The winter in the north is biting cold. It was just November, and two snowfalls were already falling. The snow was thick on the ground. One step was a footprint, and even a thin layer of ice was formed on the lake.

Ji Wan sat on the kang, staring at the earthen walls, dazed.

"You prodigal hoof, you only eat idle food and don't do things, and you still have the face to lie down here. Get up and wash your clothes quickly."

Suddenly, a sharp curse sounded, and he lifted the thin and hard quilt, pulled Ji Wan's hair and pulled her to the ground.

"Mom, Awan is still ill..."

Bang-

A crisp slap in Zhou's face, knocking her to the ground, followed by a sharper scolding.

"Shut up! Do you think you are a daughter? Bah, Sangmen Star, vixen, don't think that you want to remarry when my son dies. Who are you showing me all day?"

Liu thought of his son who died early, and his dissatisfaction with Zhou was like fire. He picked up a wooden stick and beat him straight on him.

"It's all you, the broom Xingke, who killed my son. I'll beat you to death, beat you to death..."

"Don't hit my mother..."

Ten-year-old Ji Rong and three-year-old Ji Heng ran in, one pounced on Zhou, and the other went to help Ji Wan who fell to the ground.

Liu was full of anger at this moment and could not care about anything else. The wooden stick in his hand was about to hit Ji Rong. Suddenly, his hand was grabbed tightly, and then he pushed her out with a strong force. She was caught off guard and pushed to the wall.

"Oh, Awan, what are you doing? Your grandma is an elder at least, how can you attack her? This is very unfilial."

The third aunt Li, who had been standing next to her, immediately made things worse and charged Ji Wan with an unfilial crime.

Ji Wan helped Zhou up and protected her two younger brothers and sisters behind her, and coldly met Liu, who was full of fierce faces and Li, who was malicious.

"My mother and I are dead, and it is a trivial matter for grandma to spend money to bury. If she gets into a lawsuit, her third uncle will not be able to take the scientific examination again."

Liu's three sons and one daughter, and his daughter married to a village outside. The eldest son was a carpenter and could hunt. The second son was Ji Wan's father. Before participating in the provincial examination, he suddenly suffered from a serious illness and spent all the money at home. He eventually went there.

Liu put all his hopes on his youngest son. However, in this dynasty, if relatives in his family commit murder, males will not be allowed to take the imperial examination for the rest of their lives.

Ji Wan's words just hit the hearts of Liu and Li.

"My grandma should not always talk about it, after all, the neighbors listen to it. After all, after a while, after some gossip, it is inevitable that our Ji family is not upright, which is not a good thing. Since grandma doesn't like us to 'eat lunch' at home, then invite the family and divide the family."

"Awan!"

Zhou opened his eyes wide in shock and looked at his eldest daughter incredibly.

Although Ji Rong was afraid, he supported his sister.

"Yes, at worst, let's move out."

Grandma bullies the weak and is afraid of the strong, and she speaks harshly to her mother every day. Her third aunt has ulterior motives and provokes and disagrees. Even the cousins ​​and sisters of the third wife like to bully them.

My younger brother is only three years old and often has no food to eat, so he is so hungry that he has tears in his eyes.

Li's face changed. Zhou's girl was very popular and earned 300 ounces of money every month when doing embroidery work, so she couldn't bear to leave the money.

She said immediately: "Awan, what are you talking about? What family are you doing? Are you angry with your grandma? Why don't you kneel down and admit your mistake to your grandma?"

She knew that Liu was very angry just now by Ji Wan's push. If she was so angry that she really agreed to Ji Wan's separation, it would be more than worth it. She asked Ji Wan to kowtow and admit her mistake. She first comforted Liu, and secondly, she would teach Ji Wan a good lesson.

Ji Wan looked at her carelessly, "Aunt San said nothing. I am still ill. If I kneel down and don't know, I'm afraid I will misunderstand that you are unkind and deliberately abuse our orphans and widows."

Li changed color, "Okay, Ji Wan, I'm kind to see you, you dare to slander me. I think you are so crazy. First, I hit your grandma, but now I frame me. Is this how your mother teaches you to talk to your elders?"

"San Auntie, don't mention my mother. In this world, no one's voice is right." Ji Wan's eyes comforted Zhou, and then said, "Our family is three. My uncle and uncle farm, hunt and carpenter, and my mother sweeps the floor, cooks and washes clothes. Even our sisters go up the mountain to pick wild vegetables in spring, chops wood in summer, picks hawthorns in autumn, and digs winter bamboo shoots in winter... The money earned is given to grandma as family expenses. San Auntie, you have not done anything. Even the third brother and fourth sister have never done anything for your family."

"you…"

Li never expected that Ji Wan was sick once and became eloquent when she woke up.

"I was infected with the cold when someone pushed into the river. My third aunt and fourth sister knew it clearly." Ji Wan sneered, "It doesn't matter if my third aunt doesn't admit it. Anyway, God is watching. Who is right and wrong, God can see clearly. Whoever does evil will be punished sooner or later."

That's right, Ji Wan fell ill this time because she saw Ji Yun bullying her two younger siblings while washing clothes. She was angry for a moment but had a dispute with Ji Yun, and then was pushed into the river by Ji Yun.

Zhou didn't know the truth about her daughter falling into the river. He immediately looked at Li when he heard this, and his eyes seemed to seep ice.

She was originally a daughter of a noble family, but she was framed and seduced her sister's fiancé and broke off the engagement. Her father called her shameless, and in anger she was removed from the family tree and expelled from the family.

When the wall fell, everyone pushed it, and when the tree fell, the money scattered.

Only the wet nurse kept her and took her to her hometown Yi Village in the north. Later, she married Ji Qing and used all her money to build a house and buy land for the Ji family to study.

My mother-in-law was also good at her at that time, but after her husband died, she was picky about her. She was weak in nature and was even more unfamiliar with others. She had been used to being submissive for so many years.

But she didn't expect that her daughter almost died this time, and it was done by the third wife.

Zhou could no longer bear it, and said with red eyes: "Mom, I have worked hard at home for so many years and never said no, "Ge Qing died by accident. You kept saying that my life was defeated and I recognized it. Awan, like Ayun, is your granddaughter. I don't ask you to treat it with a bowl of water, but you can't be too generous to one or the other."

She took a deep breath, "This time Awan was lucky and took it over. But what about next time? It doesn't matter what I do, but my child can't be despised."

Zhou wiped away his tears, straightened his back, and said, "Let's split the family. The house and the well at home are all my money, a total of fifteen taels, and I bought the thirty acres of fertile land on the north slope. You sold ten acres to make dowry for your younger sister and marry for your third brother to study, and rented the remaining twenty acres to the tenant farmers for rent. I don't want anything else. You give me the twenty acres of fertile land, and you can give me five taels of money for building the house."

The Ji family has three bedrooms, and the house is the money she paid for, but she only needs one-third of it, and she is generous wherever she talks.

However, Liu and Li both seemed to have their tails been stepped on and screamed immediately.

"Five Liang, are you trying to eat people? You are so damn killing me. What kind of evil did I suffer? You are like a daughter-in-law." Liu said crying and squatted on the ground and shouted.

When Zhou saw her tantrum, his heart trembled, but when he thought of his children, his hesitation and timidity disappeared in the moment. "The neighbors in the village all know these things. The land deed wrote my name and my dowry. Even if I sue the government, I will take the blame."

It was thanks to her wet nurse. She insisted on marrying her, but it was useless to persuade her, so she became more cautious. She wrote Zhou’s name on the land deed when she bought the land.

Now, it just comes in handy.

After all, Zhou was born in a noble family. Even though he was weak in character, he knew how to regulate etiquette and laws. She was in charge of reason. No matter how much Liu made a fuss, even if it made the matter a big deal, it would not change the final result.

Seeing that she was determined to move out, Liu was panicked.

She always hated Zhou's name on the land deed, but her son protected this woman and she had no choice. After her son died, she vented all the anger she had endured for many years on Zhou. Unexpectedly, Zhou, who had always swallowed his anger, would suddenly resist this time.

Li was also panicked. The twenty acres of fertile land were rented to tenants every year. When the harvest was good, they could produce more than 5,000 kilograms of wheat. They were given half to the Ji family. They were beaten into white flour and sold in the town. A kilogram of white flour costs two cents, and more than 2,500 kilograms could sell more than 5,000 kilograms of silver.

The Ji family itself has twelve acres of fertile land, and except for the part that needs to be handed over to the court, the rest are used for themselves.

So compared to other people in the village, the Ji family's life can be said to be quite good.

If Zhou took away the twenty acres of fertile land, the family would lose a lot of money, and the tuition fees for her husband to take the scientific examination and his younger son to go to school in the future will be lost.

"Second sister-in-law, Awan is ignorant, are you confused? We are a family, why are you and me? If you spread it, don't let your neighbors laugh at me? Don't say anything like the separation, it's like that. Let's make my mother angry. Awan has a good rest, I'll take my mother back..."

She said a few words to expose today's farce and pushed all the mistakes to Zhou.

"Slow down!"

Ji Wan was not going to lift it up so high and put it down gently. Finally, my mother stopped to bear it this time, so she naturally had to strike while the iron was hot.

"Does my third aunt want me to sue the fourth sister for malicious harm? There were many people who saw clearly how I fell into the water. Then we will see if it was fair and free to be in the hearts of the people, or if my third aunt could turn the black and white. Just as the land deed was also registered in the government, so the county magistrate sentenced them together, so we won't be able to explain it clearly in the future."

I will give this company a share of whatever I say today.

"Since you want to divide it, just divide it cleanly."

The eldest uncle Miao, who had long been dissatisfied with his mother-in-law, also walked in and said, "I have asked Acheng to invite Li Zheng."

As soon as the words were finished, someone shouted outside.

"Li Zheng is here."
Chapter completed!