Chapter 145 A Bad Idea
Wu Xuelan spoke of her sister as if she were talking about a stranger, with hardly any hint of affection in her tone.
Yang Fan, truly an outsider, felt somewhat uncomfortable and couldn’t help but say, "She is, after all, your own sister."
"My own sister indeed. I washed her underwear from her childhood to adulthood. Don’t I know what she’s like? But after she got married, everything changed," Wu Xuelan shook her head and sighed, "Do you know why my husband turned to labor dispatch? It was all because of pressure from her family. At that time, her family’s situation was better, and our families often worked together."
"But, you see, being too close breeds conflicts. My husband is as soft as cotton, and they would borrow things from us and return them all broken up, yet we never said a word. But if we borrowed from them, and even if an axe was a bit dull, they’d nag about it for days. Eventually, my husband stopped cooperating with them."
"Not cooperating also led to problems. He said we had grown too prideful, that brothers no longer acted like brothers, nor sisters like sisters. From that point on, our relationship completely soured. My husband couldn’t stand their daily sarcasm and derision, so he decided to go abroad to make money, determined to earn some respect."
"Now, it seems he’s gained some respect, but our relationship can never return to what it was."
Yang Fan shook his head as he listened. Whose fault could this be declared?
In the end, it all boiled down to trivial matters, but each side had its own justification, and there really wasn’t anything that needed true debate.
Blood relatives turning into enemies was common in the village, and nearly always under similar circumstances.
What he was considering now was whether or not to seriously try Wu Xuelan’s risky suggestion, to conduct an experiment with Wu Xue Mei and see if Wu Xuelan’s advice actually had any real impact.
Wu Xue Mei was much younger than Wu Xuelan, probably around twenty-eight or twenty-nine, and also more delicate-looking than Wu Xuelan.