Be a small county magistrate in ancient times

Chapter 359: Your Report is Meritorious
Zheng Jiasheng was really scared. He was afraid that if he kept Zheng Xidong around, his head would be chopped off sooner or later.

In addition, according to Li Erfang, even if the family is divided, she will still have to take care of herself in her old age in the future. In this case, why not fulfill her wish?

"Okay, let's divide it. This house has nothing to do with you. Don't even think about taking anything away." Zheng Jiasheng still made a harsh statement at this time.

Before Zheng Xidong could speak, Li Erfang slapped him in the face. "Why are you being so decisive? Since you agree to divide the family, then divide it properly. How much can she take away? If you really don't give her a single cent and let her freeze to death outside, what good will it do you?"

Zheng Xidong said: "I have a share in this house, so I will take away what belongs to me."

"Alright!" Li Erfang waved his hands at her impatiently. "Don't shout. If you trust me, just leave it to me. You can take whatever I can get. This will save you from arguing and arguing without any result."

Zheng Xidong stubbornly stood aside and stopped talking.

Li Erfang reasoned with Zheng Jiasheng, "Although your daughter is like this now, we all know what her personality was like before. She helped a lot with spring planting and autumn harvest. Even the house you live in, more than half of the bricks were made by her.

Now that we are dividing the family property, we should give her something.

I still say the same thing, you have to be reasonable when doing things, otherwise no one can stand it. Now she is shouting at you to kill her, and everyone is trying to stop her. If you want to do something extreme, who will care about you?"

Li Erfang lowered his voice, approached Zheng Jiasheng and said, "Even if you can beat her now, can you defeat her? You will be old one day in the future, right? Will you wait for her to take revenge on you on that day?
Listen to my advice, let her take whatever she wants. With so many people watching, if she takes too much, we will naturally say something.”

Li Erfang tried to persuade both sides, of course, mainly Zheng Jiasheng.

It took only an hour, and before it got completely dark, the family had finished dividing the money.

It was just as Li Erfang said, very simple.

Zheng Xidong took her clothes, a new quilt, and a few bags of food from home.

During this time, Zheng Jiasheng wanted to stop him, but was stopped by Li Erfang, "You have to listen to my advice."

In this way, Zheng Jiasheng's yard shrank a little further inward, and Zheng Xidong followed Li Erfang away to re-demarcate the residential land.

Seeing that Zheng Xidong had successfully divided the family, Zheng Xichun, who had not had a chance to speak, excitedly called out to Li Erfang, "Village Chief, I want to divide the family too!"

Li Erfang said angrily: "What are you doing?"

"I'm not making a fuss." Zheng Xichun's expression was very serious. He had been studying for a while and had his own thoughts. "I want to move out to live with my sister. I won't have a good life with my father, and my mother as well. The three of us will all move out."

Li Erfang was surprised and called out through the two people: "Jiashengjia, is this what you meant?"

Zhou Erya seemed to be unable to move at this moment. She was panic-stricken and seemed unable to make a decision.

"Just say something." Li Erfang urged.

"I..." She couldn't say anything.

A fellow villager who was helping Zheng Xidong move the grain said, "Xichun, you don't want to divide it for yourself, you want your father and uncle to divide it."

"Yes!" Zheng Xichun.

Many people laughed, and some of them were mocking Zheng Jiasheng.

He is the boss of this family, but his children want to kick him out. He is not even old, but he is already so disliked.

Li Erfang said he was tired, and then he thought of the dinner on his stove that he had not had time to eat yet. It can be seen that the monthly subsidy from the government office is not so easy to get.

"Let's talk about the division of the family property later. Your mother hasn't said a word, so how can you make the decision for her?" Li Erfang waved his hand. "Let's just leave it at that. It's getting late, and I still have to find a place for your sister to live." There was no vacant room in the village for Zheng Xidong to live in.

Li Erfang thought of the resettlement house she lived in when she first came to Beishan County, and thought that the government should be able to make some concessions in her situation, so he said to the people behind Zheng Xidong who were moving things, "Excuse me for taking a step back, she is pitiful, so please help her deliver her things to the place."

"It's nothing. Just give the word wherever you want to move to."

"It's next to the government office, where we lived when we first arrived."

After Li Erfang finished speaking, he took Zheng Xidong and left first. "In your situation, whether you can live in the house over there still needs the approval of the county government. Let's go to Uncle Yang first to ask for his help. Don't make the uncles in the government unhappy."

Zheng Xidong quickened his pace to catch up with Li Erfang, and thanked Li Erfang again and again, "If you hadn't made the decision, he wouldn't have let me go so easily."

Li Erfang waved his hands, "I have no choice. If you continue to make trouble like this, someone will definitely die. Then I will not be able to justify myself to Lord Meng."

When they arrived, Yang happened to be talking to someone at the door. Li Erfang and Zheng Xidong went to greet him with a smile, explained the reason, and asked Zheng Xidong to kneel down and kowtow to ask for leniency.

Yang Zheng knew Zheng Xidong. After all, this family had been brought to justice before they dealt with Song Xiyu's grandson and his younger brothers last time.

He could understand Zheng Xidong's determination to split the family.

"There are still vacant houses over there. You can pick one and live in it until the autumn harvest next year.

I just have a few things to tell you. You must take good care of the things you brought with you and don't cause any trouble. You must also not take anything that the government has given to other people."

Zheng Xidong naturally agreed and kowtowed to Yang Zheng to thank him for his great kindness.

Yang Zheng instructed the person next to him, "Zou Yan, take her over and pick a room for her to stay in."

"Yes."

After Zheng Xidong and Zou Yan left, Yang Zheng and Li Erfang asked about the situation. When they heard that Zheng Xidong's uncle was carrying food out one after another, they couldn't help but ask, "What did he do with the food?"

"I don't know that either." Li Erfang said truthfully, "I just heard from Zheng Xidong that he had been moving for several days and had taken out nearly ten bags of grain."

"You have to pay attention." Yang Zheng said, "Such an abnormal thing should be investigated. What is the use of the grain? Is there someone being supported outside, or is there some private transaction?"

"Hey! I'll check when I get back."

Without waiting for Li Erfang to investigate, Zheng Xidong reported Zheng Linsheng's private gambling to Zou Yan.

Zou Yan's face immediately changed, "Is what you said true?"

"I dare not lie to you. I followed my uncle privately and saw it with my own eyes. They gathered in the house at the westernmost end of the county town."

"I will investigate what you said. If it is true, the government will remember your merit in reporting it."

Zou Yan ran back to the yamen and found Yang Zheng to report the matter.

Yang Zheng immediately called a group of people and quietly went to the place Zheng Xidong mentioned.

They looked carefully and actually noticed that something was wrong with one of the rooms.

There were lights on inside, and if you listened carefully you could hear several people talking.

But there was a wall in front of them, so they couldn't see what was going on inside. Yang Zheng said to Zou Yan, "You are good at fighting, so climb over the wall and take a look. Be gentle."