"Director Liu, if you're not in a hurry, could you come with me to the police station? I heard my second son's wife works there now. It's not easy for me to make this trip, so I figured I might as well talk to her about our family matters." Mrs. Xiao was hatching her own little plan.
She had already thought it all out back home. 'I can't figure out my second son's temper, so I'll just go find my daughter-in-law. I'm his mother-in-law; she has to listen to me, right? Even if her words don't have much influence, if she can just whisper in his ear now and then about how hard things are for the family, maybe one day he'll have a change of heart.'
Director Liu had heard about this as well. She thought for a moment, then nodded in agreement.
