Cai Wei laughed. It seemed like the big room family was trying relentlessly to push the limits of their shamelessness. They wanted her Bafu Restaurant, their appetite was certainly not small!
"What did Dad and Mom say?" She asked with a cold laugh.
Mentioning Dad and Mom, the indignation on Cai Wei’s youthful face eased a bit. She replied, "Of course, Dad and Mom did not agree. They’re in a stalemate with the big room. It’s so noisy it gives you a headache. Then, coincidentally Cai Ping had an accident, and this matter was put on hold. But speaking of it, Cai Ping is such a huge person, she even couldn’t carry a tea stably, she even scalded herself. I’m really amazed!"
After hearing this, Cai Wei snorted coldly, "That’s supposedly ’harming others ends up harming oneself’. "
Cai Fei asked in doubt, "Older sister, what do you mean by that?"
Wu’er huffed angrily, "Sister Cai Ping dropped it on purpose. She wanted to scald me and older sister. Fortunately, older sister was quick. Otherwise, who knows who would be scalded by now?"
Cai Fei was surprised. "Really?"
Wu’er said loudly, "Absolutely true. Wu’er saw it clearly. It was sister Cai Ping who pretended to fall and threw the tea bowl at us."
Listening to Wu’er, Cai Fei only then became aware of the danger older sister and Wu’er just went through. She couldn’t help but feel scared after the fact, her fright coming in phases. If older sister and Wu’er had been scalded, she would have sympathized so much that she would have felt the pain too. Thinking of this, she angrily rolled up her sleeves and turned back.
"Hey! where are you going?"
At this moment, the three siblings had already left the big courtyard of the old Mu house and were strolling on the small road in the village. Seeing that Cai Fei unexpectedly turned around, Cai Wei quickly grabbed her.
Cai Fei gritted her teeth and said, "I’m going back to settle accounts with Mu Cai Ping. I want to hit her till she dies!"
Seeing younger sister protecting them fiercely, Cai Wei couldn’t help but chuckle. She touched her forehead and said, "You wild girl, who do you think you are going to confront? Now, the one who was scalded was Cai Ping, not me. Even if you make a fuss, who would pay attention to you? Moreover, if Cai Ping is annoyed by you, she may even blame me for her scald, if that happens, the big room has even more reasons to want our tavern."
Hearing this, Cai Fei thought that her older sister made a lot of sense, so she stopped and let go of the idea to settle accounts with Cai Ping. However, she still had a hard time hiding her anger and kept cursing, "It’s her fault. She deserves to be scalded ..."
"Yeah, anyone who bullies older sister is a bad person!"
Wu’er clenched his small fist, also adding resentfully.
Cai Wei smiled, not paying attention to their resentful emotions. She gently led them along the familiar village road and slowly walked back to their original house in the west of the village.
The small house was just as they left it: The sparse wattle gate, the mottled and dilapidated mud wall, the roof made of thatch, the window paper blackened by smoke from the flue, and under the window, there was a pile of firewood that hadn’t been completely burned, just as it was delivered by Jin before...
Although the house was as run-down as ever, the siblings felt a closeness when they saw it. It seemed that at this moment, they realized that they had been missing this tattered home, missing every bit of things that had happened here. After all, this was where they were born and grew up, carrying too many of their memories, sour, sweet, bitter, spicy, beautiful and not beautiful. Everything had become an inseparable part of their lives!
After pushing the door and entering the room, a hot wave hit them in the face, Cai Wei and Cai Fei both received a shock.
Inside the room, there wasn’t the coldness one would expect from a long-vacant place, but rather, it was warmly heated with residual heat on the Kang. The few rough furnitures on the ground were cleaned spotlessly and neatly arranged there, as though taking care of it was always someone’s responsibility.