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Tao Peiliang had just put his bicycle at the door of his house. Before he could lock it, he heard someone talking loudly inside the house.

After locking the car and picking up the document bag, Tao Peiliang walked quickly into the house. As soon as he entered the door, he saw several men talking loudly around his wife Du Yafang.

"Aunt, the harvest this year is not good. We don't have much food left after paying the public grain. The land is not fertile, so I want to borrow some money from you and buy more fertilizer next year. This way, the output can be increased. Next year my nephew I will send some more bags of rice to my aunt and uncle..."

The speaker was Tao Peiliang's eldest brother's son, his eldest nephew Tao Youcai.

"That's it, auntie, it's winter now and my three children don't even have cotton-padded jackets, especially the younger ones. Your niece-in-law doesn't have enough water and is so hungry that she cries. As a father, I feel so sad. Come on, aunt, can you lend me 500 yuan so I can buy some clothes and some milk powder..."

The person who spoke was the son of Tao Peiliang's second brother's family. He was Tao Youqing, his second nephew.

"Aunt, I'm different from them. How much money can their mud-legged people earn? I'm planning to go to the south to do business with others. Money is tight. Aunt, please lend me 5,000 yuan. Don't worry. When I pay it, I'll double it. Return it to you and be filial to you and our third uncle."

The speaker was the son of Tao Peiliang's younger brother, Lao Wu Tao Yuxing.

In addition to the three people surrounding Du Yafang, there were two elderly people sitting on the main seat in the main room, smoking cigarettes and drinking tea. They didn't notice anything, and their eyes were still rolling around on the furnishings in the room. .

It was as if they were not guests but hosts.

These are Tao Peiliang's two cousins, Tao Peigong and Tao Peichen.

Du Yafang sat on a small stool at the door of the room, keeping her eyes on her toes and saying nothing. Her three nephews were so anxious that they were running around in circles, and they kept shouting.

Everyone turned around when they heard a noise at the door.

When Du Yafang saw that her husband was back, she breathed a sigh of relief, quickly stood up and took her husband's briefcase, and then ducked into the inner room, looking familiar.

"Eldest brother, second brother, why are you here again? You are here too if you have money?"

Tao Peiliang said hello with a smile and picked up the hot water bottle to refill the water.

"Uncle, are you back?" The three young men were quite polite.

Tao Peigong was still sitting at the main seat in the main room smoking a cigarette. He had no consciousness of giving up his seat when the master came. Instead, he said with some displeasure:

"Third brother, what do you mean we're here again? The last time we came here was last month. It's been a month since we came here."

Tao Peichen said impatiently: "Hurry up and ask your wife to cook. We have been hungry for a long time after traveling for a long time. Let's get some more meat and vegetables, do you hear me?"

Tao Peiliang looked at these rural relatives. They were all dressed in rags, but their faces looked like uncles. He felt a little unhappy, so he asked calmly:

"Big brother and second brother, why did you come to the city and come to my house this time?"

Tao Peigong glanced sideways at his third brother, a doctor, and said nonchalantly:

"Third brother, I heard that a few days ago, some nephews from Avon's natal family were eating, drinking and taking things at your house. They stayed for several days before going home. I heard that before leaving, they asked you to borrow some. A lot of money?

This is not okay. Their Du family is the Du family, and we are the Tao family. How can there be any reason why the uncle's money should not be given to his nephew's flowers, but to flowers with a foreign surname? So this time your second brother and I come to the city and have a good talk about this matter. "

Although Tao Peiliang was honest, like a mirror, he had already guessed the purpose of his brother and nephew's coming.

Du Yafang hid in the inner room and heard her uncle accusing her of giving all the money to her nephew, and she burst into tears with grievance.

But there was no reason to go out and refute, because her nephew did come to borrow money and borrowed a lot.

Tao Peiliang's three nephews also stood up at the right time:

"Yes, Third Uncle, your money is our Tao family's money. Where will it be the Du family's turn to get it?"

"That's right, Third Uncle, take a look at our brothers, look at what we're wearing. We live in the countryside but it's a hard life. Even if you have money, you have to think about us nephews."

"Yes, yes, third uncle, when you go up the mountain from now on, you will have to be carried up by our nephews. Outsiders are not qualified to carry you."

Tao Peiliang was even more unhappy. He was only 50 years old, and these nephews were thinking of sending him to the mountain to be buried?

But intellectuals are all old men, and they are very particular about keeping their emotions and anger hidden, so Tao Peiliang turned to his two elder brothers and asked:

"Big brother and second brother, what do you want to say? If I remember correctly, I just lent you 1,000 yuan last month. You have taken a lot of money from me over the years. , I’ve never seen the money come back.”

Tao Peigong was unhappy after hearing this:

"My family, what's wrong with borrowing some money? Why do you always talk about money? It's true that the richer you are, the stingier you become. Okay, okay, what do I mean, you and Avon have been married for so many years and you still don't have anything. A son and a half daughter, this is very bad.

There are three kinds of unfilial piety, the worst is not having an heir. According to the rules of the ancestors, you are not even qualified to be buried in the ancestor's grave. I guess you don't want to be a lonely ghost when you get old, right? So we figured it out, how about you adopt one of your nephews? "

Tao Peiliang and Du Yafang in the inner room felt that their chests had been stabbed several times, and the wounds were bloody, which made them heartbroken.

Having no children was originally a headache for this couple, but now the scars have been opened by their brother Chi Guoguo.

Tao Peiliang sat there, squeezing his hands tightly, and then unable to let go.

Because his biggest weakness was caught, Tao Peiliang wanted to be buried in his ancestral graves next to his parents. For the southern clan, not entering the ancestral graves after death was the greatest sorrow in life.

"Then who are you going to adopt to me?"

The eldest nephew Tao Youcai stood up after brushing his hands and shouted excitedly: "Third uncle, I, I am willing to adopt you."

Tao Peiliang was a little surprised: "You are the boss if you have money, how can you adopt him?"

Tao Youcai said indifferently:

"You are the eldest and second son. I will adopt you to your third uncle. When you get old, your job quota will be mine. I can also be a city dweller. In addition, I have this house. How nice, hehe."

Tao Peiliang thought to himself, everyone said that this eldest nephew was stupid, but now it seems that he is not stupid at all. The benefits are clearly distributed.

At this time, the second nephew Tao Youqing was not convinced:

"Brother Youcai, you are the eldest son and eldest grandson. How can you adopt me to your third uncle? If you want to adopt me, I will do it. Anyway, my father has three sons. One more is not more than me, and one less is not much. Third uncle, I am willing to be filial. You, as your son."

Tao Peiliang thought to himself that this second nephew was a well-known second-rate son in the village, and there were many people who would knock on the widow's door secretly. Such a nephew was more like an ancestor than a son.

Fifth nephew Tao Youxu is not far behind:

"Third uncle, don't listen to their nonsense. What can a few farmers do when they go to the city and become excrement workers? I graduated from a serious junior high school and have seen the world. When I become your son, you give me the money, I promise I can make a fortune and let you commute to work every day in Santana. How great will it be?"

Tao Peiliang snorted. This fifth nephew was not a good person either. He had a lot of bad friends outside and talked about getting rich every day.

The year before last, I borrowed 2,000 yuan and said I wanted to start a business, but then I turned around and said I had lost all my money, so I borrowed another 3,000 yuan. I almost treated my third uncle as a bank.

In Tao Peiliang's mind, none of the three nephews he liked.

Before Tao Peiliang could express his stance, the three eldest nephews got into a fight:

"You fart, you country bumpkin wants to go to the city, you're dreaming!"

"I'm still farming anyway, but what about you, besides eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, what else do you do? Don't think I don't know how much money you owe!"

"That's right, you still have a reason to pay the money you owe. All the money is being fed to the dogs."

"I owe you money for business. What about you, Tao Youqing? You spent all your money on women. How many women have you hooked up with? Do you think others don't know?"

"I will fight you to slander me in front of my third uncle!!!"

As they talked, the three of them got into a ball and started fighting.

In order to compete for a spot as a "step-son", these three brothers did not talk about any family ties.

Ping ping ping ping ping, the sound of fighting from the Tao family quickly spread to the neighbors, attracting many neighbors to come out to watch the fun.

"Hey, what's wrong with the Tao family? Why did you call us here?"

"Dr. Tao is an honest man. The ones who got into the fight were his nephews. I heard they all wanted to become his sons, so they started fighting."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, what a sin. The Tao family's wealth has almost been wiped out by these poor relatives. The adopted son is not even prepared to leave a coffin for Dr. Tao."

"Who says it's not the case? Isn't this just a desperate situation?"

Excessive eating is a bad habit in feudal society.

It means that after a certain family dies and has no children, all the land and property left behind during their lifetime will be sold by the squires in the village and exchanged for money.

Then use the money to set up flowing banquets in the village and entertain every household in the village.

The banquet can last for several months at most, or for several days at least, until all the family's savings are consumed.

Later, it became even more extreme. If the male owner of the family passed away, relatives would come to the house one after another and sell off all the valuable items in the deceased's home, including tables and chairs.

Then drive away all the wives and daughters at home and let them return to their parents' homes to fend for themselves.

The reason is that the daughter has no right to inherit property, and the wife has a foreign surname, so she cannot take away a penny of property. The property belongs to the clan.

Tao Peiliang saw his nephews twisted into a ball, and then looked at the broken dishes and stools, and his hands were shaking with anger.

This has become such a mess before the adoption. If the adoption is really adopted, will there be a good life?

Tao Peiliang was not a fool. He was a well-educated college student. He understood that as long as he accepted his stepson today, he would be sucked out of his blood and kicked out of the house tomorrow.

At this moment, Tao Peiliang was absolutely screaming in his heart: I want to have my own child!

I've been really busy with work recently, and I'm busy seeing doctors every day, so I don't have time to think about the plot of the novel, so the content I wrote is not very satisfying, and I hope everyone will include it. Yesterday I bought a huge mouse pad to put on my desk, with a few big words on it: Retire Early. . . Hahaha. . .