TFWYH – Chapter 337 Repairing the Ancestral Hall

Old Madam Liu didn’t buy this at all. “Don’t try to scare me. Isn’t Sheng working for the second branch? Where’s his money?”

Ling Sheng’s face immediately darkened.

Ling Canghe had been full of helplessness, but after hearing Old Madam Liu’s words and seeing her fleshy, domineering face, he suddenly laughed.

So this mother of his truly didn’t care about him at all!

No matter how much he did, to this old woman it was all only what he owed her.

At this very moment, Ling Canghe completely gave up on this mother. His tone turned flat. “One hundred taels. Take it if you want, if not, forget it.”

“You—”

“You raised me to this age, but you probably haven’t even spent a hundred taels on me, right? Don’t push things too far. Otherwise… Mother, you should know what kind of person your son is.”

By the end, Ling Canghe’s face was full of ruthlessness.

Old Madam Liu shuddered in fear. Only then did she recall that her eldest son was not someone easy to provoke.

If she pushed him too far, he would rather perish together than do as she wished.

Anyway, he was still her son—he couldn’t run away.

Thinking this, Old Madam Liu spat.

“An unfilial beast!” she cursed, then left.

One hundred taels—enough for her to spend for a long time—

Because of this incident, everyone was very silent on the way back.

Ling Canghe and his son drove the carriage outside.

Inside the carriage, Qian-shi was quietly crying.

Jiang-shi held her hand and kept sighing.

The second branch had lost Ling Cangshan and thus had an excuse to break away from the old Ling family.

But the eldest branch had no such excuse.

A son supporting his parents was a matter of course. No matter where you went to argue it, Old Madam Liu had the moral high ground.

Qian-shi knew that supporting one’s parents was only right, but she still felt terribly wronged and couldn’t help complaining to Jiang-shi through tears, “This is too much. How can she be like this? My husband is her son too, Sheng is her grandson too—how can a person be so biased to this extent?”

What she didn’t say was that at this moment, she even wished Old Madam Liu would just die.

Jiang-shi had no idea how to comfort her and could only gently pat her hand. “Don’t think too much. In the future… come back less often. If big brother feels guilty, just have him send some silver back every so often.”

Other than coming back less, out of sight and out of mind, what else could they do?

Tang Wan, however, said in confusion, “Why come back less? Wouldn’t it be better to not come back at all?”

Jiang-shi said helplessly, “The roots of the old Ling family are here—how can we not come back? Leaving other things aside, we still have to come back every year to worship the ancestors.”

Tang Wan disagreed. “The old Ling family doesn’t even have an ancestral hall. We can build one for the ancestors at home. In the future, we can go to the ancestral hall to perform the rites and won’t need to come back here.”

Jiang-shi and Qian-shi were both stunned.

Ling Sheng immediately became interested as well. “Wan-niang, you know about this? I heard there are many rules about ancestral halls!”

“I don’t know,” Tang Wan said. “But someone will. There’s still a long time before next year’s ancestor worship. We can find someone to look into it properly before then. It’s not like we don’t have the means.”

“That would be wonderful! Husband!” Qian-shi was overjoyed and hurried out of the carriage to share the good news with Ling Canghe.

Jiang-shi sighed. “This is good too. Sometimes it’s not that we juniors are unwilling to be filial—it’s really just… sigh…”

Tang Wan understood. True filial piety comes from loving parents. If the parent is not kind, then a child’s ‘filial piety’ becomes foolish obedience.

People like Old Madam Liu—stupid and selfish—deserved to be made to suffer more.

Days passed one by one.

The weather in the south warmed up very quickly.

It wasn’t even March yet, but many people had already put away their heavy cotton coats.

Many of the older generation were saying that this year’s weather was abnormal.