Widow Xie couldn't help but shake her head, but only after they had walked a good distance away.
"Did you see those two girls? They're so skinny they don't even dare to look people in the eye... The Sun family are real pieces of work, just as bad as Aunt Kang. They're vicious even to their own granddaughters. I can't imagine what state Xuelan must be in. It makes me sick with worry. Tell me, if Ximei marries into a family and can't give them a son, and they abuse her like that, wouldn't I just go mad?"
"Then what would you do?" Ji Huan asked.
"What would I do? I'd take a knife to their door! No matter what, she's the daughter I worked so hard to raise. Did I send her to her husband's family to be a beast of burden? Even... even if she couldn't have a son, as long as they sent her back to me in one piece, I wouldn't say a thing... And if you can't have a son, you can't just blame the woman. Why not say their ancestors didn't build up enough good karma..."
