Old Man Xia was truly interested. The Fu family had few children and all of the children who did not stay exhibited very proper behavior, yet none were as mischievous as Zhou Niannian.
The children of the Minister of Foreign Affairs were the same, never having indulged in pranks like lifting beams or flipping tiles.
Suddenly, along came Zhou Niannian, an oddity, and Old Man Xia found him fascinating.
"After I got hit and cried, I was also successfully terrified. Then, I was knocked out by a rope that fell from the sky. I heard that after I passed out, my father, a big man, was so scared that his legs went weak. As for my mother, well, she often says that if her spine hadn't been injured, relegating her to logistics, she could have been more macho than my father."
"My uncles said that when I fainted, my macho-like mother checked my breathing by holding her fingers under my nose and told them, 'It's okay, she just fainted.'"
