Chapter 799 - 170: Selling Mother for Money_2
Villagers never ceased their gossip, claiming that though Lady Chen was cutting and villainous, her death was truly undeserved. They looked at Pei Wenli with disdain and fear. If one could sell their own mother’s murderer, what else couldn’t they do?
Old Scholar Fang and Fang Li hurried to the county town and collected the compensation of fifty taels of silver.
Even though their household’s income had increased, fifty taels of silver was no small sum, and Fang Li’s gaze kept drifting toward the silver pouch his father held.
Old Scholar Fang discussed with Pei Qin and Mo Heng, "Dalang was initially unharmed, just some superficial skin wounds, so let’s not mention those. As for this silver, let’s not keep it for ourselves; we should compensate the Li family instead!"
Before Pei Qin could speak, Fang Li stood up, "Why should we!? This compensation is for our family, for Dalang. Why should we give it to the Li family!? Dad, have you lost your mind!?"
Old Scholar Fang looked at him as his expression darkened.
Fang Li quickly corrected himself, "No, I mean... Dad, you’re mistaken! The fifty taels of silver are clearly the compensation for our family. Didn’t we already cure Li Baoxiang’s broken arm? We don’t know how much we spent on restorative herbs for them, even acknowledging him as a sworn son and tying our families together with a sworn kinship. And now you want to give these fifty taels to them as well? They’re getting greedy!"
"Fifty taels of silver, and you’re so fixated on them? If I give you five hundred, five thousand taels, would you go as far as to kill your parents for it!?" Old Scholar Fang scolded furiously.
"That’s ridiculous! This is not the same thing at all!" Fang Li hastily replied.
"You don’t know a damned thing!" Old Scholar Fang cursed. He was adamant about giving the silver to the Li family, and not only that, he would make a grand gesture of doing so.