"Pah! That bunch of heartless whelps in our family only think about how they can plunder from us elders for their own benefit every day. Give us money? Don't dream of it! If it were in the past, I, your mother, might have turned a blind eye, but now with the situation at home, your eldest brother needs silver coin every day just to keep his life, the family's silver is spent like running water, and you can't even hear a sound as it goes."
"This is what I found today when I took advantage of the first wife's room being empty and the door open—I went in and took a look. That cheap wench Lady Lin didn't hide her jar well, just buried it next to the kang's hole. Probably too hurried, the soil wasn't even firmly packed down, and wouldn't you know, your mother found it?"
Old Granny Zhang still had a touch of smugness.
"Mother—" Wang Yongzhu was speechless. What kind of situation was this?
