Once the troublemakers had left, only the mother and her two children remained, staring blankly at one another.
The old woman sighed. "Alright, you two can stop gawking. Go on and do what you need to do." 'Sigh, children are a debt you can never repay,' she thought. 'Why was I so determined to have so many back then? As long as I'm alive, there'll be no end to my worries.'
Li Mubo glanced at his mother's grim expression and swallowed the words on the tip of his tongue. 'Never mind,' he thought. 'I'll bring it up some other time.'
That night, as mother and daughter lay tucked in bed together, Yuan Si brought up the matter of Li Mubo's girlfriend from the city.
"You already know about that?" The old woman was rather curious. Her daughter had only been back for a day, yet she seemed to know everything that was going on.
Yuan Si just hummed in response. 'Could I tell her I didn't sleep last night because I went to see Xiao Furen?' she thought. 'Of course not.'
