Quickly wear salted fish, she won by lying down

The original owner's mother was also surprised that her daughter, who used to give her money during holidays before the apocalypse, would say such a thing now. She was embarrassed and said, "I didn't mean to not pay child support. If I had money, I would like to give you money too, but I don't have a job. I'm a housewife and I don't have money."

Linlang said, "Oh, so you can stop supporting me just because you don't have money? Well, I don't have any extra money right now either, so naturally I don't need to support you either. Anyway, I gave you quite a bit of money in the past few years, so I guess I fulfilled my obligation to support you."

The original owner's mother said, "How can you calculate that little bit of money? Besides, I raised you for much longer. You only gave me money for a few years, and you think that fulfills your obligation to support me? How can that be?"

Linlang said sarcastically, "Have you forgotten that this is the end of the world? You're still using pre-apocalyptic laws to judge me. Even if I hadn't paid you any money before, I could still refuse to give you a single penny now. If you're unhappy, then go ahead and sue me in court."

Anyway, there's no court to sue her now, so she can't sue.

"Besides, I'm just like you, I have no money at all and can't support you."

Linlang used the words of the original owner's mother to shut her up.

Seeing Linlang's shameless behavior, the original owner's mother had no choice. Unlike the original owner's father's family, who had the nerve to cause trouble in front of Linlang's house, the original owner's mother still had some sense of shame and was too embarrassed to lie down and fight in front of Linlang's house.

If she didn't make a scene and there was no court for her to sue, she really couldn't do anything about Linlang. So she could only helplessly go back and ask her husband's family how to handle the matter.

Her husband's family had also seen the stone house Linlang lived in. The fact that she could afford such a luxurious stone house meant she was exceptionally wealthy. After all, ordinary people with money would be content with a wooden house; there was no need for such a luxurious stone house. Given their family's difficult circumstances, it would be a huge loss not to squeeze some money out of her to help themselves. So, her husband's mother-in-law said, "How could she not have money? She just doesn't want to give it to you. You should still ask for it, but being forceful might not work. After all, there's no court now, so they can't control her. Why don't you play the emotional card? When you see her, shed tears, plead poverty, and play the victim. If she sees you looking pitiful, she might help you out."

The original owner's mother nodded and said, "There's no other way, we can only try this for now."

So the original owner's mother stood guard in front of Linlang's door.

Unlike the original owner's father's family, she wouldn't make a scene in front of Linlang's door before Linlang appeared, disturbing her. She would only wipe away tears and tell Linlang about her pitiful situation when Linlang opened the door.

It's not that it's fake; she really has been having a tough time lately. Of course, she's not the only one who's having a tough time; after all, who isn't having a tough time these days?

So Linlang ignored her.

However, since the other party wasn't as disruptive as the Zhang family, Linlang didn't ask the patrol team to drive her away. After all, as long as it didn't bother her, it was fine.

It seems she can't keep up her miserable act for long. After all, she can't just stop fighting monsters or doing quests to earn money every day. Although her territory has low fees, Wang Jing's family was drained dry by the previous territory and doesn't have many copper coins left. They definitely need to earn money to support their family. She wants to be a free spirit, but her husband's family probably won't stand for it.

Just as Linlang had expected, the original owner's mother cried in front of her door for several days. Seeing that Linlang ignored her, and with her husband's family dissatisfied that she wasn't earning money, they told her to come back and earn some money first. They figured she could keep looking for Linlang later once she was settled and had some savings. After all, Zhang Linlang probably wouldn't leave this territory, so there would be plenty of time to keep asking her for money. Seeing that she couldn't get money from Linlang, and that her husband's family was unhappy with her lack of income and were treating her like her ex-boyfriend Liu Jie's family was treating a mistress, Wang Jing had no choice but to go back and deal with her family matters.

This territory is quite good. Other territories are only level 2, while this one is level 3. Judging from the rankings, it is the best territory in the surrounding area. This means that this territory will not be conquered for a considerable period of time. Moreover, based on this development trend, this territory should be upgraded to level 4 before any danger arises, which will allow it to last even longer.

In other words, she had finally found a safe place to stay after the apocalypse, where she wouldn't have to run around aimlessly, living for who knows how long. Since that was the case, she decided to separate from her husband.

Before the apocalypse, she had thought that they would separate after her son was admitted to university, but that would take several years. Now that the apocalypse has come and there is nowhere for him to go to university, she decided to separate now.

So when she saw that her husband's family looked down on her and her son for not earning money and for relying on them to support them, she took her son out to discuss divorce.

She mentioned that her father's family had always disliked her and her mother, and suggested that they should just leave to avoid being disliked by them every day.

"I bet it was your brother stirring things up inside. He's an adult now, he can kill monsters and make money, so naturally he's unhappy that you can't kill monsters and make money and you still want to spend money. He's always complaining about how bad we are, and I'm so fed up with it that I just want to leave and have some peace and quiet. Anyway, they're always saying how bad we are, so I figured they'd be happy if we left."

Her son was already a teenager, no longer at an age where he was ignorant. Hearing his mother's words, he hesitated and said, "If we get a divorce, you won't dare to go out and fight monsters. We won't be able to earn money. How will we survive?"

Since he's at an age where he's sensible and is going through a rebellious phase of adolescence, he naturally doesn't like being disliked by others every day. So, like Wang Jing, her son doesn't really like the atmosphere at home. If he had money, he wouldn't want to go back and stay in that complicated environment, scheming against that group of people.

The family didn't have much money (as mentioned before, Wang Jing's new husband wasn't well-off), but they spent more money than the family feud. The grandparents favored the eldest brother, saying that the eldest brother was less pitiful than his mother—in fact, his mother had an affair and got divorced, but she wasn't dead, so how could he not have a mother?

My uncle had a good relationship with my older brother's mother back then, so over the years he has only been good to my older brother and not to him, treating him differently.

Sometimes he even wondered if his older brother's mother had been having affairs back then, and his uncle was good to his older brother, and he'd heard that his uncle was also having an affair with his older brother's mother. Could there have been something between the two of them back then? Otherwise, since his uncle and older brother weren't his children, but just nephews, he could have treated them equally, and there was no need for such differential treatment.

—It has to be said that children's intuition is sharp. Judging from Linlang's previous observation of the original owner's mother and the family, Wang Jing's stepson really is her brother-in-law. So the child is right. This family is dirt poor, but they are really extravagant.

The eldest brother is always stirring up trouble in front of his grandparents, uncles, and father, making them dislike him and his mother more and more. Before the end of the world, he deliberately stirred up trouble in front of his middle school son, causing conflicts and quarrels between his family and his mother, just to affect his mood and thus his grades, hoping that he would not be able to get into a good high school.

He had long wanted to leave such an environment, but his mother was unable to survive at that time, so they couldn't leave that suffocating place.

When his mother mentioned leaving, he was willing. He had long wanted to leave that group of people; just thinking about the days without them felt like being freed from shackles. So why wouldn't he want to? The only problem was reality: they had no money and couldn't leave. (End of Chapter)