"I haven't eaten boiled noodles in years, and neither has Yu Hai. We don't even have a single scallion at home. Asking him to go buy some... I don't know what he's busy with all day."

Liu Lan also found dinner hard to swallow. With Yu Hai not home, she had nowhere to vent her anger, and her mother kept talking, so she had no choice but to lash out at her mother.

“You’re still criticizing him, but he has to go to work and take care of his father in the hospital. He doesn’t have time to go grocery shopping.”

Didn't I tell you that after Duoduo woke up from his nap this afternoon, I took him for a walk and went to the neighborhood supermarket to buy some groceries?

All you do is take care of the children, refuse to do housework, and don't even buy groceries. What have you been doing all this time?

Yu Hai is right. If you don't want to work hard, we'll hire a new nanny and you can go back to farming!

The crops at home are due for harvest, and we're relying entirely on my dad; he'll be worked to death.

Liu Lan's mother was angry. Her son-in-law was criticizing her, and her daughter was criticizing her too. No one was as good as her!

She slammed her chopsticks on the table and started arguing with her daughter, "You heartless ingrate, you think the child is all grown up and can do without me now, huh!"

You want to kick me out and hire someone else? Fine! Give me this month's salary, and I'll leave tomorrow!

You think I want to stay at your house? Bah! Look what you've given me to eat!

Besides green vegetables, potatoes, tofu, and green beans, I haven't had enough of the food in the countryside, have I?

You two, you eat lavish meals at restaurants twice a day, are you taking advantage of me and Old Man Yu, two old folks, to think we're stupid?

You say you can't stand the smell of meat and won't let us eat it, but you always feed us fish and shrimp.

"Am I here to babysit your children? I'm here to be a nun!"