After returning home, the conversation between Li Hongjun and his spouse and the Zheng Family women did not go very well, mainly because Zheng's mother had become rather cunning and difficult to deal with, no longer maintaining at least a superficial appearance of being educated and reasonable.
When Zheng's mother heard Shen Yunfang suggest that they find somewhere else to move out to and vacate the house for the old man Li to spend his old age in, she exploded. She began to curse and weep in the yard of the old house, cursing the Zheng father as Chen Shimei, cursing the Li Family as inhuman, cursing Li Hongqi for being incompetent—she cursed everything she could think of in turn. It seemed she still felt it wasn't enough upheaval; she even called out Zheng Huilan, making her kneel on the ground with her to apologize to Shen Yunfang, this "second sister-in-law," begging her to give their "orphaned and widowed" selves a way to survive.
