Whether she truly didn't know that the clothes and shoes in the house were gone, Wang Guizhi never brought it up.
As the sky began to darken, Wang Guizhi apparently could not hold it in any longer and started cursing outside.
"What time is it already? It's dark out, and a woman is sleeping in broad daylight. Doesn't she feel ashamed?"
"Everyone who worked in the fields all day has already come home and eaten dinner. Is this any way to behave?"
While cursing, Wang Guizhi tiptoed over to the door and pressed her ear against it to listen for any movement inside.
After listening for a while and seeing no response from inside, she quickly backed away again, grabbed a bamboo broom from the corner, and began sweeping the courtyard. Her cursing grew much louder than before.
"This woman does nothing all day. She's lazy and good for nothing, only wandering around everywhere. Is she even a woman?"
"And she doesn't bear children. Doesn't that make her a barren hen? People will point fingers at her and talk behind her back. Do you understand?"
"Our family spent so much money—more than a decade of savings—for the sake of bringing home a wife like this. Was it easy? If all that money really goes down the drain, how is this old woman supposed to live?"
The angrier Wang Guizhi became, the less she swept. In the end, she craned her neck toward the wooden window of Su Qiao's room and shouted, "If you're really so tough, then give us our money back! Once you return the money, we absolutely won't keep you here."
They certainly could not afford a girl who refused to be controlled like this.
The village chief was not home either. For the time being, no one