Lin Fengying felt wronged, but considering that Liu Qing is a close neighbor to Tong Yao, she wasn't sure about their relationship, and she dared not express her grievances for fear Liu Qing might tell Tong Yao.
Now that she heard Liu Qing bad-mouthing Tong Yao behind her back, she knew they must not have been getting along well. With nothing holding her back, she began to pour out her woes, sobbing along the way.
"If it hadn't been for her father, my husband wouldn't have died. I spent so much effort raising three children on my own. Now that the children are grown up, I thought the hard times were finally over. Yet, every daughter-in-law I got was more dominating than the previous. They say one has a wife and forgets one's mother, but in my family, they've downright forsaken me."