Shen Mao'an's three sisters couldn't persuade Grandma Shen and the others to come back. Village leaders like Old Secretary Liu and others from the village waited in vain for news as Lantern Festival approached. After Lantern Festival, the New Year would be over, and work would need to begin. The matter was urgent, like fire on their eyebrows.
With no other option, having heard that city leaders were also in Beijing, Old Secretary Liu took two village officials and caught a train to Beijing. They arrived just in time before Lantern Festival on the fourteenth.
The two officials Old Secretary Liu brought happened to be a father-son duo, Li Quande, an elder with an age similar to Old Secretary Liu and Grandma Shen, and Li Fuyou, Li Quande's son, who was about the same age as Shen Maoqing.
