Xu Changqing said she'd be back in about half a month when she left. But now, more than half a month had flown by, and Bai Xiulan was starting to get anxious.
Although their daughter had called her father a few days ago, she had still been in Beijing then. The unspoken fear was that she didn't know if her Changqing had gone to see her older sister.
During this time, her mother-in-law was stubbornly staying in their old hometown and refusing to return. She couldn't even find anyone to chat with about her worries. If word got out, she'd be a laughingstock.
Besides, apart from a few people like Third Sister-in-law and Sister-in-law Ding, all their neighbors had been intentionally misled by her husband. They all believed the family only had three children, with Changqing as the eldest.
