She watched Liao Zhaoji, who still knew how to cry on the ground, with cold eyes and asked her, "What was he doing wandering around near Qianshan if there was nothing wrong?"
"Wuu wuu wuu... How would I know!" Liao Zhaoji sobbed and shook her head.
Ruan Chi, standing beside her, looked at his mother with an expression that held a trace of resentment. He had held back all night, but in the end, he couldn't restrain himself and gave Ruanlin Family a play-by-play of the previous day's events; his voice was hoarse by the end as he said, "Grandma, Dad must have gone hunting in the mountains. Our tuition for next semester is gone; he said he would find a way!"
The most likely scenario was that Ruan Jiandang, knowing there was little game on the back mountain, had gone into Qianshan to see if he might chance upon a wild boar—that would instantly net him two hundred yuan.
"Is what he said true?" Ruanlin Family put down Ruan Jiaojiao from her arms and walked up to the weeping Liao Zhaoji.
