Farmer girl swaps husbands: buys a sickly villain and pampers him

Chapter 170 Unfilial
Zhang Laosan pointed at Zhang Zhaodi's nose and cursed, "You unfilial daughter, you unfilial daughter! I've wasted my life raising you. I'd be better off raising a dog."

Zhang Zhaodi picked at her ear, letting Zhang Laosan curse her without retaliating.

Wei rushed over and rammed her head against the pillar. No one around stopped her. She was caught in a dilemma and dared not ram the pillar. She could only sit on the ground and rant, "God, please send down a bolt of lightning to kill this unfilial daughter."

Zhang Pandi tugged at Su Yaoguang: "What do we do now? If they keep coming to cause trouble every day, how are we supposed to do business?"

"Let them make a scene, it'll be good for our guests to have some fun," Su Yaoguang said. "When they get tired of making a scene, they'll find it boring."

Despite saying that, Su Yaoguang still had Jia Chunni report the case to the yamen, and soon Constable Qian came with two officers to guard the place.

Wei and Zhang Laosan were intimidated by the sight of the official's uniform, and even more so when they saw the official's fierce appearance and the knife at his waist.

“This unfilial daughter has grown too big for her britches. If we keep making trouble, we won’t gain anything. If we anger her, she might really send us to jail. Look how hard-hearted she is now. She doesn’t care about us old folks at all. Honey, what should we do? She’s so rich. She could easily squeeze out a little money from her own pocket and make sure our Jizong lives a good life, but she’s unwilling to help her younger brother.”

Old Zhang strode towards Zhang Zhaodi: "Your mother and I gave birth to you, so you should be filial to us. You don't want us to come and cause trouble every day, do you? Give us some money, and we won't bother you anymore."

“No, it is a daughter’s duty to be filial to her parents. I will give you fifty coins every month as a filial gift, just like other dutiful daughters. I will give it to you on time every month, and I will not shortchange you by a single coin,” Zhang Zhaodi said.

"Fifty coins?" Zhang Laosan glared at her. "Are you trying to fob me off like a beggar?"

"Go out and ask around. How many married daughters still have to take care of their parents? It's the sons' responsibility to care for their parents in their old age and see them off in their final days. That's what you taught us before, have you forgotten?"

"One hundred taels! Give me one hundred taels, and I won't bother you again!" Zhang Laosan said angrily.

“Hey old man, don’t you have a mirror at home? If you don’t have a mirror, you must have urine, right? Why don’t you take a piss and look at yourself? One hundred taels of silver? You’re just obsessed with money. Ordinary families like ours can’t earn one hundred taels in a lifetime.”

"Is she from an ordinary family? She's rich!"

"They were living such a hard life as orphans and widows, and you didn't help them at all. Now that they've finally gotten over their hardships, you want to leech off them. You're shameless."

"How much can you give me? Fifty coins is impossible, otherwise I'll make a scene every day."

"At fifty cash a month, that's six hundred cash a year, and six taels of silver in ten years. I think you can live for at most twenty years, so I'll give you twelve taels of silver. Forget it, don't say I'm an unfilial daughter, I'll give you fifteen taels! The second and third sons work for me, and you'll cause trouble for them later, so I'll give them their share as well. They just work for me, and their monthly wages are only two hundred cash, which isn't enough to give you fifty cash, so let's add fifty cash for both of them, and that'll give you twelve taels of silver, making it twenty-seven taels of silver in total."

“I will give you twenty-seven taels of silver in one go. You will sign a contract stating that we have fulfilled our filial duties as daughters, and that you will not be able to come to us again no matter what happens to you in the future. Consider this money as a one-time sale of our relationship.”

Zhang Pandi and Zhang Yingdi exchanged a glance.

When Wei and Zhang Laosan appeared, they knew that once their eldest sister dealt with them, it would be their turn. That's how this couple was; they disliked their daughter, yet wouldn't let go of her value. Now that their eldest sister had settled this matter for them, they would no longer be subject to others. Only then were they truly free.

"Fifty taels." Zhang Laosan narrowed his eyes and began to haggle.

"Thirty taels."

"Forty-eight taels." "Twenty-nine taels."

"you……"

Zhang Zhaodi played with her fingers, noticing that her once rough hands had become delicate, and her precious daughter had smoothed out the wrinkles. Now she had the confidence to bargain with others.

The initiative was in her hands; she was no longer the one who groveled and begged for mercy.

"Thirty taels it is," Zhang Laosan had no choice but to compromise.

Zhang Zhaodi is too difficult to control these days. If we don't agree, we might not even get thirty taels of silver.

Zhang Pandi and her daughter, along with Zhang Yingdi, all showed joy.

Once they get rid of these biased parents, their lives will be peaceful from now on.

Jiang Jing put the needle away.

Seeing her actions, Su Yaoguang laughed and said, "What will happen to him if you stick that needle in?"

"It's not that bad, it's just that you'll be bedridden for the rest of your life and never be able to get out of bed again," Jiang Jing said. "People who only cause trouble for others should make trouble for themselves instead."

With everyone present as witnesses, Zhang Laosan and Wei Shi pressed their fingerprints, took away thirty taels of silver, and severed all ties with their three daughters from then on.

"Is this Zhang Laosan stupid? Thirty taels of silver seems like a lot, but if he gets along well with his daughter, she might give him many more thirty taels of silver."

"He's not stupid, he wants it too, but Manager Zhang isn't stupid either, how could he possibly satisfy this bottomless pit?"

“I heard that he has never cared about his three daughters all these years. Each of his daughters is living a worse life than the last, and he has never shown any concern for them. When he married off his three daughters, he demanded high dowries. He used the dowries to help his son get married and build houses, and he didn’t care about his daughters’ lives at all.”

"Deserved it."

Looking at the document in her hand, Zhang Pandi said to Zhang Zhaodi, "Big sister, is it really that easy?"

“If we didn’t have the government backing us up, they could have made a scene for a year or two without any problem. But the common people can’t fight with the officials; they’ll cower in the face of them,” Zhang Zhaodi said. “If they come after you again, you all better stand up for yourselves and don’t give them another chance to extort you.”

"We definitely can't give it to them. If they think we're easy targets, we'll just say that all our money is kept with our eldest sister, and if they want it, they can go to our eldest sister for it."

"Well, you've become clever, aren't you? You're pushing all the troublesome things onto me, aren't you?" Zhang Zhaodi pinched Zhang Pandi's cheek.

Zhang Zhaodi slipped two taels of silver to Qian the shopkeeper, asking him to treat his brothers to tea.

Officer Qian had only been a figurehead for a short time, and he felt a little embarrassed to accept the silver, but since the other party insisted, he didn't refuse. He figured he'd just have to keep an eye on Taoyaofang in the future.