Chapter 114: The True Purpose of the Lu Family

  After finishing speaking, Chu Zhenghai took two deep breaths and turned his head to Guan Dashan and several elders beside him: "Village chief, elders, our Chu family's house is divided like this. I'm not dead yet, nor am I confused by illness. Each of these sons is my heart's flesh and blood, and I can't favor one over the other. Can you help me see if dividing the fields in this way is acceptable?"

  Guan Dashan and several elders were thoroughly shocked by Chu Zhenghai's words.

  After some more careful consideration, it seemed that this division was also a good choice. Several people looked at each other and whispered to each other for a moment before nodding in agreement with Chu Zhenghai's proposal.

  Lu's family saw that things were going to be settled this way, and in a panic, she sat down on the ground with a thud, her two legs kicking wildly at the ground, her two hands slapping the ground loudly, wailing: "This life is unbearable! I won't live anymore! Are you trying to drive our whole family of four to seek death?!"

  Lu had just been holding his head high, but now he was crying and wailing like a madman, which gave people quite a shock.

  "Second sister-in-law, what are you doing! Your father and I haven't died yet!" Xu Shi's face was also somewhat unbearable. She herself didn't have a strong feeling about the ownership of the land, after all, during the busy spring and autumn seasons, she was the one in charge of cooking at home.

  Although she didn't work on the ground, the daily chores of washing and scrubbing were exhausting enough for her.

  On the contrary, compared with raising those chickens, ducks and fat pigs, farming is a slow way to make money, not to mention that it doesn't bring in much money.

  Anyway, as long as the sons send grain over, she and Chu Zhenghai won't starve to death. Then the silver earned from raising those domestic animals can be left entirely for herself.

  Xu's calculation was like this, so he didn't have much objection to Chu Zhenghai's way of distributing land.

  But now looking at Lu's attitude and thinking of Chu Li's words, Xu's mind couldn't help but start calculating again.

  Lao Er's family thinks that they don't need to do anything, and they just rely on Yige reading books and having a future. They want to take advantage of this situation, not doing any work but still getting benefits without starving.

  Xu also wanted to take advantage of this cleverness, but this cleverness was not something that could be taken advantage of just by wanting to.

  At least one of the old men's words is right, farmers are people who revolve around the land.

  Moreover, the Xu family also understood that their second daughter-in-law was originally a lazy and gluttonous person. If they really followed their ideas to divide the house, the money she earned from selling things might not even be used by herself, but would be taken away by the second son's family through various means.

  Thus, Xu decided that she could not let Lao Er's family have their way.

  "Oh, daughter! They're too bullying! With just a few acres of land, even if I and the second child work ourselves to death in the fields, we may not be able to earn enough silver to send Yige and Daoge to school!" Lu Shi wiped her nose and tears with her hand, but ended up smearing dirt on her face, mixing it with her snot and tears, making her look like a messy cat, successfully bringing about another round of laughter from everyone.

  In the end, Lu said the key point of the problem.

  Her intention was nothing else but to think of ways to get more money from Chu Yan Yi and Chu Yan Dao for reading books.

  Osmanthus tree slightly pursed her lips, expressing deep contempt for Lu's approach. She was about to reach out and grab Chu Lixiu's hand, signaling him not to speak.