nycdaug Chapter 142 Separating the Family? I Disagree
Chapter 142 Separating the Family? I Disagree
"Mother, why are you asking all this? You're acting so strangely today." Zhou Jingyi couldn't help but feel that his mother was acting strangely. "Could it be that you hit Grandma today, so you want to go into the mountains to hide?"
As he spoke, he nodded solemnly, "That must be it."
Yang Fenglan: ...
He'll find out sooner or later anyway.
Yang Fenglan still chose to tell Zhou Jingyi.
“These past few days, I’ve had the same dream every night: that not a single drop of rain will fall all year, right up until the Lunar New Year; that the Qingshui River has dried up; that the mountains are all withered and yellow; that grain prices have skyrocketed; that many people can’t survive; and that there are corpses of the starving everywhere.”
Upon hearing this, Zhou Jingyi laughed, "Mother, it's just a dream."
“Yes, that’s what I thought at first too, but I keep having the same dream every day. Isn’t this some kind of omen?” Yang Fenglan’s eyes were particularly sincere.
In this era, information was scarce, and people revered ghosts and gods.
Yang Fenglan fabricated a very bizarre story about the famine, which successfully frightened Zhou Jingyi.
He confessed honestly, "The place we stayed was very hard to find. You wouldn't have found it without Uncle Xiao and me leading the way."
That means it's well hidden.
Yang Fenglan felt relieved. "In that case, I'll ask your Uncle Xiao to lead the way. If the famine doesn't come, that's fine. But if it does come and there are refugees everywhere, we can still go into the mountains to hide."
"Hey, you absolutely mustn't tell Xiaoyu about this."
"What?"
"Think about it, not long ago, our house was haunted. If you tell her about my dream, she will definitely think that our house is haunted and unclean. Do you think she would dare to stay in our house?"
"What if we scare her away?" Yang Fenglan spoke confidently and logically, leaving Zhou Jingyi with no room for rebuttal.
"...Okay, I won't tell her."
After receiving her son's repeated assurances, Yang Fenglan felt reassured and went out to find her best friend.
It was evening, and the villagers were all returning home from the fields.
At this moment, the Xu family was arguing.
Yang Fenglan didn't dare to go any closer, so she climbed up a tree not far from the Xu family's gate and looked at the Xu family's courtyard.
Grandma Xu is arguing with her parents again.
Xu Yingying's parents sat slumped under the eaves, looking sickly.
Mother Xu wiped away her tears and sobbed, "Mother, we don't want to be sick, but we are really weak all over. If we have to go to work, we will fall to the ground and not be able to get up, and we will have to trouble everyone to carry us back."
"Waaah, Daddy, are we going to die? What will happen to Yingying and Chunsheng if we die?"
Mr. Xu's head slumped weakly on his shoulders, his mouth and eyes crooked. "What are you afraid of? We're all family. His grandparents, uncles, and aunts won't abandon us."
Upon hearing this, everyone immediately shook their heads.
I can't control her, I can't control that crazy girl at all.
Even though Xu Dazhu and his wife were in such a state of illness, people still felt uneasy.
It's the busy farming season, and everyone is working themselves to the bone in the fields every day to harvest, but these two are just lying at home, acting like they're going to die.
Being sick is one thing, but the real problem is that they eat an enormous amount!
If you have any complaints, they'll say, "You need to eat more to have energy."
This has been going on for two days, and neither of them seems to have regained any strength.
Xu Chunsheng is still young and can't do heavy work, while Xu Yingying simply refuses to work, and no one can do anything about it.
I dared not refuse her a meal at the table, otherwise I would have to overturn the table again.
Sin ah.
Mother Xu cried, and Old Lady Xu cried too.
She wasn't crying because her son and daughter-in-law were sick; she was crying because they didn't work but still had to eat.
Ever since Xu Yingying, that debt collector, returned, the entire eldest son's family has become cunning and deceitful.
Grandma Xu misses her Xu Daya.
“Mother, we don’t know how long we’ll be sick. Doctor Zhang can’t figure out what’s wrong. Could you give us two taels of silver so we can go to the county clinic for a checkup?” Xu Dazhu said.
Old Mrs. Xu immediately shouted, "Bah! You don't do any work, and you still want money? Dream on!"
“Yes, yes, yes.” Xu Lao Er’s wife nodded repeatedly. “Not only does he not do any work, but he also eats for free, and he eats so much.”
"Mother, this is not fair. Why do my eldest brother and sister-in-law not have to do any work, but everyone in our second branch of the family has to?" Xu Lao Er was also unwilling.
"what is it now?"
"Separate the family."
Upon hearing about the division of the family property, Xu Dazhu immediately began to wail, "No, I don't agree! With our parents still alive, if we don't divide the family property, Mother, in our current state, if we are separated from the family and die outside, it will be our parents who will be criticized."