each of us has one. After my younger sister gets married, the room she lives in will belong to us, old two.
The money in our passbook is divided into 6 parts, one for each person, and the eldest brother's part is used to supplement the living expenses of my husband and me in the past few years of working.
When my husband and I can no longer work, you will have to provide for us in our old age."
In her previous life, she also saw in the news that the elderly’s children had made an agreement in the 1990s to provide 5 yuan per month for their retirement.
The money we have now will not be able to buy anything after inflation, and the elderly will eventually starve to death!
With this previous experience as a lesson, she did not specify how much money she wanted, but instead mentioned a share.
I divided up the rest of the house using the same criteria. Those who wanted big items like the radio paid for them and gave them to others. It was a fair division!
Li Mingyuan stood by, his face as black as the bottom of a pot, mumbling in a low voice: "Mom, I have done my best over the years..."
Li Guifang squinted at him and said "Pooh": "You tried your best, you tried your best to find ways to get my money, I knew it, do you really think I'm old and confused?
Last time you came to see me with two bags of sugar, your wife scolded you behind my back for three days, thinking I was deaf and couldn't hear you.
Lin Yaqin was already furious about the division of the family property. She had been scolded so harshly before that she didn't dare to say anything. Now, seeing her mother-in-law pointing at her husband and scolding him again, she immediately exploded:
"You old woman! Are you being unreasonable? If there are rules, why didn't you make them clear before you got married?
If you dare to make this clear, who would marry into your family? Now you bring up these broken rules, I don't recognize them!"
She grew angrier and angrier as she spoke, and she slammed the broom to the ground, "If you're going to divide the family this way, why don't we all just break up?"
Li Mingyuan quickly pulled her: "Yaqin, stop talking..."
"Stop talking nonsense!" Lin Yaqin shook off his hand, her eyes red as she yelled, "You're just a coward! Your mother treats us like beggars, and you're still pretending to be a grandson!"
The yard was suddenly in chaos, and the neighbors who were watching the fun were pointing and talking.
Li Guifang sneered, put her hands on her hips and shouted at Lin Yaqin: "If you have the guts, get out now!
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