Early the next morning, Wen Dacheng, Wen Chen, the first wife Wen Youtian and Zhang Cuilan, the second wife Wen Youcai and Wang Xiaoyun, and the village chief Wu Shan all gathered in Wen Wuyan's hut.

So many people came in that the small house was suddenly packed full.

There was no bench in Wen Wuyan's room, so this time, except for Wen Dacheng and Wu Shan who were sitting on the edge of the kang, everyone else was standing.

Wu Shan asked, "Are you sure you want to split up?"

Wen Dacheng was poked by Wen Chenshi beside him, sighed, and nodded, "Let's separate them. The children are grown up and can live on their own."

Wen Youtian saw the village chief's eyes on him, straightened his back and said with an eager smile, "We will divide it, but not all of it this time. We will only separate the third brother's family to live separately."

Wen Youcai also met the village chief's gaze, with a somewhat arrogant look on his face, "I listen to my parents."

When Wu Shan went to see Wen Wuyan, he was lying on the kang, listless and heartbroken. "We want to stay with our parents and serve them, but since our parents and elder and second brothers think that our family is a burden, we can only obey and divide it."

After hearing this, Wen Dacheng's expression was not clear whether he was happy or not. He took over the words of the third brother and said, "Since it is a separate division, it will only divide your house separately. The things to be divided can only be counted from the public, and the private parts of the parties will not count."

Everyone in the room nodded in unison, and Gu Qingqing also agreed with this.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Wen Dacheng began to say, "Let's start with the house. The house cannot be divided among you. These are the rules of our ancestors. In the end, it will all belong to your eldest brother."

When Zhang Cuilan heard this, she happily touched her man.

"However, you are injured now, and the doctor said it is not suitable for you to move. I will make the decision. You can continue to live in the house until the beginning of next spring."

As Wen Dacheng finished speaking, Wen Chen glared at him fiercely, but said nothing in the end.

Zhang Cuilan couldn't hold back her anger, "Dad, since we've split up the family, shouldn't the third brother and his family move out?"

"Are you talking about dividing the family or severing the relationship? As the eldest sister-in-law, don't you know what the third brother's situation is like?" Wen Dacheng scolded Zhang Cuilan angrily.

Wen Youtian saw his father getting angry. Although he stood on his wife's side in his heart, he still turned around and scolded her, "You don't understand anything, so don't say anything. Listen to what dad has to say first."

Zhang Cuilan pursed her lips unhappily.

"Third brother, Gu, do you have any objection to this?"

Gu Qingqing had agreed with Wen Wuyan yesterday that they did not plan to live with them for a long time after the separation.

The Wen family's courtyard faces north and south. Wen Dacheng and Wen Chen live in the upper room of the north wing, so there is sunlight in the house all year round.

The two rooms in the east house are where Wen Youtian, Zhang Cuilan and Yi Er Saburo live. It is the second most important house in the courtyard.

Wen Youcai, Wang Xiaoyun, Siwulang and Mai Ya lived in the west room. No matter how bad the west room was, at least they could get some morning sun.

Not to mention that the south room where she and Wen Wuyan lived was a mud house, there was no sunlight in the house all year round, and it was hot in the summer and cold in the winter, making it very uncomfortable to live in.

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Wen Wuyan and Gu Qingqing exchanged a glance and nodded gently, "I'll follow Dad's arrangements."

Wen Dacheng nodded to indicate that he understood.

"As for the house, let's talk about the fields. The family has 32 fields, of which 8 acres are top fields with convenient water sources. There are 20 acres of dry fields, and the remaining 4 acres are rocky fields at the foot of the mountain next to the 25 acres of forest at home. These are the numbers of the fields, right?"

The only sounds in the room were nods and “hmmmms.”

"If you take the initiative to live alone, then after your eldest brother takes 70% of the land, the remaining land will be divided equally among the three of us. But now that your family wants you to live alone, we won't take that into consideration. You will be given six acres of the thirty-two fields, including two acres of paddy fields, two acres of dry fields, and the remaining two acres are rock fields at the foot of the mountain. The remaining twenty-five acres of forest land should be divided into four parts, giving you six acres and two parts. Because it is a small hill, it is impossible to divide it completely equally. When the time comes, mark out a piece of land of similar size and plant a few trees along the edge to serve as a partition."

After Wen Dacheng finished speaking, Wen Chenshi had a blank expression on her face, as if she knew the result.

Zhang Cuilan didn't think so. It was obvious that the 70% that belonged to their house was not enough.

Wen Youtian was caught off guard and took a step forward after being poked by Zhang Cuilan. Wen Youtian turned around and Zhang Cuilan gave him a look.

Wen Youcai, who was standing by, saw this and there was only disdain in his eyes, as if he simply looked down on these things.

Wen Dacheng looked at Wen Youtian who took a step forward and asked, "Boss, what do you want to say?"

Wen Youtian glared at his wife, then looked at his father with a frown and said, "Dad, didn't we agree before that our family would get 70% of the land to support the second son's education? If you divide it up like this today, there won't be enough land in the future."

"What? You want the third son to leave the house with nothing too? Will you be able to hold your heads up high in the village in the future?" Wen Dacheng looked at his eldest son and said unhappily.

Wen Youtian was unwilling to give up. "We only have a few acres of paddy fields. Dad and Mom love rice from paddy fields. We can't give the two acres of land over there to the third brother. You should keep the paddy fields for yourself and give the third brother two acres of rocky fields. This way, the third brother's four acres of rocky fields will be next to each other and easier to manage in the future."

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Gu Qingqing laughed out loud when she heard this. She turned to look at Wen Youtian and said, "Uncle, you really think for us. I don't need to remind you how much one mu of paddy field costs in the village, and how much one mu of mountain field costs, right? You want to exchange two mu of our paddy field with two mu of mountain field. How could you think of that? If that's the case, I'm going to exchange those two mu of mountain field for two mu of paddy field with you. Are you willing?"

"How can this be the same? Now you take as much as we give you. If we don't give you all the land on the four-acre mountain, it would be a shame for your ancestors."

"I am a member of the Wen family. Aren't my ancestors your ancestors? Now you want to divide your ancestors as well? You are so bold." Gu Qingqing caught the disrespect towards ancestors in his words and directly retorted.

Wen Youtian then realized that he had said the wrong thing and looked at his father nervously, "Dad, I didn't, I wasn't..."

Wen Dacheng waved his hand at Wen Youtian, "Youtian, stop talking. What do you think of what I said above?"

Wen Youtian didn't dare to say a word. Wen Youcai believed that he would be able to pass the imperial examination and become a scholar next year. Since he was already a scholar, he naturally looked down on these things. Besides, when he was paying for his studies, there had been some private agreements that he did not occupy much of the family's land.

Wen Youcai shook his head and said, "Dad, I have no objection."

"Dad, we have objections." Wen Wuyan, who was lying on the kang, spoke at this time.

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