Bai Xiulan was at her wit's end with her second sister-in-law. At first, she thought her sister-in-law had made up an excuse to pull her outside because it was awkward to speak frankly in front of her Wei Min.
This was a new era with new ways of doing things, and she wasn't a fan of excessive formalities either. But the tradition of sewing wedding quilts on an even-numbered day was one that absolutely had to be observed.
Where did she get the idea that the lunar and Gregorian calendars were all the same? And what was this nonsense about her own marriage turning out fine even though she hadn't bothered with such details?
'Perhaps it was precisely because her own wedding had been a rush job to ward off ill-fortune that her older child was disobedient and her younger one had arrived late. When it came to a young woman's lifelong happiness, how could anyone be so careless?'
