Splendid peasant girl busy farming

Chapter 11872

Uncle Sixi's invitation was very sincere, even earnest, as if in his eyes, Uncle Sixi had truly become a pillar supporting the Sixi family's sky.

Sanxi nodded vigorously beside him, echoing his uncle's words and trying to persuade his uncle to stay.

Sixi's mother became even more anxious, "Brother, how can you shirk your responsibilities at such a crucial moment? You have to go! If your sister-in-law doesn't agree, I'll go and talk to her!"

As she was speaking, she was about to leave when she was stopped by Uncle Sixi.

"Don't go to my house and cause trouble! Your sister-in-law didn't object, it's just that I don't want to go!" Uncle Sixi blurted out the reason in his anxiety.

Si Xi's mother turned around, looking incredulous: "What? You don't want to go?"

The woman immediately raised her voice sharply, pointed in the direction of the county town to the north, and questioned Uncle Sixi in a very angry and self-righteous tone: "Who are those people locked up in the county jail? They are your own brothers and your own nephews!"

"How can you be so disregardful of family ties? If word gets out, people will gossip about you behind your back!"

Every word Si Xi Niang spoke was eloquent and every syllable she uttered was resounding.

However, Uncle Sixi laughed in anger.

He glanced at his uncle Sixi and Sanxi beside him, as well as the several nieces-in-law who had followed him out of the main room. These people had also heard the conversation at the door, and they all seemed to be on Sixi's mother's side. It seemed that Sixi's uncle's refusal to go to the county government was something that no one could believe, accept, violated human ethics, kinship, and common sense, and was an unforgivable and heartless crime!
Uncle Sixi chuckled twice, raised his finger and pointed towards the county town to the north, saying, "Just because he's my own brother and nephew, I've been accompanying you around begging and pleading with everyone for the past two days since the incident, acting all humble and subservient. Isn't that the truth?"

Uncle Sixi nodded: "Yes, that's why you're such a righteous and good older brother. Without you, we have no one to rely on."

"Let's not talk about who the backbone is," Uncle Sixi said, pushing away the hand that Uncle Sixi was reaching out to him again.

"Even the prison visitation token was obtained by me for your family, and the advice that Qing'er gave you was also brought to you by me."

"If you went to beg yourselves, you would have been kicked out of the courtyard, wouldn't you have?" he asked again.

Uncle Sixi blushed, but still turned his face away and nodded: "Yes."

Sixi's mother knew this was the truth, and she couldn't refute or argue against it. So she stamped her foot and said anxiously, "Brother, it's precisely because you're more capable and know how to handle things than us that you should go. If you don't go, neither my brother nor I will know which way the door to the county jail opens!"

Not far away, Erxi's wife, stroking her prominently pregnant belly, smiled and said, "Uncle, we're all family, even if the bones are broken, the tendons are still connected. Please, be a good person to the end and accompany my mother and the others on this trip, okay?"

Uncle Sixi waved his hand, his face icy cold, "I've done my part. You can walk the rest of the way yourselves."

"Besides, don't think I'm being heartless towards my family. I've already done everything I could."

"Although I don't covet your things, there are some things I still need to say,"

“Don’t try to blackmail me with morality and family ties. Now that something has happened, I’m the backbone. I can’t be missing. I have to be the one to lead the charge wherever we go.”

"When you were hauling four or five hundred catties of peanuts to sell in several trips, and your family was living a life of luxury with those five or six taels of silver, did you ever think of your uncle?"

Uncle Sixi didn't want to say these words, because saying them would make it seem like he cared too much about those things.

Honestly, this family is completely oblivious to their own shortcomings. They take from others endlessly and act as if it's their right.

So he had to say it. And once he did, the atmosphere in the courtyard instantly became awkward.

Uncle Sixi remained silent, pretending to look at the sky, the ground, and the withered grass sprouting from the cracks in the courtyard wall...

Sanxi blushed deeply. It was indeed a mistake on their part. At the time, his father and brothers were eating meat and drinking wine, and he suggested inviting his uncle and cousins ​​over to have some meat and wine.

He barely opened his mouth when his mother and second brother launched into a tirade, accusing him of being troublesome and asking for trouble. They said they'd just had a good meal, and he was in the mood to invite others to eat and drink? Then they rattled off a series of examples, like how his uncle's family had eaten meat and fish without inviting them...

Sanxi then suggested sending some fruits and snacks to the neighbor's house for her uncle's grandchildren.

Then Mom jumped in again, saying he was a spendthrift, and that Auntie always gave the kids in the family good food, but never shared any with our family.

As for Dad, he just kept smoking his pipe and didn't say a word. When Sanxi pressed him for answers, Dad impatiently said, "Men are in charge of external affairs and women are in charge of internal affairs. These little things are up to your mother!"

At the time, Sanxi was even whispering to his wife behind closed doors, saying that his parents were too narrow-minded and couldn't even maintain good relationships with his uncle and aunt.

No wonder that last time I got into a fight with Cao Bamei from the Yang family under the old maple tree, Liu Shi and Da Sun Shi both came to lend a hand, but on my side, even though my aunt's daughters-in-law and several cousins ​​were there, not a single one of them rolled up their sleeves and stepped forward to help...

None of the cousins' wives offered a helping hand; how could they expect those distant relatives to slap them and then ignore them?
At this moment, faced with Uncle Sixi's exposed secret, Sixi's mother was speechless and felt guilty.

Erxi's wife had quietly slipped back into the main room behind them sometime during the night, and never showed her face again...

After Uncle Sixi finished speaking, he saw that they were all silent, except for Sanxi who kept apologizing. Uncle Sixi waved his hand and said, "In your family, only you and Sixi are sober."

"Take care of yourself!"

Before leaving, Uncle Sixi patted Sanxi on the shoulder and sighed.

By the time everyone in the courtyard came to their senses, Uncle Sixi had already left.

Si Xi's mother stood there, muttering to herself, clearly still complaining about Si Xi's uncle's cold-heartedness...

Sixi's uncle couldn't hold back any longer and said to her, "You're such a failure in how you conduct yourself; you're so petty and uncouth!"

He then looked at his own daughter, who was also his wife, with a worried gaze and said, "You are the eldest daughter-in-law, so don't follow her example, or you'll ruin yourself!"

The eldest daughter-in-law smiled awkwardly and made an excuse to slip into the kitchen.

Faced with her brother's reproach, Sixi's mother dared not refute him. She could only ask hesitantly, "Brother, shall we still go to the county government tomorrow?"

"Go? Of course we'll go! We have to go and see what Sixi's dad and the others have to say, what's going on!"

"Okay, fine, let's go then. We really won't go and call them..."

"What are you yelling for? You think you have the nerve? I certainly don't!"

"Let's go ourselves. Don't ask or inquire. We'll tell you the way!"