Looking at Uncle Xia and his younger brother, who feigned kindness on the surface but whose eyes gleamed with greed, Xia's mother felt a surge of fear and apprehension.
Suddenly, someone pinched her hand. She turned her gaze and saw her daughter, who was still looking down. She suddenly remembered what her daughter had said to her earlier.
Let her deliberately show weakness to those people first, and then...
I'll leave it to my daughter.
Mother Xia gritted her teeth, mustered her courage, and shook her head: "No, no, His Majesty has already changed the law. Even if a family has no heirs and no unmarried daughters, all the family property will be inherited by the daughters and will not be confiscated..."
"Huh? You don't want to give it because it's not confiscated?" Uncle Xia's face fell immediately. "Sister-in-law, let me tell you, even if your little girl were here, what could you do with her? That involves money, house deeds, and land deeds! You two are so thin and weak, can you farm the land, and can you go out and manage money?!"
Uncle Xia chimed in, "That's right! We offered to help you manage it out of kindness, sister-in-law, what kind of attitude is this? We're all family, why are you meddling in this?"
"Besides, even if Xia He were alive, my Gou Dan and Er Hu are still his nephews! If his uncle doesn't give his assets to his nephews after he loses his son, who else would he give them to?"
"Your daughter will get married sooner or later and become someone else's woman! If you give her the things, she won't bear the Xia surname anymore! How can you face your ancestors?"
The two became increasingly agitated as they spoke, spitting as they spoke, their aggressive tone startling Xia's mother, who kept backing away, stammering, "No...no..."
The people inside the room fell silent involuntarily, turning to look at Xia's daughter, who was silently weeping with her head down. She was wrapped in a tattered cotton coat, her face and head completely obscured, making it impossible to discern her expression.
Uncle Xia's son, Gou Dan, was always idle and had long been eyeing his uncle's family's business, and he also sneered in a sly manner.
“Auntie, what are you still refusing for? You're a woman, how will you make a living in the village? Without our help, what can a widow like you do? You definitely can't stay in Xiajia Village. You can leave! But where can you go? These days, the world is not stable. Without the support of the clan, it's very dangerous!”
As they relentlessly pressured him, a child, whose face was obscured by a coat, suddenly chuckled softly in the corner.
"So, I understand what my eldest uncle and younger uncle mean: they want to take away all the family property left by my father?"
The person's voice was very hoarse, clearly indicating that they hadn't reached puberty yet and were also suffering from a cold, making their voice so rough and hoarse that it was impossible to tell if it was a male or female voice.
Uncle Xia didn't think much of it, but the sarcasm in her words made his face change: "What do you mean! How can you talk to your elders like that! I'm talking to your mother, what right do you, a mere child, have to interrupt!"
Tong Su said slowly and deliberately, "So this is how elders speak, so forcefully and demandingly? I was quite ignorant. But since elders have abandoned all pretense of dignity and acted so cruelly, I, as a junior, certainly cannot be filial either."
"You—what did you just say! What do you mean by seizing family property? We were just taking good care of you out of kindness, don't you dare slander us!"
"Slander?" Tong Su said coldly, "Isn't your plan to make my mother and me rely on your charity to survive in the future? If we please you, we can barely get a meal; if we can't please you, we'll starve to death?"
Inside the house, the villagers, who had been eagerly anticipating the spectacle, gasped in shock upon hearing this question.
Wow—that's quite a blunt way to put it!
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