"Since the introduction is over, it means it's time for Melike to show me around the village," she said, then turned to me.
"I guess our matriarch will accompany us too. After all, the village is yours, isn't it?"
My mother-in-law was pale as a sheet.
"In this village, everything and everyone in it belongs to us. It belongs to Botan Ağa. Any guest is his guest," she said.
Oh, mother-in-law, oh. While I was thinking, don't you see the danger signals?
Elif turned to my mother-in-law.
"You're mistaken, Auntie. A man may be the head, but it's the neck that directs it. Without the neck, the head would just sit there like a lump. The woman is the neck."
"Heaven forbid," she said, realizing this wasn't going to progress. Melike took Elif by the arm.
"Let's show you around the village. Y
