Chapter 3327: Broken Relationship

Old Zhoutou said: "If he is not allowed to come, who else can be allowed to come? He is the most knowledgeable person in the village. In Qili Village, who is not related to my family? If we talk about favoritism, it is not appropriate for anyone to come.

I can go to the Yamen now."

When I heard about going to the Yamen, not even the Zhang family, the Zhou family was not very happy. Who likes to run to the Yamen when they have nothing to do?

Both sides fell silent, and Lao Zhoutou directly decided: "Let my uncle be the host."

Bai Shan waited for a while and saw no one objected, so he smiled and said: "Since both parties agree, then I'll give it a try..."

Zhou Man and Yin You stood quietly behind the Zhou family group. Batou gave them two wooden blocks and whispered: "There are no more stools or chairs."

Zhou Man didn't mind it and sat on the wooden pier.

Yin You lowered his head and looked down for a while before sitting down carefully.

Bai Shan stood at the head of the two families and said: "The Zhou and Zhang families are related by marriage and blood. It is said that we should help each other. Mutual help and mutual benefit is the best way."

"Yes, yes, that's the truth," Zhang Sanlang immediately agreed: "But their family doesn't know this truth, so the wealthy people forget about us poor relatives, and even if they come to ask for help, they won't even do it, and they even beat us!"

The villagers who were watching let out a cry, and someone leaned on the wall and said, "Zhang Sanlang, who said that Uncle Jin's family has forgotten their poor relatives? We are all poor relatives, so we have not been forgotten."

There were echoes all around. Bai Shan stretched out his hand to stop their words and asked, "I wonder what you want the Zhou family to do when you ask for help?"

Zhang Sanlang thought about what he had confessed yesterday, swallowed his saliva, and said bravely: "That's right, I just want to ask Zhou Lang for a job. Doesn't he have a caravan doing business outside?"

Bai Shan asked: "Is there anything else?"

Zhang Sanlang swallowed his saliva and said nothing.

Bai Shan asked: "I remember that the Zhou and Zhang families have not interacted with each other for more than ten years, right? The last time was when we were only seven or eight years old? Was there any courtesy communication during this time?"

Zhou Dalang replied on behalf of the Zhou family: "No."

He said: "In the past ten years or so, the Zhang family has never invited our Zhou family to any wedding or funeral, and our Zhou family has never invited the Zhang family."

Bai Shan: "This is the first time a relative has visited us in more than ten years. I wonder how many people from the Zhang family visited yesterday and what gifts they brought?"

Zhou Dalang replied: "The eight of us are all here. We came in empty-handed."

"Nonsense, nonsense, we paid tribute."

"Oh," Zhou Dalang seemed to have just remembered, turned around and went into the kitchen, took out a small bag and threw it on the ground, "I brought this bag and it was left at our house. The bag was tied up, so we couldn't open it, so

Don’t know what it is.”

"Isn't this the gift you brought to our door?" Zhou Lang rolled up his sleeves and said, "I'll open it and take a look."

So he opened the bag in front of everyone and showed it to everyone, "What a big gift."

There was a grain of millet inside. Zhou Lang clicked his tongue and said, "This is a welcome meal at my house. The millet must be ground into rice first."

Zhou Zuorang glared at him and scolded him: "What are you talking about? Whose welcome meal is made from the millet brought by the guests? No matter how poor our family is, we still have rice for welcoming guests."

The Zhang family's face turned red, and the elders couldn't help but smooth things over: "It's true that they are ignorant, and a few young people made a joke because they didn't know the etiquette, but we are all relatives, so please be tolerant."

Zhou Lang opened his mouth to refute, but Bai Shan stared at him and could only suppress it.

Bai Shanchong nodded slightly to the elder of the Zhang family and continued to ask: "I wonder what the guests said when they came to the door?"

He smiled and said: "Yesterday when they were fighting, I asked several cousins ​​and nephews of the Zhang family, and I even asked someone to record it."

He took out a few pieces of paper from his arms and unfolded them for everyone to see. Then he divided them into two parts and showed them to the people on both sides. "But their memory may not be as good as Brother Zhou's, and there may be mistakes. Why don't we ask Brother Zhou to recall it again?"

Ichiban?"

Zhoulang became excited. He was very eloquent and traveled all over the country. When he came back, he had to teach his children what he had seen outside. He was very familiar with this kind of thing.

Yesterday, members of the Zhang family were interrogated. Questions and answers were dry. How could it be as exciting as Zhou Lang's vivid narration?

He also started performing, making the eight people come alive.

The onlookers watched with gusto, but the Zhang family, including the clan elders, were all blue in the face.

This was really embarrassing. Even Zhang Saburo, who had always been confident and believed that he was right, had some red faces.

"You, you are slandering!"

"Yes, it's a slander. We didn't do that yesterday."

"It's not a slander, I saw it yesterday," said a man lying on the wall. "I happened to come back from harvesting rice yesterday, and I saw it all when I passed by Uncle Jin's house. This is what they are like."

"You are from Qili Village, so you are naturally attached to the Zhou family, and your surname is Zhou."

Bai Shan raised his hand to stop their quarrel. He didn't care whether it was right or wrong. "Although one family's surname is Zhou and the other's surname is Zhang, their family is the same as yours. They are all relatives of the father-in-law's family. Why are they both?"

My relatives have a completely different understanding of my father-in-law’s family?”

"It's not just two families. This is why all the relatives in our Qili Village are different from the Zhang family."

Bai Shan looked at the elders of the Zhang family, "Elders, we all know the relationship between the two families. Everyone has heard about what happened yesterday. How do the elders judge it?"

"How else can we stop it?" One person said: "It's just some quarrels between relatives. Everyone goes back to his own house and looks for his own mother."

The elder of the Zhang family stood up to leave. Zhang Sanlang was unhappy and shouted: "Then our beating was in vain? We were locked up all night yesterday."

"Then what else do you want? Seeing that you are all clean and unhurt, I pushed you twice yesterday, and you fought back."

Bai Shan also stopped the elder of the Zhang family, "The Zhou family also has something to say."

He said: "Normally, the relationship between the Zhou family and the Zhang family has faded a lot in this generation. Relatives are not like close relatives like parents and brothers who break bones and connect tendons. They move less and the relationship fades.

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"But the Zhou family still needs to make it clear that the Zhou family and the Zhang family should break off their relationship."

"What did you say?" Mr. Zhang's eyes widened and his face sank. "What does this mean? Just because of such a trivial matter, the two families are severing ties?"

The Zhou family elder said: "The two families have not had contact with each other for more than ten years, which is no different from breaking up the relationship."

"Since you think there is no difference, then we can just treat it as a breakup and have no contact with each other as before. Why, now you Zhou family still want to write it down in black and white?" Zhang family elder said angrily: "Don't go too far."

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