"Living Yama? Living Yama, are you there?" She couldn't find anyone in the room and, feeling uneasy, ran out to look. Hearing voices from the neighbors with the door ajar, Sheng Ning rushed to the doorway and asked anxiously, "Hello, have you seen Xu Qigang?"
The neighbors were Chen Baoshan's family of three; his wife, a woman from the countryside, was holding their one-year-old baby and was stunned to see Sheng Ning standing at their doorstep!
Chen Baoshan came out of the house holding an enamel basin. The moment he saw Sheng Ning, the basin dropped from his hands and shattered with a clatter on the ground.
Sheng Ning scratched her head awkwardly; she had rushed out so hastily that she hadn't even combed her hair, which was now disheveled and loose behind her.
"I'm sorry…"
"Who are… who are you?" Chen Baoshan's wife, Zhu Guiying, stuttered.
