Finally, he gave Du Juan a special reminder, "Whether your family of three will have coarse food or delicious food in the future depends on how well you can master this craft. If you can master it, Daya can wear new clothes, go to school, and work and live in the city. If you can't master it and reveal it to others, Daya will have to live a hard life with you in the countryside. When she grows up, she will marry a country man, and your family will take root in poor mountain valleys like Shenjiagou for generations to come."

Qin Jinlian had been looking forward to it for a long time, and finally the eldest brother and his family came back.

"How's it going? Did your sister agree to lend you the money? How much did she lend?"

As soon as Shen Chaobei entered the door, Qin Jinlian asked him questions before he could even drink a sip of water.

It was Du Juan who spoke up and asked Qin Jinlian to call her father-in-law Shen Jianguo and Shen Xiangnan and his wife together, saying that she had something to say.

Qin Jinlian was anxious to know how much money the eldest son had borrowed from her daughter and whether he could buy a gold chain for the second son's wife, so she hurriedly found everyone.

"Chaobei, how much did Mingzhu agree to lend? Is there such a number?"

Qin Jinlian made a five sign and calculated with an abacus. "I was thinking that if we build two mud houses with thatched roofs, we should be able to save a lot. You can give me the money you save first, and I will pay you back in two years. Just consider it as my saving for you."

Du Juan ruthlessly broke Qin Jinlian's dream, "Mom, Mingzhu didn't agree to lend me the money."

"What?! She didn't agree? Why didn't she agree? She was the one who proposed the division of the family, and we divided the family according to her will, but she doesn't care anymore?"

Du Juan calmly repeated Shen Mingzhu's original words in front of the whole family.

"...Mingzhu means that building a new house is not her responsibility, and she will not do anything about it. Dad, Mom, Chaobei and I agree to separate the family, but you can see that Mingzhu doesn't care about it, and we can't afford to build a new house. I'm afraid this family can't be divided for the time being."

"no!"

Yang Xuezhen was the first to stand up and object.

If the family is not divided, Shen Mingzhu will not arrange a job for her brother from her mother's side. This family must be divided! Qin Jinlian looked at the eldest son, then at the second son, and her heart was in a mess.

She didn't want to split up the family and wanted to live happily with her two sons.

But if the family is not divided and Yang Bo is not given a job, the second son 's wife and the Yang family will definitely not agree. Then when will she be able to hold her grandson? "This damn girl, how can she be so cruel? She even refused to help her own brother from her mother's family. He just asked her to borrow money, not to ask her for it. It's true that a daughter who is married off is like spilled water. You can't count on her at all..."

After Qin Jinlian finished her complaints, Du Juan spoke again, "Mom, Mingzhu said that Pei Yang will stay at home for at most one month. Once he leaves in April, he won't be back until the end of the year."

Qin Jinlian became anxious when she heard this.

Yang Xuezhen was more anxious than Qin Jinlian.

Her brother Yang Bo just found a girlfriend and is waiting for the job arranged by Pei Yang to be finalized so that he can earn some money and get married next year.

If Pei Yang left and didn't come back until the end of the year, wouldn't her brother have to wait for a year at home in vain? That day, Yang Xuezhen went back to her parents' home and told them about this. The Yang family also became anxious.

Working in the city, you can earn at least 50 or 60 yuan a month, which is 600 or 700 yuan a year.

The Yang family would rather let their daughter suffer a little loss in the division of the family property than miss out on such a large sum of money.

So, after returning from her parents' home, Yang Xuezhen took the initiative to compromise and said that she was willing to divide the north room where Shen Chaobei currently lived, along with the kitchen and woodshed, for the couple to live in.

In the following days, the Shen family's father and son went to the mountains and picked up more than a dozen baskets of stones. They used mud to build a meter-high wall in the yard. The house was officially divided into two.

Shen Chaobei's family of three separated and lived on their own, while Qin Jinlian and her husband lived with the second brother's family.

Pei Yang has already made arrangements for Yang Bo's work.

It was Pei Wenping who helped. The boiler room of the cotton mill was in need of a coal adder. The job was hard and the pay was not high, so no one in the city was willing to do it.

But for a rural guy like Yang Bo who has no education and no skills, it is perfect for him.

After solving Yang Bo's work problem, Qin Jinlian was still reluctant to leave.

If she didn't leave, Yang Xuezhen and her mother would stay in the Pei family too.

The three of them found this interesting and that strange, and their chattering made Shen Mingzhu's ears hurt.

He was also very fickle and wanted to touch everything. He even crushed the dried flowers that Shen Mingzhu had put in the vase, which made Shen Mingzhu very annoyed.

While Shen Mingzhu was not paying attention, Qin Jinlian sneaked into Shen Mingzhu's bedroom.

Shen Mingzhu saw it but didn't say anything. When the three people finished their tour and were about to leave, she blocked the door.

"I welcome you to visit me, but I have to say this: if I find that there is something missing from my house, you will come and take Yang Bo back tomorrow. From now on, no one will dare to step into my doorstep again."

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The three of them looked at each other.

Yang Lizhen said angrily: "Mingzhu, what do you mean by that? Are you saying that we stole your things?"

Qin Jinlian also scolded her with a bad face, "How can you talk like that? You have offended all your relatives!"

Shen Mingzhu sneered, "I'm not targeting anyone, I'm just giving you a heads up. If anyone accidentally puts something that doesn't belong to them in their pocket, take it out now and I won't pursue the matter. Otherwise, when I count what's missing later, I'll have to ask you to take Yang Bo back. My eldest sister-in-law helped me find his job, and who knows if he'll do something sneaky and implicate my eldest sister-in-law."

After hearing what Shen Mingzhu said, Yang Xuezhen's face became extremely ugly.

"Shen Mingzhu, don't go too far. We haven't taken anything from your house!"

Shen Mingzhu smiled and nodded to Yang Lizhen's mother, "Second sister-in-law, do you want to ask your mother-in-law first?"

Yang Lizhen immediately turned around and looked at her biological mother.

The latter flatly denied that he did not take anything, but his eyes glanced left and right, obviously looking guilty.

Yang Lizhen was furious, "Mom, what did you take from them? Take it out!"

Seeing that everyone in the room was looking at her, Yang's mother could no longer deny it, so she slowly took out a watch from her pocket.

Qin Jinlian recognized at a glance that the watch belonged to her daughter Shen Mingzhu and became immediately unhappy.

In fact, she had long been dissatisfied with Yang's mother, believing that it was she who instigated the second son's wife and forced her to buy the gold chain.

Now that she had finally caught Yang's mother's handle, she would naturally not let it go. "Hey, mother-in-law, if you want a watch, you can ask your Yang Bo to earn money to buy it for you. It's not good to use my Mingzhu's. This watch was brought back from abroad by Pei Yang specifically for my Mingzhu. It's worth a lot of money."

Qin Jinlian's sarcasm was like a loud slap in the face, making Yang Lizhen lose face.