Before going home, because her mother-in-law Mrs. Lu had instructed her in the morning to buy some items, Bai Lu drove out from the office, turned a corner, and detoured to a dessert shop her mother-in-law endorsed, where she bought ten bowls of double-skin milk and took them to go.
It was five-thirty when she got off work, there was a traffic jam on the road, and it was almost six by the time she finished packing.
Halfway home, her father-in-law called, asking her to buy a Barbie doll, saying it was needed for an old friend's granddaughter's birthday. His voice was somewhat anxious on the phone, seemingly having forgotten about it until someone reminded him. A request from her father-in-law to the daughter-in-law is as good as a command. Bai Lu glanced at the clock, saw it was ten past six, and quickly parked her car on the roadside before heading into the nearest department store, where she helped him pick one from the Barbie counter.
