The Herbal Scents of Farm Life
Chapter 1002 We Can Afford It

Chapter 1002: Chapter 1002 We Can Afford It

"Today, they must cough up the silver, or else Lin Changfeng shouldn’t expect to live in peace!"

"Yes, yes."

Upon hearing her son’s words, Old Madam Yang immediately agreed.

"Listen up, people of the Lin Family, either hand over the silver or we’ll take away that old ox. Anyway, if you want to sue, go ahead. We’ll just say it was Yang Lin who gave it to us, and Yang Lin is your daughter-in-law, isn’t she? She’s giving something to her own mother. What can you do about it, huh!"

"You, you..."

Yang Lin’s eyes reddened, now even lacking the strength to cry.

"Heh, heh heh."

Lin Caisang chuckled lightly, seriously angered by these utterly shameless swine.

"You..."

"Parents of Yang Lin, isn’t this where you’re in the wrong, or isn’t it?"

Just as Lin Caisang was about to retort, she heard Clan Chief Lin’s voice beside her, and she immediately fell silent.

If it were possible to send these people away properly, naturally she wouldn’t want to resort to drastic measures--after all, with things not being right with Brother Changfeng, she didn’t wish to take such a definitive step.

"And who might you be?"

Old Mr. Yang looked toward Clan Chief Lin and asked.

"I am the elder chieftain of the Lin Clan of Ya Village, and I’ve watched Changfeng grow up," the clan chief said, looking at Old Mr. Yang.

"Speaking of Changfeng, he has truly suffered a great deal to be able to study. Often, whenever he could find a bright spot, he’d be reading. Even on snowy days, he’d be out in the courtyard studying, not caring about the cold.

Such a hardworking child, if his good name were indeed ruined by you people, his in-laws, let me tell you, I, as the clan chief, would simply not stand for it!"

"What do we care whether you stand for it or not?"

Old Madam Yang rushed out, pointing at Clan Chief Lin’s nose.

"Now that the boy has made something of himself, as his maternal grandparents, asking him for some filial tribute money shouldn’t be out of the question, right? Forget about five taels of silver, even fifty or five hundred taels, we’d have every right to claim it!"

"Hiss!"

The two young men who had come over with the clan chief gasped sharply upon hearing her words.

Has this old woman gone mad? Five hundred taels of silver? Not to mention Lin Changfeng is just a recent winner of the examination and not an official yet—even if he were, he couldn’t possibly come up with so much money so quickly, could he?

"Yes, if it were an ordinary in-law relationship, we would indeed have the right to claim it," said the clan chief, not denying their statement and merely nodding in response.

"But are you ordinary in-laws? What you did to Ms. Lin of the Yang Family, who in the village doesn’t know about it? And in these past dozen years, has your side of Changfeng’s family come to visit him even once?

Other families’ grandparents would bring gifts for their grandchildren, but what about you? Have you ever done anything for Changfeng?

Now that Changfeng has made something of himself, you suddenly remember him? Even if he has become successful, it is the Lin Family, with these hands, that has built him up, not the Yang Family, right?"

It’s not that there is no connection at all, after all, Yang Lin did come from the Yang Family.

However, Lin Changfeng had just passed the imperial examination, and here they were, knocking on the door. It was truly inappropriate, and anyone would be disinclined to show them a good face.

"Changfeng is still at home at the moment, a scholar who can neither lift with his hands nor carry on his shoulders. How much silver do you think he has on him for you to spend? In my opinion, in-laws of the Yang Family, isn’t this visit to demand silver a bit premature?"