Chapter 64: Aftermath

Xu Ping always felt that he had a lot to do. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info is like a person coming to the wilderness, if you choose to find a random place to lie down and sleep, and when you are hungry, you can pick a few fruits to eat, you can also be at ease. If you choose to make your life more comfortable, building a house, growing food, raising some livestock, and being busy every day is also a way to live.

Now Xu Ping just wants to build a house by himself, cultivate crops, domesticate livestock, and use his own hands to make this world more suitable for human life, so he can't be idle, and always feels that there are countless things waiting for him.

There is no right or wrong, nor is there nobility and humility, this is just Xu Ping's own choice.

Li Shen is very busy these days, Xu Ping explained the basic principles of the cooperative clearly, and then went to investigate the river by himself.

In the Jiang family's manor, Li Shen looked at the sister-in-law of the Jiang family in her twenties in front of her, and asked in a deep voice: "You have already thought clearly, you want to remarry someone else, and you don't stay in the Jiang family?" ”

The woman hung her head and said, "Back to the official, the concubine is a woman's family, how can she do these things by herself?" My father and brother thought of me, a woman guarding a large farm, and it was inconvenient to find a man who could support the family business. My wife has no opinions, so I can only listen to them. ”

"It's human nature to think like this, no one forces you. However, now that the case of the Jiang family's father and son has not been resolved, the matter will be settled before it is good. But in any case, it is true that the Jiang family's father and son gamble, exile is always inevitable, and the government can sentence you and your husband to divorce. Since you don't want to wait, you can pack up and go back to your mother's house, where you can wait for news. ”

The woman saluted: "Let the officials command." ”

Li Shen said to Sun Biao beside him: "The Jiang family is not an ordinary family, and the fields account for most of Heyin County, so they can't be sloppy." You personally led someone to divide the property with the sister-in-law of the Jiang family, except for the jewelry on her body and the dowry when she entered the house, the Jiang family's property had to be taken out of the house. Of course, the dowry that belongs to her cannot be shortened. ”

Sun Biao promised, he joined the army, this kind of thing is done, as long as you follow the rules.

The woman said, "My woman is a Taoist family, and it is not good to do this kind of thing. Moreover, being a wife and a daughter-in-law, who has been in this door for many years, how can she suddenly let go? As soon as I wore it and what I had with me, there was a small burden that the officials could testify to, and I took it back to my mother's house. As for the dowry and so on, my father and brother came to settle it. ”

Li Shen nodded: "That's fine." If you go back to your mother's house, you can also ask your father or brother to come and stay in Jiang's house for a while, so as not to quarrel when you get it. ”

The woman said: "My woman doesn't understand this, but it depends on the ideas of my father and brother at home." ”

There were a lot of villagers standing around, looking at this scene, their hearts were full of mixed feelings. The father and son of the Jiang family are not kind and generous masters, and they usually treat Zhuang Ke and his subordinates harshly, and these people are not sorry for the Jiang family. But after living in this family for many years, I still feel sorry for this fate. The sister-in-law of the Jiang family usually does not have a strong sense of presence at home, she basically doesn't care about anything, and everyone can't talk about her likes and dislikes, but now seeing that she is alone, there are many people who sympathize with her.

Her pair of children have long been taken away, mother and son nature, children are only afraid of disturbing her mood here.

At this point, the sister-in-law of the Jiang family cannot be blamed, although the death penalty is used cautiously at this time, the exile of the Jiang family's father and son is always inevitable. In this life, you may never be able to return to Heyin County. Even if there is an amnesty, I don't know how many years will be in the future, and the road will be bumpy, who knows if it will be able to survive until that time?

How could a woman in her twenties who was like a flower follow the Jiang family father and son to suffer the wind and frost along the way? When they arrive at the place, they wash and sew for them, make food and drink, and most people will not choose to live this kind of life. It's not an unforgettable lover of the mountains and seas, to put it bluntly, everyone just gets together to live together.

As for staying at the Jiang family and waiting for her husband to come back, this determination is not easy to make. One is that I don't know if I can wait to come back, and the other is that even if I come back, I don't know if it's a dead or alive person, and more importantly, I can't keep it in a few years, wouldn't it be a break to delay my youth? Women's families, after this age, it is getting more and more difficult to find a good family.

Thinking about it, the woman's best choice was to break it off and choose to leave at the beginning.

Li Shen also felt that it was normal, from the words just now, it seemed that this woman was a smart person, and she pushed everything on her father and brother, so as not to let others say that she was cold-hearted. And when the time comes to divide the property, her mother's family will be more open than her, and they can earn the greatest benefits for her. Seriously, speaking of which, she shares all the property of her children, and more or less others will not have anything good to say about her.

It is difficult for Qing officials to decide family affairs, and Li Shen does not bother much about this, as long as he maintains his principles.

If the husband has committed more than a crime of exile, the wife can choose to go with him or divorce. At such times, no one can stop it, and the government will judge the divorce according to the law, which is later called normal divorce. However, in this era, there was no concept of joint property between husband and wife, and the family property belonged to the man and was also left to the children of the family. One of the property that the woman can take away is her own clothes and jewelry, and the other is the dowry she brought when she got married.

When getting married, the dowry brought by the family must be listed on a special list, and the official report is also there, and at this time it is to act according to the list. Whether it is land or gold and silver treasures, these are always the property of the woman, and only the woman can use them, and they will be taken with them when they leave. It is precisely for this reason that the amount of dowry determines the woman's status in the family, and the dowry is large, and the whole family depends on the woman to eat, and her words naturally count. If the dowry is small, there will naturally be no status.

Yao Zeguang, the commander of Heyin County, has been seized power, and Zhong Hui, the chief bookkeeper, can't count on it, and now these miscellaneous matters are all recorded by Sun Biao, a member of the army in Mengzhou. Because the Jiang family is too widely involved, he is also very cautious.

Li Shen didn't bother with this matter, what he needed to deal with now was what to do with the Jiang family's so many fields after this woman left? The family's belongings can be temporarily sealed, and the child can hire someone to take care of him, and a certain amount of money can be allocated from his family's property on time every month. It's all done, nothing special.

Only those thousands of acres of land, if it were according to the usual practice, it would naturally be rented by the government, and the annual land rent would be accumulated and returned to the children of the Jiang family when they reached adulthood. This is easier said than done. Because the tenants not only rent the land, some also have to borrow the owner's cattle and farm tools, and some have to borrow seeds, canals, mills, etc., unless a supervisor is hired to deal with it, it is difficult to be refreshed.

But if you recruit people, you will inevitably fill your own pockets, and you will have to transfer the property of the Jiang family, and this notoriety will fall on the government. Otherwise, as Xu Ping said, let these tenants form a cooperative and rent the Jiang family's land in the name of the cooperative. But the co-op sounds good, no one has ever done this thing, and what will happen if it is really done? (To be continued.) )