Chapter 520 - 518: Pushing Too Far
"Your Sun Family can’t even come up with ten taels of silver?" Wang Laozhu couldn’t believe it. Not to mention anything else, when Wang Yongzhen got married and had moved in, he had checked it out himself. The Sun Family had been doing well back then, otherwise, he wouldn’t have married his daughter off to them.
Not to mention that he had provided a dowry and had been sending support every year. How could it be that they didn’t even have ten taels of silver?
Wang Yongzhen was overwhelmed with shame, "The family had to find wives for my husband’s younger brother, to marry off my younger sister-in-law, and to arrange a marriage for Shitou—where would all this money come from? Our income is low, and the harvests haven’t been good. We really have no money left now!"
She dared not say that the men in her family, including her husband and his younger brother, would sit if they could avoid standing, lie down if they could avoid sitting. They were young once and couldn’t get away with not working in the fields.
But since Shitou and Mutou grew older, and the younger brother’s children could also work in the fields, they started to say that they were getting on in years and the children had grown up, so it was time to enjoy life.
Shitou had the same attitude as the men in her family; even when he did go to the fields, he would just go through the motions.
It was all up to her, a woman, and Mutou, to work themselves to the bone, but even so, they couldn’t accomplish much.
If you cheat the field, the field cheats you. Each year the harvest was less than the last, leading to the current situation.
"Nonsense!" Wang Laozhu, with his temper, was so angry that he cursed.
"I’m going to talk to the in-laws. Even if they truly have no money, how come everyone else can still eat their fill? Why treat you like this? They’re just bullying you! I also have to ask Shitou and his wife how they can just stand by and watch their birth mother and mother-in-law starve? What kind of rule is that? And you, why didn’t you tell us when you came back before?" Wang Laozhu stamped his foot in frustration.
"Dad! Please don’t go! Right now, the family is thinking of finding another bride for Mutou. If this gets out, it would be unsightly, and it would harm Mutou’s prospects! Besides, Shitou is still young; he doesn’t pay attention to these things..." Wang Yongzhen quickly grabbed Wang Laozhu, terrified that he might make a scene if he went out.