In the book, I was fed by my sister

As the night quietly fell, Li Yu'e and her sisters were busy setting the table. As they had a large family, they had to sit closely together every time they ate, and two tables could barely accommodate everyone.

Her grandfather, Li Kun, was in charge of the land and wielded a whip. He could both discipline his son and control the cattle.

Her grandmother, Du Chunmiao, is in charge of the household, manages her daughter-in-law, scolds her granddaughter, and kisses her grandson.

Her father's name is Li Shunshan. He is a taciturn person and doesn't like to talk much. He is not as eloquent as his two uncles who make people happy.

In contrast, her mother Zhou Qinghong was a talkative woman, but she was suppressed by her grandmother. At most, she could quarrel with the eldest and second aunts. She had no chance to make suggestions on any major or minor matters in the family, and she often had no decision-making power even on their own family affairs.

Whenever my mother got angry with my grandmother, she would go back to her room and pinch my father's soft flesh. But my father still said nothing and endured it stubbornly.

Their little family has three children. Oh no, mom is pregnant again, and it will be four soon.

Her father has two brothers who also have a lot of children.

They have really big family members.

Although there were a lot of people, everyone sat quietly during the meal, looking quietly at the grandfather who was sitting in the main seat.

Until grandpa starts eating, no one else is allowed to start eating.

This is the dining rule set by Grandpa. In addition to waiting for the elders to start eating, you can't grab the slop like a pig when eating. In Grandpa's words, there is no order without rules. She thinks Grandpa is right. At least when eating in the village, she didn't hear crickets from behind her.

After finishing the meal quietly, it was the uncle's child's turn to clean up the dishes, but grandfather stopped him and said, "Don't clean up yet. Sit down. I have something to tell you."

Grandpa lit up his pipe as he spoke.

As soon as Yu'e saw this scene, she knew that Grandpa was going to tell her something important. Thinking of what Grandpa had said to her during the day, her heart began to beat fast.

"What's wrong with Dad?" As the eldest son in the family, Li Shuncai couldn't help but feel puzzled. He thought that he had not done anything wrong recently, so he was the first to ask.

Li Kun looked at the family in the room, and after a moment of silence, he slowly said, "I want to send a child to school."

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole room fell silent.

Everyone looked at each other with expressions of surprise and confusion on their faces.

His father is crazy, this is what his sons think.

A baby? Whose family? We can’t let the other two families take advantage of it! This is what the wives thought.

Even Du Chunmiao was stunned. She opened her mouth wide, and it took a long time for her to come back to her senses. She couldn't help but say, "You are drinking cold water and picking your teeth. You can't find anything to do."

Li Shuncai laughed when he heard his mother's words, "Dad, our family doesn't have the money to send our children to a private school. We should fertilize the land and grow good crops."

The second daughter-in-law, Zhang Xinghui, also said quickly: "Brother is right. Although my daughter Yushui is smart, if she wants to study, we don't have a strong family background, so how can we afford it?"

Zhou Qinghong rolled her eyes. At this time, her second sister-in-law did not forget to speak well of her son in front of her father. That idiot in her family could burn his feet when he made fire...

The second son, Li Shunyou, also said, "Brother is right. The tuition fee is two taels of silver. Add in the writing brush, ink, paper and inkstone, and it will cost a lot of money. Unless we sell the three cows, where can we get so much money?"

Both brothers expressed their opinions, but the third brother Li Shunshan remained silent.

Li Kun glanced at his youngest son and asked, "Third son, what do you think?"

Zhou Qinghong was so angry when she saw Li Shunshan sulking like that that she reached under the table and twisted Li Shunshan's thigh.

Li Shunshan then said: "My two brothers are right."

Yu'e saw all the little actions of her parents and sighed in her heart: Where are my dear parents...

Li Kun looked at his three sons and felt depressed. He couldn't understand why none of his sons followed his personality. "If I were you, would our family be in such a good situation now? Farming depends on the weather, and we don't think about other ways to make a living. Maybe our whole family would have died in the year of the drought."

Li Shunyou looked at his father, who was full of anger. He understood his father's thoughts. But now the family had not been divided, and the other two families benefited from the merger.

He was now thinking about dividing the family property, although at first, his wife was annoying him because she kept nagging him. After listening to her for a long time, he began to feel unbalanced. His son had the most children, did the most work, and was taken advantage of in every way.

Although there is a saying in the village that the family will not be divided until the elderly die, generally, when the grandchildren grow up, they will have to live separately. Even if the family is not divided, the property should be divided.

After the property was divided, everyone plowed their own land, and at worst, they could give part of the harvest to their father.

The court stipulated that every year during the slack season, one adult male in the family must serve as corvée. Now their family takes turns. His two sons, the oldest is seventeen and the second is sixteen this year. If they are required to serve corvée in the next two years, it will be their turn.

He thought that after the separation, the corvée labor would be performed according to the family. His son had not yet married, so what would he do if he fell ill at such a young age?

Li Shuncai looked at his two younger brothers without saying anything and said, "Dad has already figured out other ways, hasn't he? Now our cows are used to transport people and deliver goods. People are lining up to borrow them from us for spring ploughing..."

"You're useless!" Li Kun slammed his pipe hard on the table.

"I was allocated 15 mu of land, and managed to expand it to more than 60 mu. Later, I started raising donkeys, selling donkeys for cows, and the cows gave birth to calves. All of these were my ideas! But what about you? You just want to guard my land and live with my cows! You hit me wherever I point you! I gave birth to three scabby babies! They move when you poke them!"

"When I die, you three brothers should divide up the family property. You are guarding those twenty acres of land without making any progress. You can divide it among your sons, and by the time my great-grandchildren are born, there will be no descendants at all!"

Li Kun's question was thought-provoking.

The three Li Shuncai brothers looked at each other, then lowered their heads in silence.

The three daughters-in-law looked at their angry father and their husbands who remained silent, and they knew in their hearts that their father had made up his mind.

This father has made up his mind, so it is not a discussion...

They all heard that their father would only send one child to school, and if it was one, it must be her son!

Wu Daqiao sighed, about to cry, "My son Yuxing was drafted into the army before he even got married. He is already 21 this year. The last time he sent a letter back, he asked about his two younger brothers. Now there is no news. If he comes back and sees that his two younger brothers have made progress, it would be worth his efforts for our family."

The remaining two sisters-in-law looked at each other: the eldest sister-in-law is using this trick again, every time she brings up the matter of Yuxing joining the army, Dad's heart always leans towards the first wife.

"Instead of sending my grandson, I plan to send my granddaughter."

"What?"