Hu Yungeng's son and daughter heard their grandparents were taking a car back to the city, and they looked like they wanted to go along and have some fun.
The two children looked at Hu Yungeng with pleading eyes, hoping he would put in a good word for them.
Their mother usually listened to their father most, so Hu Yungeng wanted to say a word or two in persuasion.
But his wife had always been very domineering. With him, what she said was law, and he didn't want to make her angry.
So he pretended not to see his children's pleading eyes and lowered his head to continue eating his congee and meat buns.
But he didn't dare eat much, because his parents had been nagging him ever since he was a child.
They said the family was too poor and they had to scrimp and save to put his younger brother and sisters through school, so he never dared to eat too much.
