Traveling through books in the 70s: The group favors the Wang family’s little koi carp

"Didn't you hear what I said? Isn't it embarrassing to be so old in front of children?!"

After he finished speaking, when the scene became quiet, he pressed his temples twice and looked at Old Shen: "Brother Shen, everyone is dead now. Let's not make things too ugly. How many people are there in your Shen family?" I, an outsider, don’t know about my family background.”

He pointed at Uncle Cai: "But your in-laws are well-connected at heart. According to Jin Yatou, most of the family's wealth was earned by Jiangzi. As elders, we can't be too biased."

Being accused so bluntly by the village party secretary of being partial, Old Shen's face burned for a moment. After a while, he pointed to the chest of drawers in the room with his hand tremblingly: "I'll let everyone see the joke... I, I'm old and have a bad memory. , Boss, go to the bottom of the cabinet over there..."

……

A box of money was dumped directly on the kang. Aunt Cai was quick-sighted and could roughly estimate the total amount of these bits and pieces at a glance.

"Why just this?"

Old Shen waved his hand weakly: "All the money is here, five hundred, plus the previous two hundred, a total of 700 yuan."

Despite everyone's suspicious looks, Old Shen took out a notebook from nowhere: "All the family's expenses, large and small, are recorded here over the years. Jiangzi is promising, but... his three brothers are just digging in the fields. I don’t have much ability when it comes to food, and there is such a big family that has to open their mouths to eat.”

After hearing his own father say that he was incompetent, Shen Dahai pursed his lips tightly.

Aunt Cai was almost furious: "You mean Jiangzi can support your whole family by himself? Your useless sons are not idle all year round. Why, in the end, not only is there not enough food for them to eat, they are so busy. Do you have to turn around and eat from Jiangzi?"

Some men outside whose eyes were red with jealousy shouted in agreement: "Old Shen, that's nearly 5000 yuan, not just five yuan. No matter how good your family's life is, they eat big fat meat every day. No matter how hard we try, we can't make enough money!"

"Yes, he must still be hiding his family wealth... He even squandered the money his old son gave his life for! Damn it, he's not afraid of thunder!"

Shen Jin didn't expect that this was all the money left, and it didn't look like Old Shen was lying.

"Sir, that's all the money my father worked hard to earn. What did you spend on it? Our fourth bedroom has the right to know, right?"

Old Man Shen looked deeply at his granddaughter who was particularly difficult to deal with today with his cloudy old eyes. Under the different gazes of everyone, he slowly said: "That money... half of it was used to build these five large tile houses the year before last." , the expenses for several children’s education plus Nian Nian’s dowry will also be used up.”

Shen Niannian is the biological daughter of Mrs. Cai. Mrs. Cai has only had one son and one daughter in her life. It is not an exaggeration to say that she treated the two children like eyeballs. When Shen Niannian got married and moved to the city, Mrs. Cai was afraid that her daughter would be looked down upon. She desperately wanted to make trouble for Old Man Shen to give her a dowry.

Indeed, Old Shen took out fifty at that time, which was the first time in eight villages in ten miles.

Old Shen opened the notebook and continued: "There is also a large family that spends a lot on food and clothing."

Anyway, he has almost lost his face today. Old Shen is now more calm than before when talking about how his family spent the money sent back by Shen Jiang.

Uncle Cai's chest heaved with anger, and when Old Shen wasn't paying attention, he grabbed the notebook in his hand and said, "Girl Jin, if you have been to elementary school, you can read it to your uncle, so that you can save us the trouble of having to pick and choose! "