New Year's Eve passed quietly. After Li Mubo took Zhou Yaping to visit Uncle Li's family on New Year's Day, they were finally ready to depart.
Just before they left, Zhou Yaping was sour-faced and sullen again. When she had gone to Uncle Li's house, her cousin's wife had been incredibly warm, profusely thanking her and her husband. She had sensed something was off then. After a bit of probing, she learned that her good-for-nothing sister-in-law had arranged two job positions for outsiders, yet she, her own brother's jobless wife, hadn't even been told. Yuan Si clearly couldn't distinguish between family and strangers.
