Beautiful Peasant Girl: The Young Marquis's Beloved

After discussing the matter, they talked about other things. Chang Yifei asked her to pay attention to Liu Dongcheng's family. Then he took his contract, said goodbye to Liu Xu, and left.

But before leaving, he also took away most of the braised meat...

After seeing off Chang Yifei and Qingfeng, Liu Xu returned to the yard to find Liu Dashan.

She knew in her heart that Liu Dashan must have something important to tell them today, otherwise he would not have had that expression on his face when he came.

Having someone take the two little ones away, Liu Xu sat down next to Liu Dashan and asked with concern:

"Grandpa, tell me, what happened?"

Liu Dashan looked at her and sighed: "Let your mother come out and listen!"

Liu Xu's heart skipped a beat. What happened? Her mother had to be here. But she finally told Qiao Yun to invite Xu Ruolan.

Xu Ruolan came out soon and looked at Liu Xu in confusion. Liu Xu shook her head to indicate that she didn't know. She had no choice but to sit down with a lot of questions in her mind. "Dad, what's wrong?"

Liu Dashan looked at the two of them, lowered his head and was silent for a moment, then said with a bitter face: "Second brother's family, Xu girl, I want to separate the eldest brother and his family."

Xu Ruolan and Liu Xu looked at each other in surprise. What had the eldest wife done again?

"Grandpa, what happened? Why did you suddenly..."

With a painful look on his face, Liu Dashan told the story of how Chen Shuman and her daughter instigated Mrs. Zhang to cause trouble today.

"Your grandma is a stupid person and can't stand being provoked by others. Chen is not a person who will keep quiet. If she continues to stir things up like this, Grandpa always feels that something irreversible will happen."

Liu Xu: Your intuition is really accurate. She just heard from Chang Yifei that Liu Dongcheng's father-in-law has sent people to deal with her more than once, trying to pry the mushroom growing recipe out of her mouth, but was dealt with by Chang Yifei's people. However, the owner of Bazhenlou seems to have contacted someone recently. How powerful can a wealthy family in a town be? The Chang family is not afraid. But Liu Xu is in the village, and most of the people here are her relatives. If they miss something and Liu Xu is not prepared, it will be bad if the other party uses some despicable means. But she can't tell Liu Dashan these words.

"But she is Cheng Ming's mother after all. Your uncle also has her in his heart. Cheng Ming will have to take the imperial examination in the future, so I can't divorce her. I can only separate them. Out of sight, out of mind. And she won't be making trouble at home all day."

Liu Dashan said helplessly.

"But, Grandpa, where can you divide them? If you just separate the family but not the house, won't they still live together? You can't always be with grandma, so you can't stop her from doing bad things, right?" Liu Xu shrugged.

"So, so grandpa wants to beg you, can you... can you lend the old house to me and your grandma to live in? After your grandma and I pass away, the old house will still be yours, okay?" Liu Dashan looked at Liu Xu and her mother with some embarrassment and expectation.

This was the best solution he could think of, but he felt a little sorry for the second son's family. He had only given them three-tenths of the money in the hope of providing for the eldest son in his old age, but now he wanted to...

Liu Xu looked at her mother, and Xu Ruolan thought about it and nodded. If letting them live in the old house could avoid some of the calculations of the eldest family, she thought it was fine.

But Liu Xu thought more. Since the old couple lived in the old house, they were relying on the second house, so they couldn't afford to give the first house so cheaply. So she said:

"Grandpa, you can live in the old house, and I can even have it renovated, but I have a request."

"Xu girl, tell me!" Liu Dashan said anxiously.

"Grandpa, you only gave us three plots of land because they wanted to support you in your old age. Now that they want to divide it, you can't give them the other two plots. You can keep it in your own name. When you are old, you can give it to whoever you want. If you don't want to farm it, you can rent it out, just like we do, and just collect rent." Liu Xu looked at the old man and saw that there was no change in his expression, and then said:

"Also, I have grown mushrooms in the old house. Before the house is renovated, no one from their family can go in. After the renovation, I will move the mushrooms to the backyard, and I will naturally not stop them. As for the mushrooms, I will have someone come to take care of them. If you want to eat them, you can tell the servants, but you can't give them to others."

After Liu Xu finished speaking, she looked at Liu Dashan steadily.

Liu Dashan agreed without hesitation: "Okay, I can do all of this. As for the two acres of land, I will give them to you directly. In the future, your two families will each send 20 kilograms of food every month, plus the pension, it will be enough for us two old people to live, okay?"

Seeing the old man like this, Liu Xu felt a little sad and nodded heavily. Alas, this is all the fault of the first wife.

Liu Dashan looked at Xu Ruolan again, and Xu Ruolan agreed without hesitation.

"Dad, we agree."

Liu Dashan smiled with relief. After finishing his talk and the two kids fell asleep again, Liu Dashan prepared to go back.

Liu Xu asked Granny Fang to prepare a large bowl of braised meat for him. There was also broth in the kitchen, so she asked Granny Fang to scald some mutton and other ingredients before asking Liu Ming to take him back.

After Liu Dashan left, the mother and daughter returned to the main room. The two children lay on the kang and slept soundly.

The mother and daughter looked at each other and sighed.

"Mom, do you think Chen Shuman is just idle? We had nothing over there at the beginning, but she was restless every day. Now that we have separated, she is still looking for trouble!" Liu Xu was really confused. It was understandable that she was worried about her family now, but she had been making a lot of trouble before.

Xu Ruolan shook her head, indicating that she didn't know either.

The two of them didn't dwell on it too much. Liu Xu told Xu Ruolan what she had talked about with Chang Yifei in the study before.

"You can make the decision on these matters. I trust you! Now I can rest assured and stay at home with your brother and the others."

Xu Ruolan touched her daughter's head and said gently.

"Yes, mom, you just need to be beautiful, and I will be responsible for making money to support the family!" Liu Xu said playfully.

Xu Ruolan chuckled when she heard that and tapped her forehead.

"By the way, mother, Third Brother Chang asked me to pay attention to the eldest family. If you go out in the future, you must bring He Feng and He Lei with you." Liu Xu looked at Xu Ruolan and said seriously.

"What about you? Why don't you let He Lei stay with you? Mom hardly goes out. If something happens, I can just call other people." Compared to herself, her daughter is in more danger.

"Well, wait a few days, I'll ask Third Brother Chang to help me find a few skilled maids, so that we can hide our tracks and it will be easier to do things." He Feng and He Lei are men after all, so there are many inconveniences.

Xu Ruolan nodded.

But they didn't expect that some things didn't develop as they expected.

Of course, this is something.

On the other side, Liu Ming sent Liu Dashan back home and still watched him enter the yard before turning around and leaving.

Liu Dashan happily returned to the house with the food prepared by his lovely granddaughter.

Inside the room, Old Lady Zhang was quietly taping the soles of her shoes. She no longer looked that arrogant and domineering, and she seemed to look better.

Hearing footsteps, Zhang looked up at the door and saw Liu Dashan walking in with two bowls in his hands and a smile on his face.

"Old woman, come quickly. Your little granddaughter prepared food for you. It's not available outside. I've tasted it and it's delicious." As Liu Dashan approached, the aroma from the bowl hit her face. Zhang's stomach couldn't help but make a rumbling sound, and her old face turned red with the smell.

After Liu Dashan left, she stayed in the house and did not go out. Chen Shuman and the others neither brought her food nor called her to eat, so she is still hungry.

"Old woman, you...they..." After all, they had been together for decades, and Liu Dashan still had Zhang in his heart, otherwise he would not have let her act so wildly for half his life.

He was angry and anxious. He quickly picked up the chopsticks and asked Zhang to eat quickly. He became more determined to separate from the first wife.

Zhang took the bowl and chopsticks and ate quietly, but as she was eating, she began to cry softly.

She had been domineering and partial for half her life, but in the end, her partial children and grandchildren were not even given a bite to eat. In the end, it was her little granddaughter, whom she disliked, who prepared food for her.

Liu Dashan sighed and said nothing. He just patted his old wife's back gently to comfort her.

After Zhang finished her bowl of mutton soup, he put the bowl aside and sat down facing Zhang.

"Old lady, I have decided to separate the eldest brother's family. From now on, it will just be the two of us living here!" Liu Dashan said softly to his old wife.

Seeing Zhang looking at him in surprise, he patted her hands and continued:

"Mrs. Chen is not a good person. I have a feeling that if things continue like this, something irreversible will happen in the family. I went to talk to Miss Xu and the second brother's family today. After the family is divided, we will move to the old house and leave this house to the eldest brother."

"At first, because the eldest brother had to take care of himself in his old age, we only gave the second brother three acres of land. Later, we divided it again, with each brother getting half. From now on, they will each send us 20 kilograms of food every month. Together with the pension money, it is enough for the two of us to live on."

Zhang looked at Liu Dashan blankly: "But, but does that girl agree?"

She almost killed Liu Xu.

"Xu girl agreed, but there are conditions." Upon hearing this, Zhang had an expression that said, "I knew it."

"Xu said that we can live there, and she will renovate the old house later, but before the renovation, we can't let the eldest brother and his family move in because she grows mushrooms in it. As for after the renovation, she will move the mushrooms to the backyard, and then someone will watch over it, so they won't be stopped."

Seeing some shock on Zhang's face, she seemed to be asking, when did that girl become so kind.

"Xu also said that we can eat the mushrooms at home as much as we want and ask the servants to pick them for us. But we can't give them to others."

After Liu Dashan finished speaking, he looked at his wife's face in disbelief and sighed:

"Old woman, although that girl has a strong temper, she is a good person. You will slowly discover it in the future. Besides, isn't this strong temper inherited from you?" Liu Dashan looked at her mischievously.

Liu Xu: Thank you, old man. How am I like her? (Author: In terms of looks, she is your grandmother!)

Zhang felt a little embarrassed, and then said hesitantly: "Well, then let's divide it."

In the big house not far away, Chen Shuman and her daughter didn't know that Liu Dashan was going to separate from them. The mother and daughter were still cursing in the house, saying that Zhang was useless, and that Liu Dashan was flattering Liu Xu's family because they were rich. They also cursed Liu Xu's family. In short, they didn't have a good word to say.

Liu Chengcai looked at his mother and sister with fear and confusion. The little boy didn't quite understand why his mother and sister scolded his grandparents when they loved him so much.

Liu Dashan was a straightforward man. Early the next morning, he asked someone to go to the town to bring a letter to Liu Dongcheng and his son, asking them to come back immediately.

At the same time, he went to see the village chief Liu Dahai and told him about the division of the family.

Liu Dahai was very surprised when he heard this, but seeing that he was unwilling to say more, he did not ask any more questions and only said that he would be there in the afternoon.