Chapter 122 - 111: Great Sobbing
Keke told her how significant the impact would be.
First of all, it would affect their daily life, as your eldest sister would need a place to stay once she returned home, but your family didn’t have any spare rooms left. Each of your three unmarried brothers had a room, and you’ve been sleeping in a room partitioned off from your parents’. Your sister’s return means your family would need to build an addition.
Secondly, unlike you who hadn’t married yet, your eldest sister was once married. Her return home would have far-reaching effects. Not to mention, out of your family, only your eldest sister-in-law had cohabited with her and shared life experiences. The other two sisters-in-law had not, which could lead to conflicts between sisters-in-law that wouldn’t bode well for family unity.
Lastly, for a family or clan, having a daughter sent back home after divorce would be a tremendous blow to all the female members of both the family and the entire clan. In the future, it wouldn’t just be you who’d be affected — your nieces’ marriages would be influenced as well.
Manbao was stunned.
In the end, Keke told Manbao that in this matter, your family was not in the right and was at an absolute disadvantage.
"Is that so?" Manbao didn’t believe it, pointing at the increasingly growing crowd in the courtyard, "But that doesn’t seem to be the case, does it?"
Keke glanced outside as well and gradually fell silent.
The village chief had arrived, and not just the chief, but some of the village’s elders had come too. They were all older folks, and a number of Zhou Clan relatives with close ties to the Zhou Family had also shown up.
At that moment, they were all in the courtyard, visibly upset.
Ms. Qian did not speak, but Old Zhou did. He told everyone with a dark expression, "A couple of days ago, the Liu Family sent over a message saying that Zhou Xi was still not pregnant, and they told me to come and take her back when I had the time. I was thinking, with the New Year approaching, we could at least wait until after the celebration to discuss it. Even if things really became unbearable, they shouldn’t split up right before the New Year, should they? But who could’ve guessed, just two days after the message, they went and divorced her and sent her back to us. To hurry and drive the child out in such cold weather, do they want to freeze her to death?"