"Let me tell you, I, Ma Xiangling, am not someone you can just push around. If you want me to keep working like a beast of burden to serve your Han family, you'd better start paying me a wage. Otherwise, you can forget about me doing your laundry, cooking, or cleaning. From now on, we wash our own clothes and take turns cooking. You can forget about making me do all the housework by myself!"
Furious, Ma Xiangling glared at Mother Han and demanded, "Since the money those women earn supposedly belongs to the Han family, why don't I ever see them pull it out to share equally? They hoard their own earnings while expecting me to wait on them hand and foot. Do you think that's fair?"
"I've heard of serving a father-in-law and mother-in-law, but I've never heard of anyone having the obligation to serve their sisters-in-law, eldest brother, younger brothers-in-law, nephews, and nieces! What gives? Did they raise me? Did they give me money? Did they ever even say a kind word to me? Every single day they gang up on me, and yet they still expect me to wait on them? Pah! In their dreams!"
Chapter 493