ot up from the bed and went to switch on the TV.
His lips twitched at the sight.

The TV was probably a secondhand buy.

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The screen was only about a dozen inches in size, and when turned on, the image was grainy and monochrome in color.

This type of TV had become obsolete over a decade ago.

However, owning such a TV was already considered pretty modern in Anyang Village.

There were only a few TV channels.
Only the afternoon news was available at this time, but despite that, the girl watched it with relish.
To her, everything was very interesting as long as there was someone moving on the screen.

The man soon rushed back with bad news.

It turned out that the provision was closed by the time he reached it.
He heard that the shop owner had gone to town to procure goods and would probably only be back the next day since the latter would have to make a to-and-fro trip, which was thirty miles each way, in addition to the time needed for procurement.

Thus, the man told him to rest for a night first.
Once the boss got back, he would then make another phone call to his family.

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Although Youyou was worried, he had no other choice.

“Sorry to trouble you,” he politely expressed.

The man’s face flushed with embarrassment.
“Hey! Don’t say that; I’ll feel embarrassed! It’s good enough to have your forgiveness, boy! If not for the trap I set up, you wouldn’t have fallen into it!”

It turned out that he was still feeling guilty about it.

The boy comforted him.
“It’s fine.”

It was no big deal since he was all right.

“I’m afraid that your parents will blame me if they know! Sigh… Boy, I really didn’t expect such a thing to happen; I’m feeling repentant about it, really…”

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