Xie Kun and Mrs. Ma were choked speechless, but it was impossible for them to just give up.
Seeing that throwing a tantrum wasn't working, the couple played their final card. They dropped the matter of getting work and instead said they wanted to take their old mother home.
'Now that the topic has shifted to family matters, that Ji Huan can't interfere anymore, can she?'
In an era where filial piety was paramount, it was only right and proper for a son to care for his parents. An outsider really had no grounds to interfere with that.
But given Xie Kun's atrocious track record, it wasn't as if there were no ways to deal with him.
Ji Huan looked at Widow Xie.
Widow Xie, naturally, would never agree to let them take her mother back.
Xie Kun declared that there was no precedent under heaven for a daughter to be the one to support her mother in old age. If it came to it, they could go to the county government and let the County Magistrate settle it.
