There were earthquakes and droughts, and there was no harvest in the fields.

Lin Xiaoman's father and mother had just died, and now they were rejected by their grandparents, who called them to the main room to separate the family.

Old Mrs. Lin coughed, and Old Lin shuddered. He tapped his pipe on the sole of his shoe and immediately said, "I brought you together this morning because I have something to say."

"There are only more than three hundred kilograms of grain left in the house. There are more than a dozen mouths in the house. Let alone next autumn harvest, it is hard to say whether we can survive this winter. Your mother and I thought that instead of starving to death together, it would be better to

The family is divided. From now on, it all depends on your own ability whether you eat rice bran vegetables or rice noodles and steamed buns."

"Your father is right, we are all old and can't take care of this big family, especially those who are lazy at work and those who don't have enough to eat!" Mrs. Lin spoke, her big eyes looking straight at Lin Xiaoman and Lin Xiaoman.

Lin Erhu and his brother take aim at each other.

"Your parents passed away early. It's not easy at home now. Xiao Mandu is still not willing to get married even when he is sixteen, and the family can't afford to support so many idle people. Don't blame grandma for being cruel. The three hundred kilograms of food will be divided ten times according to the head of the family.

Three shares, and you two sisters have two shares. The house at home was built after your parents passed away. Don’t think about it. You will move to the old house later, which is the two acres of land in front of the door.

I’ll give it to you.”

Lin Erhu stared blankly with a pair of white eyes, "Nai, if you want to separate me and my sister, just say so. There is no need to criticize Huai!"

"What does it mean to be lazy at work? What does it mean to not eat enough?"

"When did you buy meat and kill chickens without sending me and my sister out? My sister is sixteen, but our parents also died to save our grandparents last year. We are still in the middle of filial piety, so you are forcing me

It doesn’t make sense for my sister to marry an old widower in his thirties.”

"You said my sister eats a lot, why don't you say that my sister is very strong and can do as much work as three good men?"

"I can't do the work in the fields, but I didn't carry any firewood back from the mountains. Why didn't you tell me that my uncle's family went to the fields nine times out of ten and couldn't find anyone? We can't just leave without the support of our parents.

Dirty water is poured on us."

Lin Erhu's small mouth was blaring, and the uncle of the Lin family was so angry that he slammed the table, "You little brat, how can you talk to your elders like this? What do you mean you can't find anyone nine times out of ten times? Your cousin is studying in the academy.

, is it possible that you still want him to put down his studies and become a clay leg worker?"

"Humph, my cousin is studying, my uncle and my aunt are also studying? My cousins ​​are also studying? Besides, isn't that the first thing I want to do to throw dirty water on us siblings? I, the younger one, are all the same as the grandma.

Learned.”

Old Mrs. Lin slapped her thighs and howled, "God, he is blaming me and the old man for killing his parents. The second child is also the flesh that fell off my body. Doesn't it hurt in my heart? What evil have I done?"

If I had known that the second daughter-in-law had given birth to this thing, she should have been thrown into a urine jar and drowned when she was born! There is no need to wait for half of the child to be buried in the earth and suffer from this bird's anger."

Lin Erhu was about to speak, but Lin Xiaoman pulled the corner of his clothes behind him, signaling him to stop talking.

Lin Erhu obeyed, closed his mouth, and turned his head to the side angrily.

Lin Xiaoman stood up and blessed Mrs. Lin and Old Man Lin, "Grandma, since you have already decided to separate the families, it is useless for Erhu and I to say anything. We might as well go and invite the clan leader.

, let the clan leader bear witness, I will listen to the clan leader on how to divide this family."

Old Mrs. Lin immediately stopped howling, "Separating a family is your own business. Who do you want to ask for a clan leader? How dare you open your mouth like a lion when your old and foolish father, the clan leader, is looking at you? I'll give you some more, and I'll give you sixty kilograms."

There’s not even one more tael of food left!”

Lin Xiaoman smiled faintly, "It's okay if we don't invite the clan leader. In addition to sixty kilograms of grain, we also have to take away my mother's dowry. The bed in my grandma's house, the cabinets in my uncle's house, the three uncles and three

There are tables and chairs in my aunt’s house, as well as an iron pot and a copper basin..."

"Why don't you go and grab it?" Mrs. Lin jumped three feet high, her eyes as wide as bells, "Once you enter the Lin family, your mother belongs to the Lin family. There is no way to take her away!"

Lin Xiaoman was not annoyed, and just smiled and said: "According to the law of this dynasty, if the mother is gone, the dowry should be inherited by the mother's children. Our house is not extinct. If the mother refuses to return my mother's dowry, I will only

Can we ask the clan leader to uphold justice? I have in my hand the dowry list from when my mother married into the Lin family. In addition to what I mentioned, there are also eight full dowries. The silver hairpin on the nipple, the hairpin worn by the eldest uncle on her hand,

The pair of bracelets in my cousin’s dowry, the thirty acres of paddy fields cultivated by the Lin family... When the patriarch comes, I will take out the list and pair them one by one, and then go to my cousin’s mother-in-law’s house to pair them up as well.”

Mrs. Lin wanted to touch the silver hairpin on her head. Since the second child and the couple were gone, she had taken possession of the second child's wife's dowry. How could she ever go out wearing this silver hairpin without being envied by others?

It’s still impossible to return it, there’s no way!

The old lady's face turned red from holding back, and in the end she could only hold back a curse: "Give it to you! Give it all to you! You rebellious and unfilial bitch!"

The news of the separation of the Lin family early in the morning quickly spread throughout Hedong Village. The former patriarch Lin Youwang got the news and took his son Lin Daqiang, the current patriarch's son, and called a few strong farmers to catch up with his family's ox cart.

Help.

Lin Erhu was in the yard directing the moving of boxes, cupboards and beds, while Lin Xiaoman was busy packing her and Lin Erhu's rags.

When their parents passed away, the siblings only cared about being sad. How could they have expected that their grandpa and grandma, who had always been so sweet-talking, would not be a good person?

When I came back to my senses, my mother's dowry had been hidden, and she only said that she could not find it.

There were so many people coming in and out of the house that day that Lin Xiaoman and his sister did not expect that their parents risked their lives to save their grandparents. They were not human beings and just pretended that their things had been stolen.

If her cousin hadn't gotten married last year, she wouldn't have believed that her grandparents could do something like that when she saw her mother's belongings in the dowry.

In the end, Lin Xiaoman only packed up two bags of rags. Although they couldn't be worn anymore, using them as rags wasn't cheap.

Seeing Lin Youwang coming over, Lin Erhu ran over, "Second Grandpa, my grandma said you are an old fool, and the family separation will not let me and my sister go to you to make the decision."

Lin Youwang was so angry that his nose was crooked. He stood in the yard and yelled: "You two old immortals have lived in vain. If it weren't for the second daughter-in-law who married in, you and your family would still not know where you are."

You are begging for food. Now that the old couple is gone to save you two, you bully their children. You are not afraid that the second brother and his wife will come to you in the middle of the night to settle the score."

Although Lin Youwang has not been the patriarch for many years, the current patriarch is his son. When he jumped and scolded, Old Man and Mrs. Lin hid in the room and did not dare to reply.

Mrs. Lin felt distressed as she looked at the bed that had been torn apart into pieces by carpenters. "It's a good bed, but it's not broken. Just move it away?"

"What can I do? If I don't let you move the bed, what if I ask you for the dowry of your second wife?"

"You damn little beasts, they all learned this from their mother, that little whore of the He family. They shouldn't have been allowed to give birth to them in the first place."
Chapter completed!