Unlimited Resources: Raising a Minister with a Space Supermarket-Chapter 408 - 379: Divorce

Li Wenyuan, seeing the Sun Family demanding exorbitantly, angrily shouted, "You poor bastards, hoping to fatten yourselves off my family in one go. Even if I give up this year’s Autumn Examination, I will not let you despicable people have your way!"

"Hey, you call us despicable? How can a Scholar like you open your mouth and shut it with insults?" Sun Manying’s wife chimed in.

Madam Li pulled her agitated son aside, whispering, "Wenyuan, a wise man doesn’t take immediate losses. As long as they don’t cause trouble at your academy and let you take the exam smoothly, once you’re an official, we can deal with them however we wish in the future."

Li Wenyuan found his mother’s words sensible and bore his indignation, saying, "Five hundred taels is impossible. The most I can give is fifty taels. Consider it another dowry for your family. Fifty taels is not a small amount; just recently, a guy from Xinghua Village only spent fifty taels to marry a wife."

Moreover, he’d seen that guy’s wife, and she was no worse than Sun Manyu. If it weren’t for Yu Xiaolian’s sudden rise to fame back then, her mother wouldn’t have considered Sun Manyu, let alone offered a high dowry of fifty taels.

"Fifty taels won’t do!" Sun Manbo shouted, "At least two hundred taels, no room for negotiation!"

The matchmaker, Madam Jin, who had initially arranged the Sun and Li marriage, felt she couldn’t sit idly by with the families at each other’s throats. Exercising courage, she spoke to Sun Dalin’s wife, "Sister-in-law of the Sun Family, two hundred taels is too much. The court’s heavy taxation makes life hard for everyone.

If the two kids can’t make it work, let’s part on good terms, each taking a step back.

The Li Family offers you a divorce letter and fifty taels, and you guys..."

"No way!" Sun Dalin’s wife interrupted Madam Jin, "No one can persuade us otherwise, two hundred taels, not a penny less!"

As soon as Sun Dalin’s wife said this, Grandpa Sun, leaning on a wooden cane, walked out of the house. He had listened for quite some time and couldn’t take it anymore.

Family ties shouldn’t end so ruthlessly. Although his granddaughter Manyu didn’t have a future with the Li family’s youngest son, people shouldn’t act so downright.

Always leave some leeway for future encounters.

Grandpa Sun spoke, "Alright, stop arguing. Let’s do as Madam Jin said. Huaixing, fetch paper and ink.

Wenyuan, you and your mother have beaten Manyu, and Manjin and Manyin have beaten you too, so let’s call it even.

Regardless of how deep your connection is, you and Manyu have fate, even if it’s ill-fated. Consider this fifty taels as money for Manyu’s future settlement. If you agree, write the divorce letter!"

"I agree!" Li Wenyuan just wanted to finish this matter quickly.

"Dad, don’t get involved and make things messier..." Sun Dalin’s wife tried to push her father-in-law back inside.

Grandpa Sun gave Sun Dalin’s wife a tap with his cane, "The family hasn’t split yet, so I still have the final say. You, a woman, go back inside and don’t shame our Sun Family.

And you, Manbo, you go back inside too, stop embarrassing us!"

With Grandpa Sun’s outburst, the whole family dared not even breathe, trembling like cicadas in winter.

Li Wenyuan gratefully glanced at Grandpa Sun, took the paper, ink, and brush handed over by Sun Huaixing, used the ground as a table, and quickly and simply wrote a divorce letter.

As soon as Li Wenyuan finished writing the divorce letter, Madam Li immediately pulled out a silver note worth twenty taels from her sleeve, "I have here a twenty-tael silver note, take it first. You can either have someone accompany me to get the remaining thirty taels or send someone to fetch it."

Grandpa Sun signaled Sun Dalin to take the silver note, "Then let’s not trouble you with another trip, let my grandson Manying accompany you to get it!"

Madam Li let out a long sigh of relief. Luckily, the elder of the Sun family was reasonable; otherwise, her family and the Sun family would have been in a lasting feud.

Sun Manying followed Li Wenyuan and company to get the money, and onlookers, seeing there was no more drama to watch, also dispersed.

Jiang Dingcai grabbed his brother Jiang Mangzi, "Did you see that? The women of the Sun family are not easy to deal with. If you let Qiuzhu marry that Sun Manxia, you will regret it terribly in the future."

Jiang Mangzi, who had no good feelings for his brother who didn’t even call him eldest brother, didn’t want to say anything and didn’t respond. As long as his son fancied Sun Manxia, he didn’t care about anything else. 𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Jiang Dingcai, seeing Jiang Mangzi silent, thought he had convinced him and pressed on, "Lu’s niece is about the same age as Haiqiu, though a bit unattractive, she’s a good woman, working inside out efficiently, that girl can carry a ton of pigweed at a time..."

Jiang Mangzi pushed Jiang Dingcai, "Don’t follow me around, you’re annoying!"

"Ah, you really don’t appreciate a good thing. I’m doing this for your good, you know. If you weren’t doing well these two years, they wouldn’t even consider agreeing..." Jiang Dingcai shouted, exasperated, at Jiang Mangzi’s back.

Jiang Mangzi walked further and further away, not bothering with his estranged brother anymore.

Back then, when his parents drove him out, it was his brother’s instigation, not giving him an acre of good land, just forest and hills.

Although there were peaches on the hills, in those two years, people didn’t even have money to buy grain, who would spend money on peaches? His peaches not only didn’t sell the first year, but many went rotten. He traveled village to village selling, shouting his voice hoarse, yet sold little. Fortunately, his son had the idea to sell peaches to the city’s brothels and Music Workshop, earning them silver, or else they wouldn’t have survived that winter.

Even so, by early spring, the family was out of grain until wild vegetables started sprouting.

In the hardest times, he did return home; he begged his parents and brother to spare some grain to help, but they drove him out.

Ever since then, Jiang Mangzi considered his parents and brother’s family strangers.

Later, the Yu Family began buying their peaches, and he no longer worried about sales. With money in hand, he acquired two acres of fine land. Today, Jiang Mangzi’s life in Taohua Village is among the best.

Seeing his days were good, his parents and brother wanted to recognize their relationship again, but sorry, Jiang Mangzi not only remembers kindness but also bears grudges.

He knows clearly, his good days come entirely because he has a capable son. Now that his son has found a girl he fancies after a hard time, would he foolishly ruin it? No, he wouldn’t!

Having watched the commotion, Jiang Mangzi hummed a little tune as he headed home.

After the Li family left, Sun Manyu started yelling in anger, blaming her grandpa for ruining her prospects. She could have gotten two hundred taels but only got fifty.

Sun Dalin’s wife couldn’t help siding with Sun Manyu, "Exactly, why benefit the Li family!"