She was replaced by a husband, married the future tyrant and farmed to fight back

Chapter 143: Settling old accounts, a big loss
Liu Yingyue recalled that Madam Qin did not like Chen Baian's uncle and aunt, and for this reason, she had repeatedly blocked the marriage between Qin Xiuzhu and Chen Baian.

If the Tian couple continues to make trouble like this, the wedding will probably be ruined.

She immediately added, "Aunt Tian, ​​you said that you spent a lot of money to raise Bai'an. But I remember that Bai'an's mother also left a lot of dowry for Bai'an. Is that enough to support Bai'an until now?"

Tian Shunfa and Tian Huang's expressions changed suddenly.

"Nonsense, that's not true. Where did Bai'an get her dowry? After she died, it was all used for funeral expenses." Tian Huang shouted.

"Bai'an's father is a poor scholar, and her mother is just an embroiderer. Where would the dowry come from?" Tian Shunfa was afraid of his wife, so he looked at his wife, Tian Huang, and followed suit.

These two people's sophistry may deceive others but not Liu Yingyue.

Liu Yingyue raised her lips and sneered, "Bai'an's father is a poor scholar, but Bai'an's mother has superb embroidery skills. People in the county come to her to ask her to do embroidery work. She has a good income and must have saved up. Besides, the burial expenses of Bai'an's parents were paid by Bai'an's great-grandmother. Although his great-grandmother is old and her thighs are disabled, she is clear-headed. Do you want me to invite his great-grandmother to come and confront her now?"

"Ah? Yes, the burial of Bai'an's parents was indeed arranged by Bai'an's great-grandmother. The old lady was a poor person. Her son and daughter-in-law died early, and her grandson and daughter-in-law also died early. She was the daughter of a wealthy man and always had savings on hand. She has always been the one to pay for the burial expenses of her children and grandchildren. I have never heard of using Bai'an's mother's dowry." said an elder of the Chen family.

"I remember that Bai'an's mother once bought a mule cart and a ten-acre fish pond. That mule cart was used by you, Shunfa, until the mule died of old age. By the way, what about the fish pond? It's still there, right?" said another elder.

"And the house left by Bai'an's parents was sold by Uncle Tian, ​​right?" Liu Yingyue said again.

Qin Yiran looked towards Liu Yingyue.

His eyes narrowed slightly. Why did she know so much?

Tian Shunfa and Tian Huang were speechless.

The mule was used until it died of old age, and Chen Baian's old house and fish pond were sold to pay off his son's gambling debts.

Liu Yingyue added, "A mule cart is worth at least twenty-five taels. A large fish pond can bring in ten to twenty taels of income every year, which is enough for Bai'an's living expenses, right? Why are you still asking Bai'an for living expenses? If you want to settle old accounts, why not settle them all at once now?"

"Why would the annual expenses be ten or twenty taels? This is the life of people in the county town! For a country family, five taels of silver is the maximum a year." Qin Yiran said in a calm voice.

"Five taels are enough for a family. If a person, one or two thousand wen a year is enough to live on. The income from the fish pond in these eighteen years is enough for Bai'an to live for a hundred years. Uncle and aunt Tian, ​​am I right? Do you want to pay some back to Bai'an?" Liu Yingyue smiled.

She picked up the abacus on the table and spread it out. "If the fish pond earns 15 taels a year, the income for 18 years is 270 taels, plus the 25 taels for the mule carriage and the 20 taels for the house, the total is 315 taels. Bai'an's income from working as a waiter in the past two years was also taken away by Aunt Tian. Adding it all together, you took at least 350 taels of silver from him. Am I right, Uncle and Aunt Tian?"

"And the furniture and farm tools in the Bai'an family's old house, Shunfa, were all moved away by you. They are worth a lot of money." said an elder of the Chen clan.

Madam Qin opened her eyes wide, "After taking so much silver, why do you still want 200 taels as a marriage gift? You are so unreasonable!"

"Shunfa, it's not right for you to do this." The two elders of the Chen family shook their heads and sighed.

"If you insist on asking for a marriage gift of 200 taels, why don't we settle the old accounts? You can first pay back the 150 taels to Bai'an, and we will give you the marriage gift later." Liu Yingyue said.

Tian Shunfa and Tian Huang were immediately frightened and looked embarrassed and ugly.

Tian Huang refused to admit defeat and pointed at Chen Baian, "Bai'an, you haven't married the Qin family girl yet, why are the Qin family meddling in your affairs? Do you have any ambition?"

Chen Baian's face turned pale. "Uncle and aunt, is what they said true? You took away my mother's mule cart and fish pond? And the old house, did you sell it or give it away? I have never seen the old house in my life."

"You were only half a year old at that time. Your Chen family members all disliked you as a burden and refused to take you. We took you in out of kindness. We couldn't lose the fish pond, the mule cart and the old house or let the Chen family take them away for nothing, right?" Tian Shunfa frowned. The Chen family elders were angry, "Shunfa, you are talking nonsense! Didn't you insist on raising Bai'an back then? Which of us said we didn't want to raise him? His grandmother was so old, but she also said she wanted to raise him. It was you who insisted on taking Bai'an away, so our Chen family let him go. Why are you turning your back on it now?"

"From what I heard, what the Chen family grandfathers said is right, Uncle Tian." Liu Yingyue said.

Tian Shunfa said, "No, it's just that the Chen family doesn't want him!"

"Yes, yes, it's the Chen family that doesn't want him!" Tian Huang also said.

"I didn't say that you are not allowed to take over the management. I just want to ask, since you took away the mule cart and the old fish pond house, then why have you told me every time you saw me for the past 18 years that I was eating and living at your house for free? And you even asked me to make money to repay you for raising me?" Chen Baian's face turned pale as paper and he stood up angrily.

Nothing is more devastating than knowing that the kindness of raising a child was calculated.

The corners of Chen Baian's lips trembled and his eyes turned red.

Liu Yingyue sighed.

Qin Yiran patted his shoulder and said, "Sit down and talk."

Chen Baian didn't sit down. With red eyes, he looked at Tian Shunfa and Tian Huangshi, "Uncle, aunt. Since you are my mother's closest relatives, I will let bygones be bygones. But if you ask the Qin family for marriage gifts and ask Xiuzhu for dowry, I will not recognize you. You can choose for yourselves."

Having said that, he turned his head away.

Tian Huang and Tian Shunfa looked at each other and communicated secretly with their eyes.

Tian Shunfa pulled Tian Huang's sleeve, indicating her agreement.

Breaking off the relationship is equivalent to severing ties with the Qin family, the god of wealth.

That's not worth it.

Tian Huang gritted her teeth, tried to save her face, pointed at Chen Baian and said, "How come you are still so irritable even though you are getting married? I just said it casually, but you took it seriously? We raised you and we really love you, so why would we ask for a marriage gift? We are afraid that the villagers will look down on you and say you are paying for your services."

"Our family values ​​him, who would look down on him?" Liu Yingyue smiled, "It's Aunt Tian who looks down on him, saying all the time that he has no parents. What's wrong with not having parents? My mother-in-law doesn't have parents either, who looks down on my mother-in-law?"

Madam Qin came to her senses and realized that, yes, she also had no parents since childhood and was raised by her aunt.

But no one looked down on her.

"Our family doesn't look down on Bai'an." Madam Qin said with a cold face.

"That's right. Everyone in our family likes Bai'an, so we don't ask for his betrothal gift. We will arrange to hold the wedding banquet at the manor to make it more lively and relieve him of his worries. After they get married in the future, they will not live at the manor, so it's not a marriage into the wife's family. Uncle Tian, ​​Aunt Tian, ​​do you have anything else to say?" Qin Yiran asked in a deep voice.

Tian Shunfa glanced at Tian Huangshi and could only nod and say, "As long as Bai'an is fine, it's fine. Let's do as your family says."

If they really come to settle old scores, they will suffer a huge loss.

(End of this chapter)