Chapter 19 — Both Lives – We Live Well

But after the quarantine ended, he was attacked by Ta Truong Thanh and his mother

“One month after getting married, my step-sister used half of her dowry to buy a mansion two steps into the city.”

To help La Vinh Quan find a relationship to seek a position, she gritted her teeth and gave most of the remaining dowry to him. But La Vinh Quan used that money to invite people to eat, drink, socialize, and even add a few concubines, making his step-sister angry to the point of madness. Because he wanted to enjoy himself, La Vinh Quan knew that his sister was eager for him to have an official, so he continued to take advantage of this to trick her into giving her money. When her step-sister ran out of money, she turned to her parents to ask. Because his stepmother and father had high hopes for La Vinh Quan and wanted to maintain a good relationship, they also gave him money. The money is almost gone, but the officials are still nowhere to be found. Furthermore, during this time, La Vinh Quan became accustomed to a luxurious lifestyle, often hosting entire restaurants to entertain guests, using abalone and fish fins, being extremely ostentatious, and still owed tens of thousands of taels of silver to the restaurant. With no money left, my sister's only option was to sell the mansion in the city, scrape up her parents' savings, and finally pay off all the debt, then return to the outskirts of the capital to live. Furthermore, after her step-sister gave birth to a son, because of her previous life, she wanted to take care of herself for a few years before giving birth again. But her husband's parents and La Vinh Quan both disagreed, arguing every day in the house, so much so that the neighbors heard it. Reluctantly, my step sister could only continue to have children. So now, my sister is in a situation: The dowry is gone. La Vinh Quan does not have an official position. In the back yard, there were a few concubines fighting. The body was not well nourished and had to continue with the pregnancy. Her husband's parents kept asking her for money. Life is messy, extremely chaotic. Furthermore, my father was also accused of embezzling several hundred taels of silver. Actually the amount was not much, but the story was brought to light. Not only did he no longer have an official position, but his title as Marquis was also taken away, he was fined tens of thousands of taels of silver, had to sell his entire palace, and from now on he was only a commoner. Actually, in his previous life, his father also lost his title. But because he was accused of buying exam questions with his stepbrother, he was imprisoned, the whole family was exiled, and one by one lost their lives because of the cold on the road. And these two accusations... The person behind it is me. That is my revenge. They were the ones who gave me the knife. After my father sold the mansion, he still had some money in his hand. But La Vinh Quan said that he had found a relationship, as long as he used money to take care of it, it would definitely work. Therefore, my step sister and others all thought that this relationship would help La Vinh Quan step on the path of honor. As a result, he used all the remaining money to squander and pretend to be rich. Officials are still nowhere to be seen. In the end, without any money left and without a house, my father could only rely on his sister's help, and with La Vinh Quan's family, they crowded into a small three-room cottage. The two families argued non-stop all day long. My parents don't come to rely on me. Because after the embezzlement incident happened, Ta Truong Thanh asked for a decree so that I could officially divide the family with my father - the guilty person. Before, we had to deal with it in roundabout ways, but now we don't need to see each other anymore. After that, La Vinh Quan had no more money to waste. His personality also gradually became hot-tempered, often venting his anger on his younger sister.