Zhang Yun's ancient life

The old lady looked at her two sons and said to them, "Do you know why I left you two alone?"

The two brothers shook their heads, and the old lady Guan stood up, took out two land deeds from the gap in the bed frame, and said, "When you two were adults, your father each hung six acres of land under your names. Haotian, when you were young, I temporarily kept the land deed for you. Now that I am old and don’t have the heart anymore, I will return it to you now. I will give you the share of Cheng’er directly, Zhao’er The share that his uncle will bring back to the clan will be used as the clan land, and it will be recorded under Zhao'er's name."

Upon hearing this, Guan Zhao hurriedly asked, "Why is this mother?"

"Why?" Mrs. Guan said with a sneer, "I don't know in what life I did it. I married two such daughter-in-laws, and one of them couldn't carry on the family line for my Guan family. It was a prosperous incense and tired of my young son. Leaving home can't be filial to my parents, a tricky, sharp and pungent person is known to the world, and I have lost face to my Guan family."

The more she talked, the more angry she became, the old lady Guan held her chest as if she was about to be out of breath.

Seeing this, the two brothers of the Guan family knelt down and begged. Uncle Guan touched the bluestone slab with his head on the ground and said in an empty voice, "My son is unfilial, please calm down."

The old lady Guan looked at the eldest son whose forehead was bleeding, and finally breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Finally, God blesses you, you have a son now, so I don't complain anymore, take the land deed and go back to live a good life with your wife." .”

Uncle Guan walked to his mother's side on his knees, took the land deed she handed over, and walked back on his knees.

Then the old lady Guan looked at her second son and said, "You have always been soft-hearted. Your daughter-in-law is in charge of everything outside the house. I am still here, and I will suppress her. If I am not here in the future, this I'm afraid there is no one in the family who can control her. You know the temper of your wife best. She is the best at making troubles. If you let her go, the family will be destroyed by her sooner or later. The field is a thing dedicated to the ancestors, and private individuals have no right to dispose of it, even if the house is confiscated, I have no right to move it, I am leaving a way for your family to retreat, lest your family have to go to the street to beg for food in the future."

Uncle Guan knelt on the ground in shame and did not dare to raise his head. The old lady Guan stared at her second son and said, "I'll tell you for the last time, your wife is not a fuel-efficient lamp. After all these years, she has added a lot of money to our family. For the sake of the two grandchildren, I endured her and did not tell you to divorce her. If you are still my son, then set up your manly temperament and control your wife, and you are right for me gone."

Then he looked at the elder son and said, "Cheng'er, are you still blaming your father? Don't blame him, he regretted it after you left, but he couldn't bear that face to ask you to come back, I thought you would bow your head , who knows that both of you are stubborn."

"What did mother say? It's the son's fault. It made you and father angry." Uncle Guan hurriedly took over the words, fearing that his mother's emotions would be agitated.

The old lady Guan smiled and said: "I know you have a knot in your heart, and I can't solve it with just a few words. Now you also have a son, and you are also a father. You can't understand your father's mood." Do you understand? For the sake of one breath, he has been holding on until he dies, my son, pat your chest and ask yourself, who is the one who is guilty?"

Uncle Guan burst into tears in an instant, choking with sobs.

The old lady Guan looked at the two brothers and said: "I haven't reached the point where I am old and confused. I also know the relationship between the two of you now. You all have your own ideas now, and I, an old woman, can't say anything. But you have to know that although the family is divided, you are brothers after all, and you can't write two words in one stroke. In the future, if there is any disaster in that family, I hope the other family can see it for the sake of the mother and compatriots. Give me a hand."

Both of them bowed their heads and agreed. The old lady looked at her sons kneeling on the ground, wondering how sincere they were in what they said, but she was really tired, and she didn't have the energy to take care of it anymore. He waved his hands and told his sons to go out, they did what they had to do, and they said what they should say. How the life of the two of them will live in the future will be up to each of them according to their own abilities.

The two brothers exited the room, glanced at each other without speaking, walked one after the other, and came to the lobby where the guests were.

The guests in the lobby were waiting for them. Seeing them coming in, the uncles of the two brothers handed over the copied documents to the two of them. Seeing that the matter was over, the clan elders stood up and said goodbye. After staying here for a few days, Uncle Guan said goodbye to them, took the document and returned home with his wife and children.

In the room of Uncle Guan and his wife, Aunt Guan grabbed her husband's clothes like crazy and shouted, "What are you talking about? The old lady divided the dowry? What are you doing? How can you let her divide it? Why not Stop it?"

Uncle Guan said: "The elders of the two families were all there at the time, so I have a place to speak. How can I stop you?"

"Then how is it divided? What did the old lady say?" Second Aunt Guan asked anxiously.

Uncle Guan took the document out of his arms and handed it over.

Second Aunt Guan's hands kept shaking after she took the document and read it. Second Uncle Guan quickly pulled the document out of his wife's hand, but he was still a bit slower, and Second Aunt Guan tore a corner of the document.

Second Uncle Guan hurriedly stuffed the document back into his arms, avoiding his wife who was about to snatch it, and said: "There are four copies of this document, including Dafang, Uncle, and the family. It is useless if you tear it up." , I have to keep it, otherwise if someone wants to see me in the future but can’t show it, they will think that I am not satisfied with the elders.”

When Second Aunt Guan failed to snatch the documents, she said to her husband, "You help me out, I have to hide all the valuables first, they belong to me, and I can't ask others to share them."

As soon as Second Uncle Guan heard about it: "Take it easy for a while, don't you see that the old uncle and the eldest cousin are staying behind? You are the one who is on guard. The points are all over. What's the use of doing these things? Instead of thinking For those who are useless, it is better to think about how to marry the debt collector in the Westinghouse as soon as possible."

Second Aunt Guan was taken aback and asked, "What do you mean?"

Uncle Guan sighed and said: "I looked at the old lady and I was afraid it would be bad. In case she went, the one in the West Room would marry, or I would marry her. Brothers keep filial piety for one year, and with her reputation, if you keep filial piety for another year, no one will want you even if you give her your family."

After hearing her husband's words, Second Aunt Guan weighed for a long time between marrying her daughter and collecting the family property, before she made a difficult decision and said, "What you said makes sense, we must marry her as soon as possible, and that old immortal All these years, I have been low-key to curry favor with her, but she actually gave up all the things when she was good, so let the person who takes her things take care of her, don't think I'm going to take a look at her."

In the guest room of the Guan family's ancestral house, both uncle and nephew stayed up. Li Xi asked his uncle, "Uncle, I thought my aunt didn't like brother Cheng's daughter-in-law and would give most of the dowry to Zhao. My younger brother’s family, I didn’t expect her to give it an equal share.”

The uncle of the Li family laughed lightly when he heard his nephew's question and said, "You are still a little tender. You can tell what kind of person your aunt is from looking at the people in your uncle's house over the years. There are always private pets. But none of the concubines and concubines, none of those who were favored were raised as concubines, and the family of the mother-in-law thought she was virtuous, so you can learn that method."

Li Xi thought for a while and still didn't understand, so he asked again: "If the dowry is divided equally, it is equally divided. What else can I say?"

The uncle of the Li family glanced at his nephew and said: "You are right, your aunt doesn't like brother Cheng's wife, and even less brother Jing from his family, but Guan Cheng is her son after all, and she knows it too well." What kind of temperament are her two sons, so she must divide the dowry equally, and she can't let the two brothers find a single fault in her, so that she can put the word of filial piety on the heads of her two sons She told everyone to feel ashamed of her, and told the second family to appreciate her kindness, so no matter what the relationship between the two of them is in the future, for your aunt's sake, they will not tear their face apart, as long as they don't tear their face apart, There is room for everything, do you understand?"

Li Xi said with a sense of enlightenment: "So that's how it is. As a mother, my aunt has devoted herself to everything. I hope my little cousin can understand her heart."

Uncle Li said with joy when he heard the words: "At last you are not stupid enough to know who your aunt is worried about, but have you really seen through her behavior?"

When Li Xi heard it, he immediately asked in doubt: "Is there anything else to pay attention to if it's all divided equally?"

The uncle of the Li family took a sip of the tea in the cup and said, "Your aunt is the only girl in our generation. When she was in her boudoir, not only your grandparents regarded her as the apple of your eye, but even The elders in the family also love her very much. When your aunt got married, the dowry was a total of 56 liters, which surpassed the richest household in the county at that time. Most of the dowry was brought by your grandfather. I followed your father and I to buy it in person. Among them, there are three most valuable items. One is the 66 acres of good fields with both flood and drought, and the other is the two Ruyi handles carved from the best Kunlun sapphire. Now your aunt's house is a complete set of furniture made of huanghuali wood. After all these years, your aunt has never attracted attention to that set of furniture. When someone asks, she just passes it by. She just wants to leave it behind. way, just in case."

Li Xi thought for a while and said, "But she gave Guan Jing those two ruyis. If it was according to what you said, she wouldn't do that, and she gave us a quarter of the gold and silver jewelry. How do you say it?"

Uncle Li laughed and said, "The reason why Guan Jing got those two jade ruyis is because he married Zhang Yun. What your aunt saw was the hat on Zhang Yun's head, not the one with the surname Guan Jing." Guan Zi, if you try another person, if Guan Jing really married into the Li family as a concubine according to Zheng Chunhua's wishes, then he won't even be able to get a copper coin today. If there is anything wrong with their family in the future, you don’t want to say that you will try your best, but you have to ask more or less, lest people say that we are ungrateful.”

Li Xi shook her head and said, "It's a lot of calculations, and my aunt is not too tired to panic."

After hearing what his nephew said, the uncle of the Li family sighed and said: "Your aunt has been earning and calculating for her whole life. Only when she has a clear understanding today, can she make this agreement. , can really have a quiet time."