The main economic source for Mrs. Chen is the rent from the thousand mu of land given to her by Jiang Youzhi, and the salary of Liu Lang.
Altogether, they amount to just over a thousand taels of silver per year.
In recent years, the family hasn't spent much, and she has managed to save a few thousand taels, but she's reluctant to part with them.
She couldn't help but look at Yun Jiao.
Yun Jiao knows Mrs. Chen has silver, but it's not justified to extort others just because someone has died.
She said to Hui Niang's mother, "Whether the silver should be given, and how much, is not for you to decide, and it's not up to us either."
"We should go to the Ministry of Justice to sort everything out. If the government decides our family should pay, even if it's a thousand or ten thousand silver, it's no problem."
Hui Niang's mother, hearing Yun Jiao insist on going to see the officials, suddenly sat on the ground, "I won't go, I'd rather die than go to the government."
