Cheng Su set the phone down and stuck out her tongue at it, muttering to herself. If her mother-in-law hadn't scolded her so unreasonably, would she ever have talked back to her? And this was over the phone; was she supposed to act like a meek daughter-in-law?
Pah!
However, the thought of her mother-in-law's impending visit made Cheng Su's head throb with pain. It was a timeless struggle to get along with one's mother-in-law, and hers was not an enlightened one.
Enough of that, she thought. When the soldiers come, block them; when the flood comes, use earth to hold it back. As a modern woman of the twenty-first century, could she really not handle an old lady?
Without delay, Cheng Su entrusted the restaurant to Qiulan and the others and rushed off to the factory.
