Luo Dahua simply pulled her younger daughter aside, warning her not to embarrass them, because the four adults in the carriage had already turned their faces away, pretending to have seen nor heard nothing.
Usually, everyone was on good terms, doing laundry together in the yard, chatting about family affairs, and even on the way there, they had been talking and laughing, as close as anything. But now, with self-interest at stake, the attitude towards a companion with two children had turned to indifference.
Yang Peimin glanced at Luo Dahua, who was silent, and the Red Army wife, who seemed about to speak but stopped, and sighed to herself. They were embarrassed to say anything because they had children with them, but deep down they were hoping to get their kids on the carriage, to spare them the fatigue.
They had not planned to bring the children on such a long journey, but the children were too young to be left at home unwatched and they couldn't set their minds at ease.
