Old Madam Fu stretched her lips into a grin, revealing teeth yellowed by tobacco. "Baiwan, our family is all that's left of the Fu line. You've made a good life for yourself, while Baishan is still scratching a living from the dirt. How can you bear to see your own cousin suffer and struggle without earning a decent wage?"
"Who among us common folk isn't scratching a living from the dirt? Who isn't struggling?" Fu Baiwan retorted.
"That may be, but things are different now. Didn't your son Sanjin become a high-ranking official? Your life is set to change. Once you all move to the Capital, someone you can trust will have to look after this grand estate of yours, won't they?"
Chapter 99