"It's nothing serious," Xu Nianhua assured Ji Ying, not wanting her to feel guilty. "Dr. Du said that with the medicine he prescribed and some good rest, everything will be fine." She then changed the subject, "By the way, why hasn't big brother come home yet? Usually, by this time, he should have been back already, right?"
For some reason, Xu Nianhua felt a persistent twitch in her eyelid all day.
"He might have been held up by something," Xu Nian'an answered as he and Xu Qinghe were busy chopping the firewood they had dragged home into pieces in the yard.
As they waited, another half hour passed. Just when they were growing worried that something might have happened, a commotion came from outside.
"Uncle Xu, Auntie Xu."
"Uncle Xu."
The voices of Cai Gen and Yao Feng rang out.
"Eh, isn't that Brother Yao Feng and Brother Cai Gen?" Xu Nian'an listened carefully, put down his ax, and went to look outside.
To his shock, the two men appeared to be carrying something.
