After driving the Jeep into the Big Courtyard, Li Long still felt a lingering fear.
Guns were not hard to get hold of these days. If those two men had been carrying guns instead of a short knife and a steel pipe, he probably would have been done for.
I really need to be more careful. I can't be so reckless again.
Gu Xiaoxia and Gu Boyuan were not back yet. Li Long drained the water from the Jeep and played with Mingming and Haohao for a while. When he heard the gate outside, he went out to look and saw that Han Fang had returned.
After that, Gu Boyuan and Gu Xiaoxia returned one after the other. Sister Yang had finished cooking, so they all ate together.
Li Long did not mention being held up and ate his meal in peace. He wanted to wait until the police station had finished questioning the men before deciding what to do. He was not sure whether they had targeted him specifically or had simply been waiting to rob whoever came along.
If it was the former, have I been keeping too high a profile these past two years?
Surely not?
When he got up the next morning, the sky was overcast. Weather forecasts were not that accurate at the time. Yesterday's forecast had said partly cloudy, but he woke to an overcast sky. Not long after breakfast, snow began to fall.
The flakes were fairly large right from the start, drifting down and soon covering the ground. After cleaning up the kitchen, Sister Yang looked at the sky with some concern.
"It's started again. Three snowfalls in such a short time, and this one looks pretty heavy too."
"It'll probably be even heavier than the last one." Li Long got Mingming