Siheyuan: Walking the Path of Qin Huairu

At this time, a neighbor heard the noise and rushed over. Seeing Hu Yingzi's face covered in blood, it was very scary. Huizhen and her younger brother and sister also came out. Xu Jianshe said, "Huizhen, go call the doctor. Your mother was beaten by Shengli."

Uncle Xu lived in the front and arrived quickly. When he saw the situation, he asked angrily, "Your father was just buried. What are you two brothers doing?"

Xu Jianshe said: "My father left behind a lot of money. My brother wants to take it all for himself, but it's impossible. I have been taking care of my father all these years. How many days does Xu Jianshe come back every year? He is quite active in grabbing the property."

When Uncle Xu heard this, he thought it was best not to ask about this kind of thing in front of the neighbors. He said, "It's okay, everyone go back to sleep."

Then he called Xu Jianshe over. At that time, Xu Jianshe's family had already hidden all the things. Xu Jianshe wanted to deny it, and he said, "Don't listen to his nonsense. We have separated a long time ago. All my father's things are mine."

Xu Jianshe took out the things he had just snatched from his pocket and handed one to Uncle Xu. Uncle Xu took a closer look and saw that it was a gold bar. Xu Jianshe told him the whole story.

Uncle Xu didn't expect that his eldest brother's family had so much wealth, and his thoughts drifted away for a moment. (Guess where his thoughts drifted to?)

Hu Yingzi endured the pain and said, "If Xu Jianshe doesn't give me an explanation, I will report it to the police and we will all fight to the death. We will settle all the old and new accounts together."

Second Uncle Xu said, "It's late at night, you should go back to sleep first. Your Third and Fourth Uncles and I will take care of it for you tomorrow."

Hu Yingzi said, "No, they might move the things tomorrow. We will just stay here tonight and report to the police at daybreak."

Xu Jianshe thought that if he reported it to the police, these things might be confiscated. Previously, when the city was building a road, gold, silver and jewelry were dug up in a house and all of them were confiscated. Besides, it was hard to say where these things came from, so he began to worry.

The village doctor came to check Hu Yingzi and said that the bones were not injured, but the wound was so large that it would definitely leave a scar. Xu Shengli was really cruel.

The doctor cleaned the wound, applied medicine, bandaged it, and said, "If you are worried, go to the hospital tomorrow to have another check."

Uncle Xu asked his son to call Uncle Xu San and Uncle Xu Si at night. He went to Xu Jianshe's house to listen to Xu Jianshe's explanation. Hu Yingzi said to Huizhen, "Huizhen, go to the back street to find your aunt, ask your cousin to accompany you to your uncle's house, and ask all three uncles to come. Don't forget to tell them that I won't let them run errands in vain."

Hu Yingzi had a cousin who also married in Xujiawan. Huizhen was worried about a girl walking alone at night, so she had to ask her cousin to accompany her. In this era, the brothers from the woman's family were the backbone of the woman in her husband's family.

At daybreak, Huizhen came back with her uncles. Not only three uncles came, but also two cousins ​​and a younger cousin, one from each family, without any bias.

Xu Jianshe's family also didn't sleep the whole night. His three uncles were all there, discussing how to deal with the matter.

The six big men of the Hu family rushed in at the same time. Uncle Hu said, "Who beat my sister? You think there is no one left in our Hu family, right?"

Xu Jianshe accompanied him and said carefully: "His uncle, you guys take a seat first. It's all because of the children's ignorance. I will give you an explanation."

Uncle Hu said angrily, "More than ten years ago, you killed my nephew and said he was ignorant. More than ten years later, you said he was ignorant again. It seems that our Hu family is too easy to talk to."

Xu Shengli shivered with fear when he saw the Hu family. He regretted his impulsiveness yesterday. Now, things that happened ten years ago have come to light again. Alas, his grandmother's family only gave birth to two daughters, but no sons. No one came to support him.

Uncle Xu spoke up at this time: "Shengkun (Huizhen's younger brother) uncle, you all sit down. The three of us elders will make the decision for Yingzi. If the matter gets out of hand, it will not benefit anyone."

Uncle Hu has to give face to the three uncles of the Xu family. His sister will still have to live in the village in the future and cannot make too many enemies.

So, everyone else went out, and in addition to the three uncles and the three brothers of the Hu family, there were also Xu Jianshe and his wife and their eldest son Xu Shengli, and Xu Jianshe and his wife and their eldest son Xu Shengkun.

Uncle Xu explained how they handled the matter: "My eldest brother told me before he died that among the things hidden in the screen wall, the gold bars were left by our ancestors. Because of the turbulent times, it was inconvenient to take them out, so they were hidden. The other box contained women's jewelry, which was my eldest sister-in-law's dowry. There were ten gold bars in total. Because they were left by the ancestors of the Xu family, our second, third, and fourth rooms also had a share. My eldest brother is the eldest son of the eldest house, so he got 60%, and the remaining 40% was divided equally among the three of us brothers. The jewelry was my sister-in-law's dowry, we don't get any of it, it was for architecture and construction."

Hu Yingzi thought to herself, "Everyone who sees this has a stake in it. Xu Jianshe also acquiesced to it. I guess this is also Xu Jianshe's money to keep his three uncles quiet."

Uncle Xu continued, "If these things are exposed, they will all be confiscated. With these things, our family cannot be middle peasants. At the very least, we are rich peasants. In order to reduce unnecessary trouble, the three of us elders will divide the things between your two families. The eldest son and grandson will get 60% of the buildings."

Hu Yingzi was unhappy and interrupted, "Uncle, I don't agree with this approach. The rule in the old society was that the eldest son's family gets 60%. Now under the new situation, it's not divided like this. When my father was alive, he helped many families divide their property, and didn't the brothers always divide it equally?"

What Hu Yingzi said was indeed true. Life had been very tight these years, and those old rules had long been abolished. Most of the property was divided equally.

Xu Jianshe said angrily, "Sister-in-law, don't push your luck. My father said on his deathbed that these things belonged to our eldest family. It was only because my three uncles intervened that I gave in. If Dad wanted to give them to your family, why didn't he tell you that there was something in the screen wall?"

Xu Shengkun slapped his thigh and said, "Uncle, now that you mention it, I suddenly remembered what my grandfather told me. I was thirteen years old that year, yes, thirteen years old. One day I came to give my grandfather some buns. My grandfather was staring at the screen wall in a daze. He didn't react when I came in. I followed his gaze and didn't see anything. So I asked my grandfather, are there flowers on the screen wall? My grandfather told me, there are treasures in the screen wall, Shengkun, remember it. I thought my grandfather was joking with me at the time, so I said I remembered it. Now that I think about it, what my grandfather said was true."

Xu Jianshe slapped his son on the head and said, "You idiot, why didn't you tell me such an important thing?"

Xu Shengli: "You are talking nonsense. Who can prove that what you said is true?"

Xu Shengkun: "Then who can prove that what uncle said is true?"

Uncle Xu scolded the two juniors and said, "Jianshe, if you have any opinions, tell us."