"How can I not interfere!" Mother Shen exclaimed, "I am your mother! Ruyun suffered so much grievance last night, what did she do wrong? She is your sister! I know you are capable now, and I can no longer control you. If you feel that Mother Shen and Ruyun are burdens to you, that we dishonor you and cannot be part of your family, then tell me now. Ruyun and I will pack our things and go back to the countryside, so as not to trouble you, Master Top Scholar!" By the end of her speech, she had firmly planted herself on the ground, wailing, "It's all because the old master died young, leaving such a mess, after I went through so much hardship to raise my son, and now he does not recognize his own mother, what a sin..."
Shen Ruyun hurriedly crouched down, and mother and daughter held their heads and wept together.
