With the addition of their new daughter-in-law, Zhou Yaping, life in the Li family became quite eventful!
However, since the young couple, Li Mubo and his wife, both worked, their long hours already left them exhausted. They simply had no energy to stir up any trouble. So, from Monday to Saturday, the Li family was quite peaceful. It was only in the evenings, when the couple came home for dinner, that Zhou Yaping would put on airs and say a few unpleasant things, like how eating one thing was disgusting or smelling another made her nauseous.
After hearing this, for the entire next week, Yuan Si left nothing for the couple but cold, pickled mustard root for dinner. Zhou Yaping ate it until her face turned the sallow color of the pickles themselves. 'You can't stand the smell of this or the taste of that? Fine, then don't eat anything at all.' After a few days of this, Zhou Yaping learned her lesson and no longer deliberately nitpicked at the dinner table.
