The three of them packed up their stall and went home. Little Douzi and Dandan headed to an old lady's house to do their homework, while Lin Lan was in the vegetable patch picking green beans and loofahs.
KNOCK KNOCK! Someone was pounding on the gate. "Is anyone home?"
Wangcai began to bark, WOOF WOOF! He thrashed about, trying to charge out and drive away the intruders, but he was chained up and too far from his target.
Lin Lan walked out of the vegetable patch holding two loofahs. Seeing an old woman in her sixties and two other women in their thirties or forties standing at her gate, she asked, "Who are you looking for?"
"That's Auntie Ye, his Sister Ye, and his Second Sister Ye," Yang Liying said coldly as she came outside holding a freshly washed tofu cloth. She stared at the three women by the gate.
Auntie Ye looked at Lin Lan, weeping. "Little Lin, I'm begging you, please let our Ye San go. Please…"
