Farming Beneath the Changbai Mountains

That night, many people in the Lin family were tossing and turning. The old man was lying on the kang, tossing and turning, unable to sleep, and his mind was filled with everything that happened during the day.

"I said, what are you doing? Pancakes. Why are you not sleeping all night? Why are you going back and forth? Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. What's the use of being so idle? When you came here, you didn't have everything. No, did you build this family fortune all by yourself? How come your children and grandchildren are worrying about these useless things? "The old lady was disturbed by the old man, so she didn't sleep well. He got up and persuaded.

"Oh, that's not what I'm doing. I was thinking about what the boss did today. You said the boss agreed to separate the family just in front of me. He didn't even ask me What does this mean? Does he still think of me as a father? And when Zixuan asked about some rules, they all said the same thing, they didn't regard me as an elder at all. He sighed and said what was on his mind.

"Also, I finally know why Zixuan and the others can stay at home for a while longer this year. It turns out that the old man of the Xu family celebrated his sixty-sixth birthday during the Chinese New Year, and they came back to pay their respects. What about me? They didn't come back when I was sixty-six this year. I am Zixuan's biological grandfather, so why is it important that I can't keep up with his wife's grandfather?" The old man seemed to be full of resentment, and he just happened to express it all.

"How come you are so alive and well? When is your birthday? It happens to be in August. At that time, Zixuan was in Longzhou, busy with floods and plagues. Where is the time to come back? It's the Chinese New Year. The emperor has given me a holiday to come back and celebrate Jinghan's grandfather's birthday. What else can you do? It's okay to let it go. Now, everyone, it's different from before. If you still look at it with the same old eyes, aren't you just trying to make yourself angry?" The old lady explained to the old man patiently.

"You said that now that you and I are still here, the old man and the second son's family are so unhappy. What will the second son's family do if I'm gone?" The old man still couldn't let go.

"I said, what's wrong with you, old man? Isn't it abnormal? What's wrong with the second child's family? Are they unable to eat or drink? They are living a good life. Today Zixuan also agreed to give them two rations per year in the future. A hundred feet of ginseng. How much is that? What else do you want? I've never seen you favoring the second child before. What's wrong now? Yes or no?"

The old lady said angrily, "Go to bed quickly and stop thinking about these useless things in the future. They all have hands and feet. You can earn whatever life you want." The old lady turned over and Then fell asleep.

The old man sighed, then closed his eyes and stayed still, and gradually fell asleep.

Little New Year is coming next, and the family is busy with work, and no one mentions anything else. It wasn't until the twenty-sixth day of the twelfth lunar month that the Xing family actually found a few people from the village and the Erlin family as witnesses, and they were about to separate.

"I said we are raising a family, what are you doing? Why are you making a fuss about breaking up the family during the Chinese New Year?" Village Chief Zhou sat on the kang and asked very puzzledly.

"Uncle, nothing happened. It's just that Ziwen brought up the idea of ​​dividing the family, and I was right. Anyway, my sons are grown up, so it would be better if we separated. We can live our own lives and relax a little. It just so happens that the boss is at home now, otherwise we won't have the time when they return to Xizhou," Xingjia explained to the big guy with a smile.

After hearing this, everyone naturally had nothing to say, so they discussed how to separate the families.

Zixuan said what he and Jinghan had discussed that day. Unexpectedly, Ziwen disagreed and insisted that he didn't want Zixuan's money. Later, Xingjia persuaded him and finally agreed.

Zixuan directly took out five thousand taels of silver notes and gave them to Ziwen, and then gave another one thousand taels to Xingjia as support for the first year. "Don't worry, dad, we will still take care of the family in the future. If Ziwen has anything to do in the future, I will try my best to help and will never refuse. In addition, Jinghan and I also discussed and asked dad to check around and see if he is okay. The land will be sold out. When the time comes, we will buy one or two hundred acres and set it aside as a sacrificial field. Our Lin family will become more and more prosperous in the future. This sacrificial field can be rented out, and the annual income can be used for family sacrificial purposes. The children go to school. In this way, we can leave something for the Lin family. "

Jinghan only thought of this two days ago. Now that Zixuan is working as an official outside, Ziwen may also go out in the future, but what about home? During festivals, someone will always come to offer sacrifices to the ancestors. With the sacrifice field, no one's money will be used, but the money will be paid directly from the income of the sacrifice field.

Furthermore, if a family wants to prosper, it must not be the efforts of one or two people. It must cultivate more talents from relatives. The Lin family is not very prosperous now, but from now on, they have to work hard to cultivate it.

As soon as Zixuan said this, everyone present was surprised. Village Chief Zhou quickly smiled and said, "That's good. I heard that those big families all have fields for sacrifice. Now that someone from the Lin family has become an official, they should follow the rules. Let’s do this. Okay, Zixuan is indeed a person who goes out to be an official and is thoughtful.”

After hearing this, the old man secretly approved in his heart, but did not show it on his face, "Well, this is feasible. Boss, please keep this matter in mind, and wait until spring starts to search around. You have to find a good piece of land.”

No one had any objections to the separation of the family, so Village Chief Zhou wrote the paperwork for the separation, and Zixuan and Ziwen both fingerprinted it. In this way, the family separation is completed.

From now on, everything in the Lin family will belong to Ziwen. Before getting married, Ziwen still lived with his parents. When Ziwen gets married, he will move out of the Lin family's old house and find another place to live. This old house of the Lin family will be returned to Ziwen a hundred years after the Xing family.

After finishing the separation of the family, Xingjia asked people to prepare a banquet for everyone to have a meal here.

At the banquet, everyone praised Xingjia for being lucky. Zixuan and Ziwen were both promising and filial, but Xingjia was so happy that she couldn't keep her mouth shut.

After they had had enough wine and food, everyone went home.

Mr. and Mrs. Erlin returned home and told their family what had happened. Na Yutao came to her mother's side and said, "Mom, look at my uncle's house. It turns out that the eldest cousin is so rich. Five thousand taels, he took it out without blinking an eye. In addition, To support my uncle, we also need to buy two pieces of land. The total amount is not more than 10,000 yuan? My dear, how did they earn such a lot of money? Rich, why can't you help us? If they leak a little, it will be enough for us to live a lifetime."

Just as Ms. Liu was about to answer her daughter's words, Erlin shouted at Yu Tao, "You damn girl, shut up. You are the only one who has a lot of things to do all day long. You are the one who makes trouble and you are not married yet." Well, I have learned this bad habit of gossiping. If someone is rich, it belongs to them. What does it have to do with our family? Do we need you to eat or wear? "

Xingye had never been so angry before. He had always respected, or rather feared, his wife. Mr. Liu loved his daughter and relied on her in everything, so Xingye followed suit. He would not take Yu Tao's advice to the west. "Don't you look at how old you are? You will get married next year. With all your bad habits, you won't be chased back by your husband's family when you get there?"

Ever since Zifu's wife came in, Yutao had been making trouble all day long, teasing Mrs. Liu and setting rules for her daughter-in-law. But this Zifu's daughter-in-law is not an ordinary person. She talks and does things without leakage. If Mr. Liu was too careful, she would still dare to stand up to him, so the family was not at peace these days. Xingye's head hurts from the fuss these women make every day, so he just took the opportunity to deal with his daughter today.

As soon as Yutao heard what her father said about herself, she immediately quit, threw herself into her mother's arms, and burst into tears. "Mom, look at my father, he is cursing his daughter like this. How can a father be like this and actually say that his daughter will be kicked back?"

Mrs. Liu raised her eyebrows and looked at her husband, "Master, what are you doing? Yu Tao is our daughter, and you don't think so highly of her? Do you have to say this to her?"

"Stop protecting her, listen to what she just said? What do you mean, if someone leaves a little bit in their hands, it will be enough for us to live a lifetime? Now Zixuan has promised to give us two hundred feet a year. Have you calculated how much the ginseng soil costs? If you save only 800 kilograms of sticks a year, you can’t sell them for five or six hundred taels. It’s just what we got, not to mention how much the two hundred-foot mallet could be sold for. Why don’t you just think about it? We earned this money ourselves, so we feel safe spending it.”

"You spend all day thinking about how much others can give you. No matter how much others give you, it is still a gift, not something you earned yourself. Are you worried because you are spending all your time? Yutao, you have been fooling around at home all day long. Mix, don't think I don't know. I can tell you, if you do this again, I will discuss it with you immediately and ask your husband's family to set up rules for you and discipline you well. Discipline." It seemed that Xingye couldn't bear it anymore. He was so afraid of his wife that he had to go hard with her today.

"Keep this in mind from now on. Don't mention anything about whether you are getting glory or not. We have already gained a lot of glory. When Zifu and the others have children, we don't have to spend any money to give them to them. Let’s go to school. If our descendants can really make a difference one day, our second wife will feel proud.”