home in the end

Chapter 12

The three brothers and sisters stumbled out of the village and saw Fifth Grandpa and Fifth Grandma coming over carrying hoes. Fifth Master Liang and the others also saw the three of them, and ran over quickly. Not afraid of retribution, the three children are beaten up like this?" He said, hugging Liang Yimei, "Poor child!"

Fifth Grandma was holding Liang Yimei, and Fifth Grandpa was also supporting Liang Yimu and Liang Yilin. As soon as the five of them arrived at Fifth Grandpa's home, Fifth Grandpa took out the ointment and said, "This is the ointment I prepared when I went hunting in the mountains before. It has not been used for many years. Yes, it can reduce swelling and blood stasis, come, I will apply it on you.”

Liang Yimei was a little timid looking at the ointment. It has been so many years and it won't expire, right?But seeing that Liang Yimu and Liang Yilin were both painted, she didn't have the guts to say no, Grandma Fifth grabbed her and applied the medicine to her without asking her, while yelling at the Liang clan.

Liang Wuye said a few words of consolation, which led to more fierce accusations from Fifth Grandma. Through the dialogue between the two and what he learned a few days ago, Liang Yimei finally knew the cause and effect.

It turned out that the Liang family was considered a middle-class family in the previous dynasty. Later, they came to the province to avoid disaster. The ancestors bought a large piece of land and some foundations. At the beginning, they lived happily, but it was not long before the clansmen settled down. Because of the constant competition for interests, their branch is just a branch of the side branch. During the struggle, they left the family like other side branches. When they came here, they also bought fields and family businesses. As time goes by, people in the clan gradually integrate into agricultural production. There are a few people in the clan who are self-reliant and everyone can’t get used to it. They feel that they are after everyone, how can they be so content with being ordinary, so they still act as before. When the charter is done.

Just taking the income of the peasants and living the life of an official, it is conceivable that all kinds of contradictions arise suddenly, and they have learned the strife in the big family. Over the years, some people can't stand the family members The forces left one after another, but those who could leave were from good families, because there was a rule in the Liang family that the fields left by the ancestors could not be sold, and if you wanted to leave, you had to hand over your own fields to the clan. , the land purchased by parents cannot be sold, and it is classified as clan land.However, although the land owned by the family can be sold, priority must be given to the members of the clan, and those who are interested in the clan must give preferential treatment... The conditions are harsh, and few of them have been able to go out after so many years.

The fifth grandpa and the fifth grandma also had children when they were young, but there was a severe drought when they were three years old, and this place became a disaster area. The child died, and the fifth grandma also survived from nine deaths.

The rule in the clan is that the family without children must either adopt or hand over the land to the clan after death. The fifth grandfather’s family has about ten acres of land. Although it is not a lot, it is considered a good family. Old, the family was forced to adopt, and then the matter became too big, and the fifth grandma wanted to adopt a child from her stepmother's family. When people in the Liang family heard about it, they forced them to adopt a son of the patriarch, fifth grandpa and fifth grandpa. Grandma always eats soft things rather than hard things, and the arrogant and unreasonable people in the clan have strengthened their idea of ​​adopting Grandma Fifth's natal child. Who knows that the people in the Liang family are even more ruthless, and they directly sent Grandpa Fifth Divorced with Grandma Fifth.

When Grandpa Fifth found out, he fell ill with anger, and it was Grandma Fifth's brother who helped her carry Grandpa Fifth to the county town to be cured.After that, the fifth grandpa took the fifth grandma to live outside the village, and the family's fields were all taken back. At that time, they went to sue the officials without any reason. The fifth grandma's brothers raised a sum of money and bought them a The donkey, both of them lived by this donkey.

This incident made a big noise back then, and it had a profound impact on another family, that is, Liang Yimei's family.When Liang Erlang was young, he used to go out and fight, and he also learned some boxing skills. His knowledge is farther than others. Seeing that people in the clan are more and more mercenary, he doesn't want to go too far. Taking advantage of this matter of Liang Wuye He bought that piece of land halfway up the mountain, built a house, and moved out of the village. Although he moved out of the village, it was not far away, and the elders in the clan had no choice.

It's just that in the spring of this year, the seeds at home were not enough, so Liang Erlang went to the city to buy seeds, and when he returned home, he met bandits, and no one in the village was willing to help, the uncle and the second lady stumbled I found Liang Erlang's body in a hurry, but it was raining again. Er Niangzi's body was already weak, and she became seriously ill after the catastrophe, but she was even more helpless after Liang Erlang's funeral. rise.

The family spent all their savings to treat her illness. The condition had improved, and even the doctor said that it would be fine after taking a few more medicines. Liang Yimu wanted to sell some of the family's land.The family has a total of more than 40 mu of land. Except for the five mu of family land, the others are bought by Liang Erlang, so in theory it can be sold, but the people in the family dragged it repeatedly. Later, Liang Yimu Anxious to use money to buy medicine, he went outside to sell the land himself, only to realize that the people in the Liang family had released a word not to allow others to buy his family's land.

Liang Yimu had just lost his father at that time, so he didn't think much about it. He just felt angry and told his mother when he got home. The second lady's condition worsened. In addition, some people from the village often came to the house to ridicule her. It got worse, and by the time Liang Yimu noticed it, it was already too late.

So just half a year after his father died, his mother died again, and Liang Yimu grew up all of a sudden, and now he remembered things that he always ignored before. From the beginning to the end, he hated the people in the clan, but his mother had to rely on the clan to be buried, but he didn't expect the clan to disagree with him selling the land to bury his mother, and only said to lend him money, Liang Yimu knocked his teeth down Li Yan, listen to everything from the clan. After the mother was buried, the clan began to divide the land. The reason was that their three children were too young to manage them well. The patriarch just said something symbolically to Liang Yimu and started Divide the fields.

Liang Yimu didn't go to the county seat alone to beat the drums and complain until they had divided the fields. The county master was also interesting, and sent people to take all the Liang family members who were allocated fields to the yamen, and then tried them publicly. The final verdict was, 40 A fraction of an acre of land was given to the patriarch to pay for the burial of his mother, and the rest of the land was leased to the people of the Liang family village, and the rent was paid annually.Later, Liang Yimu asked to keep the two acres of land on the mountain for his own use, and the pond was not rented out either.The magistrate of that county beat up the people who were taken away again, and the patriarch and Liang Dalang beat them hardest, and then dismissed the patriarch from his post of Lizheng, and appointed another Lizheng to finish the job.

It's just that this incident was enough to cause a sensation. Most of the people in a village were detained in the yamen and beaten up. The reputation of Liangjia Village was spread.Most people in the clan hated Liang Yimu, but because Liang Yimu showed his face to the county magistrate, no one dared to do anything, but completely isolated them.

Having figured out the whole story, Liang Yimei secretly sighed, such a family is really bad, most of the people are ruined, it's just that they don't have the ability to leave home now!
After the medicine was finished, it was getting dark, fifth grandpa and fifth grandma kept them for dinner, Liang Yimu felt that today was enough trouble for them, nothing more troublesome, if he insisted on leaving at this time, it would hurt his affection and stay.

After eating, Liang Wuye sent them back home. There were still pots and sticks scattered in the yard, and the snow was in a mess. Closed the door to sleep.

Liang Yimu took a closer look at Liang Yimei's face, and was relieved to find that it wasn't very heavy. He was too embarrassed to look too carefully at Grandpa Fifth's house just now.

Liang Yimu hugged Liang Yimei and said, "It's my brother's fault that made my sister get beaten, but it won't happen again!"

Then he asked Liang Yilin: "If the elder brother is not around in the future, you have to protect the younger sister, you know?"

Liang Yilin nodded heavily with a big fat face, and Liang Yimei's tears came down, people are like this, when no one protects you, you will face everything with strength, your heart is extremely hard, and once someone stands up for you, the heart I can't stop the sourness.

Seeing their sister crying, Liang Yimu and Liang Yilin frantically tried to comfort her. Liang Yilin patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, sister. When I grow up a bit, I will beat Liang Yisen to avenge you!"

Liang Yimei cried for a while, and felt better, so the sobbing stopped, and the two brothers secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Before going to bed, Liang Yimu warned the two of them to stay away from the people in the village, even children.He fell asleep after getting an affirmative answer from both of them.

(End of this chapter)