Chapter 214 Complaints
Eldest Aunt Lin gave Eldest Uncle Lin a meaningful glance, urging her to speak up.
Eldest Aunt Lin was full of impatience. If it weren’t for the hope of getting some money from this niece’s remarriage, who would bother with her?
For the sake of money, Eldest Aunt Lin put up with it and asked, "Little sister, what kind of man are you looking for, exactly? I think the ones who have come to see you these past few days aren’t bad. Why don’t you take a fancy to any of them? Today’s visitor, Old Yang, although he has two sons and you will have to become a stepmother if you marry into his family, his household is quite well-off, owning several acres of land. Were it not for my efforts with the matchmaker, a family like that wouldn’t even consider you, would they? Why do you still look down on them?"
Although Lady Lin wished to remarry, having had Wang Yongfu as a benchmark before he was incapacitated, wasn’t Wang Yongfu also well-featured? Having been married in their youth for so many years, the Wang Family’s circumstances were genuinely good, and Wang Yongfu had nothing to complain about regarding her.
She also thought that, although it might be impossible to remarry someone better than the former Wang Yongfu, it should not be much worse, right?
But what kind of men had come to see her?
Those whose wives had died, those well advanced in years who had not yet taken a wife, those whose wives could not bear sons and hoped she might bear a son for them...
Let’s not even talk about these, at her age, it was impossible to hope to remarry an unmarried youth.
But weren’t the conditions of these suitors too poor?
Those advanced in years without a wife, their families poor as can be, how would she live if she married into one of them? Hungry and cold, she would be better off not marrying at all.
And those households with two sons, the sons were about to take wives too. If she married in, she’d have to be a stepmother. If she bore a son, that would be good, but if she couldn’t, could she really rely on someone else’s sons to care for her in her old age? Besides, with just those few acres of land, what would there be left once divided among several sons?