It wasn't easy, but Wang Yongping managed to get through explaining the situation intermittently. Old Granny Zhang cursed and summed up disdainfully, "These unpresentable matters! It's only because your sister has improved our family's circumstances that we live better now and will even more so in the future. Now, outsiders flatter us with a few kind words, and you forget the hard times, lightening your bones by three pounds! Do you really see yourself as somebody? After getting a little praise like a cat's piss, you start getting above yourself!"
"Seeing that Despicable Person of the Li Family not doing well, you feel smug, huh? So smug that you just want to show off! Pah! Such a worthless thing, what is there for you to show off? When something goes wrong at home, what can you do besides using that brute strength of yours? Have you earned a tael of silver, or contributed significantly to the family?"
