In the end, Li Dawei and his sister delivered twenty catties of rice, muttering and cursing the whole time. They couldn't bear to part with their cured meat, afraid it would be like a sheep entering a tiger's den—gone for good.
Her youngest uncle made the final call, promising them ten catties of cooked white rice the next morning before shooing all three of them out.
The meal with Xiao Gu and the others was a great success.
Everyone agreed to pack up everything in the house over the next two days and set off with Xiao Gu's group the day after tomorrow.
After the dinner party broke up, they settled the two elders into bed.
Song You'ai, Xie Ning, and the five members from their two uncles' families gathered for a meeting in the small second-floor drawing room, where they began to categorize and inventory the family's supplies.
"Thick cotton quilts, summer quilts, blankets, bamboo mats, and so on—we've sorted them by new and old and stuffed them into three wardrobes."
