Ancient Fortune Records

In the third year of Taihe, the ninth month of the lunar calendar is the time when every household is busy.The planted soybeans, sesame, and rice are all about to be harvested, the air is mixed with the smell of grain, children are flocking in groups, looking for something to eat all over the mountains and plains, wild vegetables, mountain fungi, and sour sourness make the five senses wrinkle together wild fruit.During this period of time, there is no need to worry about not having enough food. The war is peaceful at the beginning of the war, the food harvest is bumper, and even wild animals are more than usual.

In Qinghe County, not far from Bianzhou Fucheng, there is a slightly remote village called Shenjia Village. To the south of the village is a small yard surrounded by wooden fences. This family does not look very shabby, even if it is an earthen house. That is also eight earthen houses.Unfortunately, if there were not 16 people living in it, it would be considered a relatively wealthy family.

Shen Li curled up helplessly on a simple wooden bed, with a thin and hard gray quilt draped over his stomach, imagining that he was still in the 21st century, did not die suddenly because of staying up late, and was enjoying a life with air conditioning and music. Happy single otaku life.Just a scream interrupted his recollection: "When is this, you bunch of debt collectors who are lazy and settled, why don't you get up? You don't need to harvest rice?"

It was Shen Li's grandmother, Shen Gaoshi, who woke people up. She is only 46 years old this year, and she is in good health.Shen Li's grandfather, Shen Daman, was three years older than her. What he was most proud of was that he and Gao had raised four sons and one daughter.Among the five children, Shen Li's father was the third child, named Shen Laiqiu.The eldest is called Shen Laichun, the second is called Shen Laixia, and the youngest son is the most popular, so he was given a different name, Shen Baodong.The pronunciation of bao and full is the same. The biggest hope of the old couple who have gone through the years of war is that the youngest son can be full.Originally, she didn't plan to give birth, but she gave birth to a daughter named Chen Xiang.Chen Xiang is still preparing the dowry at home, and will marry into a family surnamed Zhang in the next village next spring.He is an outsider, but he is very good at making soy sauce and has a lot of family background.Their family members were small, so they immediately fell in love with the Shen family and prepared a generous dowry.So Chen Xiang has the right to speak in the Shen family.

There are also six grandchildren, Shen Zhang and Shen Lin are the sons of Shen Laichun.Shen Yu is the only son of the second room, Shen Laixia, and he has two daughters named Shen Ru and Shen Fang.Then there is Shen Li, the only son of the third family.Shen Laichun, Shen Laixia's age difference is not too big, only two years old.Shen Laiqiu is three years behind his second brother.Shen Baodong sent Shen Laiqiu to be six years old, and Chen Xiang was born the following year.

In short, it can be said that the population is thriving.

But there are only six big rooms in the family, plus a main room and a kitchen.With such a large population, there will be many contradictions.No, everyone is still unhappy about the separation of the family.

There are a lot of homesteads, and they are not given casually.The rule here is how much land the government assigns to a family, and the family only has so many places to live, but they can solve the housing problem by separating them.After the separation, the place to live becomes larger, but the tax payment will increase every year, so almost no one is willing to separate prematurely.It's just that there are more and more children now, and the family's house is really too big to live in, so I have to consider this issue.

Yesterday, the two aunts from the first room and the second room had a quarrel, and Shen Li's head got dizzy hearing it.He felt that it was just a separation.Earlier, it would be nice to not have to secretly eat the sugar cakes that his parents brought him in the city.

Separation cannot delay the autumn harvest. No matter how many differences and conflicts there are behind the door, the family is still harmonious in front of others.The men chanted and carried several stacks of rice for threshing, while women, children, and even the elderly bent over the fields to pick up the fish that slipped through the net.Fear of rain, neither adults nor children have spare time these days.

It has only been three months since Shen Li traveled to this unknown dynasty.In the past three months, he has been trembling with trepidation, for fear that others will find out that he is strange, and then he will be burned by these ancient people looking for the great god of jumping.Later, his body memory and the reactions of the people around him told him that he was actually Shen Li, but he had an extra memory that he couldn't tell whether it was the previous life or the next life.This made him breathe a sigh of relief, after all, he felt that resurrection from a dead body was too scary.He has a natural closeness to his current parents, but it is really embarrassing for a 28-year-old unmarried young man to hug his mother when he sees his mother. After thinking about it, he is still a baby now!The six-year-old Shen Li was confident enough to ask his mother to help him put on his shoes without any blush.

The three of them now live in one house. Under Shen Li's strong request, his parents built a small bed for Shen Li.It’s just like this, it’s just a trivial matter to bother my family, and my aunt would nudge me for a while, saying that the child doesn’t kiss his parents, and he wants to sleep in a bed alone at such a young age, and neither of the two boys in the family have a single bed Bed treatment and so on.Shen Laiqiu said: "Separate the family, you will have more houses if you divide the family." She stopped talking.The two boys in their second room can eat more than Shen Li, and his family has more taxes and burdens after the separation.Shen Laiqiu is the most hardworking of the four brothers, and Shen Laiqiu's wife Yu Shi is also able to work.Mrs. Yu does all the cleaning work inside and outside the house.

But such a capable couple is not liked by Shen Gaoshi, because Shen Laiqiu's birth time is inappropriate.There were natural disasters in those years, and there was not enough food in the family. Shen Gaoshi had no milk for Shen Laiqiu to drink at that time, but Shen Laiqiu was born to be able to eat, so Shen Gao was tortured a lot. Out.In addition, the woman Shen Laiqiu married was chosen by Shen Laiqiu himself. Her family background is not very good, and she doesn't know how to embroider or even weave. She does a lot of hard work at home, so Shen Gao doesn't think highly of her.

The most important thing is that there are three daughter-in-laws now, one of them is her niece, and the other is the daughter next door to her natal family. No matter how you say it, they are more affectionate than the third daughter-in-law.Even though the third daughter-in-law is the most industrious in the family, she still thinks it should be—anyway, marrying into their family is a high ranking, and the girls from Houpo Village are so poor that they don't even have a dowry, so why don't they let her work?She ridiculed her for being clumsy all day long, and reprimanded her from time to time, which made Yu Huiniang feel inferior.

Anyway, Yu Huiniang, who is only 22 years old, is not doing well in the Shen family.But she didn't complain about anything - the Shen family's mother-in-law treated her badly, but she did not miss a bowl of food.Although she ate the least and the worst among the three daughters-in-law, it was much better than having nothing to eat at her mother's house.Shen Laiqiu often shook his head helplessly at his naive daughter-in-law, and often hunted birds or picked up some bird eggs outside, cooked them outside and brought them home, and secretly fed them to her. Yu Huiniang felt more and more grateful for Shen Laiqiu's kindness to her.The love between their husband and wife is also the main reason why Shen Li wants to sleep in a small bed.

The autumn harvest soon passed, and it was time to separate the family.The division of the family needs to be fair, so the patriarch must be called to preside over it.The current patriarch is Shen Daman's cousin, named Shen Qiu.

The clan elders of the Shen family gathered in the clan hall, discussing and talking about Shen Daman's family affairs.Everyone felt that Shen Laichun scored a big score.First, Shen Laichun is the eldest son, and then the eldest grandson is also the eldest son.Although ordinary people in ancient times liked children, they also knew that they would mainly rely on older children for the elderly.What's more, their favorite eldest grandson has always been filial, they don't think about their eldest son, they have to think about their eldest grandson.

The Shen family doesn't have much property, let alone fertile land.Except for Dafang who got [-] mu of good paddy field and [-] mu of good dry land, the others only got [-] mu of paddy field and [-] mu of dry land.There is no way, although many children are blessed, but once the family property, the family that looked good before, immediately becomes embarrassing.If you want to expand your field, you can save money to apply to the clan, go to the county government for certification, and spend money to buy it.But all they bought was wasteland, and it might not be possible to grow any food.

Women were also given land property, especially those who were not married.Therefore, Chen Xiang was allocated two mu of dry land and one mu of paddy field.She was satisfied. Many girls in the village had their fields occupied by their brothers, and her mother loved her so much that she gave them so much.

As for house land, the number of people in the village is not particularly large, and there are actually many homesteads that are not suitable for farming.All of them live here with the surname of Shen, and they can calculate their relatives by counting up, so they seldom make troubles about the homestead.

Shen Laichun doesn't need to be divided anymore, they will live in the old place from now on, and they don't need to build another house.

Shen Dongbao is not married yet, even though the family is separated, there is no need to worry about the house.So now Shen Laixia and Shen Laiqiu are mainly choosing homesteads and looking for man-made houses.

Shen Laiqiu felt that he had to find professionals to build a house. He wanted to build more houses, but the money was probably not enough, so he just marked out a place on the homestead and planned to build three sleeping rooms, a reception room, and a sundry room. room, a kitchen.There is also the toilet that Shen Li is clamoring for.

He is not the kind of person who dotes on children. Mainly, Shen Li said that it is easy to fall when going to the toilet outside. If the mother is pregnant, it is not safe to go out to the toilet.Shen Laiqiu thought it made sense, and human dung could fertilize crops, so he agreed.

The next step is to divide the money in these years.

The patriarch said: "Our clan mainly divides the land and real estate. You divide the money yourself, and you don't need to let the clan know." Too partial, and outsiders will not see how much money the split family can get.

Shen Daman and his wife are considered hard-working, built so many houses, and saved so much money to distribute to the next generation.They dislike Sanfang the most, so they share the least amount of money. The total is only four taels of silver, plus one pig and two chickens.Three sets of pots and pans were taken away, but the cook did not have any.They need to be reset.Fortunately, they don't have to worry about moving away, it's just that cooking needs to take turns.They still have to pay money to the commune every month until they live apart completely, and just pay food every year to support their parents.

Shen Laiqiu equinox received much less money, food and livestock than other brothers.Needless to say, the eldest got most of the money in the family; the second got a pig, four hens and one rooster; , There is no shortage of clothes to wear.Shen Laiqiu felt sad, but he was used to being ignored since childhood.What's more, he secretly hid his private money while working outside, and didn't give it all to his mother.So today he is sad on the surface, secretly hiding five taels of silver, and sharing the joy with his wife Shen Laiqiu.

Shen Li was stunned, how foolish and filial a man in ancient times was, how could this couple face the matter of hiding their private house, the father was much calmer than the mother.

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