Chapter 13 The Xi Family
The grandma Cheng was not the biological father's biological mother, but the concubine was the concubine Lü. Five years after giving birth to her father, Lu was pregnant with another baby. However, this baby was unable to be preserved. He was injured by Cheng's miscarriage and his body was damaged. His body was not able to be well recuperated. He also had a sick illness until his father was sixteen years old and he died of illness when he was bride.
As soon as the Lü died, his grandfather, who loved Lü, was depressed and fell ill a few years later. In the year when Xi Feng's younger brother was born, his grandfather also passed away.
Grandpa knew that Cheng was harsh on the second family of illegitimate sons and family of five. Before he died, he called the clan leader and the clan elders and divided the family in front of the clan leader and clan elders.
Before his death, grandpa divided the family, because he was afraid that Cheng and his eldest son would bully his younger son after his death, and that Cheng and his eldest son would take over the family property so that their younger son would suffer.
The Xi family is in Hangzhou City, and it is also a big family with many people in the clan. However, Grandpa Xifeng is just a branch of the Xi family that is about to be released in five robes, so the family property is not much.
Five hundred acres of land are all top paddy fields.
Three small villages: a tea house, an orchard, and the other one is forest.
Six shops: two grain and oil shops, a tea shop, a grocery shop, a coffin shop, and an incense and candle shop.
Then there is a three-in-large courtyard where I live, and the 6,000 taels of silver I earned back with my grandfather over the years.
When the family was split, grandpa said that the wood used in the coffin shop for the coffin shop was cut from the forest village, and some of the spices of the incense and candle shop were made of sandalwood trees on the forest village, so the coffin shop and the incense and candle shop must not be divided.
Tea shops and tea shops are not allowed to be split.
These industries were passed down from ancestors, and some were later bought by grandpa. Grandpa said that Xi Tonglin was the legitimate son, so he asked him to choose first. Xi Tonglin took out the grain and oil shops, grocery shops, tea shops, orchards, tea shops, and leftover coffin shops, incense and candle shops and Linmu Villages to Xi Tongfang.
The legitimate son and the illegitimate son split the family, and the legitimate son Xi Tonglin is the eldest son, so he has to share most of the property, 350 acres of paddy fields, an orchard farm, a tea house, two grain and oil shops, a grocery shop, and a tea shop.
My father Xi Tongfang is a concubine's son, and he only gets a small mountain village, a coffin shop, an incense and candle shop, and 150 acres of paddy fields.
The third entry of the big yard should be given to the legitimate son to live in. Moreover, the Cheng family had not died yet, and the second home had no house. The grandfather asked the clan elder to help him and spent 1,600 taels of silver to buy a second-enterprise small yard not far from the Xi family to live in for the second home.
The remaining 4,400 taels of silver were left for Cheng's elderly care, and 200 taels were bought for grandfather's funeral. The remaining 2,400 taels were given to the second house and 2,900 taels were given to the largest house.
As for the private house of Cheng's grandma, which is worth four or five thousand taels of silver, it has been embezzled by the store over the years. Grandpa knew it, but he didn't mention it when he was splitting up.
Grandpa knew Cheng's personality well and did not dare to give more property to the second house. If he had given more, Cheng would not let the second house go after he died. He would give less of the second house. Perhaps Cheng could spare the second house, so the second house could only give the second house a living family to make food and clothing, so that the second house could not be hungry.
Chapter completed!