Siheyuan: Relieve stress and relieve worries

Chapter 673: Helpless Choice
"Thank you, Aunt Wang. We'll go back first. Lili, say goodbye to Aunt Wang." Wang Zhan said.

Wang Li smiled and said, "Goodbye, Aunt Wang. Come home if you have time, or I will miss you."

Sister Wang said, "This little mouth is so sweet. Go back quickly and don't get cold."

Wang Zhan and Wang Li walked towards home. Wang Zhan looked back and saw that his master was still thinking about something. No wonder he didn't say a word when Sister Wang came just now. He was in a daze.

Wang Zhan walked over and waved his hand in front of his master's eyes. Qi Dasheng woke up and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Master, let's go home. Why are you still in a daze?" Wang Zhan turned and walked towards home, and Qi Dasheng followed him pushing the tricycle.

The three of them returned home and packed their own things. Wang Li had the least things, so after packing, she went to the study and worked with her brother. By the time the siblings finished packing, they felt a little hungry, so they put on their coats and went to the front yard.

Wang Zhan then realized that his master was missing. He shook his head and said, "Lili, what do you want to eat? Brother will make it for you."

Wang Li looked at her brother and said, "Anything is fine. I like everything my brother cooks."

Wang Zhan originally wanted to eat hot pot, but then he thought that he didn’t have a copper pot at home, so forget it, just cook. Wang Zhan went to the kitchen and found a stool. Although he could cut vegetables without the stool, it was too low and a bit uncomfortable.

In a short while, Wang Zhan brought a dish of stir-fried lamb with green onions, a dish of pot-fried tofu, and a dish of braised cabbage with three fresh vegetables, as well as steamed rice, to the central restaurant. Wang Li was adding firewood to the stove at this time.

Wang Zhan shouted, "It's time to eat, my cutest sister."

Wang Li skipped to the dining table and sat down obediently, waiting for her brother to serve them rice. The two siblings began to eat. When they were halfway through, a dark shadow came back from outside. Qi Dasheng walked in happily. After entering the room, he didn't say anything polite. He ran to his room, took out a bottle of wine and a glass, came back and served himself a bowl of rice, and started eating and drinking.

While eating, Qi Dasheng said, "You are about 70% to 80% of my level. Not bad, not bad."

After a while, Wang Zhan and his sister were full. Wang Li said hello and ran to her room to play with her toys.

Wang Zhan sat there with his master and said, "Master, we can't take everything seriously. How much money can a person make selling incense and candles, working from dawn to dusk? It's not easy for him either. What if he has a wife and children to support at home? If you put him in jail, do you think you are doing good deeds or doing bad deeds?"

Qi Dasheng listened and thought about it carefully. He had never thought about this question before. He stammered, "I, I didn't think about it that much. I was afraid that there would be tomb robbers. That would cause great losses."

Wang Zhan sighed and said, "For some things, you should investigate them thoroughly before taking action and think twice before acting."

Qi Dasheng instantly regretted reporting to the department, but then he changed his mind and said, "No, let's put things in perspective. If his family is in trouble, the military control committee will take good care of them, but the country has its own laws and the family has its own rules."

Wang Zhan shook his head and said, "Okay, be a principled person. If it were me, I would ask him face to face instead of arresting him first. You still have to consider the human relationships and leave some way out so that we can meet again in the future." After saying that, Wang Zhan stood up and went to the backyard.

Qi Dasheng, who had originally held a very firm stance, now began to doubt himself. He thought carefully about Wang Zhan's words and felt that what the kid said made sense. He thought that things could not be judged with one blow and it was better to investigate them thoroughly first. He hurriedly finished his meal and went out again.

Wang Zhan is packing up the pots and pans he brought back from the warehouse, and thinking about buying a grill tomorrow. Oh, and a copper hot pot. Winter is incomplete without hot pot. It seems that he has to go to the front door for a walk tomorrow. Wang Li pushed the door open and said, "Brother, let's go for a walk in the garden?"

Wang Zhan asked curiously, "Why did you think of going to the garden? You've been busy all day. Aren't you tired?"

Wang Li smiled and said, "I'm not tired. Let's go, brother, let's play hide and seek."

Wang Zhan thought it would be nice to go to the garden to see the snow scenery, so he stood up, put a scarf around his sister, and then took his sister to the small garden. The brother and sister first took a walk around. This garden had been tidied by their master, and it was tidied very well. There was no clutter, and it was clean and refreshing, which was comfortable to look at.

The brother and sister started playing hide-and-seek. It was called hide-and-seek, but in fact it was just Wang Li hiding and Wang Zhan looking for them.

Wang Li hid behind a tree for a while, then behind a rockery, and her laughter like silver bells filled the whole yard. Wang Zhan always had to wait for a while before he could find Lili.

But this time, after his sister hid, Wang Zhan just counted to ten and turned around, and saw Wang Li running out of the hole in the rockery in a panic, with a look of fear on her face.

Wang Zhan hugged his sister and asked, "Don't be afraid, what's wrong?"

My sister pointed at the cave entrance and said, "There seems to be a door there, inside the rockery. I thought it was a wall, but there is a door knocker on it."

Wang Zhan became interested when he heard this and said, "Let's go and take a look."

Wang Li hesitated and said, "I'm a little scared. It's dark, and what about the eyes?"

Wang Zhan became more curious when he heard this and said, "Don't be afraid, my brother is here. Let's go get the kerosene lamp first."

Wang Li nodded, and the two of them took the kerosene lamp, Wang Zhan in front and Wang Li behind, and they went into the cave together. The cave was not deep, only about three meters, and it was a dead end. Wang Zhan looked closely and found that there was a fake wall at the end, but a part of the plaster on the outside had fallen off, revealing a lion door knocker on the wall.

Wang Zhan simply used his hands to peel off the remaining layer of dust on the very thin false wall. After a while, a bronze door was revealed. It was a semicircular, double-opening bronze door.

Wang Zhan pushed hard, and the left side of the bronze door moved a little, but the right side didn't move at all. Wang Li wanted to help, but Wang Zhan smiled and said, "How strong are you? Hold the kerosene lamp and stand still."

Wang Zhan took a horse stance, exerted force with his feet, gathered energy in his Dantian, and pushed with both hands. The left half of the door was opened. Wang Zhan took the oil lamp from his sister and shone it inside. There was not much space inside. There was a staircase on the ground, extending downward at a 45-degree angle. The right half of the door was supported by a stone slab. No wonder it couldn't be pushed open. Wang Zhan turned around and asked his sister, "Do you want to come with me or wait here first?"

Wang Li was a little anxious. After thinking for a while, she said, "I am with my brother. I am not afraid of anything when I am with my brother."

Wang Zhan smiled, knowing that Wang Li would be even more scared if they stayed up there, so he took Wang Li and walked down. When they went down about six or seven meters, there was a hole in front of them. After passing through the hole, they arrived at a house. The house was not big, only about ten square meters, but there was a wooden door on each of the three walls. However, the door was so rotten that it would probably break if touched.

(End of this chapter)