Chapter 278: Considering I am Your Ancestor

Village Chief Wang had been the chief for many years and always managed to bring convenience to his own family. His home had thirty acres of fertile land, and over the years he had also taken advantage of his position to receive numerous tributes from the villagers. Additionally, with the interests collected and the earnings of his children that went into the common pot, and being a stingy rich man as he was, the family possessed a substantial fortune of at least a hundred or so Silver, all held tightly in his own hands.

How could he have secured his position as the village chief if he wasn't shrewd? After his first wife died, he wanted to remarry. But being old, had it not been for his status and a bit of money in hands, how could he have attracted Mrs. Hu, a young wife young enough to be his daughter?