"Class leader, Ninth Grand Master, Eleventh Grand Master" Zheng Lin bowed to salute the clan leader and clan elders, and invited them to sit politely. His attitude seemed neither polite nor distant, nor despicable, which was completely different from Zheng Shanqing's previous style.

The patriarch is an old man over 60 years old. According to his seniority, Zheng Lin should call him the Sixth Master. However, in order to show respect and recognition of the patriarch's authority, Zheng Lin called out the "Class Chief".

The remaining four clan elders were selected from each village to balance the four Zheng villages, including the upper and lower front and back. The four clan elders were similar in age and the same seniority. Zheng Lin followed their orders in the clan, namely "Ninth Grand Master" and "Tenth Grand Master".

"Come on, boy Lin sit here, you all come and sit down." The patriarch stroked his beard and greeted Zheng Lin and the rest of the Zheng family with a smile, looking very kind.

"Yes." Zheng Lin did not refuse. After signaling the two elders of the Zheng family to sit down, he sat beside them.

Seeing this, Zheng Shanqing, who was biting his ears with Ma, hurriedly sat in another empty seat, and by chance, he met Zheng Lin face to face.

Worried that her husband would suffer a loss alone, Ma sat hurriedly beside Zheng Shanqing, preparing to fight for more things for her family when she split up later.

As a result, as soon as his butt was put on the chair, Zheng Lin scolded mercilessly: "If you are a big family matter, how can you let your wife get involved? You are not waiting to go?"

After saying that, he looked at Ma Shi, whose face turned purple in an instant, and said to Zheng Shuiqing who was standing aside to watch the show: "Third brother, come here and sit here."

When Zheng Shuiqing heard this, a bad premonition suddenly flashed through his heart. He stood there without moving, and said tentatively: "Brother, today I'm going to do the second brother's separation, so I don't have to sit down!"

Zheng Lin smiled slightly, but his smile was not enough to reach his eyes: "Since the three brothers are separated, we will naturally have to separate them thoroughly at a time, so as not to let the patriarch and all the great-grandfathers come again in the future."

This sentence was like a bolt from the blue, which made Zheng Shuiqing, who was unprepared, stand there in a daze. He said incoherently: "No, no, brother, I, I, I don't want to separate the family, no, no, I, I don't want to separate the family, I don't want to separate the family, I didn't make any mistakes, right, I didn't make any mistakes, you can't let me separate the family, why do you let me separate the family?"

At the end, Zheng Shuiqing yelled at Zheng Lin with red eyes, completely in a tone of righteousness.

It was because the matter was too sudden. Zheng Shanqing was in chaos and said what he was thinking without any concealment. Otherwise, he would not dare to speak like this in front of Zheng Lin, and he would know that whether the family was divided or not, he would not be able to make any decision.

The patriarch on the side looked bad and asked the old man Zheng sitting opposite him: "I didn't agree on whether to split up the family, so I called us old guys here. Are you going to split or not?"

Before Old Man Zheng could speak, Zheng Shuiqing seemed to have found hope and rushed over quickly and pinched Old Man Zheng's shoulder, shouting madly: "Dad, no difference, no difference in this family, please tell the patriarch, this family is no difference, fast, say it!"

Niu also came to his senses, stepped forward and grabbed Meng's hand, and said excitedly: "Mom, isn't your favorite thing about our family living together? If we separate, where will it be a home? We will not separate this family anymore. Let's talk to the patriarch quickly. In the future, we will do whatever we should do as before. How great is it!"

For diligent and capable people, dividing up a family is a good thing, which means you get as much as you do. For people like Zheng Shuiqing and Niu who are determined to earn money without effort, it is like a catastrophe.

Niu knew very well that once the family was separated, not to mention that this house would not belong to them, even whether it could fill its stomach was a problem, let alone feeding children in the future. In short, Niu was unwilling to separate, which was even more uncomfortable than killing her.

"The tree is divided into branches, and the people are divided into families. Your father and I are old and want to spend two years of purity. This family will be divided." Although I have seen the true face of the third son and the third daughter-in-law before, and were disappointed and heartbroken, I still feel a little unacceptable when I see it again. I gave Niu a face for the first time, and I was very rude to say something.

"Mom, why are you so cruel? Brother Shui is your biological son!"

Niu looked at Meng in disbelief, unable to believe that this was said from Meng: "What medicine did you give you to me so cruelly."

Meng did not want to get along with Niu. While Niu was not paying attention, the force on her hands was loosened a little. She shook her hand and threw Niu away, saying the first decisive sentence in her life: "This family must score points today. It's useless if you beg me. There is no reason why the second family will be separated and let your room continue to live here."

Niu knew that Meng would not speak for their third family this time. She stared at Meng tightly and cursed with a resentful curse: "You unkind and ominous old thing, you will not be able to support you in your lifetime and die after you die. A pile of rotten meat can only be eaten by maggots. You will be reincarnated in the next life and be considered a rotten person."

Zheng Lin, who had pulled the crazy Zheng Shuiqing away, just turned around and heard this. His face turned cold and blocked Meng's front. He endured it and did not kick Niu out. He just said coldly: "Let me hear a little bit of bad things. Today, you and the third brother don't even think about taking away a penny!"

Niu's face changed drastically, and he was so scared that he hurriedly hid behind Zheng Shuiqing, not daring to say another word.

Zheng Lin smiled coldly and deducted most of the things that were originally to be distributed to the three bedrooms in his heart, and the only thing left was not enough for the original 30%.

Meng, who was not scolded by Niu, looked at her eldest son who was standing in front of him, and her eyes gradually blurred.

During the three-bedroom couple's trouble, the two-bedroom couple watched coldly from beginning to end. They would definitely be separated from each other. Now the three-bedroom couple is going to be kicked out. Not only did they not feel the same sympathy, but they were even full of gloating, and they were eager to be driven away from home.

In the end, with the insistence of Old Man Zheng, the head of the family, no matter how the three-person couple played tricks, the clan leader and the four clan elders still followed Old Man Zheng's wishes and presided over the division after clearing all the property of the Zheng family.

The Zheng family has not many valuable things, except for the houses they live in now, there are only a few acres of paddy fields and a few acres of dry land. As for the deposit of silver, it is valuable when Zheng Lin returns, and this thing almost does not exist.

Without any suspense, the Zheng family's house is unique to Zheng Lin. Not to mention that the house was built by him after he came back. Even if it was not, as the eldest son, he took the initiative to take the responsibility of supporting his parents. The clan of the house would also give him the best compensation to the two brothers, and let them go out to build the house by themselves.

As for the Zheng family's fields, there were a total of six acres of paddy fields and six acres of dry land, so they were divided into four parts, one for each of the three brothers, and the remaining part belonged to Old Man Zheng and Meng.

However, the old man Zheng and Meng were raised by Zheng Lin, so the land they shared was actually under Zheng Lin's name. After the two elders went west, three brothers would divide the fields equally. In this way, Zheng Lin temporarily owned three acres of paddy fields and three acres of dry land.

Originally, Zheng Lin didn't plan to ask for it, and he looked down on the production of the fields. But he looked down on the two brothers even more. If there was no afternoon birth, he would have distributed the fields to them.

Now he was so at ease that he wrote his name on the land dividing document, and was already thinking about whom to rent the land to.

Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuiqing had no objection to the distribution of houses and land. After it was the turn of sharing the silver, they stared at Zheng Lin one by one, and they actually wanted him to take out all the silver and share it.

Zheng Lin saw it and felt extremely funny. He ignored it and said directly to the clan elders: "Before A Lin came back, I thought it was clear to you that the family was in a very good condition. Later, every time A Lin went out, he would leave behind all the family to live better. Now there is only so much silver left, so A Lin didn't know the right to think that A Lin, the elder brother, gave them the support of the two of them to raise a new house."

The patriarch did not speak, but looked at the clan elder in Shangzheng Village: "Old Ten, is what Boy Lin said true?"

His parents are there, and he is selfless. If Boy Lin really hides the money privately, he will have to take it out and share it.

The Master Ten, who is called Lao Shi, knew the situation of the Zheng family very well, so he said truthfully: "As boy Lin said, everyone in the village can testify."

As for whether Boy Lin really took out all the silver to support this family, who except him knows? He earned the money by himself. Even if he hides it privately, he can still force him to do so.

Can he take it out? It’s just that he turns a blind eye, so it’s not that trouble!

Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuiqing refused to believe it and shouted loudly: "Impossible, who would have taken out all the money so stupidly? He must have hidden it privately. You can search in his room and you will know."

"That's right, go to his room and you will definitely find it." Zheng Shuiqing also responded loudly. It was the first time that the two brothers stood in one place in harmony for the sake of interests.

The two of them stared at Zheng Lin with a fierce look. Even if there was no money to search, they might be able to find other treasures. Anyway, this time the separation was apart, so they might as well fight for more benefits for themselves.

How could Zheng Lin be manipulated by two useless people? He sneered: "Okay, I'll ask you two to search in person. If you can't search, what do you think?"

The two were stunned. If they couldn't find it, they would find it. What else would they do?

Zheng Lin refused to let them go and asked expressionlessly: "Brother, you must have searched my house if you can't find anything, shouldn't you give me an explanation?"

Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuiqing looked at each other and looked bad. After looking at each other, Zheng Shanqing pointed at the only five or six taels of scattered silver on the table, gritted his teeth and said, "If we can't find silver or other valuable things, we don't want these."

Zheng Shuiqing hesitated for a moment, then said, "I'll listen to my second brother."

Zheng Lin looked at the clan leader and clan elders, and saw that they were probably trying to search, so he said, "Yes, there are clan leader and clan elders to testify, and you don't dare to go back on your word! But don't blame me, the brother, for not reminding you, if you can't find the money, don't regret it."

The onlooker and the four clan elders heard this and nodded slightly, promising to be the witness, and also acknowledged the agreement between the three brothers.

Seeing Zheng Lin so decisively, Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuiqing felt unsure and felt a little regretful that they said the previous words too happily. But now, they can't let them go: "Hmph, just search, wait until we find out, and see what you have to say."

With Zheng Lin's smile on his face, the two brothers were urging by the clan elders and clan elders, so they had to bite the bullet and push away the room where Zheng Lin lives and search inch by inch.

Ma and Niu also rolled up their sleeves and joined in, their eyes widening a little larger than usual, for fear of missing something and finally getting Zheng Lin a bargain.

The two searched very carefully, and didn't even let go of the bed. They even knew to knock on the walls and the ground to see if the inside was hollowed out and the silver was hidden here.

Zheng Lin stood at the door frame, watching them turn their clothes and bedding into distortion, and the darkness in his eyes became deeper and deeper.

Meng was very worried. Every time Zheng Lin left, she was in charge of the money. She was worried that her son and daughter-in-law would spend money indiscriminately. No matter how much good things they said, she did not hand over the money.

It’s just that the family lives, and it’s not easy for her to go back and forth to the town at the age of age. She asked her son or daughter-in-law to buy it every time. She also knew that they would secretly make a decision. In the past two years, each room had less private money hidden in five taels of silver.

Meng didn't know if his eldest son had hidden silver. It would be fine if he didn't. At least the silver on the table could support the family for a long time. If he was searched, there wouldn't be much in the end.

Recognizing Meng's nervousness, Zheng Lin shook her head and told her not to worry.

He had something that was good at hiding silver and valuable, but he was worried that the two uneasy brothers would make a fool of themselves. All the money and valuable things were hidden by him, and it was impossible for the two of them to find it.

Meng misunderstood Zheng Lin's meaning and thought he had no money at all. While he was relieved, he felt sad and guilty.

The eldest son worked hard outside to earn money to support the family, and he handed over all the money to her for safekeeping before leaving. She didn't keep it, and even let the second and third brothers take it away. She was so useless as a mother.

The two of them wanted to search elsewhere, and they found that Zheng Lin had transferred the money and valuable things elsewhere, but the patriarch was impatient and said loudly: "If you can't find it, you don't have it. If you have the ability, just use a hoe to dig all the front and back of the house.

Let's see if you can find it."

Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuiqing naturally did not have this body. Seeing that the clan leader was angry, a cold sweat broke out on his forehead. He didn't care about the silver on the table and said tremblingly: "Class leader, don't be angry. If you don't look for it, we won't look for it."

"Hmph!" The patriarch shook his sleeves and turned around and walked out of the room. He was too lazy to pay attention to these two people.

Several clan elders also walked out and prepared to make the final division of property for the three brothers of the Sang family.

Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuiqing's faces became extremely ugly, and they stared at Zheng Lin and wanted to stare through the people. This time, not only did they not find more money in the house search, but even the four or five taels of silver they wanted to get into someone else's. This feeling of stealing chickens and losing rice was not good at all, and regretting it made people want to hit the wall.

Zheng Lin seemed to have no idea, and took Meng and Old Man Zheng to the main hall. As for the temporary plan, he had no psychological burden, and he just wanted to teach them a lesson and let them have a memory increase, so that they should not offend themselves again.

In the end, all the money on the table was handed to Zheng Lin, and Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuiqing really didn't get a half-money.

After all the valuables are allocated, the next thing is to share the pots, pans, farm tools, and chickens, ducks and geese that are not valuable and need to pay for money.

Losing the big head in front of him, Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuiqing, who are so obsessed with these trivial little things, are not even interested in fighting for them.

However, the Ma family and Niu family fought each other and almost fought for a bowl. The alliance body established collapsed instantly and was completely disgraced in front of the clan leader and the clan elders.

It was the issue of support for Old Man Zheng and Meng, and the two elders asked Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuiqing to give them 50 kilograms of grain and a set of clothes, shoes and socks every year.

Compared with the situation in the village, these two requirements are not excessive. However, the second and third houses who have not gained benefits have pushed all the responsibilities on the second elders. Not to mention taking food and clothes, I wish I could rush to the second elders’ house now and divide all their existing things.

The noise was quarrel for a long time, and it was not until the clan leader and the elders of the clan were in great trouble that the two families reluctantly agreed and pressed their handprints on the statutes drafted by the clan leader.

This pension agreement will be kept in the hands of the patriarch. If Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuqing do not abide by it, they will be punished very severely if they find out about it, and then they will not only be filled with food and clothes.

Compared to the second and third bedrooms who did not support their parents and forced themselves to search for their elder brother's house step by step, Zheng Lin, who politely gave his brothers and took the initiative to support his parents' retirement, made the clan elders much more satisfied.

Before leaving, the clan leader and clan elders also reminded Zheng Lin a few words, asking him to find the clan if he is in trouble, and the clan who can help must help. In fact, it is to target Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuiqing, so as not to be unwilling to come to find trouble for Zheng Lin.

Zheng Lin had nothing to ask for in the clan, but he would not turn away the kindness of the clan leader and the clan elders. He responded very politely and asked Meng to wrap five portions of the good tea he brought back in oil paper and stuff one for each of them.

The clan leaders and clan elders were not polite, and they left happily after taking the tea.

As soon as the people left, Zheng Lin issued an expulsion order to Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuiqing without hesitation: "Go pack up now, I don't want to see you again after sunset."

Zheng Shanqing and Zheng Shuiqing were suddenly panicked, especially Zheng Shanqing, shouting loudly: "It's less than an hour and a half before the sun goes down the mountain. Where do you want us to take our family to go in such a short time?"

Zheng Lin said coldly: "The three children can be kept temporarily. In three days, you should be able to find a place to stay and pick them up at that time."

Zheng Shanqing's eyes rolled and said with great urgency: "Three days are not enough. Even if you build a thatched house, it will take half a month. This winter is not the time to build a house."
To be continued...