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Chapter 21 The Third House Debt Collection and Reminiscences
Yu Sanlang accepted the old man's statement. He pondered over the old man's words carefully, focusing on the word "reputation". He almost immediately realized that the old man was afraid that Liu's affairs would affect his and the fourth brother's future.

Half of the unhappiness that had been lingering in his heart all night dissipated, and Yu Sanlang decided not to hold back the other half. He turned around and looked at his eldest brother and his wife and began to collect the debt.

"The villagers are very busy these days with spring ploughing and clearing wasteland to plant medicine. I'm afraid I'll have to go to the city to find a bricklayer. The house is needed urgently, so I guess I'll have to pay more."

"Brother, we agreed before that after you bring Liu back, you will give Hongdou 10% of the divided family property as compensation. I won't ask you for anything else, but you can give me 6 taels of silver for the cash and land of the divided family property!"

Yu Sanlang's words made Yu Dalang and his wife's faces change. Yu Dalang looked at his father with a sad face, while Zhang covered her face and was about to cry.

"Brother and sister-in-law, you borrowed a lot of money from me for this and that in the past few years. I forgot all of that for the sake of our brotherhood. Hongdou was so young and almost lost her life. You don't want to default on the compensation, do you?"

Yu Sanlang took the initiative and after saying this, he looked at his second brother. In the past, his eldest brother had cheated them many times.

"Yes, brother and sister-in-law, I have wanted to say this for a long time. Now that we have divided up the family, it is time to pay back the money we borrowed earlier. Our Li Zi and Hu Tao are getting married soon, and we also need to build a house. There are so many places to spend money." Before Yu Erlang could react, his wife Sun immediately took over the conversation.

Zhang couldn't hold it in any longer, she slapped her thigh and started crying: "Where do we have money~"

As soon as his wife started crying, Yu Dalang also started to wipe his tears and act pitiful: "Second brother, third brother, the money for the family division is so little, and now dad wants to kick us out as well. Building a house requires money, Ginkgo's wedding requires money, Liu's childbirth requires money, and the spring ploughing is coming soon..."

"I can't catch up with my second brother's ability, my third brother's intelligence, Hazelnut is not as ambitious as me, and Acorn passed away early... I know I owe you a lot, and I am sorry for you..."

Yu Dalang cried while looking at his father's face. Seeing that his father didn't move at all, he covered his chest and began to breathe heavily.

"Alright, boss, pay back the money you owe. This is what you deserve. You don't act like a brother at all." Old Man Yu glared at his eldest son.

Are you stupid? Why don't you just hurry up and do good to your younger brothers? I really want to live alone for the rest of my life.

Yu Dalang didn't expect that his father, who had always been on his side, would really ignore him. He choked and started to cry.

Yu Hongdou clung to her father and watched the whole show, which overturned her impression of her family members.

She swore that when her uncle covered his chest just now, her grandfather, her father and her silent second uncle all rolled their eyes.

It can be seen that everyone knew that my uncle was pretending to be sick, but my uncle actually acted so seriously!
Yu Hongdou had always heard her parents muttering about the eldest son being "stupid and cunning" behind his back, but she didn't know the details. But from what Yu Sanlang said just now about asking for a debt, it seemed that the eldest uncle must have cheated her father and second uncle out of money in the past.

Yu Dalang knew best who was in charge in the family. Seeing that his father was not on his side, he had to stop and kicked his wife who was still sitting on the ground crying.

Zhang received the signal from her husband, but she was still unwilling to give up. The money in her hands was hers, and no one could make her return it.

Yu Dalang understood his wife's nature and gestured for her to look at the old man and the old lady. They had a tacit understanding long ago that no matter what others did, they, the eldest wife, would only cling to the old man. Anyway, whether their younger brothers and sisters were successful or not, they had to be filial to their parents.

Zhang glanced at her parents-in-law and saw that they looked gloomy. She felt a pang in her heart. There had been quarrels before and each time her parents-in-law would just watch the fun in silence. But their expressions were different from now.

In the end, the first wife reluctantly took out twenty-six taels of silver, gave sixteen taels to the third wife, and ten taels to the second wife.

"Yes, this is our Hongdou's dowry, so let Hongdou take it!" After returning to the third room, Yu Sanlang saw his daughter staring at the sixteen taels of silver, and laughed so hard that he took out six small silver ingots and put them in his daughter's hands. "Give it to me?" Yu Hongdou stared at the silver for no other reason, because the silver in front of her seemed to be different in shape and color from the two taels of silver she had signed for from Zhang Shan's private money.

She never expected that her father would be so generous and directly gave her six small silver ingots. Yu Hongdou, who had always thought her family was very poor, was so shocked that her jaw dropped.

That’s right. Before the family split up, Yu Hongdou always felt that her family was very poor. After all, her brother’s monthly salary was only two taels, which made Liu break her head over it.

It was not until the day of separation when the old man took out two hundred and fifty taels of silver at once that Yu Hongdou remembered that although she had traveled through time to a farming novel, it was also a thrilling novel with a strong female protagonist.

In a novel with a heroine as the main character, it is no big deal for the heroine to become rich and well-off. If she is not rich enough to rival a country and cannot influence the affairs of the court in the later period, she is not considered a success.

Therefore, in the article "Tian Yi Man Man", the earning and spending of money are relatively straightforward. For example, after the heroine married into the Yu family, she set up a stall for the first time and earned eight taels of silver that day. She was also approached by a well-known restaurant and bought a recipe from her for two hundred taels of silver.

Later, the heroine opened a shop, bought land, leased a mountain to build a farm, etc. The amount of silver increased from one thousand taels to ten thousand taels, and the readers cheered.

When the faction of textual research appears, some people will stand up and criticize them, saying that since they have traveled through time, what is the point of factual research? Some people also say that the ancient times were not that poor. Haven’t you seen that the ancient emperors rewarded their ministers with hundreds of thousands of gold?

Her father gave her six silver ingots at once when she was only five years old. Yu Hongdou suddenly felt that she was very stupid and naive when she gave two taels of silver to her brother to show off.

"Dad, is our family so rich? Or are every family so rich?" Yu Hongdou was a little confused about the current monetary inflation situation in society. This was not a good phenomenon, so she asked directly.

"Silly child, the natural disasters and man-made tragedies have only happened in the past few years, how could every family be so rich?" Yu Sanlang laughed when he heard his daughter's words. It was Xu who patted her husband in a reproachful manner and answered her daughter seriously.

"? Then why is our family so rich? Is it because we sell medicinal herbs?" Yu Hongdou instantly thought of the key point.

"Haha, our Hongdou is really smart. Since you asked, daddy will calculate it for you. But we can only say this in our room. You can't tell anyone outside, okay?" Seeing that his daughter pointed out the topic immediately, Yu Sanlang praised her and began to tell her about the past.

After Mr. Yu had buried the owner of the herbal medicine shop, he fled with the remaining money. However, the most valuable thing about a herbal medicine shop is not the shop itself, but the herbs.

Although the herbal medicine shop was robbed by evil people, the shopkeeper still had a lot of stock at home. Mr. Yu was alone and had no luggage, so he carried a bag full of herbs on his back.

There were always diseases and disasters on the road of escape. With the medicinal herbs he had and his half-baked skills in treating illnesses, Mr. Yu made a small fortune from disasters.

After settling in Taoyuan Village, there were several large mountains surrounding it, which were rich in medicinal herbs. Grandpa Yu was not shy about keeping any of them to himself. He taught both his children to identify the herbs. When they could run around the mountains, he asked each of them to memorize a few and go into the mountains to dig herbs every day.

"That year I dug up a small ginseng. Because it was hard to find here, I sold it for twenty taels. I originally wanted to keep it for marrying your mother, but your uncle's second son, Jiaozi, fell ill, so I borrowed the twenty taels. Later, the child died, and I didn't want it anymore." When he said this, Yu Sanlang's expression was not very happy.

If his brother really owed them money just because of these difficulties, he would not ask for it at all, but later on, his eldest brother and sister-in-law became more and more excessive.

"After your brother, your mother got pregnant once. Because of the flood that year, your mother had a miscarriage when she ran to the mountain. When your uncle and I went up the mountain, we saw another ginseng. We said we would not sell it and keep it to nourish your mother. But he sold it secretly, and your mother lost the baby in her belly..."

That time he broke one of his eldest brother's ribs, and his eldest brother started coughing. Although his eldest brother often pretended to be sick, Yu Sanlang knew that his eldest brother was really seriously injured. That was why he hated his eldest brother and his wife over the years but couldn't really break up with them.

(End of this chapter)