"Exactly," Shannon spoke vaguely while munching away. "You actually thought she was nice when you first met her? I knew she was up to no good at first glance.”
The two started talking behind Elena's back. I did not intend to participate in the conversation, so I sat on the chair and ate the meat in silence.
When Shannon was done eating, I handed her the cleaned vegetables. "Take them over there and let them roast them.”
"There’s no hurry.” Shannon wiped her mouth, then asked in a gossipy tone, "I saw you guys talking about something
mysteriously just now. Care to share with
me?'
Nina shook her head. "It’s nothing."
"Tell me!" Shannon’s gossipy nature was simply impossible to be suppressed.
Nina sighed. "My sister is getting a divorce, and it makes me upset.”
Shannon clicked her tongue. "Tell me the details. I'm very interested in love relationships and marriage right now.
Maybe if you tell me more of these things, I'll lose interest in getting married too."
I looked at Nina and waited for her to speak. Perhaps this was the nature of women. We were born to love gossip.
Nina gently sighed. "My sister and my brother-in-law have been married for six years. They began to quarrel frequently in the last six months. The family's expenses, including the children’s food and clothing. are all bought with my sister's salary. My brother-in-law would give my sister some money when they first got married but has since stopped giving her any. The reason is that he wants to start a business and the money deposited in the bank can’t be touched. My sister thought that he had started to change, but because of the children, she had no choice but to put up with it."
After a pause, she continued, "Half a year ago, my sister took her kid to the hospital and happened to bump into him and a woman coming out of a cafe. That's when the two started quarreling. However, she still refused to get a divorce for the sake of the children. She finally decided to get a divorce because of my disappearance. In order to find me, my sister spent a lot of money, and that made my brother-in-law very unhappy. He also said many unpleasant things. In the end, in order to stop my sister from spending more money t o search for me, he took all my sister’s hard -earned money over the years. He stayed outside and only returned home after I came back from abroad. When my sister asked for her money back, he said that he had spent it all."
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