Night had fallen, and Xu Hour was more than halfway over. Inside the Li Family's Ancestral Hall.
Second Uncle Li sat before the memorial tablets of the Ancestors, his face stern and gloomy as he demanded, "Where are Big Shrimp and Second Crab?"
"Dunno," Li Xiaopang replied, kneeling on the floor and sniffling.
"Cut the fucking crap! They went out after you!" Second Uncle Li cursed, barely containing his anger. "Where the hell did you put them?!"
"I didn't know they were following me." Li Xiaopang looked innocent as he played dumb. "Actually, why were they following me?"
Second Uncle Li gritted his teeth and suppressed his fury. "Fine, forget them. Let's talk about you. I ordered you not to leave home for the time being, yet you went out twice in a single day. Did you think my words were just hot air?"
"Interpret it however you like." Li Xiaopang had more or less stopped caring about the consequences and answered with complete indifference.
"You little &@￥... Interpret it however I like?!" Second Uncle Li was truly beside himself. He slammed the table, grabbed the disciplinary ruler from the wooden rack on the altar, and thundered, "I've spoiled you rotten! If I don't beat those two legs of yours until they split apart today, I'll take your surname!"
He had always doted on Xiaopang. In all the years the boy had grown up, aside from kicking him a few times to scare him, he had almost never seriously laid hands on him. But today was different. So many major incidents had happened in Delusion Village recently, and all seemed vaguely connected to him. He had warned Xiaopang repeatedly, yet the boy remained utterly lawless and refused to rein himself in...
If he did not discipline him now, sooner or