Cheng Su sent off her parents. When she returned to the main room, she saw that everyone had gone to rest. So, she also went back to her room to take a nap. As she passed her in-laws' room, she heard her aunt's low sobs and her mother-in-law's comforting voice from the window.
She paused for a moment, pursed her lips, but didn't stop to eavesdrop. She went back to her room to lie down. It was obvious enough; surely her aunt was complaining, adding a few drops of her own tearful medicine.
She wasn't wrong. Her aunt was indeed crying and complaining.
"...I'll just think of him as dead. He has been gone for so long without any message. Just last month, there was a money transfer, no name, no surname. Who knows if it was him? He's a heartless person. If I'd known he'd be such a cruel person, I should have drowned him in the urine bucket right after birth, and saved myself this heartache," cried the aunt, speaking about the runaway Deng Weixia.
