"I'm asking you something." Xiao Shumei spoke as if she hadn't heard her question, only preoccupied with her own words, her face utterly expressionless, and her tone as dead as her demeanor, lacking any inflection, "That day at the scene, how exactly did Dad start acting up, tell me the truth."
Xiao Shuzhu knew she was hiding some secret. After much consideration, thinking that the youngest sister already knew, it might be better to just come out with it, she said, "Actually, it was about the argument between Dad and Yebai—the night our mom fell down the stairs—"
"Mom fell down the stairs and then died in a difficult birth, didn't she?"
Hearing Xiao Shumei speak as if she'd known about it all along, Xiao Shuzhu was surprised, "How, did big sister know? I thought this secret was unknown to all of us, with only Yebai and Dad being aware."
"I knew. If Yebai knew it, then it must have been that person who told him."
