Li Yuanshan's family of six stayed in Li Family Village for just two nights. On the morning of the third day, they set off early to head home.
It wasn't that they didn't want to stay longer. The main issue was the travel time—a round trip took four days, and adding the two days they'd spent at her mother's house brought the total to six. The couple felt a bit uneasy leaving their home unattended for so long. Besides, now that they had money, Zhao Xiangguo was anxious to go to the school and ask if their children could enroll late if they paid the tuition now.
The old woman knew her children had important matters to attend to, so she didn't try to make them stay. She got up early and boiled twelve eggs and six salted duck eggs for her daughter, son-in-law, and their family. She also pan-fried more than twenty large savory pancakes and prepared the meat-filled buns the kids had been dreaming of, packing a large bundle of food for them to eat on the road.
