"Litian, you are the elder brother. Your eldest brother is gone, and you two are the only two brothers in the family. The family is divided, and you are almost a grandfather. What is there to argue about?"
An old man with a gray beard held Gu Litian's sign language and earnestly persuaded him. His surname was He. He was over 10 years old, but he was still in good health and could walk and eat. Many younger people in the village called him He Sanzu.
Even the Gu Litian brothers have to call them grandpa.
"There is also profit and wealth. I know that you are not evil-minded, but you are too petty. Your son-in-law is a scholar. Why do you envy Li Tian and his son-in-law? In the future, when your son-in-law is admitted and becomes a high official, how can you two brothers live together? Isn’t it better to get better?”
He Sanzu is old, but his mind is still bright.
I just don't know if he is too old to talk in a roundabout way, but his words are too straightforward, which directly hits Gu Licai's vital point.
To put it bluntly, he was just jealous that Xu Ling was too good to the Gu Litian family. Then he saw that his daughter married a scholar, but he did not help the family at all.
The Zhao family worked hard to raise a Zhao Zhen, so how could they have any spare money to support their in-laws?
He didn't openly ask his in-laws to supplement Zhao Zhen a little, all because he knew that Gu Licai was stingy and wouldn't bear to take any money from outside.
Otherwise, why would Gu Litian be so angry that he wanted to separate the family just because he took some things from the second house to support his son-in-law?
Gu Licai was still angry, but he couldn't get angry in front of He Sanzu. He turned his head angrily and refused to look or listen.
Gu Litian said: "Grandpa He, I know all what you said, but I have done what a brother should do, what about making money? I have been a brother for so many years, and I know who he is. When my daughter got married, he If it had been better-looking, we wouldn't be in this mess!"
Gu Litian is a good old man. He has no second thoughts about his family members and treats them with all his heart.
But no matter how good a person is, there will be times when his energy is exhausted.
He felt extremely uncomfortable when he thought of Gu Licai showing off in front of him and saying that Gu Tao had not married well and would be miserable for the rest of his life.
That's his daughter, isn't she also Gu Licai's niece?
Gu Yao married well, and Gu Licai found a scholar as his son-in-law.
This was a good thing, and Gu Litian was also happy for his brother.
But it was also true that his daughter did not marry well, and he felt uncomfortable! What words of comfort can Gu Cai say without asking for profit, even if he doesn't say a word?
But Gu Licai did not do any of these things, and even made trouble to break up the family with him. During the separation, he said all kinds of unpleasant things, saying inside and outside that the person Gu Tao married would be a drag on the whole family.
Now that Xu Ling has gotten better, he feels happy for his daughter. If Gu Licai can also say a few nice words, the two brothers will at least be able to live with their dignity.
But Gu Licai just wanted to hurt his heart!
Gu Litian thought about this, and the more he thought about it, the more sad he became. He was so old, but he cried in public. He was just such a brother! How come it's like this?
Two pieces of flesh fell off a mother's body. Gu Licai slept with him in the same bed when he was a child. The little one hugged him and called him brother. He would buy sweets for him in the future. How did he become like this when he grew up?
On this side, Gu Litian felt so sad that he cried, but on the other side, Gu Licai became even more angry.
Pointing at the second brother, his hands were trembling: "You husbands and sons-in-law are always pretending to be pitiful! Don't you just look down on my daughter and don't know how to support her parents' family when she gets married? Just wait, the good days are yet to come! Wait! In the future, when Zhao Zhen is admitted to the imperial examination, you will regret it sometimes!"
"Xiao Zhu! Get the things and let's go back!"
Gu Licai asked his son to carry the wheat on his back, carry the basket, and angrily left under the banyan tree.
Gu Litian was speechless, realizing that the words he said not only failed to arouse his brother's reflection, but also made him misunderstand him even more, making him feel even more sad and confused, to the point where he couldn't even cry anymore.
Xu Ling shook his head, thinking to himself that it was no wonder that Gu Yao, as the heroine of the original book, could behave in such a very understandable way. It turns out that this whole family is stupid and bad!
The villagers gathered together to watch the excitement. Xu Ling noticed that Zhao Zhen's cousin and daughter-in-law were also in the crowd, and their expressions were extremely ugly.
This quarrel was obviously about the Xu and Gu families, but it involved the Zhao family, who had done nothing.
The villagers were still discussing in low voices after Gu Licai left.
"Speaking of which, it's no wonder that Li Cai feels uncomfortable. His brother's son-in-law is so good, but his own son-in-law is like no one at all. Who can bear this!"
"You can't say that. Hasn't Zhao Zhen not yet passed the examination? When he passes the examination, Gu Laosan's family will be different!"
"Yes, I don't know how he will show off when the time comes. He was admitted as a scholar, but the benefits were not given to him!"
"But the Zhao family is really stingy..."
After hearing these words, Feng Jinhua stopped picking beans and carried the dustpan home with a gloating smile on her face.
The Zhao family has a prosperous family, and Grandpa Zhao Zhen has four sons and two daughters. The two daughters are not married to the village. Among the four sons, the eldest works as a bookkeeper in the town and marries the shopkeeper's daughter, so he has settled in the town.
The second and third children farmed at home, the third was Feng Jinhua's father, and the fourth was Zhao Zhen's father.
Among them, Feng Jinhua's man, Zhao Xue, was about the same age as Zhao Zhen. At first, Zhao Zhen was allowed to study, but Zhao Xue was allowed to work in the fields.
Feng Jinhua also coveted the Zhao family's educated talents to marry into the Zhao family. She thought that in the future, Zhao Zhen would become enlightened, and the family's chickens and dogs would ascend to heaven, and they would all live a good life.
Who knows that after getting married, you will know what unfairness is.
The eggs laid by the chickens and ducks at home are not only eaten by Zhao Zhen, but also kept to make money. Except for the big house in the town, which has more freedom, the family can't save any money for a private house with two or three bedrooms.
Zhao Zhen's grandfather, Zhao Tiegen, came out to cultivate a scholar. He was already sixty years old. He held the whole family in the palm of his hand and could count every egg in the house. He couldn't waste any time saving money for Zhao Zhen to study.
They all worked for Zhao Zhen.
Feng Jinhua only realized it after marrying in, but it was already too late to regret. Originally, she thought that her man's life was not as good as Zhao Zhen's, so her son would be able to study in the future.
Who knew that after Zhao Zhen married his wife, the child had not yet been born and he did not even know whether it was a boy or a girl. Mr. Zhao said that Zhao Zhen's child must be smart and would be good at studying in the future.
I can't express the popularity of the second and third bedrooms, and I don't know how uncomfortable it is to hold it in my heart.
Not to mention that Gu Yao, a naturally foxy girl, seduced Zhao Zhen to focus on her and specifically asked her mother not to ask Gu Yao to work. Feng Jinhua couldn't stand it and asked Gu Yao to wash the dishes, so she threw the dishes and pretended to cry. He looked like begging Zhao Zhen for mercy.
It's so alive that it makes people sick!
There was only one thing that Feng Jinhua thought was fair, and that was that Mr. Zhao was stingy with all his daughters-in-law and grandsons' natal families, and he showed no preference for anyone, not even Zhao Zhen's in-laws.
Who knew that if you choose a bean today, you could be pointed at and scolded by the Zhao family for being stingy.
You know, in order to pave the way for Zhao Zhen, Zhao Tiegen deliberately restricted his family members from doing this and that. It was an innocent family for scholars.
If he knew that Gu Yao's mother's family had caused the village to say that Zhao Zhen's family was stingy, what fun would there be?
