'What are all these old folks talking about when they get together?'
Yuan Si listened for a while and felt a headache coming on. Her own mother was praising her son-in-law for being capable, filial, and doting on his wife and children. The other old woman was praising her daughter-in-law for being filial, a good homemaker, and taking good care of her husband and kids. In any case, they were just showering each other's children with compliments.
'This is all such meaningless talk,' Yuan Si thought. 'No matter how they phrase it, isn't it all the same?'
Bored, she took the opportunity to size up her third brother-in-law's older and younger brothers. Both looked older than her third brother-in-law, probably because life hadn't been kind to them. They looked honest and simple, squatting in a corner of the room without approaching anyone to chat.
