The brothers Wei Jiang and Wei He walked home, originally thinking maybe the old lady was just all talk and soft-hearted, but once they stepped into the house, the first thing they saw was the table covered with unwashed bowls and chopsticks.
Then they looked toward the doors of their rooms and saw the clothes that needed to be washed still lying in the basins, with no sign anyone had touched them.
At that moment they realized Zhang Yu really hadn't been bluffing them; the old lady really had stopped doing anything.
What now? The moment Wei He thought about having to wash all that, and seeing there wasn't much in the kitchen either, his mood immediately turned into a mess.
When Li Juan got home and found the kids crying and fussing inside, she couldn't help feeling very unhappy; if she'd been looking forward to splitting the household before, now she was starting to feel a bit dissatisfied with it.
