"Tiantian, Mom, did I embarrass you?"
Liu Xiuzhi was still uneasy. After returning home, she walked around the yard a few times, and finally ran off to the village committee office to make a phone call.
Tiantian had left them a temporary phone number the last time she called home.
Liu Xiuzhi carefully wrote it down on a piece of paper, and now, she dialed the number.
After identifying herself and explaining that she wanted to reach He Tiantian from the archery team, Liu Xiuzhi put down the phone and waited.
After a long while, the telephone bell rang. Liu Xiuzhi hastily picked up the receiver and confirmed that it was indeed her daughter on the other end. She said a bit of this and a bit of that about what happened that day.
In the end, she asked anxiously, "Did I, did I cause trouble?"
"Mom, what are you talking about? How could you have embarrassed me?"
Upon hearing Liu Xiuzhi's jumbled account, Tiantian quickly grasped the main points—
