After walking for a while, Jiang Shuyue grew hungry. Jiang Chen bought her a skewer of candied hawthorn, then bought Sugar Figurines for the children.
Huahua took a lick and spent ages marveling at this crystallization of human ingenuity.
As they walked, they suddenly heard a woman sobbing.
Licking the Sugar Figurine, Huahua said excitedly, [Your younger cousin's wife got caught eloping with someone else, and now she's come back to cry about how your cousin wronged her!]
Jiang Shuyue tilted her head.
Those relationships and that logic... why couldn't she make sense of them?
Utterly baffled, Jiang Shuyue asked, [Let me straighten this out. My younger cousin's wife got caught eloping with someone else, and she wants to settle the score with my cousin? Is that what you mean?]
Huahua nodded.
It sounded utterly unbelievable, but that was the truth. All one could say was that in a world this vast, no strange thing was impossible!
Huahua said, [That wife of his has only been married to him for a month. She thought your cousin wasn't romantic, so she ran away with her own older cousin and took a huge sum of your cousin's money with her.]
[Two days ago, her older cousin stole the money and went out drinking with courtesans. Then someone stole his silver, leaving him unable to pay, so the proprietor dragged him back by the collar to collect the debt.]
[The commotion grew so big that someone recognized her. That was how the whole thing came to light and they were caught and brought back.]
Jiang Shuyue said, [But the husband should be the one making a fuss. How did it turn into the wife making a fuss?]
Huahua replied, [She's thick-skinned, that's how. It's all "I only did this because you're no good,