The sickly son died young? After the marriage exchange, I will bring prosperity to his entire clan f

Ling Dalang turned around and said, "Whether the accounts have been settled or not, your daughter knows."

The mother was furious, jumping around and circling Wang Shi. "Daughter, there's definitely something wrong here. You should bring your brother here. If he comes, at least you'll have influence, right? The Ling family is just bullying us."

"Mother, stop making a fuss," Wang Shi stopped her. "This little bit of silver is only enough for Ling Dalang to give us more; otherwise, we wouldn't have any at all."

"How could there only be this little bit of silver? There must be something wrong. Daughter, you've definitely been scammed."

"Mom, I'm not a child. How could I be fooled? If there's anything, it's only this little bit."

The Queen Mother still couldn't quite believe it. "Is it really only this little bit?"

"Yes." Madam Wang nodded emphatically.

The Queen Mother was furious, muttering to herself, "How could it be just this little bit? Such a large workshop, and only this little bit of silver? No one would believe it if word got out."

“Building a workshop, buying things—even though those wines can be sold for silver, there are costs involved. Money isn’t that easy to earn.” Madam Wang resigned herself to her fate and pulled her mother, “Mother, let’s go.”

The mother was unwilling to leave. "I'll go ask Da Bao and the other children, and ask them to come with us. I also want the Ling family to provide money to raise the children."

"This won't do," Wang hesitated, not wanting her child to go with her. "Mother, maybe we should forget about it."

The mother didn't care about any of that and was about to go ask the children when Wang Shi stopped her. "Mother, why don't we just leave them? They can stay with the Ling family and go to the clan school to study. The Ling family won't mistreat the children. What will happen if they go back to the Wang family?"

The mother glared at her, "What do you mean, child? Do you think I would mistreat the Wang family after they go there?"

"No, their surname is Ling. Even if they go to the Wang family, what difference will it make? The child won't have enough confidence. Besides, the Ling family can offer them more."

The mother was exasperated and pinched Wang's arm hard. "You good-for-nothing! You don't even take care of the child you gave birth to. Do you think the Wang family can't afford to raise a few more children?"

"Mother, I just want the children to study. If possible, they can visit me whenever they have free time."

The Queen Mother rolled her eyes at her, "Children without a mother are just weeds. After you leave, the children will be pitiful in the Ling family. You might as well take them with you."

"Even if they are pitiful, they can still go to school."

"You, you're really going to drive me crazy." Madam Wang was furious. She pulled Wang aside and muttered to herself, "Take the children and leave. If the Ling family has a good life in the future, even if the children come back, they'll still get something. And what they get will all be yours, right?"

"Aren't you stupid? You have a perfectly good life, why do you have to get a divorce?"

Madam Wang frowned. "Mother, didn't you tell me to steal the wine? If it weren't for this, how would we have ended up like this?"

"You're incompetent yourself, yet you blame me? You've really grown up to be something. You run a workshop, but you can't help your brothers, let alone support your mother. I have to worry about you at the workshop every day, and yet you blame me for the divorce." Wang's mother really wanted to slap Wang Shi twice.

Wang stopped speaking and responded to everything with silence.

Ignoring everything else, the Queen Mother muttered to herself, "I'm going to find some children."

This time, Wang didn't stop her. Once her mother made a decision, most people couldn't change it.

No one from the Ling family stopped them; they seemed to let it go.

Wang returned shortly afterward, followed by her eldest son's children. Da Bao, with red eyes, still seemed a little incredulous. "Father, Mother, are you really going to get a divorce?"

The two nodded at the same time. Ling Dalang said, "It's true. Do you want to stay, or do you want to go with your mother?"

After hesitating for a moment, Da Bao said, "I'm the eldest, I'll go with my mother, let my younger brothers stay."

The other two children from the eldest son's family shook their heads vigorously, saying, "We want to go with our mother too."

Du Mingxian understood that in this dynasty, the attitude towards child custody was very open-minded. Most families would respect the child's decision, but many families would also simply let the child tacitly agree to give up the child to the man.

Ling Dalang asked in a deep voice, "Have you all thought it through?"

"Father, after we leave with Mother, are we still members of the Ling family? Will you still acknowledge me and my brothers?"

"Of course, you will always be your father's children. You can come back whenever you want. This will always be your home."

"Then, Father, I want to go with Mother."

"I want to go with my mother too."

"Me too."

The children were in agreement, and Wang's mother, seeing their behavior, was quite satisfied. "See? The children are willing to follow their mother. These children are already half-grown, so you should at least contribute some money, right?"

Ling Dalang's lips curled up slightly, "There is food at home. You are all grown up now. Go and get your own rations. You can take a month's worth first, and come back for more after a month."

"it is good."

The children ran off, first going back to their rooms to pack their things, then to the kitchen to get food.

The Queen Mother, who was hoping to get money from them, was dumbfounded when she saw this. She immediately scolded, "You're too stingy! Those are your children, how can you not give them money?"

“Why would they need money? Tell me what they need and I can buy it for them. They’ve already taken the food they were eating, so why would they need money?”

After stammering for a while, the Queen Mother said, "Then we have to give them some silver. We, the Wang family, still take care of them."

"Then you don't have to take care of her. Our Ling family has plenty of people who can."

The Queen Mother gained absolutely nothing, and her face turned from green to red, then to black with anger.

Wang remained silent until the children finished tidying up, then she followed them and left with her mother.

Only the Ling family members remained in the courtyard. Before anyone could speak, Da Bao ran back and said, "Dad, I'm going to stay at Grandma's house with Mom for a few days. If we don't go, Mom will definitely be bullied by the Wang family."

"Alright, go ahead." Ling Dalang smiled, very satisfied with his son's performance.

After Da Bao left, Xiao Zhou asked in a low voice, "Big brother, you...you really just got divorced like this?"

"Ah."

"Isn't this just an act for the Wang family?" Little Zhou was surprised and didn't know what to say.

Ling Dalang remained silent for a while before saying, "It's true. It wasn't an act for the Wang family. She really did secretly take the wine. I didn't know about this."

They had originally planned to put on a show to scare the Queen Mother and make her behave herself, so they could live a peaceful life together. But he never expected that it was actually Wang Shi's scheme behind the scenes.

Du Mingxian felt somewhat aggrieved for Wang Shi, "Brother, the workshop's profits are more than fifteen taels, aren't they?"

“She didn’t want them. She said that you were the one who came up with the ideas, and she was just taking advantage of the situation, so she felt embarrassed to leave with so many things. It was her own choice.”