"I'm afraid my mother won't want to leave the village, after all, she's used to living there. Besides, I can't afford a house in the Capital," Sun Xian spoke of this anxiously.
These years, his family had saved nearly a thousand taels of silver thanks to Gu Chengyu selling pickled vegetables. In the village, this amount would make him a small landlord, but in the Capital, it wouldn't amount to much; houses there are incredibly expensive!
Sun Xian is a dutiful son, and Gu Chengyu knew this beforehand. It was he who didn't consider it properly, failing to think about Sun Xian's future studies.
It's not that filial piety is bad, but if Sun Xian is away for long periods, and Sun's mother is unwilling to leave the village, then Gu Wan would have no reason to follow him to the Capital. After all, leaving her mother-in-law alone at home is certainly not an option.
