Village Chief Wu gently tapped the table and said to the Gong family: "Elder Gong, Madam Gong, and Dewang, please listen to me. This girl wants to bury her parents, which is her filial duty as a child, and it has nothing to do with any disputes over property. They are two separate matters."
Upon hearing Village Chief Wu lean towards the outsider Lin Wanwan, Gong Dewang was enraged: "Ah Wu, how could you say such a thing? Look at her, what kind of person is she? Is such a person even worth paying attention to?
Burying the dead is not something that can be done just by moving your lips. The village has only so much land, where is there new land to build a tomb? Do we have to discard arable land?
For so many years, in the village, we don't put people in tomb houses unless they're under eighty. Those over a hundred are buried, and that's how it's always been. How does filial duty come into this?
