After becoming rich overnight, I handed over the system.

Chapter 51 Dividing the Family

Putting aside the atmosphere on Li's side, the atmosphere on Li Mingyue's side was really not good.

"Mother, you resent me, don't you? You also think I should ask a benefactor for help, don't you?"

“Mingyue, that’s still your father after all!” Mingyue’s mother sighed.

"I'd rather he wasn't! He's my father, so why did he just stand by and watch my grandparents abandon us, just because we're all daughters?" Li Mingyue roared angrily.

"It's all because..."

"Stop saying it's all your fault for not having a son. Would everything have been better if you had a son? If he had just stopped us from being abandoned by our grandparents, I would have accepted him as my father. From childhood to adulthood, you did all the work in the fields, and my sisters and I did all the housework. In the end, we were the first to be abandoned. Why? I ask you, why?" Li Mingyue was unwilling to accept it.

Looking at her daughter crying, Mingyue Niang didn't know how to comfort her. "But it's always been like this! Other families in the village are the same."

"I don't care about others, he's my father, he shouldn't have abandoned me!" Li Mingyue calmed herself down.

"Mother, you can go back if you want. I won't go back. Even if I get to Jiqing Prefecture, I won't go back. I'm going to beg a nobleman and become his maid." All along, Li Mingyue had been thinking that once she got to Jiqing Prefecture, she would rent a small house with her mother and sisters and try her best to support her family.

She doesn't think that way anymore. As long as her mother still has a shred of affection for her father, the Li family will be an inescapable burden.

"Mingyue, don't be angry. Being a maid is not a good thing! I will talk to your father, okay?" Mingyue's mother was at a loss when she heard that her daughter was going to be a maid.

They were innocent peasants; they couldn't become someone else's maids. What was so good about selling themselves into slavery? Every year, several maids died in the Liu landlord's household in the next village.

Seeing her daughter's stubborn refusal to speak, Mingyue Niang was anxious and wanted to dissuade her.

Although the benefactor is treating them well now, she might lose her daughter one day if she's unhappy. This is her own daughter.

"How about this, how about this, Mingyue, let's have your father separate the family property, okay!" Mingyue's mother came up with a brilliant idea in a moment of desperation.

"Separate the family?" Seeing that Mingyue's attitude had softened, Mingyue's mother breathed a sigh of relief.

“Yes, separate the family! It’s all your grandparents’ fault for wanting to abandon us. It’s not right that your father didn’t stop us, but I think it would be better if we separated the family! We can live our own lives after that.” The more Mingyue’s mother talked, the more feasible it seemed.

Her husband was blindly filial to his parents. Because he didn't have a son, he always felt inferior. Mingyue was right. The second wife did all the work at home and in the fields. Why were they the first to be abandoned?

Don't think she didn't notice; her husband probably isn't doing well either, his complexion is even worse than her brother-in-law's.

Li Mingyue also pondered her mother's words, saying that becoming a maid was just a momentary impulse, and that she didn't understand the nature of noble people at all, and that she might not even know if she died a complete gruesome death one day.

Don't think that she can gain favor with the important person by offering the pills. She still remembers the disapproving looks from those around her when she said she wanted to stay.

Now that her mother is suggesting separating the family property, she thinks it's feasible.

Despite her harsh words, she still relies on her father deep down. After all, aside from his blind obedience to his parents, he is still quite good to her and her sister.

Seeing that her daughter's complexion had improved, Mingyue's mother discussed with her the matter when her father came to visit again.

"Grandpa and Grandma would definitely disagree."

"I don't care, I'll just tell your father that if he doesn't agree to the division of the family, then we mother and children won't go back. Anyway, we have important people around, so they won't dare to cause trouble."

Li Mingyue then realized that her mother was not without wisdom and knew how to manipulate her father.

"What! A family split up?" the Li family exclaimed in surprise.

"Yes, that's what my second sister-in-law said. She said that if we didn't separate the family, she would take Mingyue and the others to follow the nobleman." Of course, what he didn't say was that his second sister-in-law had said that his mother probably didn't have the money to help his second brother find another wife.

"What a beautiful woman! Second son, if you don't want this woman, then don't!" Old Mrs. Li was furious. Her parents were still alive, yet this shameless woman dared to bring up the idea of ​​dividing the family.

"Mother, Zhi Niang is my wife!" Li Lao Er couldn't help but retort.

"Why doesn't Grandma divide the family property? If we separate Uncle Er, we won't have enough food at home!" Li Zhuzi thought dividing the family property was a good thing.

Li Laosan glanced at his nephew and thought, "Good lad, you really dare to speak your mind!"

"Zhu Zi, what are you saying! That's your second uncle!" Old Li pretended to pull his son back.

“I think Zhu Zi is right. Anyway, Second Brother has suffered with us. If he gets separated from us, he can eat better food with his wife. But Mom, shouldn’t we ask Second Sister-in-law for something?” Li’s eldest wife agreed, and then offered a new suggestion.

Sure enough, after Sister-in-law Li said that, the others were tempted.

Grandma Li was also thinking to herself, since the second son's family didn't have a son anyway, so it was fine if they separated. She and her husband would live with the eldest son from now on, and she wasn't worried about the youngest son.

It would be better to take this opportunity to ask the second son's wife for something. It will cost a lot of money to settle them in Jiqing Prefecture. The second son's wife and her family must have received a lot of benefits by following the noblemen.

After considering it over, Old Lady Li went to discuss it with her husband.

Li Lao Er watched helplessly as his family went from disagreeing with the division of the household to agreeing to separate him from the family. These were his family members, his parents whom he had always been filial to.

"What? You want us to pay? Fifty taels of silver? Why don't you just rob us?"

Even someone as good-natured as Mingyue Niang was furious with the Li family. After the family division, the second branch of the family got nothing but money. How could the Li family be so shameless?

"Li Lao Er, are you really your parents' son?!"

Li Lao Er also wanted to ask him if he was really his parents' biological son.

"Mom, don't be angry. We'll give you the money, but we need to make it clear that after we give you the money, Grandpa and Grandma can't come to us for their old age." Li Mingyue thought it was a good idea; giving money would sever ties.

“Well, Mingyue, your father is your grandparents’ child. How can a child not take care of his parents in their old age?” Old Li felt it was inappropriate.

"Fifty taels of silver, two old people couldn't spend it all in twenty years." Li Mingyue's unfinished words showed that she didn't even consider how old her grandparents were, or whether they could live another twenty years.

"Then let's go back and discuss it again." Li Laosan pulled Li Laoer back.

"Mingyue, where are we going to get the money?" Mingyue's mother was worried, and cursed the other party inwardly for being shameless to make such a demand.

"It's alright, Mother. This is good. If we clarify things, we won't suffer any losses. As for the money, I'll borrow it from a wealthy person later," Li Mingyue comforted her mother.