The person arriving was none other than Xiu Jianlin.
"Electrocuted? But there was a power outage, wasn't there? How did it happen?" a member of the Ruanlin family asked as they came out to the courtyard after hearing the noise.
Xiu Jianlin shook his head, "It wasn't a power outage. It's just that she... she wasn't careful with the electricity... and got electrocuted."
Xiu Jianlin was being vague; the true reason was somewhat embarrassing to disclose.
After the Ruan family bought a color TV, the news spread through the village the next day, and practically everyone, young and old, had come to see it, except their family, because of a previous falling out with the Ruan family which had been very tense, and he, for one, felt too embarrassed to go.
Liu Mei actually wanted to come, but she was extremely afraid of the Ruanlin family member, usually just wandering outside the door, never daring to come in.
