“No, Mama, I didn’t eat your pepper soup. I ate the fried rice I prepared this morning.”
“You are lying. Who else would have eaten the pepper soup I carefully prepared and kept for later?”
“Mama, I didn’t eat your pepper soup.”
“Mom, she said she didn’t. And why would she eat your pepper soup?”
“You will ask her for me. Because all these days she has refused to cook what I want to eat. Now I prepared a delicious catfish pepper soup, and she went ahead and ate it.”
“Why would I do that? I didn’t prepare pepper soup, and neither did my mom. So why would I see pepper soup in the pot and just eat it?”
“Keep asking me stupid questions. You’re trying to make me look crazy in front of my son, right? I will find out who ate my pepper soup.”
“I heard you screaming. You couldn’t even knock before entering the couple’s room. Do you have no manners?”
“Manners in my own son’s house? You must be joking.”
“Do people come to your husband’s house and disturb your peace? Are you the only woman who has a son? Leave their marriage for them, Madam, and go back to your husband.”
“You woman, what exactly is your problem? And yes, I was the one who ate your pepper soup. If you want your food to be safe and don’t want anyone to eat it, go back to your own house and no one will touch it. As long as you are here, I myself will eat your food.”
“I have respected you a lot because you are my son’s mother-in-law. But now I see you are a very classless woman.”
“It’s you and me in this house.”
“Not really. I can’t be fighting with a grown woman whose mission is to destroy her son’s marriage.”
“So you are finally giving up and leaving?”
