"What do you mean? Just think about it; when was the last time the children in our family wore new clothes? Don't the few kids in eldest brother's family dress better than ours?"
Seeing Ye Gaoshui deep in thought, Zhao knew her words had hit home and pressed on with more vigor, "Let's not even talk about the affairs of the eldest brother's household, since he is the firstborn and eventually our parents will have to live with them. It's somewhat unavoidable for him to be favored.
But just look at our youngest sister, it's one thing for the girl to usually eat and dress well, but after it snowed recently, she asked the fourth brother to go to town and bring back a whole basket of pork lard, and all of it was rendered into cracklings.
You tell me, if it had stopped at that, it would be fine, but then she went ahead and added all kinds of things to the rendered lard, turning perfectly good food inedible.