Rich and wishful

Chapter 187 Returning Home ([-])

An Jingming's voice stopped abruptly.He looked at his father, then at his fourth uncle.He squatted down on the ground and buried his head.

How could he not remember what happened back then?Not long after Jingming's cousin was buried in the earth, Dafang secretly sold his wife and daughter, directly occupying the property of Sanfang.

Although there was not much left of the three-bedroom property at that time, there was still a big house with five or six rooms after all, and the person who owned the big house lost his conscience.

At that time, his father and fourth uncle also felt that the people in Dafang had gone too far, and they even came to try to persuade them to redeem him.As a result, several cousins ​​of Dafang plausibly said that Jingming's daughter-in-law did not establish a family for them to carry on the family, she was a sinner of the family, and that An Ruyi was not a decent blood of their family, so there was no reason for the descendants to dominate the An family's ancestral property.

It's not a secret why Jingming's daughter-in-law failed to bear children for Jingming's cousin. Who in the village doesn't know the reason?If Jingming's daughter-in-law really gave birth to a child, she might be drowned directly by the clan.

As for the ancestral property of An's family, it is even more ridiculous. No one in the village knows that the brothers of An's family lived in thatched cottages. They can have a place to live and work like they do now, and it's because An Lao San has worked hard to earn it back.Who knew that at the end of the day, it would be fine if the people in the eldest room were not grateful to Dade, but they would still do things so terribly.

But at that time, when the cousins ​​faced their father and fourth uncle, their attitudes were arrogant and rude. They relied on themselves as the eldest house, and the daughter of the family married to the town to be the concubine of the county magistrate, even the uncle of the family. I don't pay attention to it.

To be wrong, the second and fourth rooms of An's family dare not stand up to speak for the third room. Facing the third room of An's family, Jing Ming is suffering from perennial illness and living a difficult life. When the widowed mother was sold, they only intervened once, and after being hit by the roof of the big house, they let go and didn't interfere.

More than ten years ago, when everyone gradually forgot what happened back then, and the old story of Sanfang was only mentioned occasionally by An Lao Er and An Lao Si, someone suddenly came to Wenyang Village.

Apart from claiming to be a steward, the visitor did not reveal any words about his identity. He first rebuilt the cemetery of An Laosan's family in a big way, and then chose an honest and simple-minded person from the Yuanfang clan of An's family, and changed his name. His name was An Chengkang, and he was adopted by An Jingming, who was in the third bedroom of An's family, as his heir.

The visitor gave money, house and land, and helped An Chengkang marry a wife.

At that time, the people in the big house were jealous, and they came to find their second and fourth houses, and asked An's second and An's fourth to come forward to the clan and say that even if they were adopted, they should adopt the descendants of An's parents, with the consent of the head of the house. , there is no reason to just get an outsider from outside the five servers.

An Lao Er and An Lao Si have long disliked the long house, and they seem to have a lot of background, they are not fools, why should they act like villains for the benefit of the long house?So I flatly refused.

For this reason, Changfang let them speak harshly.It's a pity that the second room and the fourth room are not the third room with a small population. The tragedy of the third room back then still made them feel ashamed of the third room, so this time no matter how much the person in the long room threatens and lures them, they are determined not to stand in the long room. side.

Even if An Lao Er and An Lao Si refused to stand out, there was absolutely no way for Changfang to see such a big piece of fat fall into the mouth of an outsider.They had no choice but to find the patriarch themselves.

No one knows what happened next.All I know is that the person who lived in the house suddenly disappeared overnight, the house and the land were all sold out, and even the daughter who married out had no news, and no one ever returned to her natal home.

People in the village talked a lot. Some people said that the person with the long house had made a fortune and moved his family to other places. Some people secretly speculated whether the mother and daughter who had been sold from the third house had an adventure and came back to take revenge?
No matter how guessed, no one knows the answer.On the contrary, those who lent money to Jingming's daughter-in-law back then, without exception, received a hundred times the amount of money lent back then.Not only that, those people were also promised to fulfill one of their demands, as long as that demand was not too outrageous.

The second and fourth rooms of An's family also received a hundred times the repayment money. What they didn't expect was that An Jingming's mother-in-law, An Huang, received the most of the two rooms, a full 500 taels.

It was only later that they found out that An Huang had a good time with Jing Ming's wife, and had lent her almost all the dowry money from her natal family back then.

500 taels, An Laoer's daughter-in-law couldn't help but ask the elder daughter-in-law, An Huang, to put the money in the public house and hand it over to her, but An Laoer stopped her.

Most of the other families in the village who had borrowed money back then had made demands on the steward who came, and they made all kinds of demands. Some even opened their mouths to ask for land, money, or an errand. I thought these requirements were outrageous enough, but in the end, the housekeeper actually satisfied them all.

The people in the second and fourth rooms of An's family didn't make any requests. It's not that they didn't want to ask, but they were forcibly suppressed by An's second and An's fourth to prevent their family members from asking.Originally, they felt ashamed to take the hundred times the silver, but they had no choice but to have many children and grandchildren, and the shining silver was there. If they didn't want it, they couldn't face the longing in the eyes of their children and grandchildren.

There was a long silence.An Jingming said in a low voice: "Sibling and sister, she's not coming back for revenge, is she?"

"No. If you want to take revenge, you will pay it back in the year. How can you give money? It is Dafang who has a grudge against them. Repay a hundred times for kindness. I'm afraid of revenge. The Dafang's people may not be good."

Fourth An looked at the wine in front of him, the aroma of the wine could no longer arouse the wine bug in his stomach.Over the years, he has thought about it countless times, if the big house disappears overnight, it may be more ominous than good.

"The reason why they didn't take action against us was because we didn't plan on them, but we had limited cooperation back then. At that time, the steward treated us as usual, and he didn't treat us particularly favorably. Even the heir They don’t want to choose from our two families. After so many years, they haven’t come back and never heard from us. I’m afraid this is their attitude towards us now.”

"I'm afraid they already treat us as ordinary clansmen." Second An also thought about it and sighed deeply.

"Since they think so, we can't elevate ourselves too much in the future. In the end, we are the ones who are at fault. We received such a great favor from the third brother back then, but stood by when his descendants were in the most difficult time. . If we can’t help you, we are ashamed of the third party!"

(End of this chapter)