"Of course I only found out because something almost happened!"
The other man growled.
As the man told the story, Dad Xi's face gradually darkened.
It turned out that his younger brother's son had stayed at their house for two days, the day before yesterday and the day before that, because his younger brother and sister-in-law were away on business.
Dad Xi was quite a bit older than his younger brother.
His younger brother had also married late.
So there was quite an age gap between his nephew and his own children.
His eldest son was in college, and his younger daughter was in high school, but his nephew was only in elementary school.
His daughter was a lively girl, too.
Even though she was already in high school, she got along really well with an elementary school kid.
For the past two days, the two kids had practically been climbing the walls.
They were glad the children were having fun together.
But the two little rascals were a force to be reckoned with.
They were also quite exhausted.
When his younger brother and sister-in-law came to pick up their son, he and Child's Mom had both felt relieved.
They'd thought that was the end of it.
They hadn't expected...
Their nephew... had secretly taken home one of Xiao Xin's little snakes.
How had that child even found the snake?
Dad Xi knitted his brows.
When he learned that his nephew would be staying with them for two days, he and Child's Mom had warned their daughter in advance to put her snakes away somewhere safe.
She wasn't to let his younger brother find out about them.
Their daughter had thumped her chest and promised she'd hide the snakes well.
They hadn't expected...
Even the