Queen of Nongmen: Hexagrams determine the universe

Chapter 107
"Old man, do you think of a way? What can you think of? You don't want to take out the few acres of land we have for the elderly to wipe their buttocks, do you? I don't agree with this! I'm the first to disagree!" The silent old lady Ye finally spoke up, "When we were young, we worked so hard for our children, but when we get old, we don't even have any land for the elderly. There is no such reason in the world!"

"Mother, don't our eldest, second, and third families pay you two taels of silver for retirement every month? Six taels of silver a month is not enough for you to spend?" Ye Fengxian said weakly, "you When you’re old, it’s just clothes and food, and a penny a month is too much for you. When the family was separated, they shouldn’t have given you the land.”

"Good you bastard!" The old lady was heartbroken, thinking of how much suffering she had suffered for her elder son when she was young, and now that the elder son had no conscience at the end, her heart was filled with grief and anger, and the ugly words came out one after another. jump!

At this time, the people in the village had almost finished their meal, and when they heard Mrs. Ye's sharp scolding, they gathered around one after another, and gradually understood what happened to Ye's family today from her words that jumped out one after another. matter.

"Oh my god! I didn't expect that Ye Jigang looked at his duty and was so terrifying. He even managed to kill six people with poison!"

"Second and third households have no blood feud with him. The people from the second and third households used to feed them steamed buns made of human blood for many years. Ye Jigang is so ungrateful that he is not afraid of being struck by lightning."

"When we see Ye Jigang in the future, we have to stay away! Don't get in touch with him, maybe that sentence, the speaker has no intention of listening to it, and he will hate you, and he will have to go to your house to poison you that night. , Let your whole family die!"

"Hey, I said that this kind of person shouldn't stay in the village anymore! How terrible it is to stay in the village, do we still want to live?"

……

The people in the village talked with each other one by one, and looked at Ye Jigang like watching the plague.

Mr. Ye's old face was a little red, he hammered the ground a few times with his crutches, and roared angrily: "Enough! Don't scold! Starting tomorrow, the first room, the second room, and the third room will be expelled every month. In addition to the old-age pension of two taels of silver for us, we will take turns to give us old-age care! One house supports one month!"

"This is not allowed!" The selfish Ye Fengxian was the first to raise an objection.

He sits and eats every day, takes the loose money after the separation, and eats delicious food and spicy food with Piaoxu at home. If this has to provide for his parents, doesn't it mean that he has given away half of the chicken, duck and fish in his mouth?

Besides, the old couple said that they want to tear cloth to make clothes, should the money be given or not?
Mr. Ye said he wants to drink some wine, will he give the money or not?

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"No? No, you can settle the matter of the [-] acres of land yourself!" Mr. Ye said with a livid face.

Now, Ye Fengxian has nothing to say.

"Speak as if you can solve the problem of the [-] mu of land!" Mrs. Ye snorted coldly, "Even if we pay for the few mu of land we have for the elderly, plus the savings in hand, then It is far from enough!"

Mr. Ye returned to the house without saying a word, and after a while, he took out a sandalwood box and some land deeds from the house.

This sandalwood box was a little damp, as if it had been buried in a dark place for a long time.

Grandpa Ye unlocked the sandalwood box, and handed the box and the land deed to Ye Qiongdan: "Add these, and see if it's enough."

Due to the serious problem of land annexation in the Dalong Dynasty, most of the land was concentrated in the hands of big landlords, and the land outside was sold at an extremely expensive price. Generally, good fields cost 30 taels of silver per mu, and poor fields cost 20 taels of silver per mu. .

These fields of the Ye family came very strangely.

The ancestors of the Ye family only left four or five acres of land. In the past, Mr. Ye relied on these few acres of land to cultivate Ye Fengxian hard. A scholar, Mr. Ye, who worked very hard to support him in his studies, was very pleased.

Afterwards, the families of the eldest daughter-in-law and the second daughter-in-law wanted to gain the glory of the eldest son of the Ye family, so they let Wang Suxin and You Yue'e, who were from relatively good families, marry into the Ye family. The dowries of the two were all collected by the old lady Ye Go, take it and post it for Ye Fengxian to read.

Later, the third wife of the Ye family married a daughter-in-law, and within a few days, Mr. Ye bought dozens of acres of land, and he only said that he had picked up a sum of money.

Sanfang’s son is very sensible. Since he was 11 years old, he has followed others to do business in the south, running goods from south to north, but because he is honest and honest, he has never become a big businessman.

In the winter when he was 15 years old, he brought back a girl of unknown origin from the south and said he wanted to marry her.

At first, the old lady disagreed fiercely, but later the old man talked to the girl, but he agreed very quickly.

At this time, the old lady caught a glimpse of the word "Thank you" carved on the sandalwood box, and immediately stepped forward and knocked over the box.

"Bangdang-!"

The box popped open, and the gold leaf inside was scattered all over the floor, making it dazzlingly bright.

"Ah yo!" The people outside were stunned. They never expected that the Ye family, who seemed to be inferior to the Tang family, even hid a box of gold leaves!

There must be a hundred pieces, right?
Moreover, this gold leaf is so big, two gold leaves are about one tael, one tael of gold is equal to ten taels of silver!
"Okay! Let me tell you that the third daughter-in-law didn't bring a dowry. How did you agree to her marrying the third? It turns out that she gave the dowry, and you hid the dowry!" Mrs. Ye Angry, "She didn't give the dowry to the mother-in-law, but gave it to you, the father-in-law. Tell me, is there something shameful between you and her?"

When the onlookers heard this, there was an uproar, and many people began to look at Mr. Ye with contemptuous eyes.

"Nonsense! Are you crazy? That's your deceased daughter-in-law. If you slander her so much, you won't be afraid that the third son will find out and feel sorry for you?" Old Master Ye was furious, and hammered heavily with his cane He beat the ground.

"She dares to do it, so what am I afraid to say?" Mrs. Ye sat on the ground and started to roll and scatter, grabbed the gold leaves on the ground, and started to scatter indiscriminately.

"My third daughter-in-law and I are innocent! I swear to God!" Mr. Ye trembled with anger, "Besides, I am the head of the family, so why not Tibetan silver? If you make trouble again, I will kill you!" rest!"

The tone of these words was so strong that Mrs. Ye was immediately too frightened to move.

Mr. Ye couldn't explain why he asked his third daughter-in-law to give him the dowry. With the dowry, he bought dozens of acres of land, built a big house, and sent Ye Fengxian to Jingde Academy to study. He hid his dowry.

"Grandma, you must apologize to my mother!" Ye Qiongdan said firmly.

Mrs. Ye snorted coldly: "What if I scold my daughter-in-law? Which mother-in-law doesn't scold her daughter-in-law? She, a bitch, dares to hide her mother-in-law and give all the dowry to her father-in-law. She should be scolded, and I should be punished." Spit!"

Saying that, Mrs. Ye spat on the ground!
"Apologize!" Ye Qiongdan said sharply.

"So what if you don't apologize?"

"If you don't apologize, I dare not give you the money to support you, and I dare not take you to take care of you!" Ye Qiongdan slightly curled her lips, "Don't think I can't do it, grandpa even expelled our three clans out of Ye The family can do all the things, so what do I do? I, Ye Qiongdan, am not afraid of being stabbed in the back!"

"You! You! You!" Under her extremely oppressive eyes, Mrs. Ye gradually faltered, "Okay... I apologize... Can I apologize..."

Ye Qiongdan bent down, picked up the gold leaves on the ground with Ye Qinghan, and put them back into the box.

There are a total of 120 gold leaves scattered in the yard, and two gold leaves are equal to about ten taels of silver.

These gold leaves are roughly equivalent to more than 600 taels of silver, which is [-] mu of land, and there is still some leftover.

In addition to the six mu of land that the eldest family will give up and the three mu of land that the old couple will give up, it is barely enough.

It wasn't until this time that Ye Qiongdan realized how cruel the old man was. At the beginning, Ye Jiwu owed the casino 2000 taels of silver. Ordinary people would think, first get all the money out of the family and return part of it to the casino, and then see if the casino can do it. Make an accommodation or two and let them pay back the money in installments.

But Mr. Ye didn't think so. He thought that he had to let the first, second, and third bedrooms share the responsibility, or cut off Ye Jiwu's arm. He still hid the sandalwood box and planned to save it as a way out.

"Give me the land deed now." Ye Qiongdan said to Ye Fengxian.

"Isn't six mu of land too much?" Ye Fengxian said reluctantly, "Look, can you treat your uncle better? When your uncle wins the Juren, the uncle will definitely treat you better."

"Do you think I will believe it?" Ye Qiongdan pointed to the villagers outside, "Ask the three-year-old children outside to see if they believe it."

The surrounding villagers laughed.

"That's right! Ye Fengxian is cunning and selfish, he has no conscience, he is not good to his parents, how can he be good to his niece?"

"Isn't that right, this book has been read to the stomach of a dog!"

"It's like Mr. Xuetang said, righteousness... most of them are dog slaughterers? Most of them are scholars who are heartbroken?"

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Ye Fengxian felt a little ashamed, if Ye Qiongdan was a good master, he would definitely stick to it with the cheek, but the problem is that Ye Qiongdan won't accept his will, and if he persists, he will be humiliating himself.

He could only go back to the room resentfully, picked out six land deeds, and handed them to Ye Qiongdan.

"Okay, go to the county tomorrow and transfer all the land." Ye Qiongdan said.

Old Man Ye sighed and nodded dejectedly.

Mrs. Ye gave Ye Qiongdan a resentful look, and was too lazy to scold.

When Ye Qiongdan passed by Ye Jigang, he glanced at him: "Ye Jigang, you should grow up too, not every time you make a mistake, someone will solve it for you, grandpa and grandma are not young anymore, don't torment them. "

Ye Jigang lowered his head, pursed his lips tightly, and his eyes half covered under his eyelids were full of hatred.

The people outside the house began to discuss again.

(End of this chapter)