Siheyuan: How the Little People Live

"Uncle, I knew you would come out."

Ye Wenwu, who was waiting for his uncle in the alley, saw his two uncles and aunt coming out, and hurriedly went up to them and said.

"You are a sly guy. Let's go to the village chief's house. We still need to ask the village chief about this matter. I can see that they don't regard us as their sons at all. They want us to be their lifelong slaves and raise their little son until he grows old."

Uncle Zhang Liguo has also seen through the true colors of his parents. He must settle the division of the family property today, otherwise life will be even more difficult in the future.

Otherwise, they won’t be afraid of the trick of splitting up the family, because you can’t split up the family at all. Then they will intensify their oppression.

"Uncle, I'm Liguo. I'm here to see you."

That’s right. The village chief of Zhangjiazhuang is my uncle’s great uncle, and he is a brother of my grandfather Zhang Youheng. The only difference is that my uncle is the eldest, and Zhang Youheng is the youngest among his brothers and sisters.

"Liguo is here, come in and sit down." A shout came from the room.

Several people also walked in together.

My uncle's name is Zhang Yourong, and he is quite prestigious in the whole village.

"Lijun, Wenjing is here too. Hey, who is that young man behind? I've never seen him before."

The uncle was also rather thin, but obviously much more capable. He looked at Ye Wenwu and his group of people.

At this time, uncle Zhang Yourong saw the wound on his nephew's head clearly and was shocked. After all, Zhang Liguo had just covered it with his hand, so he didn't look at it carefully.

"Liguo, what's the matter with the injury on your head?"

Uncle Zhang Yourong's voice was full of anger and a bit of severity.

You know, in Zhangjiazhuang, you are not allowed to fight seagulls privately. If you are discovered, you will be tied to a tree at the entrance of the village for the whole night.

"Uncle, my father beat me. He came up with a stick as thick as his arm and hit my brother on the head without giving me a chance to explain. My brother was not aware of it and did not react. That's it."

Second uncle Zhang Lijun quickly interrupted and said that for second uncle Zhang Lijun, he liked his eldest uncle more. Although his uncle was sometimes a little majestic and serious, he was not too nice to him and his two brothers. Sometimes they even thought they were their uncle's biological children.

My uncle Zhang Liguo said nothing.

"Humph, this Youheng is always thinking about his own things. I don't know when he became like this."

Uncle Zhang Yourong was also sulking. He was really disappointed with his youngest brother. The wife he married was so terrible that the whole village was in turmoil because of her.

No matter how many times he, as the eldest brother, said it, it was useless. It went in one ear and out the other.

"Uncle, I want to divide the family, but my parents don't agree."

Uncle Zhang Liguo immediately stated his intention. He came here hoping to get help from his uncle.

"Separation"

Uncle Zhang Yourong also looked at his nephew in surprise.

"Liguo, you want the village committee to come directly to your house, right? But you have to think it through. Dividing the family is a big deal. From what I know about your parents, you two brothers won't get much if you divide the family, and you may not be able to eat enough. Now at least you can have a bite to eat at home. Although you won't be full, you won't starve either."

In fact, uncle Zhang Yourong fully agreed with Zhang Liguo's idea of ​​splitting the family, but he did not want this idea to be just something his two nephews came up with at the spur of the moment instead of being a result of serious consideration.

"Uncle, I have discussed this matter with my second brother, and we both unanimously decided to divide the family. And as the eldest brother, I don't want anything as long as the family can be divided, but the family land must be divided among us according to the normal rules."

"Well, Liguo, your uncle can help you with this matter, but you should go and take care of your wound first. I will go to the village committee and ask several village committee members to come to your house to discuss it. Also, try not to conflict with your parents now, because they may..."

"Yes, thank you, uncle."

Uncle Zhang Yourong waved his hand. He had the will but not the ability to help his nephew. Now his nephew could get over it on his own, which was what he wanted to see.

"Oh, by the way, you all forgot to answer who this young man is just now?"

Faced with a strange young man coming to his village, he, as the village chief, still needed to know a few things.

"Uncle, this is my younger sister Ke Xin's child, Ye Wenwu."

"Kexin"

Hearing that it was Ke Xin's child, Uncle Zhang Yourong looked at Ye Wenwu with a much softer look in his eyes.

You should know that among the three brothers and sisters, the eldest uncle liked Ye Wenwu's mother the most. You should know that Ye Wenwu's mother was sweet-spoken, smart, filial and capable.

"You said he was Ke Xin's child. Come here, child, let me take a look at him."

Looking at the face in front of him that was similar to the one in his memory, Uncle Zhang Yourong sighed.

"Wenwu, what a nice name. By the way, Wenwu, your parents are over there now. They haven't come back to visit for so many years."

"Sir, my parents died at their jobs six days ago."

Ye Wenwu told the truth. He could see that Zhang Yourong really liked him, perhaps because he loved him so much.

"Hey, do your grandparents know?"

"They all knew, but they just pretended not to know. They never visited my parents' graves once."

Ye Wenwu gritted his teeth and said,

"What? He didn't even go to pay respects to his own daughter after she passed away. What on earth does Zhang Youheng want to do?"

Village chief Zhang Yourong was so angry. He never expected that his younger brother would be so outrageous. When his niece left, he went to her house, but it was too late.

After so many years, I heard the news again when we were already in different worlds.

"Don't worry, kid. Since Zhang Youheng won't go, I, as the eldest uncle, must go. Once we've settled the issues with your two uncles, we'll go together to pay respect to your parents."

"Um"

Ye Wenwu nodded heavily and knelt on the ground and kowtowed several times. After all, Zhang Youheng was the elder of his parents. When they went to pay homage to their parents, he, as a junior, had to kowtow several times.

"Uncle, do you have anything to eat? We just came back from lunch and asked my sister-in-law to cook some corn paste, but my mother kicked it over. We haven't eaten yet."

My second uncle Zhang Lijun said this shamelessly, and by the time he finished speaking, his whole face was red.