"Hmph, just keep indulging her! When she can't get married and has to stay home as an old maid, you'll have plenty of reason to cry."
Su Yaohui did not want to argue with this ignorant, foolish woman any longer.
Seeing the two of them quarreling without end, Old Master Su scolded, "Enough! Both of you, shut up!"
"Xiao Hao, continue."
Little Haozi carefully thought it over before continuing. "Later, the whole ground started shaking. I couldn't keep my footing and fell to the ground. My foot got stuck between the chunks of earth and the wood. Just then, Sis suddenly rushed over like a shot, moved the earth chunks aside for me, and told me to run out."
"I ran a few steps, then suddenly remembered that Grandpa was still inside. I told my sis, and she told me to keep running, all the way home before stopping. She herself ran back inside instead."
"I was really scared. When I got home, I told my parents what had happened."
By the end, Little Haozi's voice had grown much softer, and regret filled his eyes.
He felt that he had been too cowardly this time. He had not even been as brave as his sister, a girl.
But he had truly been terrified then...
If he got another chance, he definitely... definitely would not only think of running away. He would go back to save Grandpa too.
Zhou Lihua hurriedly said, "Dad, Danie knew you were still inside, so that's why she ran back in."
That silly girl, how could she be so foolish?
If she really couldn't get out, wouldn't she have been buried in that mine shaft together with her grandfather?
Old Master Su took a puff of his long-stemmed tobacco pipe and nodded, gratified and satisfied. "Mm,