Chapter 5: Dividing the family

The Li Family Old Woman was scolded until her face turned red and then blue, glaring fiercely at Zhu Shi, who was being dragged out by her ears by Jiang Wei.

Anyone with eyes could see what had happened.

Farm families most taboo people with unclean hands, let alone the matter of a thief in the house.

Even the thick-skinned Li Family Old Woman felt her old face couldn't hang on at this moment.

If the daughter-in-law had unclean hands, people would think it was her, the mother-in-law, who failed to discipline her properly.

Zhu Shi covered her cheek, which was burning with pain, and was about to wail and complain, but unexpectedly met her mother-in-law's man-eating gaze and hurriedly closed her mouth.

"You shameful stinking woman, get back here right now!"

After the Li Family Old Woman finished scolding, she felt ashamed and embarrassed in front of the villagers watching the fun, and turned to go back into the room.

Unexpectedly, the woman behind her spoke coldly:

"This life can't go on, I want to divide the family."

Jiang Xiaoxiao, who was following her mother, saw her eyes light up upon hearing this.

Divide the family!

Dividing the family is good!

This whole Li family is a bunch of vampires, especially the eldest branch studying in town; this family should have been divided long ago!

However, why did this plot of dividing the family happen early?

Jiang Xiaoxiao was a bit puzzled.

According to the original book's plot, the female lead only proposed dividing the family more than ten days after transmigrating, when she realized the whole family were vampires.

The Li Family Old Woman gave birth to three sons and one daughter in total.

The eldest son, Li Shoude, passed the child scholar exam at seventeen, and now, nearly thirty, he is still taking the scholar exam, studying at an academy in town, almost spending all the family's savings.

The second son, Li Shoucai, is selfish and lazy, and his wife, Zhu Shi, is even worse, usually urging her mother-in-law to bully the female lead every day, pushing all the dirty and tiring work in the house onto her.

The third son, Li Shougen, was the original host's father.

Just like his name, he was like grass in the house, not favored, and the whole third branch was squeezed and bullied by the Li family.

A few years ago, the imperial court was in turmoil, wars broke out frequently, and her father was pushed out by the whole family to join the army and never returned.

"Divide the family? Divide what family! I'm not dead yet, and you want to divide the family; you want to curse me and your father to die early, right!"

The Li Family Old Woman exploded as soon as she heard about dividing the family, pulling her voice and scolding angrily.

In ancient times, the clan concept was deeply rooted, and generally, the family could not be divided while the elders were still alive.

The neighbors also followed suit and persuaded them.

"Li family's Third Daughter-in-law, you must not think of anything reckless! Your husband is gone, how are you going to live if you divide out alone?"

Not to mention that there is a lot of gossip in front of a widow's door, and it was originally not easy for a woman to live alone.

Moreover, Jiang Shi fled to Qinghe Village during the famine a few years ago, and she had no maternal family to rely on in the village; life would not be easy after leaving the old Li family.

Jiang Wei raised her head, her gaze sharp, looking directly at the Li Family Old Woman, without a trace of emotion: "I said, divide the family."

"You stirrer of the family, do you have to make my Li family restless!"

The Li Family Old Woman was trembling with anger and wanted to scold a few more words, but the Li Family Old Man walked out wearing an outer garment.

"Shut up! Still think it's not shameful enough?" He glared at the Li Family Old Woman.

But the meaning of his words was all blaming the mother and daughter on the side.

As the head of the Li family, he always paid attention to the Li family's face, and with so many neighbors watching, he couldn't flare up, so he could only soften his expression and say to Jiang Wei:

"Old Third's wife, it's not early anymore, let's talk about anything tomorrow, hurry back to the room and sleep."

The top priority was to suppress the matter and wait for the neighbors watching the fun to disperse before talking.

But how could Jiang Xiaoxiao let him have his way.

She blinked her eyes, deliberately tilting her head with a puzzled look: "Grandpa, we don't have a room to go back to sleep in?"

Saying this, she pointed to the dilapidated thatched shed behind her with her little finger: "But Grandpa, you don't have to worry, we have always slept inside here, although it's broken inside, the wind always blows in, and it's very cold at night, but Mother and I have thatched grass to cover our bodies."

"However, Grandpa, I heard Er Gou say that thatched sheds are used to keep livestock, so if Mother and I live inside, are we also the Li family's livestock?"

The five-year-old child's crisp voice rang out in the silent dark night, innocent and pure, as if she didn't know the ways of the world.

The Li Family Old Man was asked until he was speechless.

In the past, the third branch's daughter-in-law endured humiliation and lived in the thatched shed without daring to make a sound, so everyone naturally ignored it.

Now that it was pointed out so blatantly, his old face couldn't hang on.

"Sigh, old Li man, it's not that I'm saying anything, but look, can this thatched shed be lived in? Other people's thatched sheds are used to keep livestock, is your family treating this mother and daughter too harshly, not even having a proper room?"

"That's right, that's right, simply not treating the mother and daughter as human beings! How can you let people live in a thatched shed? I think this thatched shed is broken beyond recognition, you old couple are too heartless!"

Following the accusations of the neighbors one after another, the Li Family Old Man's face turned red and then white, and he mumbled for a long time without saying a word.

He could only suggestively look at his own woman.

The Li Family Old Woman immediately turned her head away, resentfully: "My family has no room for these two money-losing brats to live in!"

The Li Family Old Man scolded the Old Woman for having no eyes, and could only cast his gaze toward the second branch.

The Li family's ancestral house was divided into the main room and the east and west rooms.

The main room was where the old couple and the Younger Sister-in-law Li Xiufang lived.

The west room was where the second branch lived.

Although the east room was empty, it was also the eldest son's room, and the eldest son would still live there when he came back from town.

As soon as Zhu Shi saw her father-in-law's gaze, she knew he wanted to make room for those two money-losing brats, and hurriedly complained:

"Father, our second branch has four people, living in one room is already crowded enough, there's really no room to spare."

"Crying what are you crying for! Isn't this matter caused by you!"

As soon as she finished speaking, the Li Family Old Woman glared at her fiercely.

If it weren't for her going to steal things in the middle of the night, would there be so many things?

"Father, I'm a grown man in the room, is it appropriate to let the sister-in-law move in?" At this moment, Li Shoucai didn't pretend to be deaf and dumb as usual, and spoke up.

"Isn't the east room empty? I don't know when the eldest brother will come back from town, why don't you..."

"You bastard! That room is your eldest brother's, how can you let others live in it!"

Before Li Shoucai could finish speaking, the Li Family Old Man scolded angrily.

The eldest son, Li Shoude, was the treasure of the Li family's old couple, and others must not touch it.

Li Shoude, as the only scholar in the Li family, was the hope of the Li family's ancestors, and the Li Family Old Man would never let others occupy his room, let alone two money-losing brats he had always looked down upon.

Li Shoucai wasn't seeing his father's bias for the first time, curled his lips, and didn't speak again.

Jiang Xiaoxiao looked at this selfish Li family, knowing clearly that the eldest uncle she had never met was the Li Family Old Man's death point, so she pulled her mother's sleeve and deliberately said:

"Mother, the eldest uncle lives in town, is the house very big? If we go to town to find them, will the eldest uncle give us a room to live in?"

As soon as she said this, the Li Family Old Man's face turned iron-blue.

(End of chapter)