Xinghe could not help but laugh. "You want to kneel for your grandma?"
"Yes." Lin Lin nodded, his face suffused with religious piety. "It was like meeting a saint; I felt like giving her a few kowtows."
"You should kowtow to her," Mubai suddenly added.
The little fella was shocked. "So, I should have kowtowed? I was wrong to have suppressed the urge?"
"You can do it next time, perhaps she will teach you a thing or two in return, and you can kowtow to her then."
"Okay!" Lin Lin nodded and remembered that for the future. Xinghe laughed at their back and forth banter, but internally, she was worried. Could they still have a next time? How was her mother going to stop the apocalypse?
After returning to Hwa Xia, Xia Wa stopped bringing it up. She went about meeting the families. She told Xinghe and Mubai not to reveal anything. They agreed because there was no reason to cause panic unnecessarily.
