Chapter 60: Xu Shi is busy calculating accounts

  Osmanthus fragrans was worried about the few melon seedlings in her basket, so as soon as she entered the door, she rushed into her own house and said something like "thirsty" while walking.

  Fortunately, Xu's family had been too angry to bother with Chu Lishou's family for the past two days, so they turned a blind eye to Guihua's behavior.

  If it were an ordinary day, when Gui Hua returned home with a basket of wild vegetables, she would definitely be scolded by Xu Shi and the vegetables in the basket would be sent back to the yard without being touched.

  But now Xu Shi no longer looked down on those wild vegetables, what she was planning now was a big deal.

  This morning, Old Man Chu has already spoken to her, this family is definitely going to split up, it's just not decided whether only the third son's branch will split or the whole family will split.

  Xu saw that this family was going to split up and now she is most worried about what kind of situation this family will be divided into.

  The reason why she has been so quiet and no longer making a fuss today and yesterday is mainly because she was busy calculating all the family property at home.

  The hidden ones must be hidden quickly, even if some things can't be hidden, they have to think of a way not to let Lao San's family take too much.

  These two days have been extremely busy for Xu.

  It's clear that Lao San's family will have to split off, leaving only Lao Er's and Lao Si's families.

  Although Mrs. Xü doesn't talk about reason, she has a lot of power at home, but she's not stupid either, and she understands who the real labor force is in this family. Now that the third family has left, only the fourth family can do things, if the fourth family also splits up, then the only ones left to do things will be her and Old Master Chǔ and his wife.

  Just thinking of her own useless second son and his lazy wife made Xu's teeth itch with hatred.

  If it weren't for them having a grandson who is so promising, Xu Shi would have kicked the second family out long ago.

  Alas, let's just leave it at that. Considering the face of my accomplished grandson, I'll just keep the second family intact. If we can also manage to not split up the fourth family in the future, then life will still be manageable.

  "Just thinking about these annoying things, Xu couldn't help but put the blame on Mo again. 'Despicable! I said it before, those mother and daughter are jinxes, and they're all so uncooperative. They've been coming to my house for years, and now they can even make my son leave me? Jinxes! Spit!"

  Through the window, Mrs. Xū spat at Mr. Mò who was busy directing the children to work, then lowered her head and continued to tidy up her treasured household goods.

  Money is not something that can be fully expressed, apart from preparing dowry for one's own daughter, one also has to prepare for one's own and the old man's funeral expenses. Looking at the behavior of those unfilial children, Madam Xun did not dare to hope that they would buy a coffin for her.

  Apart from these two, Xu Shi also considered that there would be many places to use money in the future, and he must prepare some spare silver. After deducting this and that, Xu Shi finally prepared less than ten taels of silver for the division of the family property.

  Looking at the less than ten taels of fragmented silver and copper coins on the kang, Madam Xue's face was filled with heartache. She raised her head to take a glance outside and found that no one had discovered what she was doing. So, gritting her teeth, she picked up those over a hundred copper coins again.