"My grandma laid down the law. She said that under modern law, marital property is jointly owned, and in a divorce, it must be split fifty-fifty. So, all the ancestral property should technically be considered marital property. She demanded to divorce my grandpa, separate out her half of the property first, and then he could take his own half and do whatever he wanted with it! After she said that, all the fight just went out of my grandpa. He just clutched his pipe and sat quietly off to the side, pretending not to see all the looks my dad was giving him!"
Xiao Man giggled at the story. Mrs. Wei was certainly a character; that was a brilliant way to handle the old man.
