Although Chen JianShe found it strange that Brother Leng, who never gossiped, would suddenly ask such a question, he still offered an explanation.
"A woman wants children. If the man can't have any, of course she was miserable. And so, she found another man and ran off."
He finished, then added in a hushed voice, "But my second aunt told me her next-door neighbor said it was the man who was infertile, so the woman ran off with another man."
Leng Yuan couldn't help but ask, "But why would she run away if *she's* the one who can't have children?"
Chen JianShe explained again, "If a woman can't have children, she's bound to be miserable, too. Maybe she couldn't face her husband! Besides, the village gossip is enough to drive a woman to her death."
Once he got started on the topic, Chen JianShe had a lot more to say.
