'Some people just have no emotional intelligence, yet they're always convinced they're right.' Shen Weimin couldn't be bothered to explain why he had given two tickets to Second Bai, who had just dropped by the county town to do some shopping.
'If the mountain won't come to him, can't he just go to the mountain?! That's why it's often essential for a man to have a secret stash of cash. As for the explanation, that could wait.'
'Out here in the freezing cold, he couldn't very well just say, "Your mother values my mother's side of the family, so as her son-in-law, I also have to make your mother feel that I value *her* side of the family."'
'It was just a few coupons, and it wasn't like they were short on such things. It was a matter of respect, an open strategy, all for the sake of letting his mother-in-law hold her head high among her own kin.'
