Song female man

Shunniang told Zhuo Min that her elder brother's son is going to study in a school next year, and she has also become a family, and will have her own children in the future, so she just wants to divide the family property, and in the future she will still serve her mother and take care of him. The widowed sister-in-law and the two children of the elder brother who died of illness still live together as a family.

After listening to Shunniang's words, Zhuo Min said that he was relieved, because if his grandparents or parents were still alive, it was considered unfilial and would be punished as a felony.

Fortunately, Shunniang just asked for property analysis, that is to say, I am married and want to share the family property, not to mention that the property was earned by Shunniang herself. Otherwise, he would persuade Shunniang not to do this, because other people It is a violation of the criminal law of this dynasty to make a fortune.Zhuo Min also said that although he can help Shunniang to preside over the matter of analyzing the family property, this matter needs to be approved by Shunniang's old mother. If she objects, then he can't help with the matter of analyzing the family property. I'm busy.

After hearing this, Shunniang said that she went back and told her old lady, and when she agreed, she would invite Zhuo Min to go to Xi's house as a middleman and preside over the analysis of the family property.

Zhuo Min also agreed.

Shun Niang resigned Zhuo Min and went back, first she went to Xie Erniang and told Xie Erniang that she was going to see Zhuo Min, and what Zhuo Min said.

After hearing this, Xie Erniang said that she knew it was not so easy to divide the family. If the mother-in-law disagreed, then the family would not be divided.

She also persuaded Shunniang not to mention the separation of the family with her mother-in-law, because she felt that her mother-in-law would never agree, and it would be a waste of time to talk about it. .Because there is a law in this dynasty, if parents are forced to commit suicide because of their children, the children will be executed.

When Shunniang heard this, she was really surprised, because she had never heard Xie Erniang talk about the criminal laws promulgated by this dynasty for unfilial children, and she didn't know that the parents who committed suicide would also punish their children.

Now she is also worried. If her cheap mother does not agree to analyze the family property, she will be really hard on her. If she commits a crime and commits suicide, then she will have to lose her life. It's not a joke.

Shunniang thought for a while, and told Xie Erniang that even so, she still had a way to try to persuade the old lady to agree to analyze the family property.

Xie Erniang hurriedly asked Shunniang, "What is the solution?"

Shunniang leaned into Xie Erniang's ear and said this and that. After she finished speaking, Xie Erniang frowned, and she still asked Shunniang: "Is this okay? If Mother really disagrees, do you really want to do that?"

"Didn't I tell you that this is a solution? Well, I'll go find my mother and tell her, just wait for the good news." After speaking, he stood up and went straight.

Mrs. Liu read scriptures for more than half an hour in the small Buddhist hall, before she finished, Xing'er brought tea and fed her half a bowl of tea, but she heard footsteps outside.

As soon as she heard the footsteps, she stopped drinking tea and gently pushed Xing'er's hand. Xing'er understood that she didn't want to drink, so she took the tea away.

When she turned around, she saw her host coming in, she hurried up to salute, and Shun Niang said: "Xing'er, go to my wife, I want to talk to my mother."

Xing'er was of course very satisfied with Shunniang's arrangement, she quickly agreed, turned around, and ran out in a hurry.

When Mrs. Liu saw Shunniang's posture, she probably understood that Shunniang had something important to say to herself, and her heart was pounding, maybe it was because she told me that she was going to send me back to Xijiazhuang.

If Shunniang really did that, she would definitely die of grief.

Seeing the old lady's nervousness, Shunniang pursed her lips and said, "Mother, I met Lu Quan yesterday, and he still misses his sister-in-law. He also said that if she followed him, he would help her." Raise Kecheng and Huier, if he becomes an official, Kecheng's future will not be bad, and Huier's marriage will not be bad, look, this..."

Mrs. Liu had long wanted to make her grandson Kecheng a yamen, and she felt that this would be faster and more reliable than letting Kecheng go to school to test his fame.

Because she also knows that there are not many scholars in this world, and those who can pass the Jinshi examination and become an official are really rare. Doesn't it mean that anyone who goes to school can become an official?

"Hmm." She struggled to suppress the sound, and then patted the armrest of the wheelchair with her movable left hand.

Seeing her like this, Shunniang understood, and she agreed to let Lu Quan marry the Qi family.

"I also think it's good. Then, I'll tell my sister-in-law to prepare to accept Lu Erlang's marriage proposal and set an auspicious date, so she can bring Kecheng and Huier to marry. After the marriage, Recognize Lu Erlang as a father, and change it to Lu Kecheng, and Huier, also change it to Lu Huier. In this way, Lu Erlang will become a father at once, with a son and a daughter..." Shun Niang didn't finish her words. Seeing Mrs. Liu stretching out her left hand and grabbing her sleeve, she let out a few indistinct sounds from her throat. Shunniang carefully identified it, which seemed to be a series of "no".

"Mother, do you mean to prevent my sister-in-law from marrying Lu Erlang?" Shunniang asked.

Mrs. Liu pulled Shunniang's hand down, and she definitely answered Shunniang's words.

Shunniang made a look of embarrassment, and said slowly: "How can this be done? Lu Erlang is serving in front of Zhao Shisan now, so Zhao Shisan is very likely to become the crown prince in the future. If that is the case, Lu Erlang will not I want to be a high-ranking official. If you offend him, isn't it the same as offending the future officials? Mother, we can't afford to offend Lu Erlang. He said that he will let his sister-in-law marry with her two children. Cheng and Huier are like their own children..."

Before Shunniang could finish speaking, Mrs. Liu waved her hands again and again, and let out a series of sounds from her throat. Judging by the expression on her left face, she was also very anxious.

Shunniang looked at her and said nothing.

Then Liu made another movement of patting his forehead with his left hand.

That action told Shunniang that if the Qi family were to marry Lu Quan with their two children, she would be killed.

Why did my old lady have such a big reaction? Shunniang understood too well, that is, if the sister-in-law she mentioned remarried with two children and married Lu Quan, then the two children would have to change their surname to Lu. Ding Kecheng, the son of the Lu family, has become a descendant of the Lu family, and the cheap mother should not be anxious when she hears it.

Originally, she was just greedy for wealth and honor, thinking that her daughter-in-law Qi would marry Lu Quan, who might become a high-ranking official in the future, but Cheng became a yamen by the way, but she never thought that Ke Cheng would remarry with her mother. If you don't change your surname to Lu, how can you be a government official?

As for Shunniang, she also pinpointed her point and came up with this method.Because Lu Quan was going to marry the Qi family, and the Qi family remarried with two children, but Ke Cheng and Hui'er wanted to change their surnames to Lu, so the only male member of the Xi family would be gone, and the cheap mother must be anxious.Then, she can take advantage of the situation and say that if the sister-in-law is not allowed to remarry with the Qi family, then the cheap mother will agree to divide the family property by herself.I believe that the cheap mother will definitely make the latter choice when her grandson remarries with his daughter-in-law, thus changing her surname and keeping her grandson.

After all, in Liu's opinion, nothing is as important as the only male in the Xi family. If Kecheng changes his surname, then the Xi family will be the last of its kind. Let alone dividing up the family property, she will agree to even stricter conditions. of.

So, Shunniang pretended to hesitate for a long time and after a long time of embarrassment, she said what she wanted to say most when she came to see Mrs. Liu, she said: "Mother, you asked me to disagree with Lu Erlang, and promised him my sister-in-law. This is a very risky thing. If Lu Erlang is an official butcher in the future and he wants to retaliate against us, then we must not go bankrupt, or even go to jail. I dare not promise you, I think I should promise Lu Erlang, promise After leaving him, he will help me introduce business in the future, and we can still make a fortune!"

When Liu heard it, the sound of her left hand slapping her forehead became louder. Her meaning was very clear. If Shunniang did that, she would resolutely touch her to death and die!

That's right, Kecheng is in Liu's heart, that is her lifeblood, if her lifeblood is gone, how can she survive.

It was even more difficult for Shun Niang, her eyebrows were wrinkled, and it took a long time before she said: "Mother, you're making things difficult for me."

Mrs. Liu grabbed Shunniang's sleeve with her left hand again, and looked at Shunniang pleadingly.

Shunniang glanced at Mrs. Liu, sighed again, and then said: "Okay, since mother doesn't want my sister-in-law to marry Lu Erlang, then you have to make it up to me and promise me two things, and I will risk offending Lu Erlang." , don’t agree to him, don’t let my sister-in-law remarry with Kecheng and Huier.”

When Liu heard that Shunniang was relieved, she was overjoyed immediately. She thought, no matter what conditions Shunniang put forward, as long as Kecheng stayed and the only seedling of the Xi family was there, she would agree.

"Hmm..." She made a vague voice, agreeing with Shunniang's words, and meant to tell Shunniang what it was.

Shunniang then spoke in a very sincere tone, she said first, she wanted to divide the family property, and divided the current family property with her elder brother's son equally.After the separation, she still took care of her mother, sister-in-law and two children, and the family lived together.Moreover, she can bear the money for Kecheng's education until he gets married and starts a business, and then she can buy him a house and ask for a wife for him.If he could be promising in the future and be a butcher for an official, he wouldn't need his second uncle to spend money to buy a house for him to beg for a wife.As for Huier, she will also buy her a generous dowry so that she can marry a good family in the future. As for the old lady, of course she will be filial and take care of her until she grows old.

As soon as Mrs. Liu heard Shunniang talk about the division of the family property, her expression became gloomy.She knew that what Shun Niang wanted to agree to was not a good thing.

Before she was paralyzed, she didn't even want to hear it. Even if Shunniang married Lu Quan with Qi's name and took her two children to change her surname to Lu Xiang, she still had a way to prevent Qi's marriage.She can tell people that she disagrees with this marriage. As Qi's mother-in-law, that is, the elder, she disagrees, and Lu Quan dare not marry by force.But now, she is paralyzed and aphasic, and has lost the ability to move and speak. Even if she disagrees, she can only hold it in her heart.

As for, she just patted her forehead with her left hand to signal that Shun Niang would be killed if she changed her surname to Lu.

Now she is paralyzed, unable to move the right side of her body, and it is difficult to touch her to death.Besides, she is also a person who is afraid of death, and she will definitely be reluctant when she really dies.

While talking, Shunniang looked at Qianniang's expression out of the corner of her eye. Seeing her gloomy face, she knew she was unhappy.However, no matter how unhappy, I have to talk about this matter, and I have to do this matter.

After talking about the first thing, Shunniang saw that Mrs. Liu didn't make a sound, so she brought up the second thing, which was that she would adopt Xie Erniang's children in the coming year, and she didn't want to raise too many. She only wanted to adopt a son and a daughter In this way, Kecheng and Huier will also have playmates in the future.She also said that if you can become more than one brother, you will have more help in the future.She also mentioned her wish, that is, she hopes that Kecheng and her adopted son will be in politics and business, and the Xi family will surely prosper.She told the old lady to think further, don't think that children who are not related to her by blood will be unfilial and worthless in the future, and the property of the Xi family will fall into the hands of outsiders.She said that in the future, she must have a good bowl of water, and she will leave more of her family property to whoever is promising. It doesn't mean that she has to be partial to the children she raises.

In a word, in the future, no matter whether it is Kecheng or the children you raise, you must use your ability to speak, and the family business you have earned through hard work will not be passed on to the prodigal son.She let the old lady rest 1 hearts.Even, she can swear a poisonous oath in front of her old mother, if she doesn't follow what she said today, she will surely die a terrible death.

Before the dead word in Shunniang's mouth could be said, Mrs. Liu hastily raised her left hand to cover Shunniang's mouth, and made a sound in her throat, as if saying that she would not allow Shunniang to say the dead word.

Shun Niang couldn't help feeling warm when she took away Mrs. Liu's left hand that was covering her mouth.

It's been a long time, but she hasn't felt any care from her mother, Liu's cheap mother.

"Mother, can you trust me? Give me this family completely. As for the fact that I have to divide the family property today, I don't want to argue about whether I will be successful in the future. You can save the money for Kecheng. , you can also use it to buy houses and land, and collect rent to make money. I can help you find someone to take care of it. As for business matters, let me be the master. There is a lot of sharing with him. There is another advantage of dividing the family property, that is, it makes Kecheng more motivated, knowing that the family wealth under his name is limited, if he does not make progress, that little money will be squandered soon ..."

Shunniang held Liu Shi's hand and said a lot of words warmly, and later, she saw that Liu Shi's gloomy face gradually cleared up.

"Did you promise me?" Shun Niang asked immediately.

Mrs. Liu paused for a while, then patted Shun Niang's hand, which meant she agreed.

Probably she also wanted to understand, now that she is like this, she has to be served by others, even if she wants to die, she doesn't know how much effort it will take.Besides, Shunniang pinched Kecheng, her lifeblood, she refused to agree, Shunniang really agreed to Lu Quan cruelly, promised Qi Shi to him, and let Qi Shi take the two children to remarry, but Achievement has really become someone else's child.Without Kecheng, how could she have the face to meet the ancestors of the Xi family? She couldn't bear the crime of cutting off her only seedling.

What family property, why Shunniang and Xie Erniang adopted their children, these are not as important as keeping Kecheng, the only male in the Xi family, and the blood inheritance of the Xi family depends on him.

In addition, Shunniang explained to her all the things she had considered in front of her, and even made such a poisonous oath, can she not believe it?

She felt that what Shunniang said made some sense, as long as Kecheng was promising, Shunniang's family property would still be successful in the future.Xie Erniang, don't think that the children she raised with Shunniang will inherit the family property that Shunniang earned. Shunniang has sworn that a bowl of water must be level.Everyone speaks according to their own ability, Liu thinks it is still possible, but she does not believe that Kecheng will not be as good as Xie Erniang's raised child in the future.

Shunniang saw that Mrs. Liu finally agreed. Although she was very happy in her heart, she still didn't show any joy on her face. Instead, she said that she would go to meet Lu Quan one day, so that he would not worry about his sister-in-law and her two children. Well, if she offended Lu Quan because of this, she would still have to find a way to avoid this disaster.

When Lu Quan is rejected there, here she will invite middle-aged people to testify and divide the property of Xi's family. Of course, before that, she has to settle the accounts and settle the accounts clearly in order to be fair.

Coming out of the West Wing room where Mrs. Liu was staying, Shunniang looked up at the sky, and thought that the cloudy sky was so beautiful.

With one hand behind her back, she walked back to the main room as if strolling in a leisurely manner, and saw that girl Xing'er was giggling, and Erniang Xie was also smiling, looking very relaxed.

Shunniang suddenly discovered that this Xing'er is still a treasure, able to make her own wife laugh.

Shun Niang was very happy after solving the big problem today. Seeing this scene, she felt even better. When she walked in, she couldn't help but praise Xing'er, and directly rewarded her with twenty coins, and asked her to take it. Go to the shop where you can buy fruit candy on Zaoshu Street to buy a catty of candy to eat.

Xing'er got twenty Wen, she couldn't close her mouth with a smile, she thanked Shunniang several times, took the money and returned it.

It was the first time for Xie Erniang to see Shunniang rewarding Xinger. Xinger had been in Xi's house for a while, and Shunniang had never rewarded her with money before, but today it was only twenty coins, which reminded her that Shunniang must It was the mother-in-law who agreed to divide the family property, which made her suddenly excited.

Putting down the needle and thread in her hand, she hurried forward to grab Shun Niang's arm, and asked, "Mother, mother, does she agree?"

Shunniang smiled and nodded, and said to her: "I agreed to divide the family property, and also agreed to let us adopt two children."

Xie Erniang's eyes widened in an instant, her face was full of joy, and she said repeatedly: "Great, great! You told me your method just now, and my heart is still beating. I didn't expect..."

Shunniang embraced her: "Come on, let's go up and talk, let me tell you, I knew about this before I went, my mother has to promise me..."

After the two went upstairs and sat down, Shunniang told Xie Erniang in detail how she persuaded the old lady. Xie Erniang gave a thumbs up after hearing it, and praised Shunniang for being smart.

Shun Niang laughed, feeling a little complacent.

Seven days later, Zhuo Min came to Xi's house at the invitation of Shunniang. In front of everyone in the Xi's family, Zhuo Min read the property list that Shunniang gave him, and then he made a distribution.

The Xi family currently has 650 guan in cash, and is also engaged in two businesses. However, because the Xi family is distributing the property rather than dividing the family, the whole family will live together in the future, especially the widow of Xijia Dalang Qi. The two children will be taken care of by Xijia Erlang and his wife, so Zhuo Min made the following allocation.

First, 650 guan in cash, 320 and [-] guan for Xi Dalang's widow and Xierlang couple.

Second, the two businesses of the Xi family were all done by Xi Erlang. In addition, Xi Erlang earned money to support a large family, so these two businesses belong to Xi Erlang, and the money earned is owned by Xi Erlang and his wife.

Third, if Xi Dalang's widow, Qi, remarries, the family wealth cannot be taken away, because the money is allocated to Xi Kecheng, Xi Dalang's son.

Fourth, because Xi Kecheng is young, the 320 five guan money will be managed by Xi Kecheng's grandmother Liu Shi. After Xi Kecheng grows up, the money will be handed over to him.

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If there is no objection in the end, everyone will sign and sign, and he, the middleman, will also sign, and each will hold a copy of the deed for the division of the family and property, and the neighbors who came to Xi's house to witness today also signed each of them as witnesses. finger prints.

After this matter was settled, Shunniang naturally invited guests, invited Zhuo Min and those Shangxi family witnesses to the hotel for dinner, and thanked everyone well.

After the family affairs were properly arranged, Shunniang concentrated all her energy on her business. It was already December, and the charcoal business was getting better and better. shop, plus the retail charcoal, she calculated that she needed to go to Heshan to import 20 catties of charcoal.In other words, she needed to invest two hundred pennies at once, accounting for more than half of Shunniang's cash.Before the Xi family moved to the city, they also had savings of six or seven hundred guan, but because of the move, some charcoal business had some credits, and Liu’s fall and paralysis cost her one to two hundred guan in medical treatment, so when it came time to divide the family property, there was nothing left The cash he paid didn't increase much, and the two or three hundred yuan he earned in the city was spent.

When the family property was divided, Shunniang and Xie Erniang got 320 five guan in cash. They had to do business, take care of the family's life, and pay the employees they hired. The cash was really stretched.

Shunniang did some calculations. In December, she went to Heshan to buy 20 catties of charcoal and came back. Including the shipping fee and miscellaneous fees, she would have to spend 230 guan. After rewarding the guys, they had to spend forty or fifty pennies, and in the end there were only thirty or forty pennies left for the Chinese New Year. The money was indeed a bit tight.

The most important thing is that she will open a shop selling charcoal after the next year, the money for renting the shop, and more sales of charcoal due to the opening of the shop. It will take at least three or four hundred guan to solve the problem.Where can I find so much money?

First of all, Shunniang thought of going to her old lady. Didn't she take care of the more than 300 yuan that was distributed to Kecheng when the family property was divided? It should be okay to let her take it out for emergency.

Unexpectedly, when she went to find Mrs. Liu and said that she wanted to borrow the money given to Kecheng when she borrowed the family property, Mrs. Liu kept waving her hands and firmly refused to lend money.

Mrs. Liu thinks that doing business is risky, so she will keep the money given to Kecheng for her grandson.

If she could talk, she would definitely say that Shunniang has a big heart, what is the point of doing this business without capital, since the family property is divided, don't worry about the money that belongs to Kecheng.

Shunniang ran into trouble with the cheap mother and came back dejectedly. When Xie Erniang saw it, she said, "I told you earlier, let me go back to my mother's house to borrow some money for you to take care of my parents. Your dowry is enough for you to arrange the business, but you want to save face, so you have to listen to it, and you have to ask your mother to borrow it. You see, I can’t borrow it for you. I have to go back to my mother’s house to borrow it for you. Besides, I’ll go back , when I come back, I can tell the neighbors here that I am pregnant, wouldn't it be a good thing to kill two birds with one stone?"

The author has something to say: a digression, when writing the chapter on family separation, I checked the laws on family separation in the Tang and Song dynasties, and found that if grandparents and parents are present, the separation of families in an independent family will be severely punished.Parents who are alive and agree can only divide the property, that is, divide the family property, which is recognized by law.Because it involves filial piety, ancient China was founded on filial piety.Various acts of unfilial piety will not only be condemned by morality, but also punished by law.

Therefore, I can imagine why there are so many evil mothers-in-law, the mountain of filial piety is pressed on the shoulders of ancient daughters-in-law, it is really to death.