jdhmnovel Chapter 131: This old woman is so confused!
Chapter 131: This old woman is so confused!
"Confused!"
Old Man Lin couldn't help cursing, "If you want to hide it, then hide it thoroughly. You told outsiders that the money was given by the third brother, but doesn't the third brother know whether he gave the money or not?"
"When the third brother finds out that you hid the money, he will blame you. There is no such thing as a wall that is impenetrable. If the eldest and second brothers find out that you hid the money to buy land for the third brother, what will they think? They will blame you too."
"Since I know about this money, you are not allowed to buy land for only the third son. If you want to buy land, give each of the three sons an acre of inferior land equally. Otherwise, you should hide the money well and never tell anyone about it until you die."
Even though it is Old Mrs. Lin who makes the decisions at home, it is Old Man Lin who actually has the final say.
But this time, Old Mrs. Lin planned to scare the old man and buy the land first.
They will live with the third brother from now on, so how can they survive without land?
Drinking northwest wind?
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The news that the three brothers of the Lin family bought land spread in the village.
It is not uncommon for the eldest brother Lin Dajiang to buy land. If they were to rely on Mr. Gu, they could also become rich with the little bit of money that slips through Mr. Gu's fingers.
The two acres of inferior farmland bought by the second son, Lin Dahai, was not outstanding in the village. After all, in the past six months, Lin Dahai had been weaving bamboo baskets and selling radishes and cabbages, and now he was selling frozen foods with Lin Dajiang.
The third brother, Lin Dahe, bought one acre of high-quality land and one acre of low-quality land, which caused an uproar in the village.
Is it possible that being an accountant in town pays so well?
"We still have to let our children study. Look at how comfortable the third son of the Lin family is now. I heard that he didn't even pass the exam to become a student!"
"I feel like something is wrong. How did they buy the land when Lin Dahe hasn't come back yet? I'm afraid it wasn't the biased old lady Lin who bought it?"
"Oh, now that you mention it, I remember that when we were buying the land, I saw that Old Man Lin seemed to have rushed to the town. He came back with a long face, so it must be something bad."
"I heard that when the family was divided, the old couple gave the third son some of their property. Think about it."
"When the family was divided, each son was given one tael of silver. Now, he has to pay seven or eight taels to buy land. Wow, it really is true that the palms and backs of the hands are not the same."
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These words were overheard by Wang Chunxiu by accident.
She asked how she was so stingy that she only got one or two taels of silver, and it turned out that she had hidden it all.
It cost seven or eight taels to buy the land, so how much is left for the third brother?
It would have been fine if the brown sugar cakes were given to the third brother's family on normal days, but now money is pouring into the third brother's house.
My third brother and his wife are so lucky.
There are no brothers or sisters in the family, so the grocery store will be left to my younger siblings from now on.
The parents are partial to the third brother and leave all the good things to him. Does that mean the eldest and second oldest brothers are the unwanted grass on the wall?
My eldest brother and his family have assisted a wealthy businessman in their business and no one knows how much they can earn every day.
It is said that he bought five acres of top-quality land, which cost him twenty-five taels of silver. I'm afraid he doesn't think highly of his parents' money.
Wang Chunxiu became angrier and angrier the more she thought about it. No matter how much money her eldest brother's family made, she would definitely go to them to discuss the matter of her parents' favoritism.
Why should all the good things be given to the third brother?
Wang Chunxiu rushed to Lin Dajiang's house with great momentum.
The knocks on the door were so loud that it shook the sky.
Li Taohua's heart skipped a beat, feeling that something bad was going to happen.
"Sister-in-law, are you home?" Wang Chunxiu, who was outside the gate, shouted at the top of her voice when she saw that no one opened the door.
Li Taohua cursed at Lin Dajiang: "What is the second brother's wife up to again? She never stops."
As he said this, he hurriedly locked the good things in the kitchen into the cupboard, and then locked the utility room at home. Only after he saw that there was nothing shameful in the house and the yard did he leisurely open the door.
She yawned and complained while opening the door, "I finally got a good night's sleep, but that bastard..."
The door opened, and Li Taohua stopped talking in surprise: "...Oh, it's my second brother's wife."
"Sister-in-law." Wang Chunxiu secretly looked inside the moment Li Taohua opened the door.
My sister-in-law has kept the door open for so long, who knows what good things she might be hiding!
It's all snob stuff!
Wang Chunxiu cursed inwardly, and then exaggerated the matter of her mother buying land for her third brother.
"Sister-in-law, it's okay that my parents were partial to me before, but now that the family has been divided, it's even worse. Back then, our two families worked like oxen and horses to support the third brother's education, but before he could earn money for two years, the family split up. If we hadn't sold the land to support the third brother's education, each of our families would have been able to get four or five acres of land now. Why did we have to spend money to buy those inferior fields?"
Wang Chunxiu got angry when she thought about her family becoming penniless again after buying the land.
He blamed Old Lady Lin for hoarding the money, blamed Old Lady Lin for being partial to Lin Dahe, and blamed the family for selling the land to support Lin Dahe's studies.
If it weren't for those things, his family might have been able to go to school during the Spring Festival.
Her daughter Xiaoxue wouldn't sell herself and there has been no news from her yet.
Looking at all the things happening one by one, Wang Chunxiu wished she could rush over and ask her mother to hand over the silver she had hidden.
So he started crying and wailing in front of Li Taohua.
Lin Dajiang bought the land and came back to work, so Li Taohua didn't hear any gossip at all.
Based on her understanding of her mother and third brother, this money was 100% hidden by her mother.
I guess my third brother doesn’t even know about the existence of this money, otherwise why would he have waited until now?
I'm afraid my third brother has already coaxed mother into taking out the money.
My parents are getting more and more confused as they get older. Since they hid the silver, they should have used it secretly. As soon as they bought the land, the whole village knew about their hiding of the silver.
"Second brother's wife, you said that our parents hid the money to buy land for our third brother. Do you have any evidence? You rushed to confront our mother in a hurry. Our mother insisted that the money was given by our third brother. What can you do?"
Wang Chunxiu retorted, "The third brother doesn't have that much money as an accountant, unless the third brother admits that he didn't give all the money to Zhonggong in the past, he must have hidden the money and give it all up."
"The grocery store run by my third brother's wife can save a lot of money every year after spending money. If my third brother says that the money was given by his father-in-law to buy land, what do you plan to do?"
Seeing that her sister-in-law was at a loss for what to do, Wang Chunxiu instantly became as anxious as an ant on a hot pan.
Anyway, she won't let this matter go easily.
Without Xiaoxue, she had lost all her dignity.
No matter what, we must make this matter clear.
"Sister-in-law, your family doesn't have to worry about food and clothing now, so they don't care about this little money, but I, Wang Chunxiu, do care. If you don't go to find your parents, then I will!"
As he said this, he picked up a carrying pole from the corner of the yard and rushed out of the door before Li Taohua could react.
Li Taohua was so angry at Wang Chunxiu's sour words that she almost fell backwards.
What does it mean that she has no worries about food and clothing?
Everything she said was meant to remind Wang Chunxiu.
Don't just talk nonsense and end up being blamed by your mother!
When she realized that the only carrying pole in the house was taken away by Wang Chunxiu, she immediately ran after her and shouted after her: "Hey! Wang Chunxiu, what are you doing with my carrying pole!"
When people are angry, their potential is stimulated. Li Taohua watched Wang Chunxiu rush into the Lin family's old house with great momentum.
"Mom! Did you buy the land for the third brother?"
Old Mrs. Lin was already feeling guilty, and after being exposed, she was furious. The more guilty she felt, the more she wanted to refute: "How can an old woman like me have money? Didn't we give all our money to you ungrateful bastards?"
"Mom, you are my only friend, why do you only favor the third child? You give him so much, why didn't he come back to reunite with you on New Year's Eve?"
"You are a money-loser who only knows how to talk shit. You said that I gave money to the third brother to buy land. Which eye of yours saw it? It was clearly the old man who went to the town to ask the third brother for the money to buy the land!" Old Mrs. Lin cursed at the top of her voice, and she would not lose her momentum no matter what.
"I am already this old and I am still being wronged by my daughter-in-law. I will not live any longer!"
Old Mrs. Lin cried and screamed, and when Li Taohua arrived, she couldn't persuade her to stop.
"Mom, my second brother and his wife must have heard gossip and got upset, otherwise they wouldn't be like this." There is no way, the word "filial piety" is like a knife hanging over one's head, and one cannot say anything bad about the elders without evidence.
"Old lady, you've come just in time, please give us your opinion!" Seeing more and more people looking around, Old Lady Lin began to take advantage of her age and seniority. "I raised the great rivers and seas with my own hands, and now that you've married a wife, you want to upset me like this! You come here to criticize me with empty words, how can I live my life in the future? Where can I put my face?"
"Mom, please stop yelling. It was originally just a matter of gossip in the village. After you and my second brother and his wife made such a fuss, others thought you really bought land for my third brother."
Seeing that Old Lady Lin's expression had softened, Li Taohua continued, "Let's just let it go as we are children, but don't let the people in the town misunderstand Third Brother."
Once it came to Lin Dahe's future, Old Lady Lin listened a little more.
Unexpectedly, Dajiang's wife would help her.
Old Mrs. Lin was just half-believing when she heard Li Taohua say, "Mother, don't scholars care about reputation? Although my third brother doesn't need to continue taking the imperial examinations, being an accountant is a scholar's livelihood after all. If his reputation is not good and he loses his livelihood, it will be a loss. After all, our Lin family has someone in the town, and our whole family will benefit from it, right?"
When Old Mrs. Lin heard this, she realized it made perfect sense.
Daha has a livelihood in the town, isn't that a benefit to the whole family?
The eldest son’s wife is sensible. It’s true that things are different after doing business.
Old Mrs. Lin was relieved of much of the grudge in her heart.
"It would be great if the shrew in the second family was as sensible as you."
Old Lady Lin smiled at Li Taohua, then turned around and glared at Wang Chunxiu who was causing trouble: "You bastard, if you slander me again I will ask my second son to divorce you."
"Mom, don't argue with my second brother's wife." Li Taohua pretended to mediate the fight, but in fact she was thinking about how to get the old woman to tell the truth about the hidden silver.
"Mom, don't worry about my second brother and his wife. Just look at how many people gathered around our house to watch your shouting." Li Taohua said, "Mom, you'd better explain it to them clearly, otherwise the rumors about our family will spread all over Shanglin Village tomorrow."
"Oh, Taohua, what do you say we should do?" Old Mrs. Lin was most afraid of affecting the third child's future. This time she really felt regretful.
If I had listened to the old man, I wouldn’t have bought the land.
Oh, buying the land really caused me a lot of trouble.
Thinking of this, she glared at Wang Chunxiu with gritted teeth, wishing she could cut her into pieces.
"Mother, since the money for buying the land was given to you by my third brother, why don't you explain clearly where the money came from?" Li Taohua said with a smile, "Mother, the head of the village had already been informed of the purchase of the land, and my third brother must have known about it a long time ago. Did he bring you the money when he came back to the old house last time?"
After saying that, Li Taohua gave Old Lady Lin a look.
When Mrs. Lin heard this, she thought it made sense. "Yes, yes, that's what the third brother gave it to me last time."
After Mrs. Lin finished speaking, there was a commotion all around.
"Hey, didn't Mrs. Lin just say that it was Old Man Lin who asked for the silver today? When did he ask for it?"
"Oh, can't you see that Mrs. Lin's words don't match up, it's obvious that she's lying!"
"I think that money was secretly hidden by Mrs. Lin. If my mother is so partial, I won't support her when she gets old."
"Don't say that. If someone hears you, your spine will be broken."
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After all, Mrs. Lin was old and a little hard of hearing, and the scene was so noisy that she couldn't hear clearly what the people around her were saying.
She even looked smug, thinking that they were all criticizing Wang Chunxiu.
"Mom, my third brother is really amazing. He can save so much money." Li Taohua pretended to praise Lin Dahe sincerely, with envy on her face.
Old Lady Lin said, "How can a peasant like you compare with the Third Brother? He is a serious scholar."
Li Taohua spat in her heart three times.
Only my third brother, who failed the examination to become a scholar several times, is considered a serious scholar.
He's simply a leech sucking the blood of his brothers!
"Mom, how can I compare with my third brother? But it's strange that my third brother's rewards were all copper coins, but why did he give silver coins to my parents? I heard that the silver coins seemed to have been hidden for a long time, and the surface was black."
Mrs. Lin was panicked for a moment, but soon calmed down: "The money was given by the third son's father-in-law."
"I really envy my third brother that his father-in-law can give him money!" Li Taohua praised unintentionally, causing the onlookers to sneer.
"This Li Taohua is also confused. She actually believed what Mrs. Lin said."
"That's right. If you ask me, this Mrs. Lin is inconsistent. One moment she said that it was Old Man Lin who asked for the money, the next moment she said that it was Lin Dahe who gave it to her when he came back last time. Later she said that Lin Dahe was paid well as an accountant. When someone else said something was not right about the money, she changed her story and said that it was Lin Dahe's father-in-law who gave it to him. Hey... do you have such a good father-in-law?"
Everyone shook their heads: "...No."
"If Third Brother Lin had such a good father-in-law, wouldn't Mrs. Lin have been bragging about it a long time ago? Last time, when First Brother Lin adopted Young Master Gu as his adopted son, Mrs. Lin bragged about it for several months."
"Yeah yeah!"
"Mrs. Lin wants to lie, but she doesn't even know how to find a better excuse!"
"Mrs. Lin is not trying to find a good excuse. She is just used to being partial and treats her other two sons as fools! It is unfortunate for the great rivers and lakes to have such a partial mother."
"If you ask me, the family has been divided. Mrs. Lin can give the silver to whoever she wants."
As soon as these words came out, they were harshly retorted by several wives who were watching the show.
"Why? That was hidden silver. At the beginning, Mrs. Lin asked her sons for one tael of silver a year as a tribute. It is said that she also asked the eldest and second sons to provide food."
"That's right, one tael of silver! Which family in Shanglin Village gave one tael of silver to their parents after dividing the family property?"