"Mom, why do I feel like there are always people loitering outside our house these days?" For the past few days, Yuan Si had noticed that the villagers seemed to have taken a liking to the road in front of their house. Some would even walk past several times a day. The road was much busier now than when she had first arrived.
Her mother glanced outside. "It's all because of that shameless Li Renzhong and his family. If they hadn't pulled that stunt the other day, who would be paying any attention to us?"
This meant that some people had indeed overheard what Li Renzhong's wife said. Although there was no proof, some were still unwilling to give up and kept coming by to snoop around.
"Mom, why don't we build a wall? A tall one, so high that they can't even peek over if they try." Yuan Si had long wanted to convince her mother to replace the fence. The flimsy wicker thing, which could snap with a single break, gave her no sense of security.
