Siheyuan: He Yuzhu since 1958

The moment the door closed, Wang Simei came back to her senses and was about to act up again. Niu Baitian appeared beside Wang Simei, grabbed her and shouted, "Aren't you ashamed enough? Come back with me!"

Wang Simei said, "If you want to go back, go back! I must ask her for an explanation!"

Niu Baitian looked around and said, "You want an explanation?! What explanation do you want?! If it weren't for your mother-in-law and daughter-in-law's family being greedy, would they have caused something like this today?!"

Now is the new society. Although the clan leader has been removed from the village, he still exists in secret. As soon as Wang Simei left with her three sons and daughter-in-law, Niu Gu, the head of the Niu clan, found Niu Baitian with several clan elders. They scolded Niu Baitian severely and asked him to return the grain or money to Niu Guihua as soon as possible.

It turned out that before Lv Shunyi and Cui Juan went to Sijiu City, Lv Shunyi closed the door and had a good chat with Lv Guoliang for an afternoon. After all, the old ones are the best. Lv Shunyi had calculated Niu Baitian's family very well. Knowing that there was not enough food, they would definitely come to the door. So Lv Shunyi asked Lv Guoliang not only to guard his own family, but also to be generous. The patriarchs and elders of the Niu and Cui families could give them some food appropriately. Or if they were short of something, if they knew, they could send some over. In any case, sending charcoal in the snow is better than adding icing on the cake.

Although Wang Simei was unwilling, she had no choice but to follow him home after seeing the murderous expression on her man's face. The three Niu Baisui brothers saw this and knew that there was no hope, so they could only follow him home.

After Niu Baitian and his family left, Niu Dapao showed a strange expression on his face and said, "Is this the end?!"

Cui Qinghai asked back: "What else do you want?!"

Niu Dapao said: "This doesn't seem like Niu Baitian's style?!"

Cui Qinghai said: "Have you forgotten where Hu Tou went after dark during this period of time?!"

Niu Dapao took a deep breath and said, "You mean, the clan leader and the others took action?!"

Cui Qinghai said: "If you want to blame someone, blame the Niu Baitian family for their ugly eating habits. Who can stand it when they are staring at someone and plucking him?! If it were someone else, they would have turned hostile long ago. I just don't know how much the Niu Baitian family can spit out this time."

After returning home, Niu Baitian walked directly into the main room. After sitting down, he pulled out the dry pipe stuck on his waist, put some broken tobacco leaves into the pipe, lit it and took two puffs. He looked at his wife, son and daughter-in-law and asked, "Old lady, how much money do we have left?!"

Wang Simei's face changed and she asked, "Boss, why am I asking this?!"

Niu Qiansui interrupted: "Yes! Dad, why are you asking about money?!"

Niu Baitian shouted, "I'm not dead yet! I don't need you to tell me what to do!"

Wang Simei replied: "There is still 386 yuan in the house."

Niu Baitian thought about it, looked at his three sons, and said, "I know you three have some money. I don't want more from you! I know how much food you sent to your mother-in-law's house. After deducting the money for ten kilograms of coarse grains, you can calculate the rest by yourselves and give the money to your mother!"

"Why?!" Zhang Xiu'er, the wife of Niu Wansui, the third son of the Niu family, couldn't help but jump out and ask.

Niu Baitian said coldly: "You took the food from home without your mother's or my consent! Taking without asking is stealing! I'm old enough to let go of everything. You are shameless, what can I say?! Go back and count the money, and send it to me tomorrow morning."

The three sons and daughters-in-law stared at Niu Baitian reluctantly for a while, and seeing that Niu Baitian remained indifferent, the six people had no choice but to say hello and leave the hall.

After her son and his wife left, Wang Simei burst into tears: "I can't live like this anymore! Damn Niu Guihua! How could I give birth to such a heartless person?!"

"Alright!" Niu Baitian roared, "Isn't it because your family is so greedy?! This month alone, I have accompanied you to deliver food twice?! What?! Your family has no hands or feet, and they can't live without you?! How did they treat you back then, have you forgotten?!"

Wang Simei said: "They say that even if you break bones, they still connect the tendons. I'm not like that heartless girl Niu Guihua!"

Niu Baitian said, "What did you say to Guihua when she got married? You haven't forgotten it, have you? As her father, I remember it clearly. A daughter who is married off is like water spilled. You said that. What? You want to take back the water you spilled now?!" After a slight pause, Niu Baitian continued, "After this matter is over, if you still want to go back to your parents' home, don't come back. Let's go to the commune to get a divorce!"

When Wang Simei heard the word "divorce", she was scared! Wang Simei hesitated for a few seconds and asked cautiously: "Boss, do you really want to pay?!"

Niu Baitian replied: "What else can we do if we don't pay? The tribe leader and elders have come here. If we don't pay back the grain or the money, we will have the village give us a letter of introduction to let us leave the village and live somewhere else."

To put it nicely, it means they should go live somewhere else. To put it bluntly, it means they should be driven out of the village. Niu Baitian still knows the principle of "choose the lesser of two evils". Besides, it's not that the family has no money, it's just that they have always let their wife do what she wants and never take care of things.

Wang Simei then asked: "Boss, should we give all the money or half of the money and grain?!"

Niu Baitian said, "Give us all the money. We'll keep the grain. Besides, the children are all grown up now. It's time to divide the family. Deduct the grain that our daughter gave us as a gift. The remaining amount will be divided into four parts. We can still work now, so we won't live with the children. In the future, let each of them give us two hundred work points each year. We can deal with the rest when we can't work anymore. The house they live in now can be built with a wall."

Wang Simei sighed and said, "Will the eldest brother and his family agree to split up the family?!"

Niu Baitian replied: "You have to be willing even if you don't want to. After I return the money to my daughter tomorrow, I will call the clan leader, village chief and party secretary to be witnesses."

Niu Baisui returned to the house and lay down on the kang. Niu Baisui's wife took out the key, opened the kang cabinet, took out a box from under the clothes, opened it and counted the money, and said, "Master, this is the only money we have saved in the past few years. Our son and daughter are both of marriageable age."

Niu Baisui said, "I have just calculated. We took 30 kilograms of coarse grains and 20 kilograms of fine grains from your mother's house. Coarse grains cost 70 cents, which is 21 yuan; fine grains cost 1.5 yuan, which is 30 yuan. A total of 51 yuan. The second and third sons took a lot from their mother's houses. Especially the third son, most of what he took was fine grains. They have to bear the consequences this time."

After hearing what Niu Baisui said, his wife couldn't help laughing and said, "It really fits that saying. Don't think you are having fun today, you will be on the list in the future."

Just as Niu Baisui guessed, the third son, Niu Wansui, and his wife had just returned to their room. Before they could close the door, Zhang Xiuer couldn't help but start cursing. She cursed at everything that sounded bad. After cursing for more than half an hour, Zhang Xiuer probably got tired and stopped. Niu Wansui asked, "How much money do we have?!"

Zhang Xiuer asked: "Do you really want to hand over the money?!"

Niu Wansui asked back: "Is there any other way? Will your mother's family return the food we took?!"