The Country Maiden: Fields and Leisure

"Even if we called off the engagement, why have you been getting so close with the Wang Family? Just a while ago, Mother asked you, and you always said calling off the engagement wronged the Wang Family Young Lady, that you needed to compensate them! The Wang Family are strangers, once the engagement is broken, we have nothing to do with them! With all that intention, why didn’t you think of compensating your maternal grandfather’s family? Because of that uproar, his family doesn’t even communicate with us anymore; how can you be so selfish? Are you determined to offend all the relatives on this side too?"

"These past few days have been even better; you actually sent the wolf you hunted down on the mountain to the Wang Family! Why? Even if it’s to compensate them, you’ve done quite a lot for the Wang Family already, I heard it from your aunt. Without you, that Wang Family Young Lady wouldn’t have had anyone interested! Whether the engagement is off or not, it doesn’t make much difference! Do you really need to go this far in aiding them? The wolf skin and meat, those are such good things, didn’t you think of home? Didn’t you think of your maternal grandparents?"

"They are old now, exactly when they need nourishment, if you had brought that wolf skin and meat back, made a couple of mattresses for your grandma and grandpa, given the wolf meat to your uncles and cousins to strengthen them, wouldn’t that have been good? But no, everything went to the Wang Family! That Maid and the Wang Family, are they higher up the ranks than your own mother and your maternal grandparents?"

"Not to mention anything else, but with such a fine hunt, why didn’t you think of your mother? Mother is frail, and they say wolf meat is highly nourishing when eaten; but you, my child, you didn’t think of your mother at all. Mother raised you all these years, and to think, now Mother can’t even taste a bite of meat, what is the point of Mother living..."

With that, she started sobbing again.

Song Chongjin, who had been scowling all along, suddenly laughed, "Then according to what Mother says, what should I do to be filial to Mother?"

Mother Song paused in her crying, her eyes lit up, it seemed that the big sister’s tactic still worked.

The big sister said, to deal with Song Chongjin, you can’t use force, nor should you threaten suicide, just cry! Keep nagging and crying by his ear, if once doesn’t work, cry twice! If a month doesn’t work, cry for two! Eventually, you will make the child filial through tears.

Indeed, after only half a month of crying, she had finally made the child come to his senses.