Grandma Bai actually had a wild idea, using money to buy a job for Bai Xiaogu.
This immediately met with fierce opposition from the Bai eldest uncle’s couple.
Grandma Bai was used to being unreasonable, the more she was not allowed to do something, the more she wanted to do it.
Before, she might only have had a little idea, but now she was determined to do it.
However, she was not confused enough to forget to win over Grandpa Bai’s support.
“Old man, Zhenzhen is our little daughter that we’ve loved for more than ten years. As long as we buy her a job, she can marry a city man. This concerns her whole life. We can still earn money again, we can’t ruin our daughter’s whole life, the child’s father!”
Bai Shuhua had to admit that Grandma Bai had performed above her normal standard this time. These few sentences were spoken very skillfully, not only without making a scene, but also using emotional appeal.
Grandpa Bai’s expression looked a little complicated for a moment. He probably had already started weighing things in his heart.
“No, I disagree!”
As expected, the first person to jump out and object was the Bai eldest aunt.
Maybe she had been holding this in for too long. Even after being scolded by Grandma Bai, the Bai eldest aunt did not shut up. She pointed at Grandma Bai and said, “You’re just biased. Which family raises a daughter like a young lady, at more than ten years old she still can’t do any work, and you insist on letting her study, but is she that kind of material? It costs so much money, and she doesn’t do anything good. Now it’s fine, you want to use the whole family’s money to clean up her mess. Don’t even think about it! If that’s how it is, our eldest branch will split the family!”
This was Bai Shuhua’s first time hearing “split the family” in the Bai family. The Bai eldest aunt was really brave!
She secretly cheered her on in her heart, hoping she really would split the family.
“And the third branch’s couple, how many work points do they earn in a day? If they exchange them for grain, they can’t even eat enough themselves. Who are they expecting to support them!”
Bai Shuhua: She was eating the melon, and it had landed on her own head.
Mother Bai was unhappy. “Sister-in-law, I’ve only been feeling unwell these past few days, so my work points are a bit lower. Before, they were about the same as yours, right? You say our couple earns too few work points. If Second Brother and Second Sister-in-law said that, it would still be fine, but you…”
The meaning was, the eldest brother has no right to criticize the second brother.
The Bai eldest uncle pulled back the eldest aunt, who was still about to curse, then turned to Grandpa Bai and said, “Father, I don’t agree with spending money to buy a job for Zhenzhen.”
Bai Shuhua was shocked. The Bai eldest uncle had actually stepped in personally.
Grandma Bai was also in disbelief, her hands trembling. “Oldest, that’s your own younger sister. Your heart is too vicious, too vicious!”
As she spoke, she rushed up to hit the Bai eldest uncle.
The Bai eldest uncle dodged while persuading her, “Mother, we can’t stop living just because of one person. There are so many people in the family. Think about your eldest grandson. He’s the only boy, it won’t be easy for him to find a wife in the future, we’ll have to build him a house, we’ll have to give a heavy betrothal gift…”
Bai Shuhua thought what the Bai eldest uncle said made some sense. In this era, people valued having many children and many brothers, and families with many brothers were popular.
Being the only boy was too thin. Many families that cherished their daughters were unwilling to marry them off. First, there was pressure to have sons, and second, if they fought with other families, they would suffer with fewer people.
“Big brother, I hate you!”
Bai Zhenzhen also ran out to cause trouble, and together with Grandma Bai she chased and beat the Bai eldest uncle.
Grandma Bai was hitting her son, and the eldest aunt, heartbroken over her own man, did not dare to lay a hand on him. Besides, he was dodging, so he did not suffer much.
But Bai Zhenzhen was acting out of hatred. She directly clawed at the Bai eldest uncle’s face, leaving several bloody scratches at once. The eldest aunt was capable too, and with a shrill curse she pounced over and grabbed Bai Zhenzhen’s hair.
This… the battlefield changed too fast. Bai Shuhua could hardly keep up.
At that moment, Bai Dajun, who had been out playing, came back. Taking one look at the scene, he was a little stunned and froze on the spot.
Grandpa Bai roared, “All of you, stop!”
After speaking, he directly walked over to pull Grandma Bai away, then shoved Bai Xiaogu aside.
Bai Shuhua had to say, her grandpa really knew how to hit the key point. As long as he controlled this mother-daughter pair, the fight could not continue.
Grandpa Bai told the three sons to settle the children first, then come back to the main room.
Bai Shuhua was driven out again. Her mother told her to go find Bai Little Brother and tell him to come home for dinner.
She could only go unwillingly, grumbling in her heart that lunch hadn’t even been made yet, what the hell dinner was she having.
Fortunately, it was already mealtime, and Bai Little Brother was already on his way home.
Bai Shuhua told him to go back to the third branch to play, and she naturally went to eavesdrop.
Grandpa Bai was speaking. “Oldest, you don’t agree to buy a job for Zhenzhen. Second, third, what about you?”
No one answered.
Grandpa Bai directly called on one person. “Second, you speak.”
Second Uncle Bai stammered, “I… I’ll listen to Father and Mother.”
Bai Dad answered directly, “I don’t agree. There’s no reason for the person who did wrong to still get such a huge advantage. If Zhenzhen is bought a job, then I’ll also go… find a widow or something, and then I’ll be a city person too. Hey, wife, don’t pinch me, I was just saying it.”
Bai Shuhua: Dad, you’re super brave!
She was a little puzzled. Why wasn’t Grandma Bai cursing? That wasn’t like her.
She didn’t know that before the family meeting, Grandpa Bai had already warned Grandma Bai. If she made trouble again, then they would stop caring about Bai Zhenzhen.
Grandpa Bai asked again, “Oldest, do you want to split the family?”
The Bai eldest uncle immediately replied, “No. I’m the eldest son, I never thought about splitting the family, but Mother is too biased toward Zhenzhen…”
Second Uncle Bai and Bai Dad also answered, “Don’t split the family.”
Bai Shuhua was somewhat disappointed.
“Dajun isn’t young anymore, and the two children in the third branch are both sleeping on the same kang with their parents. Our family will need to build houses in a few years. I’ve already done my best by marrying wives for your three brothers. As for building houses, we won’t handle that. As for what kind of life you can live in the future, you’ll have to earn it yourselves. Today… we’ll split the family.”
“Old man!”
“Father!” ×3
Bai Shuhua had not expected the situation to turn around again, and immediately perked up her little ears.
“If we don’t split the family, are we just supposed to watch you fight until fat drips out? You’ve already fought until you’re enemies, so why not split the family! Split! It must be split! Oldest, go invite the brigade leader.” Grandpa Bai had made up his mind.
The corners of Bai Shuhua’s mouth couldn’t help but lift. Finally…
But the Bai eldest uncle still did not come out.
“Oldest, I can’t even order you around anymore, is that it!” Grandpa Bai shouted angrily.
“Father, our family is fine, don’t split the family.” The Bai eldest uncle started playing the emotional card again. “It’s pretty good for us brothers to live together. The younger ones below are only four, and they’re not from the same mother. If we split the family again, then they’ll be even less close.”
Grandma Bai also followed along to persuade him. “Old man, we absolutely can’t split the family. In the future Dajun will be all alone, if he doesn’t have anyone to help him he’ll be bullied.”
Bai Shuhua was grinding her teeth. Why was splitting the family so hard?
Sigh, the main thing was that the parents still hadn’t been transformed. They were still hoping not to split the family so they could slack off.
The only branch doing the hard labor, the second branch, was a whole family of cowards, not a single one daring to make a sound. Thinking about it this way, the family really did seem hard to split.
She just wasn’t capable enough. Which transmigrated girl didn’t split the family within three chapters? She was really dragging things down.
Just as she was frantically complaining, Grandpa Bai spoke again. “Old woman, I was planning to split the family into five shares. We’re not old yet, and we can live on our own, that counts as one share. Our daughter hasn’t married yet, that also counts as one share. If we split the family this way, then even if the money in our hands still can’t buy our daughter a job, at least it can make her dowry a bit richer, and she can marry better.”
What Grandma Bai was thinking was, “If we don’t split the family, isn’t the money in our family still decided by us!”
The Bai eldest aunt said, “That won’t do! We don’t agree!”
Grandma Bai snorted. “The money is in my hands. Why do I need your agreement? What do you think you are? This family isn’t your turn to be in charge.”
The Bai eldest uncle said in a deep voice, “Mother, there’s no room for discussion on this.”
“Oldest, you ungrateful wretch, you bastard, that’s your own younger sister, you want to kill her! You’re too vicious!”
Grandma Bai started cursing loudly.
Grandpa Bai stopped her. “Enough, enough. Old woman, you don’t need to keep making a fuss. You don’t want to split the family because you want to use the family money to buy a job for the youngest daughter. This matter, the eldest couple and the third couple all disagree with it. If you want to save the youngest daughter, you can only split the family.”
Grandma Bai was unwilling and directly started acting shamelessly. “So what if I use the family money? So what if I don’t split the family? Can they report me or what!”
Bai Shuhua bared her teeth. With the advantage of an elder plus shamelessness, it really was hard to deal with.
The eldest aunt’s voice was trembling, clearly furious. “Mother, you’re just偏心 to her little aunt. Are you still expecting your sons to support you in old age? A married daughter is like water thrown out. Can she support you in old age?”
“If a son doesn’t support his parents, the people in the production team will spit on his backbone to death!”
Grandma Bai’s voice was very loud, but Bai Shuhua could hear the guilt in it.
She probably also knew that giving the whole family’s savings to her daughter was not proper.
Now the matter had gone back to square one, and the most conflicted one had become Grandma Bai.
On one hand, she did not want to split the family, but if they didn’t, then the youngest daughter’s later life would be ruined.
Bai Shuhua had not expected that simply splitting the family could be this full of twists and turns. What, did they think they were filming a movie? Split or not, just give a straight answer!