"If you want to know the truth, just go and ask around the village to see how I lived before I got married, to see what I looked like when I first got married."
"At my parents' house, I cooked and washed dishes, fed the pigs and chickens, cleaned the house, washed clothes, did needlework, and never had a moment to rest. If there was work to be done in the fields, they would rush me to do it. I couldn't even get enough to eat, and if I was a bit slow, I'd be beaten and scolded."
"In the end, they sold me to pay for Qiao Jingu's medical treatment. When I entered the Tan Family, all I brought was two sets of tattered clothes. Under those circumstances, how could they afford to buy me a shop?"
"They oppressed me before, and now they slander me. Should I not disown such relatives?"
"Everything I have now, I've earned together with my husband, and it has nothing to do with them!"