Chiang Songhai watched the scene unfold, feeling inexplicably heartbroken.
What if his little girl, Little Xiao, was abandoning him? What was he to do?
Could it be that her great-uncle was better than her grandfather?
He recalled the recent events, how Chiang Xiao looked at him with disappointment and resentment in her eyes, and he couldn't help feeling a bit downcast.
Was it because he hadn't done a good job, always causing Little Xiao grievances, hence her real disappointment in him?
Chiang Xiao didn't realize that her gesture of calling her great-uncle over to the storeroom to discuss important matters had led her grandfather to imagine so much. She took her great-uncle into the storeroom and, without any courtesy, took her grandfather's tobacco and rolling paper, rolling a cigarette for her great-uncle and lighting it for him with a match. Then, with a sly lowering of her voice, she asked, "Great-uncle, do you want to make some money?"
