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Doctor Zheng felt that Madam Lin Yue was truly skilled, knowledgeable in many things, and could do everything well—an extremely capable woman indeed, and so affectionate and kind; no wonder her husband doted on her so much that he never got angry at her whims and fancies.
As for his own wife, he would have been content if she were half as capable as Madam Lin; sadly, not only was she unskilled in craftsmanship, the food she cooked was so tasteless that he found no joy in it, and she had a bad temper, often opposing him and infuriating him to the point of puffing his beard and glaring his eyes. But then, who else had been with him from his youth, sharing sweet and bitter times, enduring hardships, and bearing him children. Though not good, he just had to make do with her—ah, such is life.