As Li Cuihong cried, Zhao Qingshui and Zhao Xiaojuan also started to cry.
Even Zhao Qingyun, who was sulking in the west wing, walked out of the room upon hearing the sound and looked at his mother in confusion.
Qian Chunhua in the east courtyard was telling bedtime stories to her three children on the kang. When she heard crying and shouting from next door, Qian Chunhua frowned, glanced out the window, and continued telling stories to the children without being moved.
Qingsong also looked outside and saw nothing. He just moved his butt towards his mother, getting closer to her.
Xiaoling and Qingfeng didn't even glance outside. They were immersed in the story their mother was telling and were listening with great gusto.
The division of the family was inevitable and had no influence on the will of Zhao Yongqiang and his wife. No matter how reluctant Zhao Yongqiang was, or how much Li Cuihong cried and made a fuss, the division of the family was finally decided.
When Zhao Yongwen was about to draft the document for the division of the family, Zhao Daqing waved his hand and continued, "Now that we have discussed the division of the family, let's talk about the issue of elderly care."
"Retirement care." Zhao Yongqiang and Li Cuihong exclaimed, thinking that this was all the loss for their family. They didn't expect that they still had the responsibility of providing for the elderly.
Zhao Yongqiang and Li Cuihong looked dejectedly at the people in the main room. Whatever you say, it won't itch if there are too many lice anyway.
Zhao Daqing: "You two brothers, each of you should give me and your mother 400 catties of grain, including 100 catties of rice, 100 catties of millet, 100 catties of corn, and 100 catties of flour. If you don't have grain, you can convert it into silver taels, 15 taels of silver per person."
Zhao Yongwen and Sun Meiping looked at each other, and both nodded, agreeing to this support plan.
Zhao Yongqiang was not going to accept it. "Dad, Mom, you know every ounce of the harvest from the land. If I gave it all to you, how would our family survive?"
Zhao Daqing rolled his eyes at Zhao Yongqiang and said, "When the second son's wife talked about the money for supporting us old people, you said that a lump sum of two taels would be too cheap for her. You could also buy us out with two taels at a time."
Zhao Yongqiang opened his mouth and said, "Never mind, I can't argue with this old guy."
Zhao Daqing would not let Zhao Yongqiang off so easily, and continued, "You two brothers gave me and your mother a total of ten taels of silver each, do you still think that we can live another twenty taels?
Each of your families won't have more than one tael of silver. Are you not willing to do this?
Today, I spent ten taels of silver just on medical treatment and medicine. Do you still think that one tael is too much?"
Zhao Daqing's question left Zhao Yongqiang speechless.
"Not much, not much." Zhao Yongwen waved his hands repeatedly.
"Write it, write the document for dividing the family." Patriarch Zhao didn't say any more words and urged Zhao Yongwen to write it quickly so that he could go home after finishing it.
These days, he has been tired of having to deal with Zhao Daqing's family affairs all the time.
Zhao Yongwen immediately took out pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and wrote down what they had just discussed in a document. Finally, he wrote two IOUs.
Zhao Yongqiang owed Zhao Yongwen 1.35 taels of silver, and Zhao Yongqiang owed Zhao Daqing 1.45 taels of silver.
Zhao Yongqiang and Li Cuihong were reluctant to sign the two IOUs at first, but finally the Zhao clan leader got angry and threatened to send them to the authorities and sue them for destroying the farmland. Only then did the two reluctantly sign the IOUs.
At this point, the Zhao family’s division farce came to an end.
When Chief Zhao saw that the work had been done, he was about to get up and leave, but Zhao Daqing hurriedly stopped him.
"Second uncle, we..., we have already separated, can you please not expel the third brother from the family?" Zhao Daqing looked at the Zhao clan leader expectantly.
Patriarch Zhao sighed slightly in his heart. This nephew divided the family property overnight, probably with the idea of keeping as many sons as possible.
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