roccoschili Chapter 155: Dividing Property
Chapter 155: Dividing Property
"Grandpa, I'm so worried that something will happen to you."
God knows how scared Su He was when he saw only Wang Bin and the other person. His head buzzed and he became completely timid.
She thought all her efforts were in vain.
In this strange ancient time, all her closest family members are gone. For her, it is worse than living in modern times.
Grandpa looked at Su He, his eyes full of joy of escaping a disaster.
"Haha, thanks to your grandpa, someone bumped into him on the road, and he found that his wallet had been stolen, so he had to find the thief. We wasted some time, and the earthquake happened to come. Lotus, you guys got back so quickly?"
Just as Su He was about to answer, someone hugged her legs.
"Sister, I'm worried about you."
Miaomiao rushed over and hugged Suhe. Suhe squatted down and hugged Miaomiao's soft little body. He looked at Mu Tou and others who came running over and breathed a sigh of relief.
"Miaomiao, the ground is shaking, and there will be more earthquakes later. It's not safe to stay in the inn. We have to spend the night outside the county town."
Miaomiao patted Su He's shoulder like a little adult and comforted him calmly.
"It's okay, sister. We are all ready. You see, we are all carrying cloth bags. We can just heat up the steamed buns later. We can just light a few more fires before going to bed at night."
Su He looked at the calm Miao Miao and his heart also calmed down.
"Well, let's hurry up and prepare."
Su He stood up and expressed his views to the family members around him.
"Uncle, aunt, there will definitely be aftershocks soon. If the situation gets chaotic, we outsiders will be in a passive position. Let's stay outside the city and wait for the right opportunity. While the city is still relatively peaceful, we should hurry up and prepare. We need to buy more food and medicinal herbs. At this critical moment, we can't take care of other people in the village, so let them form teams freely and buy by themselves."
Wang Fugui and others nodded in agreement. They could hardly protect themselves and really couldn't take care of so many people.
"Okay, I'll go talk to a few village heads. Lotus, you divide the silver among them, let them take it according to the number of people in each village, and then distribute it among themselves."
Su He nodded in agreement and took out four thousand five hundred taels of silver notes from the blue cloth bag on her body, as well as 68 pieces of gold in the box of the carriage, and some other gold jewelry.
The trip cost more than three hundred taels, plus the rewards from the valley to everyone, two hundred taels handed over by Meicun, one hundred taels paid to Aunt Luo as a hush money, and there were also expenses for buying medicine and nutrition. After adding up all the miscellaneous expenses, there was still nearly five thousand taels.
Su He and the three village chiefs made a clear calculation and found that the tribe's silver was calculated based on the population.
There are 423 people in Liushu Village, 110 people in Sanshi Village, and 126 people in Dahe Village. So each person earns about taels and cents.
"Village Chief, we in Willow Village will figure it out later."
Su He quickly divided the silver, giving 834 taels and 5 cents to Sanshi Village and 945 taels to Dahe Village.
As for the gold, according to the proportion, Liushu Village got 42 pieces, Sanshi Village got 11 pieces, Dahe Village got 12 pieces, and the remaining three pieces were divided equally among the three villages.
Su He also roughly divided the box of gold jewelry.
Su Yumin sighed as he looked at the silver that was divided out. He was not happy at all. He intuitively felt that it would be best to give the silver to Su He.
Village chief Xu was much happier. It was not that he was worried about Su He, he just selfishly wanted to think more about his own family. The earthquake had come, so it was better for him to take care of his own belongings. He fully agreed with Su He's sharing of the money.
"The three village heads are all literate. We three villages can just write a certificate to prove that I, Su He, gave the money. I don't want anyone to say that I am greedy for money."
Su He took out a piece of paper and called Mu Tou to help. Mu Tou wrote four pieces as required. Su Yumin and Village Chief Xu signed first. Wang Zhun also signed before he got the money. Su He would never be greedy for the money. He still had some trust.
Village chief Xu was the first to leave, as he also had to explain to the villagers.
Su Yumin took out a cloth bag, which contained the silver that the people of Sanshi Village had handed in for the second time two days ago.
"Hehua, take all of these. My father said that you deserve this."
Su He looked at the more than one hundred taels of silver and some gold jewelry on it and sighed softly.
"Uncle Yumin, I appreciate your and the village chief's kindness, but I can't accept this. From now on, everyone will run for their lives, and you should retreat and leave it to them for self-defense."
Su Yumin felt a little sad. He thought that everyone would be members of the same village from now on.
"Yu Min, go quickly. Everyone is waiting for you to share the money to buy food in the city."
Wang Fugui tried to persuade her, and when Su He mentioned this, he also thought about distributing some of the grain in the village.
Su He didn't need to go in person to say this, Shunzi took a few men in the family with him.
Now only the people of Liushu Village were left. Among the 423 people, 35 were from the Wang family. That was 262 taels and coins. Then there were the gold bars. According to the number of people, they could not get four, but Wang Zhun insisted on giving four gold bars, and no one could get less than the Su He family.
There were also some gold jewelry, and Su He picked up a few at random.
This reserve fund allocation ceremony is over.
Wang Zhun said goodbye in a hurry and took the remaining silver back to the village to divide it. He had the heaviest task, as there were the most people in Liushu Village, but he had to divide it quickly. After all, there was a large family with nearly 100 people in their village, that was Wang Dashu's family. This family divided more than 600 taels of silver, and then there was his own family, Goudan's family...
Su He simply calculated everyone's food. They had a lot of silver, and since they were separated from the villagers this time, she wanted to eat something good.
"Although we don't eat from the same pot as the villagers anymore, we can go shopping together. We are not familiar with the city, and it is chaotic right now, so we can look after each other. Let's drive a mule in, it will be faster."
"Hehua, you guys wait outside. We the men will go. Wang Bin, Wang Zhi, Wang Liang, and Jingui, follow me."
"Uncle Fugui, can you take me with you?"
Lu Yuan plucked up the courage to recommend himself.
Wang Fugui laughed, "Okay, follow me, and I'll keep close to you when the time comes."
When Su He saw that everyone had gathered, he quickly gave out silver. Each person received two silver ingots of 50 taels each, as well as some small change.
"Meat, grain, flour, salt, all are fine. Everyone, please be careful and don't stay in the house too long. If anything happens, save your own life. Money is just a thing outside your body."
Su He looked at his relatives solemnly and stated his request seriously.
"If you are robbed or your life is threatened, immediately drop your belongings and come to us."
"Sister, don't worry, we're going with Dali and Goudan's family this time. We'll also go to Grandpa Dashu's house."
Wang Bin took his younger brothers and set off behind their elders. They drove two carriages in total, followed closely by Dali and Goudan's family. Both families greeted Su He before leaving.
"Lotus, don't worry, with me, Wang Laowu, here, everyone will be safe."
Wang Laowu spoke shamelessly, and Su He responded very politely.
"Thank you very much for taking care of me, Uncle Wu. Everyone please be careful."
Wang Laowu was very proud and wanted to brag a little, but he was pulled away by his elder brother.
After Wang Fugui took the lead in going into the city to purchase, the villagers behind him followed one by one. In fact, they had already divided the money, but no one dared to be the first to go into the city.
Zhou watched as everyone walked away, and shouted to the Wang family to take out the divided food.
"Let's cook here so the men at home can have a hot meal when they come back."
Jin and others followed Zhou and started to get busy.
The team behind seemed to be learning in an earnest manner.