Grandfather: "Enough. I will take this matter into consideration. You may go out now."
Ke Xiaohong was dismissed, but she didn’t panic in the slightest. She was confident they would eventually do exactly as she had suggested.
Grandmother: "Are you really planning to listen to that girl’s nonsense? 'Land belongs to the family'—why does it sound like she’s lying to us? She might just be trying to pull the wool over the eyes of two old folks like us. The more I think about it, the more unbelievable it seems. This has never happened before. When we were fighting the landlords back then, land was distributed, but it was all taken back not long after. I have a gut feeling this is a trap. Since Daya got divorced, her head seems to have cleared up, and she’s become much more devious. We mustn't fall for her tricks. Making the eldest and third branches support the second branch's family for a whole year? Heck, it wouldn’t even take a year—they’d be at each other’s throats within a month. And when that happens, it’ll be us two old folks who suffer. I don't believe a word she says. Say something, old man!"
Chapter 39