Once Madam Wang left, Old Madam Wu gradually calmed down. She drank two more sips of water, her weary face leaning against the bright red welcoming pillow emblazoned with the Ten Thousand Character Blessing, and released a long sigh, glancing at her distraught eldest son.
"What are you thinking?"
Wu Lihong sat beside his mother and said, "Mother, does it have to be this way? I really don't want to!"
"Do you think I'm willing? Do you think Madam Wang is willing?" Old Madam Wu patted the edge of the kang and said, "You wish Madam Zhou and the others would change their minds, but look at the reality. What did she say today, didn't you see?"
Wu Lihong hung his head, his face full of resentment.
