The next day, the sun was bright and cheerful.
But in Chen Yu's "hole," it was still as dark as pitch.
"Are you done yet? I want to go out!"
"What's the rush." From above, Chen grumbled irritably, "Can't the bed come apart piece by piece?"
"Let me out first by making a small hole, then we can talk." Chen Yu stood in the middle of the ladder, pushing against the basement "door" below him, and looked down, "Four rats now, where did they all come in from…"
"I let you sleep down there so you could kill those two rats!" Chen bellowed furiously, "And you've gone and bred two more!"
"It's too dirty." Chen Yu frowned, shouting up, "Let my sister do it."
"Not taking it apart! When the rats are gone, that's when you can come up!"
Chen Yu: "…"
He pushed tentatively at the iron door and found it immovable. He sighed, jumped off the ladder, and started to look for the four little critters.
But he accidentally spotted a parcel underneath the only chair in the basement.
