When Yun Yehou was young, he built a new house in his hometown through a lot of hard labor. With much dignity, he married a woman called Xiang Yu, who eventually gave birth to a pair of daughters.
Originally, their lives had been peaceful and smooth.
However, after he was involved in an accident, there had been changes in their way of living.
His wife initially did not have to do labor outside and just had to mind the planting of crops in their few farmlands, while he was in charge of working outside to earn money for their living expenses.
When the man received a heavy injury at his workplace and his lower body half became paralyzed, the supporting pillar of the family naturally collapsed, causing them to lose half of their net income.
With that, the heavy burden had all landed on his wife.
Initially, his wife did not have any complaints. She would work in the fields during the day before taking care of him and his mother at night. Alas, as time went by, the woman became unhappy.
She had to work in the day and care for a sickly mother-in-law and a paralyzed husband at night. Gradually, she began to have many complaints.
She was unhappy with not just Yun Yecheng but her husband as well.
When Yun Yecheng's family financial circumstances were splendid, he had not helped in caring for his ailing mother much. He only sent money back to them, but when he had lost everything, his younger brother had actually gone behind her back to give him money!
Now that he was lying paralyzed in bed, he did not even inform his older brother about it. The latter had not gone to visit them in a long time, either.
Therefore, she had suggested for them to ask back for the money he had given his older brother during his time of need to ease their hard times now.
Her husband refused.
He said that his brother was not having it easy as well—that he had expenses and his life was also tough in the city.
The couple had a huge fight because of that. From then on, she no longer put effort in taking care of him and grandmother. Her actions became half-hearted.
When she learned that Yun Yecheng was coming home for their mother's funeral and wanted to bring his younger brother to the city with him, Xiang Yu proposed to come along as well.
He naturally could not reject her out of embarrassment, but when his younger brother heard about it, he was angry. He was afraid that his family would be a burden to him, so he refused to move to the city.