This time, however, Juhua had guessed wrong.
As it turned out, her second aunt-in-law had gotten into a tiff with her own sister-in-law at her parents' house and returned home on the fourth day of the New Year. She was a person who prized her comfort, so she had no desire to linger at home and immediately wanted to bring her son to visit his aunt. Back at her own house, she would have to help her mother-in-law with the cooking, a chore she was naturally unwilling to do. After all, her New Year's clothes were brand new, and cooking would just get them covered in soot.
