She then sat on the other chair and joined her husband for breakfast.
"What do we do?" Fang Mei inquired.
"Sigh... what on earth happened to my good daughter?" Qian Duo asked in a sad and disappointed manner.
"Let us take a break and go to the temple." Fang Mei suggested as she picked up the chopsticks and started eating.
Lin Wangshu decided to climb the wall, sneak into her room, take a bath, change her clothes then leave.
After pacing up and down the road, she took her heels and walked to the backside of the house.
She could hear the voices of her parents conversing but in a low volume.
She decided to try and jump and see if she could reach the wall.
"What is that?" Fang Mei asked Qian Duo.
She could hear repetitive sounds of shoes hitting the hard ground.
"What?" Qian Duo inquired.
He did not seem to hear anything save for the chickens and the melodious songs of the birds.
"Hush!" His wife told him as she placed her index finger on lips.
"Listen carefully." Fang Mei told her husband in a low voice.
Now Qian Duo could hear the repetitive sounds of shoes hitting the hard ground.
"Who can it be?" Qian Duo asked his wife in a confused manner.
Who could be trying to break into his household.
"Who else but Yun èr?" His wife said.
"Let us go and give her a surprise, take the ladder and meet me at the backside." His wife told him as she tip toed to the backside of the house in order not to alarm Gang Shi Yun that she was heading that way.
Qian Duo stealthily walked to the storeroom and took out the lacquered old ladder and headed to the backside of the house as well.
Finally! Lin Wangshu had reached the wall and her fingers firmly held onto the bricks as she tried to climb up.
The both of them could see the fingers of Gang Shi Yun that had held the bricks tightly.
Qian Duo carefully placed the ladder onto the wall as his wife ordered and then he helped her up.
Fang Mei climbed up high enough that she could see Gang Shi Yun who was busy struggling trying to climb up the wall.
"Let me help you." Fang Mei told Gang Shi Yun in a soft manner.
"Oh thank you." Lin Wangshu said as she stretched out her hand to the helper before she froze momentarily and looked up only to see her mother.
She was shocked beyond words and did not dare move.
"Remove your dirty fingers from my wall you disobedient child!" Fang Mei said in a loud and annoying manner as she told her husband to hand her a twig which she used to hit Gang Shi Yun's fingers.
"Let go!" Fang Mei said as she hit Gang Shi Yun's fingers.
"Impossible!" Lin Wangshu replied as she tightened her grip on the brick wall and persevered through the pain.
"I want my clothes, even if I leave them you are too big that they cannot fit you." Lin Wangshu told Fang Mei who sneered in return.
"I will sell them to the peasants." Fang Mei replied to Lin Wangshu as she hit her fingers.