"You troublesome beast! Look at the mess you've gotten us into!" Old Yang pounded his chest and stomped his feet, his face turning as red as a pig liver.

"Back then, I told you to stay home and work the fields honestly with me, be a farmer. You insisted on going out to do business."

"Alright, I sold three mu of land from our home to you. Your mother traded away her dowry."

“To marry a wife, one should marry a virtuous woman. We didn't arrange for you to marry Lin Shi. You weren't happy with that arrangement because the Lin family is wealthy and prominent in Wanghai County, known as a major silk merchant. Marrying their daughter would bring many benefits.”

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Well then? Has your wife served me and your mother for a day?

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"All these years you've opened shops in the town, opened shops in the county seat, bought several houses, but have my wife and I ever gotten to spend a day in your luxurious big house?"

"No!" Little Old Yang said.

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>Logically speaking, you are the first merchant from Changping Village to venture out. But why is it that when villagers talk about merchants from our village, they only mention Qing Yaotou, praising Qing Yaotou and never you? Even if they mention you, they do so with strange looks and mocking tones.

“Why is it that Qinger's business is so successful, the whole Lao Yang family benefits from it? Even your uncle walks around the village and people give him more respect?”

“And when I, your father, walk through the village, people mentioning me as your dad, I have to lower myself three points in stature. When I go to drinking parties, hearing that I'm Yang Zhenbang's father, nobody wants to sit at the same bench with me.”

“Why is this happening? Have you ever thought about it?” Old Yang pointed at Yang Zhenbang’s nose, his voice filled with anguish as he spoke word by word.

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Yang Zhenbang buried his head.

Of course he knew, didn't he? He'd been running his own business and never looked after the villagers.

On the contrary, when it comes to acquaintances, you should make a hefty profit.

Xiao Lao Yang's voice continued to reach Yang Zhenbang's ears: "Qinger has made money and knows how to build bridges and pave roads for the village, and build a school."

"Organize the gathering and transportation teams and lead our fellow villagers to prosperity."

And you?

"You're out there making money, getting rich all by yourself. You don't even care about your family and friends, let alone me and your mother."

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"Dad!"

Yang Zhenbang raised his head, his face filled with guilt, but he still defended himself with a slight tinge of grievance: “Father, you say how I treat outsiders, well, I won’t argue that. But you say I don’t care about you and mother, that I can’t accept. I come back to visit you once a month, and I even spent money to hire someone to take care of you and Mother…”

"Once a month, you come back for a visit, only to be caught in bad weather like wind and rain, or you'll have business appointments that keep you away. Brother Zhengan, we are all sons. When I hear this, I feel embarrassed for you!"

The one who said this was Yang Huazhong.

"I'm speaking to you now not because I am the village head of Changping, but as your cousin." Yang Huazhong continued.

"I have to admit, you're the most successful one out of all our cousins in this generation. You've built such a big business, becoming the richest man in Changping Village long ago,"

"But the little wife never got to enjoy her fortune for even a few days. On the contrary, those sons-in-law and daughters-in-law from poor families are still by their side, while you..."

“I’m trying to make money! No matter how much filial piety you have, it's all useless if you don't have money. Can money buy rice and grain? Can money buy medicine?” Yang Zhenbang retorted unhappily.

Yang Huazhong said: “Even if you have a lot of money, your parents only eat three meals a day, and each meal is only one or two bowls of food.”

“You said making money is important, and I admit that, but money isn't everything.”

“Let me just say about my late mother-in-law,”

"Is the Sun family wealthy? But so what? No amount of money can buy family, companionship, or life!"

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Yang Zhenbang was speechless after hearing this.

He knelt there, head bowed in silence.

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Little Lao Yang was also scolded enough. He was helped back by Yang Huazhong and gasped for breath.

Lao Yang, who was sitting in the main seat, slammed his tea onto the table and said, "Alright, alright. It's pointless to argue about whether those with money are more filial or not anymore."

"Right now, nephew Zhāngbāng, you should first figure out how to clean up this mess!" he said.

When it comes to this, Xiao Lao Yang frowned and said, "Fengzhi's leg injury is terrible. She won't be able to walk for at least a month. She can't do any housework like cooking or laundry, and she still has to spend money on treatment."

There's also a Lin family member locked up in the backyard shed. When word gets back to her in-laws in the county, they won't be able to stay out of it either.

“You little rascal, you good-for-nothing! Look at what you've done! Just tell me how you plan to get out of this!” Old Yang snarled.

When it came to how this would end, Yang Zhenbang was no longer as flustered as before.

He gritted his teeth and said, "That piece of cheating can't be blamed entirely on me. That woman, Fengzhi, isn't an innocent person either." Let me know if you have any other text you'd like me to translate!

"If she didn't give me some flirtatious hints, I wouldn't dare."

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"I slept with her, and it wasn't for nothing. I gave her a few silver taels and twenty jin of rice flour."

“Besides, her foot wasn't dug up by our Yang family. She injured herself when she was fighting with Zhou Sheng over the rake. Our family has already given her medicine money, that's enough.”

"Well, I'll just send another five hundred wen later!"

As for Lin, I've made up my mind. I want to divorce her. I don't want to spend another day with her! said Yang Zhenbang.

"What? Divorced?" Little Yang's head was filled with anger, his eyes bulging like copper coins.

"You little punk, do you know what you're talking about?"

“To divorce? Don’t you two look at how old you both are? You're almost a grandfather, and you want to get divorced? Aren’t you afraid of being misunderstood?” Little Lao Yang asked.

"It's precisely because I've reached this age that I want to divorce. If I were younger and still struggling in business with chopsticks in hand, I wouldn't dare divorce her!"

"As for the Lin family, I have ways to handle them. You and Uncle don't need to worry about this!"

Now, this business has become a habit, and people have reached middle age. They just want to live life to the fullest!

"Are you not worried about your father? Only if I die!" Little Lao Yang's head was enraged and stood up again, his whole body trembling. He stretched out the dry tobacco pipe and wanted to hit Yang Zhenbang again, but he was stopped by Lao Yang's head.

"My son, teach the younger generation to win people over with virtue, don't just hit without thinking. If there's something, sit down and talk about it calmly. There are no outsiders here, we are all our own family, father and brothers." Old Yang said.

Little Lao Yang took a few deep breaths, sat back down, closed his eyes, and opened them again.

"Then you tell me, if the Lin family comes knocking, how will you handle it?" asked Old Yang.

Even if she were to be divorced, it wouldn't just be done casually. There had to be some plausible reason for it!