Chapter 202

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Main Character:

Shen Yao

Since ancient times, people have had an obsession with houses.

For a normal small-town courtyard, if Shen Yao wanted her whole family to live comfortably, she couldn't get it done without 20 taels.

If, on that basis, Shen Yao pursued something better — including building materials and the courtyard's layout and size — the price would reach 30 taels.

The county city has a higher cost of living than the small town, and house prices are only higher, not lower.

With the fifty taels on Shen Yao's books, she definitely couldn't buy a good residence, not to mention Shen Yao still had to consider food, clothing, and daily expenses for the whole family, young and old.

"Mother, I still have some money here," Shen Yao revealed her private stash was more than fifty taels, enough for the six of them, mother and children, to live in the county city, and she hadn't specified whether buying or renting, leaving plenty of wiggle room.

"When the time comes, after I go to the county city, I'll also find a job and keep working.

By then Wei Cheng and the others will be older; they can study for two years and come out earning money for the family."

Shen Yao's pie-in-the-sky tactics were still masterful; anyway she had the space, any excuse could be rounded out.

Lady Zhou still knew Shen Yao too well; she could pretend to be the original owner for a day or two, but not for a month or two.

Leaving early, giving Lady Zhou time to accept, she could also slowly reveal her true nature while completing her own system tasks.

Tsk

Damn pitfall system, the task still has to be done, this baby-making father definitely has to be carefully selected.

Ancient world, say it's simple and it's simple — the higher your status in ancient times, the more comfortably you can live compared to commoners.

Shen Yao transmigrated as a commoner, and a woman with five kids at that; the difficulty was directly maxed out.

"Mother, when Wei Cheng and the others come back, I'll discuss it with my father again; this time, no matter what, we have to shake off the Wei family."

We definitely can't stay; only by leaving the familiar environment and people can she regain her original posture and live freely and unrestrained.

Lady Zhou is Shen Yao's birth mother; back then she withstood pressure to take in her married daughter and maternal grandchildren, which shows how favored Shen Yao was.

Mother and daughter stayed in the room chatting for a long time; in the end Lady Zhou even agreed to accompany Shen Yao to Linshan County to check things out.

"Mother"

Shen Yao could feel Lady Zhou's feelings for her; moved, she also had some unspeakable reflections.

Lady Zhou patted Shen Yao's shoulder, "We must look forward in life; you figuring it out is the best thing."

Before, Lady Zhou hadn't lacked the thought of letting Shen Yao take the children far from this place of right and wrong.

But at that time Shen Yao didn't have that idea at all, and Lady Zhou feared saying too much would make her daughter feel disliked or something, so she simply let her daughter have her way.

Now her daughter has had a great awakening on her own, knowing the Wei family are wolves, tigers, and leopards; Lady Zhou feels relief more than distress.

That evening returning home, Shen Yao told her birth father Shen Fugui of her decision, and got his approval too.

"Go, the farther the better; the Wei family has your soft heart pegged.

Now even the youngest Zhen'er has grown up; you leaving now can also put your mind at ease."

After Shen Fugui finished speaking, he turned and had Lady Zhou take ten taels of silver from a locked box and give it to Shen Yao.

"Keep it; outside isn't like home, you're looking after several children, you can't be without money in hand."

Shen Fugui has also been tight these recent years; otherwise he'd want to give more.

His own daughter never enjoyed any blessings from childhood to now, and now she has to leave her native place; aiya, just thinking of this makes Shen Fugui distressed, he wishes he could grab a knife and slaughter all those scourges of the Wei family.

Shen Yao naturally refused; she has money, and besides there are still three brothers at home; taking the money doesn't affect her much, but it affects the Shen family greatly.

"Father, I've told Mother, the money on hand is enough, and going to the county city won't need that much expense either.

Take the silver back first; if I really can't manage, I won't fail to speak up."

After Shen Yao finished, she added that the matter of going to the county city needed to be arranged as soon as possible.

The Wei family side can't be dragged out; "Before it was a summons once a month, now this month isn't even over and they've already called three times.

Father, can't give them too much face; otherwise that fifty taels of silver, your daughter can't protect."

Don't underestimate human greed; Shen Yao feels the Wei family is the typical case of both stupid and vicious.

Compared to the other Wei family members, Wei Fan belongs to the evolved genuine petty person.

However Wei Fan keeps up appearances well; this person cares a lot about his own face, all the proper aftermath work is done.

This is also why Shen Yao got fifty taels of divorce silver, even though fifty taels, carefully counted against five children, isn't much.

Shen Fugui and Shen Yao discussed seriously and finally set the time for the day after tomorrow, early morning.

After all, going to the county city, Shen Yao plans to take all five children together, plus their household belongings; hiring one carriage simply isn't enough.

The single day set aside is for sorting these items and hiring vehicles and horses.

Coming out of Shen Fugui and Lady Zhou's room, Shen Yao didn't go back to rest, but turned to the neighboring room to visit the few children who had returned from the Wei family.

Eldest son Wei Cheng and third son Wei Shi live together; second daughter Wei Ying, fourth daughter Wei Yun, and fifth daughter Wei Zhen live together.

The atmosphere in both rooms was somewhat oppressive, especially the three daughters; the Wei family really couldn't be called a good place.

"Mother"

Wei Zhen is young; hugging Shen Yao's waist she couldn't help badmouthing the Wei family.

Wei Ying and Wei Yun are older, but from their downturned mouth corners and tense expressions one could see the Wei family gave them no peace.

"Good, tomorrow pack up the household things, the day after tomorrow our family goes to Linshan County to live."

Shen Yao told the three daughters the good news of leaving, and unsurprisingly received cheers.

Gesturing at her mouth corner, Shen Yao signaled them not to show their joy too obviously; everyone outside is asleep; "Whatever it is, wait until we've left to speak."

Wei Ying and the others nodded obediently, eyes bright and sparkling like stars in the sky.

The same news was told to Wei Cheng and Wei Shi, yet the two children's focus was on the silver money.

"Mother, once we go to the county city, your son will go to the iron shop to learn a craft."

Wei Cheng took after Wei Fan; from a young age he possessed boundless strength, and was praised by Shen Fugui as a natural-born butcher.

It was a pity that compared to butchering pigs, Wei Cheng preferred soldiering and war; every time Wei Fan returned, he would pester him to learn some smattering of martial arts.

Until Wei Fan and Shen Yao divorced, Wei Cheng never mentioned soldiering again, and instead obediently learned other work.

Like Shen Yao's fourth brother Shen Si Yu, who had served as a guard for wealthy families and as an escort for an escort agency, Wei Cheng and Wei Shi trained daily with him.

Compared to Wei Shi, who still showed nothing remarkable, Wei Cheng's martial force stat was naturally maxed out.

It was only because the town lacked a martial hall; otherwise, if Wei Cheng went to study for a few years he would come out a martial master.

This move to the county city, Shen Yao deliberately intended to cultivate Wei Cheng's martial arts.

Since Wei Fan, a mere villager, could climb up from a common soldier, Shen Yao saw no reason to think Wei Cheng couldn't.

In the future, relying on her son to become an Accused Lady would also be a good path.

Calculating in her heart, on her face Shen Yao let Wei Cheng and Wei Shi not worry about the source of money; she herself had a dowry, and other private money.

"You are still young; right now the most important thing is to learn your skills well."

As for anything else, with me here, it's no big problem.

Circling back to her own room, Shen Yao dropped the smile from her face, lay on the bed, and chatted idly with the System.

One person and one System could say quite a lot, including national affairs and politics, without avoiding them.

"Qi State is powerful; even if its internal situation is a mess, that is limited to the royal family — the surrounding small states have absolutely no way to deal with Qi State.

I heard Qi State's Emperor has few offspring, but the Former Emperor left behind many offspring.

Tsk tsk tsk, will it end up with the imperial political power changing hands?"

Very possible; these years Qi State's internal situation has not been very calm.

Why was Wei Fan able to connect with his superior's daughter? It was still because of constant border friction.

With friction comes war; victory or defeat in war determines whether there are rewards and punishments or bearing of crimes.

Wei Fan luckily earned military merit, and thus was promoted to a minor official post.

Otherwise where would he get the confidence to divorce Shen Yao? In the end, it was still relying on his backing's trust.

"If we could connect with an imperial clan relative, our days ahead would be even easier."

Shen Yao set her targets on those imperial clan members who, upon reaching a certain age, were exiled by the Emperor.

It wasn't that she wanted to rely on bearing children to snatch a leak at the throne; after all, the Emperor's half-brothers were truly many, and the younger generation's offspring were not few either.

"Host, we'd better first jump out of the mud pit before talking; moreover, even if these imperial clan relatives are exiled, they go to various prefecture cities to settle.

Where we are about to go is only a county city; there certainly won't exist any imperial clan relatives."

"Non-existence doesn't matter; who can foresee later events?

System, don't forget, this task world still has external forces at work."

System:...

The System spoke no more, and Shen Yao accordingly closed her eyes; a whole day's busyness had kept her nerves tense; fortunately, after a sleep she recovered quickly.

Morning get up, greeting Eldest Sister-in-law Fan and Second Sister-in-law Zhao who were responsible for cooking, Shen Yao finished washing up and led the five children straight out the door.

"Third sister, where are you going? Not eating the family's breakfast?"

Fan wore a puzzled face; Zhao was also curious; they knew the little sister-in-law's status in the family — everyone here could be wronged, only the little sister-in-law could not.

Shen Yao smiled and waved her hand, "Eldest Sister-in-law, Second Sister-in-law, I'm going out to find Mother; won't eat first."

Finished speaking, she took the children out, "Let's eat first, then go find a tooth firm to rent a carriage."

Wei Ying mentioned in a low voice that eating outside was expensive; why not just give up.

"Not afraid; Mother has money; besides, tomorrow we leave, and even if you want to eat you won't be able to."

Shen Yao's excuses were a complete set; the several children themselves also liked outside food.

Still waiting for what? Definitely must satisfy the craving.