In Mu Shuangshuang's dictionary, money is best spent when earned by oneself, so as not to be subject to others.
The third branch can be independent now, unafraid of the scholar uncle, simply because their money is not in Old Mrs. Mu's hands.
They can use money whenever needed, no longer like in the past when the whole family lacked even a warm cotton coat.
Not to mention furniture, aside from a broken wooden cabinet with a missing leg and a wooden table picked from a garbage heap, there's nothing else.
The third branch had been poor once, although they're still poor now, at least they don't have to worry about their next meal.
Nor do they have to be berated by Old Mrs. Mu from dawn till dusk over a single coin, relentless.
The fourth branch hasn't divided the family yet simply because they own nothing.
No fields, no land, no house. Anyone leaving the Old Mu Family ends up with nothing.
