Chapter 14 Chapter 14 Can't Divide
As dusk fell, people working in the fields returned home with tired steps.
Grandpa Yu and others washed the mud off their hands and feet by the river and walked home in wet straw sandals.
Old Man Yu and Old Man Yu walked in front, while Old Man Yu and his wife followed behind, keeping a distance from them and not daring to get too close to them.
When they went to work in the fields in the afternoon, the couple was scolded by Yu Lao San for a long time, scolding them for raising an unfilial daughter, scolding them for inviting an evil guest to bring disaster to the whole family, scolding them for not being able to give birth to a son, and for not having a son to see them off when they are old, and for dying to be a lonely ghost, without the sacrifices of their children and grandchildren...
In short, Yu Laosan cursed very dirty, venting all his frustration and fear on Yu Laoer and his wife.
Yu Laoer and his wife were both honest people with poor speaking skills. They didn't know how to refute and could only endure it silently.
Seeing their cowardly attitude made Yu Lao San even more angry. He thought that if they were not useless and could not even control their own daughter, why would they let her act so arrogantly in the Yu family and bring harm to them.
Yu Lao San was so angry that if he hadn't been concerned about Yu Li, he really wanted to beat up this useless couple.
After the fall at noon, he felt that his coccyx was numb. Although Wang helped him massage his back and waist during the lunch break, which relieved a lot of the pain, he still felt a dull pain in his back and waist when he worked in the afternoon.
The pain in his lumbar spine reminded Yu Lao San of Yu Li's evil deeds, and he hated the useless Yu Lao Er and his wife even more.
In the final analysis, they were unwilling to believe that Yu Li's outburst was because they usually exploited the second branch too much. Instead, they thought that Yu Er and his wife were useless, did not know how to teach their daughter, and even had no dignity in front of their daughter, which was why she dared to disobey her elders.
They didn't dare to hate Yu Li, or even confront her, so they could only vent their anger on Yu Laoer and his wife.
Even when Mr. Yu saw his third son pointing at his second son and his wife and cursing them, he did not say anything, but just kept a gloomy face.
This also makes people understand the old man's attitude. He is very disgusted with Yu Laoer and his wife.
It was all their fault for giving birth to such a disobedient and unfilial daughter!
As they were about to return home, Yu Laosan suddenly felt a little worried.
He lowered his voice and asked nervously, "Dad, she hasn't left yet, has she?"
When they went out to work in the afternoon, they heard that Yu Li was still in the west room.
Farmers have a lot of work to do, so even if their daughter comes back, her parents-in-law will only entertain her for one meal, and the daughter and son-in-law will leave in the afternoon. Only those families who love their daughters will stay longer.
The Yu family is not a family that would love their daughter. They wish Yu Li would leave as soon as possible and never return to the Yu family.
Old Man Yu frowned, he didn't know whether his granddaughter was still at home.
Of course, he hoped that she would go back to the Fu family as soon as possible and pretend that they didn't have this granddaughter. Anyway, their Yu family didn't expect a married woman to bring any good things to her parents' home.
Just as I was thinking about it, I saw a few people standing near the door of my house. I looked closely and found that they were the Feng family, my next-door neighbors.
They were pointing at the collapsed courtyard wall and talking about something.
Seeing them coming back, the eldest of the Feng family asked, "Uncle Yu, why did your courtyard wall collapse? We seemed to hear a noise during lunch. Could it be that your courtyard wall collapsed? What happened?"
Houses in the countryside are rarely built next to each other. Although the Yu family and the Feng family are neighbors, they are actually some distance apart. So the Feng family did not hear the noise made by the Yu family at noon. They only heard some noises when the courtyard wall collapsed.
They were having lunch at the time, and it was the middle of the day, and the scorching sun made people dizzy, so they had no time to come out and check.
It was not until the evening when I came back and heard my youngest son say that the Yu family’s courtyard wall had collapsed, so I had to rush out to take a look.
It wasn't a rainy day, so why did the wall collapse? They were very curious about the reason.
Mr. Yu’s face turned dark in an instant.
He is a man who cares a lot about his reputation. He usually maintains his dignity as the head of the family at home. He is proud of the fact that he has two grandsons who have the potential to become scholars. He wants to change his family status and win the respect of everyone, and he likes to see those people respect him.
As the saying goes, don't air your dirty laundry in public. Grandpa Yu would never want his family's scandal to spread out, let alone let people know what his newly married granddaughter did when she returned to her parents' home.
"The courtyard wall is cracked and collapsed on its own." Grandpa Yu said with a stiff face.
"Cracked?" Boss Feng didn't quite believe it. "Looking at the marks, it doesn't look like it cracked on its own! I remember that when your courtyard wall was first built, it was hammered repeatedly. It shouldn't crack so easily, right?"
Old Master Yu looked unhappy and said solemnly, "Why not? Maybe it wasn't hammered hard enough at the beginning."
After saying that, he didn't want to chat with the Feng family and went straight into the house.
Yu Lao San also didn't want to tell outsiders that they were threatened by a younger generation in the family. It would be embarrassing to say it out loud, so he followed him into the house with a sullen face.
As soon as I walked in, I could smell the rich and delicious aroma of chicken soup coming from the kitchen.
The smell was so tempting that Yu Laosan was intoxicated at first, and then his face turned pale.
It’s not a festival, why would the family kill a chicken?
It can’t be…
Yu Laosan's ominous premonition was confirmed when he saw Yu Li sitting in the main room.
When she looked up, Yu Laosan felt that his back and waist, which had fallen at noon, seemed to be even more painful.
**
When Yu Li saw Grandpa Yu and the others coming back, he acted calmly and even greeted them politely: "Grandpa, Dad, Mom, Third Uncle, you are back, we can have dinner now."
She turned to look at the three Yu Jin sisters and said to them, "You guys should sit down and eat too."
Everyone: “…”
Yu Jin brought over the freshly cooked chicken soup.
Stewing chicken soup is different from braising chicken. Because the chicken is relatively dry, it takes longer to stew it so that the chicken soup will be more delicious, so it is stewed until now.
Putting the freshly cooked chicken soup on the table, Yu Jin filially presented a bowl of chicken soup to her elder sister first, and at the same time put a big chicken leg in her bowl and scooped out some more chicken meat.
Then she served soup to herself and her two sisters, with a chicken leg or wing in each bowl.
It can be said that the four sisters ate all the chicken legs and wings.
The few people who were greeted by Yu Li stood there silently, without making a movement.
In fact, both Mr. Yu and Mr. Yu were silent. Mr. Yu and his wife were at a loss and carefully glanced at the old man's ugly face.
If it were any other time, the old man would probably be so angry that he would use a stick.
There were only four sisters sitting at the dining table in the main room; no one else was there.
Old Master Yu looked at the four sisters with a gloomy expression. Then, without saying anything, he turned around and went back to his room. Sure enough, he saw Old Madam Yu in the room.
Seeing him, Old Lady Yu was about to cry, and whispered angrily: "She actually killed two chickens! Two! One of them was laying eggs, and it could lay an egg every day, but she killed it and ate it! I was waiting for Lao Da and Jingde to come back, so I could kill a chicken and stew soup for them to nourish their bodies..."
Old Mrs. Yu was so heartbroken that she was sobbing.
What a spendthrift woman! How could she be so wasteful that she killed two chickens at once? She must be so hungry!
Old Master Yu was also very distressed, but he could do nothing about it.
That granddaughter is no longer someone they can deal with now. Just with her terrifying strength, no one can beat her.
He thought that Yu Li had only been so strong before, and that she had been holding back any grievances because she had been submissive. Perhaps this time, because she was married to a dying man, she was so resentful that she didn't care about anything and started a fight.
At this time, he heard his wife say: "No, she is a disaster! As long as she is around, our family will be harmed by her sooner or later, and she may even implicate the eldest brother and Jingde and Jingli... Otherwise, old man, let's just separate the second house."
This was the solution that Old Mrs. Yu came up with after thinking about it for most of the day in the house.
As long as her parents were still together, Old Lady Yu had never thought of dividing the family. If anyone dared to mention dividing the family, she would be so angry that she would hit them with a stick, so that they would not even dare to think about it.
The family had two scholars. Even though the eldest worked as an accountant in a rice shop in the county town and earned about three taels of silver a month, studying was too expensive. Not to mention the writing brushes, ink, paper and inkstone, even the three festivals and two birthdays, as well as the daily social banquets, food, clothing, housing and transportation, all added up to a considerable expense.
Only if the whole family works together and saves money can they support two scholars.
But after experiencing Yu Li's violence, Old Lady Yu felt that dividing the family was actually a good idea. Yu Li's fuss today was all because the second branch was being treated harshly.
In that case, if they separate the second room and leave it alone, she will have no reason to harm them again.
It's impossible that even though the family has been divided, she still has the audacity to harm her elderly grandparents and uncles from the next door?
By then, even if she is right, she will be unreasonable. If she reports it to the clan leader, can she still threaten them so righteously?
Old Master Yu frowned and said nothing.
Seeing that he remained silent, Old Lady Yu urged, "Old man, please tell me something for sure!"
"No!" said Old Master Yu in a deep voice, "The second house cannot be divided out!"
Dividing the family is not something that can be done with just words. The second branch will definitely take away the family's money, land, and grain. By then, the money that the Yu family can spend will be greatly reduced, and the income from the land will also be less. I am afraid that when the two grandsons need money, they will not be able to take it out at all.
The Yu family’s money and land cannot be divided up.
Unless the second wife is willing to leave the house with nothing.
Is this possible?
Considering what Yu Li did today, Old Man Yu felt that it was impossible. If they divided the property unfairly, she would definitely make another fuss and maybe even destroy their house.
After hearing his analysis, Mrs. Yu became anxious and said immediately, "No, all the things in the house belong to Jingde and his family!"
She fell into a chair, realizing that dividing the family was not an option.
But if the family doesn’t split up, will the evil star return to her parents’ home and continue causing trouble?
**
On the other side, Yu Laosan returned to the room and saw his wife Wang and three children hiding in the room. They all looked very aggrieved.
When she saw him come back, Wang's eyes suddenly turned red.
"What's going on?" he asked in confusion, "Why aren't you going to have dinner? Didn't we kill the chicken today?"
Wang said angrily: "What are you going to eat? With that evil star there, who would dare to eat?"
Then he told him about how his three sons met Yu Li when they came home in the evening and how Yu Li actually taught them a lesson.
Yu Lao San looked at his three sons in confusion, "Did she teach you a lesson?"
The eldest son, Yu Jingzhong, felt very aggrieved and said angrily: "She asked my second brother and I to chop wood. If we don't chop wood, we won't have food to eat!"
In the afternoon, none of the brothers went to the fields. Although they were old enough to work in the fields, they did not really like to do farm work. They usually went out to play in the afternoon, or look for something else.
Like Yu Jingzhong, he sometimes learns carpentry work from the village carpenters.
But when they came back, they were caught by Yu Li and asked to chop firewood.
"Even Yi Ge'er was arranged by her to go with his brother, and to pick up some bamboo shoots to start the fire." Wang wiped her tears, "How old is Yi Ge'er? He is only five years old!"
Yu Lao San was also angry, "How could she do this?"
Then I heard his wife say, "She said that when Zhuniang was three years old, she followed her sisters to collect firewood. Yige'er is five years old now, so he should also help with housework. If she only lets the second wife work in the future, she will beat them and not give them food!"
Yu Lao San: “…”
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