The fat woman who was standing beside Liu Feiyan's bed, reaching out to pat Liu Feiyan's shoulder, heard the words of the hunchbacked old woman behind her, and suddenly stretched out her hand and was about to slap Liu Feiyan on the face——
Liu Feiyan closed her eyes and listened to the harsh words coming out of the mouth of the hunchbacked old woman, her grandmother. She felt sad and a little angry in her heart. She suddenly opened her eyes and saw her aunt's face.
She raised her palm high and was about to fall on her face. She turned sideways and hid, with tears flashing in her eyes: "Auntie, why are you at my house?"
The fat woman was stared at by Mrs. Liu's daughter, with an unnatural expression on her face. She retracted her hand, but did not answer Liu Feiyan's words. She snorted and turned back to the crowd.
Fei Yan propped his elbows on the bed and slowly sat up from the bed.
The feeling of weakness and weakness that surged throughout his body before has now faded a lot.
She turned her face and looked at the people crowded in her small room. The hunchbacked old woman in the front with a cane was her grandmother. Behind her, there were the uncle and aunt, the third uncle, the third aunt, the fourth uncle and the fourth aunt.
, the first hall uncle, the second hall uncle... After seeing these faces with different expressions, Liu Feiyan's fear suddenly dissipated a lot.
She realized that she was now forced to a dead end.
I don’t know the traces of the money and food left by my parents.
But everyone present will never think that they don't know - they will definitely try their best to force themselves - if they can't squeeze some money out of their own families, then these relatives may have to squeeze some money out of themselves.
"I can't retreat, I have to move forward.
Fortunately, I can still 'borrow the power of ghosts and gods', and the little brother from the Li family is willing to help me because of the relationship between me and his old friend..." Liu Feiyan's mind was spinning with thoughts, as if he was about to drown.
People, like clinging to the shore in times of danger, feel a little bit lucky in their hearts.
She raised her head and glanced at her grandma, still not daring to meet her mean and cold eyes. She just glanced at her and quickly lowered her head, calling in a low voice: "Grandma..."
The hunchbacked old woman leaned towards Liu Feiyan and said nothing.
On the other hand, the uncle behind him had a stern look on his face and scolded: "Ha! Is this how you talk to your grandma?!
Get out!"
Liu Feiyan did not dare to disobey and climbed up from the bed.
Her clothes were neat and untouched. Now she got up from the bed neatly, without fear of anything embarrassing happening. Liu Feiyan stood in front of the bed with his head bowed and his hands twisted under his abdomen.
There were several sons of the Liu family's uncles in the room. When they saw Liu Feiyan's pale face and panic-stricken eyes, their eyes widened for a moment, and they secretly salivated in their hearts.
Seeing Liu Feiyan standing beside the bed, the hunchbacked old woman sneered a few times and finally spoke: "Feiyan, did you sleep peacefully?"
Liu Feiyan shook his head and replied: "Grandma, I didn't sleep.
There was trouble at home earlier and I fainted. What happened after that, I still don’t know..."
"You passed out, but you still knew how to pass out in front of your own bed and cover yourself with a quilt?" A cousin's sister-in-law said in a strange and sinister manner.
Liu Feiyan knew that after she passed out, it was probably the Li family boy who took her back to the living room and covered her with a quilt to prevent herself from catching a cold - but she could never say this, as it would be harmful to her.
Not to mention my own reputation, it would be detrimental to the Li family's future marriage. The other party helped me and was kind to me, but I couldn't repay kindness with enmity.
She pursed her lips and said, "I came back from selling noodles. I felt a little tired, so I lay down on the bed and rested for a while. I didn't expect something serious to appear, so I passed out."
"snort!"
The cousin-in-law couldn't say anything to refute, she could only glare at Liu Feiyan bitterly, and at the same time nudged her husband, who was staring at Liu Feiyan, with her elbow. Her husband pushed her hand away.
His eyes seemed to be glued to the woman in front of the bed, never letting go.
"Now that you have grown up, I can't talk about you anymore, grandma.
In front of grandma, you haven't said a word of truth, that's all, that's all..." The hunchbacked old woman waved her hands and spoke helplessly.
Liu Feiyan was about to speak, but the hunchbacked old woman's eyes suddenly turned cold and stern at her, forcing her to push back the words she was about to say, making her face turn slightly pale with fear——
The hunchbacked old woman continued: "Your parents and brothers all died at the hands of Sneak!
But you can still sleep peacefully in bed, and you still have the heart to talk to your cousin-in-law and to an old woman like me, arguing out of thin air!
The place where you live now is still the ancestral property of the land and house that your grandfather gave to your father - you are a woman, and you will get married in the future. After all, you are an outsider. Your father's ancestral property of the land and house, but grandma, I can't leave it to you.
, especially now that you are full of lies and don’t act like a filial person, I can’t leave the land and house to you.
Just hand over the land contract and move out of here!"
As soon as grandma came up, she would take back the house and the fields outside, and drive Liu Feiyan out of the house.
Liu Feiyan's eyes turned red and she sobbed: "Grandma, my family has thirteen acres of fertile farmland and eight acres of farmland. Among seven-quarters of the reclaimed land, there are seven acres of farmland. The eight acres of farmland were earned during the years when my family opened a restaurant -
—I roll dough and make steamed buns and flatbreads for my restaurant, and I still work there today, and I also have some credit for those fields..."
"You have calculated these properties very clearly.
Your father and mother are gone like this, why don't you feel sad at all?!" The hunchbacked old woman looked at Liu Feiyan with cold eyes and scolded her sharply, "You are a woman, and the land was given to you, but in the end it was an advantage.
Man! You said you were rolling out noodles and making steamed buns and pancakes in a restaurant, so what did you eat?
Who raised you so big?
They are your parents—my son and daughter-in-law!
Since you only care about calculating how much property you can get, then I will teach you that you can’t get any land!"
Tears rolled down Liu Feiyan's eyes, and the anger in his heart became stronger and stronger.
After listening to her grandma's words, she knew that the other party had no intention of allocating half of the land to her from the beginning. Even if she had not fallen asleep before, even if she was guarding the mourning hall to serve her deceased parents - these people would still be found.
For other reasons, deprive her of the right to inherit the land and house!
"You didn't intend to give me half a point, so why do you need to say this! Grandma——
I don’t want it anymore, I don’t want it anymore!” Liu Feiyan cried loudly with sadness and anger mixed in his heart.
Seeing her like this, the hunchbacked old woman just sneered.
There are no outsiders in this situation, and she is not afraid of being hurt by others.
The relatives of the Liu family around her looked coldly at Liu Feiyan. Just by looking at her, they put her on the chopping board, cut her into large pieces, and cut her into pieces with thousands of knives!
"When my son is alive, he should still have a lot of savings and food.
Where did he put all his money and food?
If you tell me, I will ask you to stay in this house longer!" The hunchbacked old woman said coldly, "If you can't tell me, after the funeral is done today, you will stop staying here tomorrow!"
Liu Feiyan just cried and did not respond to the hunchbacked old woman's words.
At this time, the white-faced middle-aged man in the crowd spoke warmly and asked Liu Feiyan: "Feiyan, where did your father and mother put the money and food? Can you tell me?"
Today, we are organizing a funeral for your parents. We have opened fifteen tables of flowing banquets and invited all our relatives to gather here to mourn your parents and brothers for three days. The groomsmen, accountants, Taoist monks, etc. all have to spend money to take care of them...
...I can’t take out this money, so I can only use the money and food that your parents saved previously.”
Liu Feiyan raised her hazy tearful eyes and looked at the only middle-aged man in the crowd who spoke warmly to her.
That man is her third uncle.
She still remembered that when her mother was chasing and beating her, her third uncle had stopped her and helped her once. She wiped her tears, sobbed and said to her third uncle: "Third uncle, my father and my mother
They won't tell me where the money and food are hidden.
I don’t know where they put the money.”
The third uncle frowned when he heard this. His expression was still gentle, but there was something cold in his eyes that made Liu Feiyan tremble.
"If that's the case, there's nothing we can do..." The third uncle smiled apologetically at Liu Feiyan, which made the chill in Liu Feiyan's heart even deeper. He cupped his hand to a strange middle-aged man in a melon-skin hat next to him.
The middle-aged man in the melon-skin hat grinned, and his eyes scanned Liu Feiyan's body unscrupulously, as if he was looking at a rare item!
The third uncle reached out and touched the middle-aged man with a melon-skin hat, and then said to Liu Feiyan: "Feiyan, this is the royal official of Jeju. As your elder, I will make the decision for you and betroth you to this royal official -"
"Yes! Yes!" The 'Wang Guanren' responded twice, interrupted the third uncle's words, and said, "I will cover all the expenses for this funeral!
I will give you another thirty taels of silver as a betrothal gift!"
All the relatives of the Liu family were all beaming!
Liu Feiyan looked at everyone's smiling faces, turned pale, looked at his third uncle and said: "My family is a small family, when will it be necessary to open fifteen tables? Where did our Liu family come from so many relatives?"
Or eat on a flowing table for three days and nights?
This is a time of famine - the rich man in the city is no longer so wealthy even if he holds a running feast for three days and three nights. He still has to invite monks and Taoists to perform rituals..."
Boom!
The hunchbacked old woman paused the crutch in her hand, squinted at Liu Feiyan, and said coldly: "Don't you want to do this funeral?! If you don't do it, you are being unfilial!
In the Twenty-Four Filial Piety, there is a saying of "selling one's body to bury one's father". Now I give you a chance to be a dutiful daughter, will you do it or not?!
If you don’t organize the funeral for your parents, you will be stabbed in the spine in the future!
You want to keep money and food secretly, marry you off, and use your bride price to pay for the funerals of your parents and brothers, so why not?!"
"I really don't know where dad put the money and food..."
"Ha! I can't tell you where the money and food are, so I just marry a royal official, and I will live in fine clothes and fine food for the rest of my life."
"Yeah!"
The surrounding relatives of the Liu family burst out with unexplainable smiles.