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Chapter 988 The Best Family 115
Old Master Sun and Old Lady Sun never thought that when they lived in the Second House, the Second House was only responsible for their food, clothing, housing and transportation, but never gave them money. Didn't they live well? Now that the people who take care of them have changed to their son-in-law's family, they began to feel that it was inconvenient to have no money. The double standard is so obvious. It is estimated that the son-in-law's family will not spoil them and give them money. After all, they are sons-in-law, and they are not afraid of others saying that they are not filial to the old couple. After all, according to the rules of this era, sons-in-law have no obligation to provide for their parents-in-law in their old age, and even daughters do not have this obligation - in ancient times, people gave their property to sons instead of daughters, but at the same time, they did not need daughters to provide for their old age.

Dafang and Linlang’s guess was correct.

After the steward and servants of the first house sent Old Master Sun and Old Madam Sun back to their hometown, they conveyed the eldest house's intention to the two younger sisters' families, asking them whether they were willing to take care of the two elderly people. If they were willing, they would be given five taels of silver a month; if they were not willing, the steward would keep the servants and have the servants of the first house take care of the old couple in their hometown.

What else is there to say? As soon as they heard that they would be paid five taels a month, both families rushed to take care of the family, saying that they would definitely take good care of Old Master Sun and Old Madam Sun, and that the first family would absolutely not need to worry about anything.

Mr. Sun believed this guarantee. After all, if the old couple died, the eldest wife would have no obligation to give them money, and they would then lose a large amount of income. How could they be willing to do that? Therefore, he would definitely take good care of the old couple.

After arranging this matter, the manager took the servants and left. After all, since the two aunts' families were willing to take care of them, there was no need for these servants to stay in their hometown.

After Old Master Sun and Old Madam Sun moved into their daughter's house, they really asked them for money, saying that the money had to be given to them and that they would give money to both families every month in the future.

It sounds good, but once the money is in the hands of the old couple, it would be strange if the money can come out of their hands again.

At that time, the old couple will live in their son-in-law's house, eat and drink for free, and save money for their youngest son. Wouldn't that be wonderful?

They are not afraid that their two sons-in-law will not take care of them. If they dare not, they will not let their eldest son give them money when they go to the capital to beg for money in the future.

In fact, they had long been dissatisfied with the eldest wife giving money to the two sons-in-law's families. After all, in their view, the two sons-in-law's families were outsiders. Why should the money of their Sun family be given to families with other surnames? If the eldest wife had that spare money, she might as well give it to her youngest son.

So when they saw that the eldest wife gave her two sons-in-law five taels of silver a month, which was a huge sum of money, they immediately became angry and wanted to snatch the money back.

But how could the two sons-in-law's families possibly give them the money?

They knew what kind of people the old couple were when their wives married into their family with nothing. They only had eyes for their youngest son. If the money came into their hands, the old couple would definitely give the money to their youngest son and not give them a penny.

The reason for this judgment is that when they went to the capital to beg for money, the old couple lived a tight life with the help of the second house, and they still wanted others to give them money, but they were rejected with such words.

At that time, the old couple had no money, so they couldn't help Master Sun Er.

Now they want to give the money to the old couple. When the old couple has money, they will definitely use it to help Mr. Sun Er. What else can they do? So now the two sons-in-law see that Mr. Sun and Mrs. Sun are asking them for money, so they naturally don't give it.

When Old Master Sun and Old Madam Sun saw that they were not giving them any money, they said they would go on a hunger strike. Even if they died, the two families would still not get any money.

These words could not threaten the two families, as they did not think the old couple were cruel enough to commit suicide.

At that moment, both families said that they could go on a hunger strike if they wanted to. At worst, they would wait until they died and continue to go to the capital to beg for money. Although the money would be less, why couldn't they get any money at all?

The old couple almost vomited blood after hearing the "shameless" words of their two sons-in-law's families that they were not threatened.

The old couple felt that what their two sons-in-law said was shameless, but in fact they themselves were more shameless. They just felt so angry when they saw that others were not threatened by them and could still get the money, so they thought that their two sons-in-law were shameless.

Because they couldn't get the money, the old couple pretended to go on a hunger strike for a day.

As a result, the next day, the old couple could not bear the hunger and had to eat. There was no other way, the feeling of being hungry was really too uncomfortable.

But after I had eaten and calmed down, I started to dislike the food at my son-in-law's house when I ate it again.

In fact, the families of the two sons-in-law of the Sun family were just ordinary families before. Later, when the eldest branch of the Sun family became rich, they went to the capital to beg for money. After getting some money, they repaired their dilapidated house and bought some land. Now their lives are much better than before and they have become relatively wealthy families in the village.

Now the eldest wife gives them five taels of silver a month to ask them to take care of the old couple, so they are even richer and have suddenly become the richest family in the village. After all, even the richest family in the village before could not have a stable income of five taels of silver, or eight strings of coins, a month.

Eight strings of cash a month is equivalent to one hundred strings of cash a year. This huge amount of money can probably only be earned by the wealthy people in the town. Therefore, the families of the two sons-in-law of the Sun family have become the richest families in the village.

They have already decided to save some money and buy some land. After all, the old couple will pass away eventually, and without this income, their lives will become worse. After the old couple pass away, they can only rely on the relationship between siblings to continue to go to the capital to beg for money, which will be a bit difficult. After all, the old couple are still alive, and the relationship between their two families is linked by the old couple as parents. It is okay to beg for money, but when the old couple are gone, this bond will be gone, and as for the relationship between siblings, it is not known how much affection they will have.

What's more, if we think about it in the long term, if Master Sun and his sister pass away, the two families may not visit each other anymore, and it will be impossible to ask for money from them. And in ancient times, who knew when they would die? So naturally, they had to save more money and buy more land while they were still alive so that the family could have a livelihood. In this way, whether the old couple passed away, or Master Sun and his sister passed away, or even if the imperial concubine fell out of favor, even if Master Sun was still alive, he would not be able to help them. And with more land, they would not be afraid of having a bad life.

It has to be said that the families of these two sons-in-law of the Sun family were much more successful than the family of Concubine Liu at that time. When Concubine Liu was promoted to concubine, her family received a lot of promotion gifts, but they squandered them all. They did not buy any land and relied on Concubine Liu for money. So when Concubine Liu got into trouble, they were left with nothing. The families of these two sons-in-law of the Sun family were more successful and they will definitely live a good life in the future.