Why aren't you guys complaining now that I'm here?

Even though Wang knew that Li had a bad character, she still couldn't help but slap him.

"Who is to blame for Chunsheng's misfortune? He's only fifteen years old, but he works in the fields with us all day long. During the slack season, he even has to go to the county to work as a laborer to supplement the family income!"

"We dare not spend a penny of the money we earn. We use it all to support Lin Chengcai's studies!"

"Your family is so good, you're just lazy at home all day. Lin Xuan is two years younger than Chunsheng. Other people's children are already strong men at his age, but yours is just playing with chickens and dogs with a bunch of little kids all day long!"

"And you, Li! I've been unable to tolerate this for years. Do you really think that just because my family spent so much money to marry you, you're the wife of a wealthy family? Bah!"

"You keep your daughter at home all day, all the time, sleeping in and putting on makeup. You even ask my Qiutang to do the chores assigned to you. Do you have any shame?"

Wang cried as she spoke, and became more and more angry. She grabbed Li's hair and slapped her several times.

Old Man Lin and Old Lady Lin tried to stop them, but Lin Hao grabbed one of them with one hand each and held them back.

Lin Qingya would not help either, as she was still resentful of Li for scolding her before.

But you still have to pretend.

"Auntie, please let my mother go!" With red eyes, she went forward and tried to pull Wang, but was knocked to the ground by Wang, and she didn't stand up for a long time.

As for Lin Xuan, he ran out to play after dinner and could not be relied on at all.

Li was dazed after being slapped several times by Wang, and she cursed without thinking:

"Ah! Wang Qiongniang, you shameless bitch, how dare you hit me! I'm the future wife of an official! If you don't let go, I'll chop off your head when my husband becomes a high-ranking official!"

Wang slapped her face so hard that it turned into a pig's head.

"Haha, you're such a loser, Lin Chengcai. You still want to be an official's wife? Wait for your next life."

After arguing for most of the night, Old Man Lin and Old Lady Lin finally had to agree to divide the family business.

Originally they didn't want to agree, but Lin Qingya secretly told them that she could make money selling milk tea now, and if they didn't divide the family, the eldest wife would have to send Lin Chunsheng to school, which would cost a lot of money.

As for farming, they can rent out the land when they have enough money.

Just like that, Old Man Lin and Old Lady Lin were persuaded by her. They had originally only planned to separate the family, but after being reminded by her, they simply broke off the relationship.

The next morning, Old Man Lin asked Lin Xuan to invite the village chief and two witness elders to preside over the division of the family.

The Lin family owned a total of 36 mu of land, of which 11 mu were top-grade fields and 25 mu were lower-grade fields.

The two elders followed the second wife, so the second wife got the most of the land, and the first wife only got three acres of high-quality land and seven acres of low-quality land.

The old house also belongs to the second wife. The existing 18 taels and 7 qian of silver in the house are divided into 3 taels and 7 qian to the first wife, and the remaining integer belongs to the second wife.

There were also some food, farm tools, pots, pans, etc., and the eldest wife got a small and broken share.

Even the village chief and clan elders couldn't stand it and secretly persuaded Old Man Lin.

People in the village value the eldest son more, and most of the elderly care is taken care of by the eldest son.

Even if he is a little biased, it won't be too obvious. After all, he still needs his other son to help him.

It's really rare to see Old Man Lin like this.

They all saw how much money their family had spent on Lin Chengcai's studies over the years.

Now they are driving the eldest wife's family out and giving them only less than four taels of silver, which is barely enough to build a shabby thatched hut. Isn't this a dead end to their lives?

Old Man Lin said, "Brother, there's no need to persuade me. I've made up my mind."

"We raised Lin Chengzhi and found him a wife. However, as the eldest son, he doesn't know how to love and care for his younger brothers. He insists on competing with them for superiority and demands to split the family whenever he's not satisfied."

"It's better not to have a son like that. Please, brothers, bear witness that from now on, I and I have nothing to do with the old family."

"We live with the Second Branch, and we don't ask Lin Chengzhi to take care of us in our old age. The prosperity of the Second Branch in the future has nothing to do with them!"

The village chief and the elders looked at each other and shook their heads.

I was really stunned.

But Old Man Lin had already said so much, and it was not appropriate for them to interfere in so many other people's family affairs, so they wrote a document to sever the relationship and divide the family and asked both parties to put their fingerprints on it.

Lin Chengzhi was disheartened by what Old Man Lin and Old Lady Lin said, and pressed his fingerprints without hesitation.

The document was made in triplicate, with Old Man Lin, Lin Chengzhi and the village chief each keeping one copy.

Before leaving, the village chief asked Lin Chengzhi according to the rules whether he wanted to buy a piece of land in the village to build a house.

Lin Chengzhi remembered Lin Hao's advice not to let others know that they were rich, so he shook his head.

"Thank you, Village Chief. I just don't have much money right now. Let's talk about buying land later."

Old Man Lin and Old Lady Lin listened at the side without saying a word.

The house was divided, and the eldest family couldn't wait to move into the new house in the county, so they packed their luggage and went to the county that day.

They didn't take any of the pots, pans, tables, chairs, and benches that Old Man Lin had given them, which were broken and had rotten legs.

Watching the eldest wife's family leave, Lin Qingya and Li's eyes flashed with excitement.

The annoying person is finally gone, and from now on this house will belong to their second wife!

Back in the house, Lin Qingya used a few copper coins to persuade Lin Xuan to help move Lin Chunya and Lin Qiuya's broken beds to the yard.

She finally had her own room. Although it was shabby, she no longer had to hide from others when putting her money away.

Speaking of money, she secretly saved three taels of silver from selling milk tea during this period, and gave most of it to Old Lady Lin.

But it doesn’t matter, she still has fifty taels to sell for the double skin milk recipe.

When she had saved enough money, she would leave the Lin family and go to other places to do business. With all the new foods and recipes in her mind, she could travel freely in the world.

Lin Qingya was very excited. After closing the door, she quietly found the torn clothes with the banknotes sewn on them and planned to hide the banknotes somewhere else.

Afraid of being discovered by her family, she has been wearing this dress for more than ten days without daring to change it. It has become a bit smelly.

After carefully undoing the stitches with scissors, she reached in and her heart skipped a beat.

Why is it empty?!

I touched it again, but it was still empty.

Lin Qingya's lips trembled and she quickly tore open the sewing cloth.

When I looked again, it was really empty, there was nothing.

She couldn't help but feel panicky. She quickly stood up, shook her clothes, and carefully checked all the places under the bed where the banknotes might have fallen.

None at all.

Lin Qingya slumped on the bed, her face pale. What else did she not understand?

She had put the silver in and sewed it with her own hands, and now it disappeared out of thin air. Someone must have known that she had the banknotes and stole them on purpose!

Unfortunately, no one in the Lin family knew about this money, so she couldn't say anything and could only suffer the loss in silence.

But who could it be?

Was it Lin Chunya and Lin Qiuya, who shared the same room with her? Or was it Li, who had long been dissatisfied with her? Or was it Lin Xuan, who was not doing his job properly?

Could it be Mrs. Lin and Old Man Lin?

Lin Qingya racked his brains for a long time but still had no clue.