Transmigration: I Have Storage Space in the Apocalypse
Chapter 205 - 201 Is This Division of Family Property and Land? [-43 More]

Chapter 205: Chapter 201 Is This Division of Family Property and Land? [-43 More]

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February 13th

After staying in the provincial hospital for four days, Zhou Xiuhua’s condition finally stabilized. At least she could sit up on her own without too much effort, and her speech became fluent, no longer so weak that it just made people feel sad.

That day, Fan Jiefang drove through the night again, bringing Xie Tiesheng and his daughter over.

Working at home for three straight days, Xie Tiesheng finally allocated the family’s fields. With his son-in-law Fan Jiefang supporting him on the side, renting out the fields was made simple and quick, even pioneering in Qingfeng Village.

With the tenth day of the lunar new year approaching and formal work resuming, Fan Jiefang would not have as much free time as before. Plus, Xie Jinghong had been crying at home for several days. She was about to swell her eyes with tears if she didn’t see her mother well soon, and the three children at home were also turned into crybabies.

This time, Fan Jiefang brought the three children back to his mother’s house, gave her twenty yuan to take good care of the children for two days, and then he came over with his wife and father-in-law with peace of mind.

Upon seeing her frail mother, Xie Jinghong truly couldn’t help but cry. It was only after seeing Zhou Xiuhua speak clearly that she breathed a sigh of relief.

With Zhang Shanni around, how could she possibly let her mother-in-law’s health deteriorate?

Xie Jinghong might be a bit muddle-headed about matters at her husband’s home. Mainly because she was a bit old when she got married and was a village girl who had once broken off an engagement, so she wasn’t considered very desirable for Fan Jiefang from the town.

Initially, Xie Tiesheng wasn’t fond of this son-in-law, and Li Xiaochun hadn’t thought highly of Xie Jinghong either!

Regarding her dominant mother-in-law, Xie Jinghong started off soft, but when she later wanted to stand up for herself, she couldn’t find a foothold.

But being soft had its advantages. At least Fan Jiefang was more concerned about his wife, so his mind inevitably focused more on his family affairs, which allowed him to realize sooner what his own mother’s true nature was like.

This caused Fan Jiefang to be heartbroken by his blood mother and younger brother and to focus wholeheartedly on his own little family from then on.

It was a blessing in disguise.

Zhou Xiuhua’s nature was straightforward and righteous, so the children she raised, even if they turned out a bit crooked later, still retained their basic common sense.

Seeing that her mother-in-law was cared for by her eldest sister-in-law, Zhang Shanni sat next to her father-in-law and listened to him chatting with Fifth and Fan Jiefang. Of course, they talked about serious matters concerning the division of fields and tenancy.

It wasn’t that the three men deliberately excluded her from their conversation, but Fan Jiefang, who had seen twins before, felt dizzy seeing her belly. It had only been a few days, but it had obviously grown much larger.

His wife had also given birth to twins during her second pregnancy, and although hers was a premature birth, her belly was only a tad larger than Zhang Shanni’s currently is. However, Zhang Shanni was only a little over four months pregnant, while others of the same size would be six or seven months along!

[PS: The setting for Ranran is due to poor nutrition in the past, pregnant women’s bellies would not be as big as now, probably around what would now be the seventh or eighth month.]

Zhang Shanni heard that Xie Tiesheng had directly divided the family’s seventeen acres of land into five parts, keeping five acres for himself, and the remaining twelve acres were evenly distributed as three acres each among the four brothers, without considering how many children each son had.

Was this a division of family and property? Zhang Shanni’s eyes brightened upon hearing this.

Then, there was also a policy in the village: current fields were not counted, and if you were separating households, you could tally three acres for yourself by reclaiming the wasteland. This was very humane, as long as you were hardworking, you could develop the wasteland yourself.

Qingfeng Village was near the mountains, and the good fields were fixed, but there were many slopes available. If you wanted, and while there was still land, you just had to work hard to claim it.

Furthermore, the five acres owned by the elders were also divided for a hundred years later. Now that the elders were still here, the yield from these fields belonged to them, and the dowry for their youngest daughter would also come from there. The brothers only needed to add a portion to the dowry as they wished.

After the elders passed away, the five acres would be divided into three parts: two acres each for the second and youngest sons, and the last acre specifically for Xiaoqi.

Only Xiaoqi among the grandchildren has what was left behind.

Xie Tiesheng was a rational and wise man, everything was fine except that Xiaoqi would suffer the most in the future. After all, the other grandchildren have both parents, even Xiao Si has a higher starting point as a male compared to Xiaoqi.

Concerning the youngest granddaughter Xiaoqi, although Xie Tiesheng rarely held her, she was nonetheless his blood granddaughter. If he could dote on his married eldest daughter, how could he not feel pain for his little granddaughter?

As for the inheritance that only Xiaoqi had and not Xiao Wu, it was because Xiaoqi was by his side now. The old man seldom showed favoritism, but even the Eldest daughter-in-law, who had a lot to say against him, had to bow under the gaze of Xie Tiesheng.

The old man made it clear that the family assets were accumulated by his own hands, and it was up to him to decide who got what and how it was divided!

Even if the Eldest daughter-in-law had objections, she could only wait until she had fought for her share of the inheritance before having an opinion.

Now the Xie Family had many mouths to feed, but among the grandchildren, there were only two girls, Xiao Wu and Xiaoqi. Xiao Wu was a bit better, for she had both parents despite the lack of parental doting.

Not that Xie Tiesheng wasn’t willing to give, but the old man could see clearly, even if he softened his heart and allocated a piece of land to Xiao Wu, in the end, it would not end up in her hands!

What kind of person the Eldest daughter-in-law was, Xie Tiesheng might not see 90% of her nature, but 70% over the years was enough understanding. Especially since she dared to spoil her eldest son with heavy filial piety for her deceased mother, he would no longer recognize her as a clan woman!

Moreover, Xiao Wu had Xiao Yi and Xiao’er, her two brothers, to look after her in the future; she would not suffer.

The shares that belonged to Xie Jingchen and Xie Jingyang were leased out by Xie Tiesheng. However, he couldn’t bear to lease out the five acres of land on top of his own head, so he let their eldest son’s family farm it, only asking for 40% of the grain, which was, in a way, providing covert support to the eldest son’s family.

Zhang Shanni and Fifth had no objections, indicating their agreement. As for the Fourth Family, Xie Tiesheng didn’t worry about them, letting them handle it themselves. After all, both spouses were in town, and if they really wanted to manage, they could; what was happening now was, in a way, a form of separating the family.

It seemed that Mr. Xie had finally come online with his rationality. As long as Zhou Xiuhua didn’t have any major issues, just the usual costs for needles, fluids, and medicines, what extent could it reach?

Even Fifth had privately persuaded him several times to split the family outright. As for San’er, he had already called for a division of the family when Fifth got married.

Xie Tiesheng always thought that if a family, parents, and brothers were together, they could better assist and protect each other...

It was an old-fashioned thought, but this has been the tradition passed down through China’s 5,000-year history. Although Xie Tiesheng wasn’t highly educated, he had read old books and it wasn’t surprising for him to have such old-fashioned thoughts.

However, his thinking was now a thing of the past.

Watching and helping each other is only possible when there is a ’common’ enemy to forge an alliance-like kinship!

In fact, his sons had grown up, and his sons’ sons were also growing up... Living together now, without a common enemy, they only shared ’interests’!

When personal interests need to be divided and cannot be distributed fairly, even fathers and sons, brothers and brothers, can split apart!

The most realistic metaphor was that there was only one ’Imperial Throne’, but they were all Princes and Imperial Grandsons, each wanting to ascend and occupy the ’territory’!

Zhang Shanni heard the pain in her godfather’s calm voice, and even Zhou Xiuhua, who had woken up at some unknown time, was silently shedding tears...

"Dad, Mom, life will get better. Separating is for a better reunion in the future."

Zhang Shanni felt that these past few days, she had been constantly feeding people ’chicken soup for the soul’, yet now, with people’s language impoverished under the poison of the ’Red X Book’, they actually all agreed and nodded deeply moved by her clearly superficial words...

Zhang Shanni: ╯﹏╰ Silent.

A village girl with a twitching corner of her mouth said: It’s not that the other side is too emotional, but rather that we are too sharp.