That night, after the couple finished rolling around on the kang, Xiao Furen held his wife and began recounting everything that had happened at home over the past six months or so.
"Back in October of last year, Eldest Uncle took a nasty fall while working in the fields. It was pretty bad—he broke one of his legs..."
"That serious? How is he now?" Yuan Si genuinely hadn't known about this, and a trace of worry crept into her heart as she listened.
"It was very serious. Eldest Uncle isn't young, after all—he's even a few years older than Grandma—and he has osteoporosis. At the time, his two sons rushed him to the county hospital.
"There wasn't much they could do other than set his leg and send him home to rest and recover." It was utter chaos at the time.
The two brothers, Tie Tie and Tie Shun, were at a complete loss. In the end, it was Li Zhaohe who took the initiative to call me in the city, which is how we found out what had happened at home.
