Chapter 431 Seven courtyards, the children were stunned

Afternoon.

Siheyuan.

After eating and drinking their fill, the distinguished guests invited by the woman left one after another.

After seeing off these distinguished guests one by one, Deng Shirong had the opportunity to chat with his father-in-law Pei about the future of his third son and daughter-in-law.

Originally, it would be a bit inappropriate to talk about these things today, but as Pei's father is the head of a ministry, he is usually quite busy with work, and Deng Shirong doesn't want to disturb him for no reason and delay his work.

Therefore, it is better to choose this day to discuss this issue with your in-laws.

After a few polite words, Deng Shirong got straight to the point and asked, "My dear, Xiaosong and Xiaopei have both been promoted to deputy director levels. I want to ask if you have any plans for them? Should they continue to work in the ministry, or should they be transferred to work at the grassroots level?"

When receiving those distinguished guests before, the performance of the in-laws impressed Pei's father. Now, when he heard his question, he replied, "It's not an arrangement. My suggestion is that you continue to work in the ministry. In two years, when the critical moment for promotion comes, you can be directly promoted."

This career path is actually the same as the cultivation in novels. If you stay in the sect and practice honestly, as long as there are seniors in the sect to protect you, it is possible to advance your cultivation and eventually become a hall master or even a guardian.

However, if one wants to become a sect elder or even a big shot like the deputy sect master or sect master, then one must leave the sect to gain experience. Only after going through the trials of life and death can one finally emerge from the cocoon and become a big figure who determines the direction of the sect.

The same is true for your career. If you stay in a ministry and work there, you will certainly be able to move up the career ladder if you have the ability, and you can even become the head of a department.

But if you want to grow into the head or deputy head, it is basically impossible.

Therefore, gaining experience at the grassroots level is an essential step. The only difference is at which level you gain experience.

Seeing that his in-laws had already made up their minds, Deng Shirong nodded and said with a smile, "Then I'll follow your arrangements."

Then, both sides changed the topic and talked about other things.

Half an hour later, the girl's family and relatives were also ready to leave.

Before leaving, he naturally had to say goodbye to Pei Qinghua, the bride.

Generally, when a couple gets married and her family leaves, the bride will feel sad and many can't help but cry.

But this scene did not happen to Pei Qinghua.

The reason is very simple. Although she is married, her husband's family is in Guangxi, while her parents' family is in Beijing. She stayed in Beijing to work and did not feel like she was married at all. She continued to live the same life as before.

The only difference is multiple husbands and multiple homes.

Pei's father and mother felt the same way. Their daughter was right under their noses and they could see her at any time, so the sadness of marrying off their daughter naturally faded a lot.

After the bride's family and relatives had left, Deng Shirong called his son, daughter-in-law, daughter, and son-in-law together and said, "While you are all here, it's time to give you a share of this courtyard."

Deng Yuntai said quickly after hearing this: "Dad, you have given us too much. Just give this courtyard to Xiaosong. What else do you want to share?"

The other children also expressed their opinions, "Yes, Dad, it's just a courtyard house, and we don't work in the capital, so just give it to Xiaosong, no need to give it to us."

Deng Yunsong said, "Let's divide it according to what Dad said. This courtyard is so big, with more than 30 rooms. We can't live in so many rooms!"

Having seen many examples of brothers and sisters turning against each other for a little benefit, Deng Shirong was very relieved to see his seven children being humble to each other. He smiled and said, "I didn't say that I wanted to divide this courtyard. Since I said that this courtyard is for Xiaosong and Xiaopei's wedding house, it belongs to Xiaosong and Xiaopei.

But in addition to this courtyard, I have six other courtyards in the capital, all of which are similar to Xiaosong's courtyard. You six brothers and sisters can choose one each!"

When these words were spoken, everyone was shocked.

Especially the new daughter-in-law Pei Qinghua, she didn’t know enough about the financial resources of her husband’s family, and she was really shocked to hear this.

You know, the price of a Siheyuan now is not the same as when Deng Shirong bought it. Even though only a dozen years have passed, the price of this Siheyuan has increased tenfold.

When Deng Shirong purchased these seven courtyard houses, he spent a total of more than 320,000 yuan, which means that on average one courtyard house cost more than 40,000 yuan but less than 50,000 yuan.

Nowadays, a single courtyard house would cost four or five hundred thousand yuan.

The total value of these seven courtyard houses is at least over three million.

In this era, unless someone in the family is doing business and doing well, or has inherited ancestral property, if one is not greedy, not to mention the strong men in the tribal border, even the strong men in the country cannot come up with so much money.

But in order to be fair, my father-in-law spent two or three million to buy courtyard houses for his other children. It was really generous! Deng Yunzhen said helplessly: "Dad, we don't work or do business in Beijing. Why did you buy us a courtyard house? We can't use it!"

Deng Yunzhu continued, "Yes, Dad, even though you have money now, there is no need to waste it on these impractical things!"

The other brothers and sisters also expressed their opinions. Although they all knew that their father was rich, they felt that it was unnecessary to spend so much money to buy several impractical courtyard houses, especially since they felt that these courtyard houses were bought for them by their father for the sake of fairness, which was even more unnecessary.

Deng Shirong smiled and said, "I didn't buy this courtyard house just now. I bought it when Yunheng was admitted to Peking University. At that time, a courtyard house only cost tens of thousands of yuan. I bought it originally to keep it for you seven brothers and sisters. No matter how you brothers and sisters get along in society in the future, you can have such a large courtyard house in Beijing. Even if you don't sell it, you can just rent it out and collect rent. Your life will not be too bad.

But now that our family has developed, we no longer need to keep this hand, so while you are all here, let's divide this courtyard house. Even if you don't live in it, the house will appreciate in value. I can't say how much it will be worth in the future, but it should still be worth tens of millions or even hundreds of millions."

When these words were spoken, all the sons, daughters-in-law, and sons-in-law were stunned.

On the one hand, I was shocked by the valuation of tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, and on the other hand, I was completely shocked by my father's foresight.

More than ten years ago, he bought a three-story courtyard house in Beijing for each of his seven siblings. Which rural person in the country can do this? In particular, the seven siblings, including the eldest sister-in-law Zhang Xiuping, who came in first, all knew what the family was like more than ten years ago. At that time, the family had just started to develop, and their father had borrowed money from the credit union several times. Under such circumstances, he went to Beijing to buy seven courtyard houses, and now the value has increased more than ten times. This is simply a god-like operation.

After the shock, the seven children were deeply moved. They felt that their father had done so much for them.

Seeing that his children were all shocked, Deng Shirong waved his hand and said, "Okay, since it's still early, I'll take you to the nearest courtyard house. Tomorrow I'll take you to the rest. After we've seen them all, you brothers and sisters can start choosing from oldest to youngest."

Having said this, the seven children responded one after another, and then brought their grandchildren and grandsons, including Xiaodong'er, Dongzi, Zhu Shiba, and Amao, said hello to their relatives and friends, and then, led by Deng Shirong, they got on the bus in a mighty procession and headed for the nearest courtyard house.

Half an hour later.

The family came to another courtyard.

After entering, Deng Yunzhu asked in surprise: "Dad, has this courtyard been newly renovated?"

Deng Shirong nodded and said, "It has just been renovated. Since we are going to renovate it, we will naturally renovate all seven courtyards at the same time. This will save trouble."

Deng Yunzhen said as she toured the house: "Dad, it's such a waste that no one lives in this renovated house!"

Deng Shirong said: "It's just temporarily unoccupied, who can tell what will happen in the future!"

Soon, everyone finished touring the courtyard. The decoration style of this courtyard was the same as that of Deng Yunsong. Even the area and architectural layout were not much different, so everyone was able to visit it quickly.

In fact, there is still time to visit one more courtyard house, but today is the wedding day of the third son and daughter-in-law after all. All the relatives and friends are in their courtyard house, so the family has to rush back to entertain them.

Therefore, after visiting the courtyard, the family returned home.

There is a lot of food left over from the lunch banquet, so we can just heat it up for dinner.

The spring scenery of this night was more intense than ever before. Deng Yunsong and Pei Qinghua finally experienced the irresistible thing of passing on the family line.

…

The next morning, after breakfast, all the relatives and friends went out for fun, while Deng Shirong took his children to visit the other five courtyards.

Only after we finished visiting all of them did we let our children start choosing.

They were all three-story courtyards, all with the same decoration style, the only difference was the location. Except for Deng Yunheng and Deng Yunsong, who were a little more familiar with the capital, the others were all here for the first time, so how could they know which location was good? Besides , the seven brothers and sisters had always had a good relationship, so even if they knew the location of the courtyard, they would probably give way to each other and give the better ones to their younger brothers and sisters.

Since you don’t know which location is good, just choose according to your own preferences.

So, the six brothers and sisters simply divided the six courtyards.

On the third day after Deng Yunsong's wedding, Deng Yunheng, County Magistrate Song, Zhu Junjie, Zhou Haidong and others who had work to do went back first, while the rest of them rarely came to the capital, so they naturally stayed for a few more days and visited more attractions before going back.

This game lasted for a week.

After visiting all the famous attractions in the capital, the relatives and friends returned home satisfied.

…

Two o'clock in the afternoon.

Potou Village, Longtan Town, Bobai County.

Deng Changyuan was squatting in the courtyard of her home washing her hair. When she was almost done and was rinsing the water, she heard her husband Li Guofeng's voice: "Give me some money quickly."

When Deng Changyuan heard her husband's tone, she knew he had lost money, so she ignored him and continued washing her hair, pretending he didn't exist.

"I repeat, give me some money!"

Deng Changyuan still pretended not to hear and continued to rinse her hair.

Li Guofeng was already in a bad mood after losing money, and he instantly became furious when he saw this scene. He kicked the bucket over and shouted, "Say it one last time, give me the money."

Deng Changyuan was so angry that she yelled, "Li Guofeng, you bastard, I told you not to gamble but you insisted on gambling. Since you are so capable and think that gambling can support your wife and children, then don't come back to ask me for money! Don't ask me to go back to my parents' house to borrow money! You lost money outside and came back to ask me for money and got angry at me. What kind of man are you?"

“Bang!”

Li Guofeng slapped him directly, and shouted with a sullen face: "I asked you to take the money."

"Damn you, I'm going to fight you!"

Deng Changyuan used her woman's unique skills and scratched and clawed Li Guofeng.

Unfortunately, women are just women after all. If men were cautious and gave in to her a little, then this method might work and might even leave a lot of scratches on the man's face or body. But now Li Guofeng is a gambler who has lost a lot of money, just like a drug addict.

Seeing Deng Changyuan rushing towards him with bared fangs and claws, Li Guofeng kicked her mercilessly, knocking her to the ground. Deng Changyuan covered her stomach and bent like a shrimp.

After Li Guofeng kicked the man down, he went straight back to the room and rummaged through the drawers.

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In less than three minutes, after finding the money he wanted, he took it all away without leaving a penny. He ignored Deng Changyuan who was kicked to the ground by him and rushed to the casino without looking back. He was going to make a comeback. He must win back all the money he lost today and win a few hundred more.

More than a minute later, Deng Changyuan slowly sat up from the ground. At this time, she was already in tears.

She had been married to Li Guofeng for more than ten years and had given birth to three children for him. Life at home was originally pretty good. Li Guofeng was a hardworking man and was quite nice to her. The family of five lived a relatively happy life.

But everything changed after Li Guofeng developed the bad habit of gambling three years ago.

All the housework was left to her, and she went to the village casino to gamble all day long.

In the past three years, the couple had quarreled at least ten times more often than in the past few years, and Deng Changyuan was even beaten several times.

Because of Li Guofeng's gambling addiction, the family lost all their money several times and could not even take out a dollar. In the end, for the sake of her three children, Deng Changyuan had to swallow her pride and go back to her parents' home to borrow money from her parents and brothers.

But today's slap and the ruthless kick completely woke Deng Changyuan up. If she continued to live with such a gambler, she would be doomed sooner or later. She would either be beaten to death by him or die of poverty.

She had gone back to her parents' home several times to borrow money. After her brother knew about her situation, he wanted to come and support her several times, but she kept stopping him. It was not because she felt sorry for her gambling husband, but mainly because she only had one brother and was afraid that Li Guofeng would fight back and hurt her brother.

There is an unspoken rule in Bobai that if a man in the village beats his wife and his wife's family comes to retaliate, unless the situation is serious enough that the wife is disabled or even killed, or if there are only some minor injuries, no one in the village will help. Even the man's brothers can only persuade him but cannot intervene to help.

However, if the people coming from the woman's side are not her own family members, but instead bring other people to beat people up, then the nature of the situation is different. The man's brothers and even other people in the village may come to help.

Therefore, in Bobai County, if a married woman has many brothers in her family, basically no one dares to bully her in her husband's family unless she is cowardly.

Deng Changyuan has only one younger brother from her mother's family, so naturally she is not strong enough, which is why Li Guofeng dared to beat her so many times.

However, although Deng Changyuan has only one biological brother, she has many cousins. She did not want to trouble her cousins ​​for help before. After all, there is a difference between biological brothers and cousins, not to mention that they are not cousins ​​from the same grandfather.

But Li Guofeng's ruthless kick today made her feel cold.

If she doesn't teach him a profound lesson, she will really have no good days in the future.

Thinking of this, Deng Changyuan stood up from the ground. Her stomach ached slightly when she moved, which made her more determined.

Next, she simply rinsed her hair with water, dried her hair, changed into clean clothes, and then went to find a sister-in-law in the village with whom she had a good relationship, asking her to help take care of her three children so that the children would have something to eat when they came home from school.

Then, I took a bus back to my parents' home.

…

After Deng Shirong finished his third son's wedding, he waited for all his relatives and friends to have enough fun in the capital before returning with them.

The third son's wedding was held in Beijing, and he was unable to come back due to work reasons. As a father, Deng Shirong naturally had to return to his hometown to burn incense for his ancestors and tell all the ancestors of the Deng family about this happy event.

After returning to his hometown, Deng Shirong immediately took out his hookah and tobacco lighter, and then started smoking comfortably.

After burning a few cigarettes, Deng Shirong had just put them away when he saw a woman with her hair loose walking by his house. He greeted her, "Ayuanmei."

Deng Changyuan was walking towards her parents' home with a rage. She looked at Deng Shirong and found that it was Jiugong who greeted her. She quickly greeted him, "Jiugong."

Deng Shirong saw the slap marks on her face at a glance, and immediately frowned and said, "Ayuanmei, what's wrong with your face? Who hit you?"

Deng Changyuan originally came back to her parents' home to complain. Now that Jiugong asked, she naturally did not hide anything and directly replied through gritted teeth: "Jiugong, it was that damned Li Guofeng who beat me."

Deng Shirong asked: "What happened? Why did he hit you so hard?"

"He has become addicted to gambling in recent years and has become different. This is not the first time he has hit me, but the previous times he didn't hit me as hard."

Deng Changyuan told Jiu Gong what happened today with red eyes. At the end, she gritted her teeth and said, "He just bullied me because I only have one brother in my family. That's why he dared to hit me again and again. I really can't swallow this breath!"

Deng Shirong was also very angry when he heard this, and sneered: "You are really so bold that you even dare to hit our aunt from the Ye Deng family. Go back to your parents' home first and tell your parents and brothers. I will gather some people and lead a team to avenge you.

No one can bully our aunt from the Ye Deng family, no matter who it is."

Deng Changyuan felt relieved when she heard this. With Jiugong coming forward, the dead man's retribution was coming: "Thank you, Jiugong. I will go back and tell my parents first, and then bring them to your place to gather later."

"Go ahead, and figure out how to deal with Li Guofeng."

"OK."

…

Half an hour later.

All the men, women, young and old in the village gathered at Deng Shirong's home. After hearing that Deng Changyuan had been beaten repeatedly by her husband, they were all filled with indignation. In recent years, as the reputation of the Naye Deng family spread throughout the county, people would look up to them just by stating their surname.

It has been several years since they heard of any member of the Ye Deng clan being beaten like this.

Deng Shirong asked, "Ayuanmei, have you thought it through now? How are you going to deal with Li Guofeng?"

With Jiugong stepping forward, Deng Changyuan knew that just one word from her could decide the rest of Li Guofeng's life. If it weren't for those three children, she would have asked Jiugong to take people to beat that guy half to a cripple without hesitation, making him regret hitting him.

But the dead man is the father of three children after all. If he is too cruel, his three children might hate him.

So, Deng Changyuan gritted her teeth and said, "Jiu Gong, my goal is to beat him up severely, beat him until he is afraid, beat him until he begs for mercy, but I can't beat him to a pulp. After all, he is the father of my three children. I can't go too far, lest the children hate me when they grow up. I'll just beat him up severely so that he won't dare to beat me again in the future."

Deng Shirong nodded and said, "Okay, I understand, let's go!"

Deng Changyuan responded and got into the car with her younger brother and a dozen cousins.

"Jiu Gong, let us go too. Potou Village is one of the most dangerous villages in Longtan. It would be safer if we go with more people."

"Yes, Jiugong, if Li Guofeng's other brothers help him, it will be useless if there are fewer people going."

"Besides, we don't know much about Potou Village. Who knows if the other people in their village are reasonable?"

“…”

Deng Shirong waved his hand confidently and said, "No, there are enough of us. I guarantee that Li Guofeng's brothers will not dare to interfere, and the villagers will not dare to interfere. If they dare to interfere, then our more than 3,000 tribesmen will have to go to their Potou Village as guests."

In this era, Longtan Potou Village is indeed notorious. Not to mention in Longtan Town, even in several nearby towns and villages, the name Potou Village is well-known. Most people don't dare to provoke the people of Potou Village.

But no matter how awesome Potou Village is, it depends on who it is compared with. In front of the Ye Deng family, Potou Village is just the younger brother.

After hearing what the clan leader said, the clan members felt relieved.

With the clan leader leading the team personally, as long as the people in Potou Village are not stupid, they will not be able to stop Deng Changyuan's brothers from supporting her.

Unfortunately, they were unable to witness such a scene with their own eyes, which was somewhat regrettable.

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