Old man Yu was really upset, if Yu Tong has just gotten angry things would not have become complicated. After Yu Tong started earning she has gotten more and more out of hand, she wouldn't hand over her salary nor did she respect him as her grandfather. So, he deliberately made a show outside the house calling Yu Tong unfilial, Yu Tong has never participated in the schemes of the house, so she didn't know what was right and wrong, she always acted impulsively which was why every time he raised his hand on her, she would blow up.
And as soon as Yu Tong raised her voice at him, he just needed to play it out to his advantage, that was how the sympathy of the villagers would turn towards him instead of Yu Tong after all the Empress had laid quite a lot of stress on filial piety whoever didn't follow the rule of the filial piety was doomed to be condemned.
Yu Tong too was condemned every time she raised her voice or fought with him, villagers would call her unreasonable and Old man Yu would be able to get what he wanted but this time Yu Tong didn't play by the books instead she calmly lowered her head and asked for money to treat Grandma Yu.
Seeing that Yu Tong still had her head lowered and that the villagers were slowly starting to gossip, Old man Yu bit his lips. If this happened a few years ago, he might have taken the money out and handed it over to treat his wife but now things were different, the second branch had a total fallout with him and the first branch of the Yu household did not like him as well... the money at home was getting more and more tight.
Even more so, he no longer needed to rely on his wife, who has grown old and could no longer do any work. His daughter was really hard working and had a good future ahead of her and his grandson was even more promising, at such a difficult time when everyone was for themself if he was to take the money out then how will he pay for his grandson's academy fees?
If he didn't pay the academy fees then Yu Cheng will be kicked out, what will happen then? How will his grandson become an official? Wouldn't he just become a useless farmer in the village? The glory he has been waiting for would be snatched from him as well! If that was the case then he might as well hide the money that he saved from the flood and use it to provide for Yu Cheng's studies! After all from what Yu Tong said his wife's condition sounded pretty serious to him and she was already sick from the beginning, if she was to catch pneumonia in such a case then she would definitely die.
If she was going to die anyway, then why should he waste money on her? Wasn't it better for him to save the money?
After he thought it through, he calmly raised his head and looked at Yu Tong with a grieving expression and said, " Tong'er, ah.. it not like grandfather did not want to take the money out... its that we have no money, the flood came out of nowhere so suddenly, where will I get the time to get the money bag?"
Yu Tong who was still bowing in front of Old man Yu sneered as anger flashed in her eyes, she slowly straightened up and simply asked, " You ...but you said that you will help grandmother if she gets sick, didn't you grandfather? You even told me that there was nothing to worry about since you are weak and you will surely not survive but a grandmother who is strong will be able to withstand the chilly water of the flood, when I asked you what if she gets sick, you said that you have the money and you will get her treated but now you are saying that you have no money? How can you be so careless? If you forgot to pick up the money bag then you should have told me or mother, if you have done that then I would have called the mother to hang onto the edge of the roof, surely she would have not refused, would you mother?"
Suddenly the conversation darted to Madam Yu, her face turned red in embarrassment but she still softly replied, " No I wouldn't have," she then turned to look at her father and said sternly, " Daddy you should have said this earlier, now look what has happened."
She was a worker in the town, she couldn't let her reputation be stained, if others found out that she has let her mother hang on the edge of the roof in chilly flood water all because she was scared then she would surely lose her job. She couldn't let that happen after all her boss was someone who valued filial piety the most, if such upsetting rumours reached her ears then she will surely kick her out of the business.
What was more her son was studying in the academy, he was her pride and hope, she could not let his reputation be tarnished either, after considering everything she had no choice but to shift the blame on her father. Old man Yu was old and even if his reputation was sullied, it would not matter after all he was just a mer who cared about him. And this was the matter between her daddy and mother who cares what happened between the two of them, she didn't ask her mother to hang onto the edge of the roof nor did she ask her daddy to abandon her mother, it was all the doing of old man Yu, so he might as well deal with it himself!
Old man Yu was really upset seeing that his daughter was blaming him but when he saw that she was winking furtively at him, his heart started to feel better. Looks like his daughter was only doing this because she has no other choice
