Zhang Dezheng and his son Zhang Dongze arrived home after eleven o'clock at night.
When Wang Chunnian heard the commotion, she came out and learned that they hadn't seen Luo Qiao at all that day, and she immediately burst into tears.
Zhang Dezheng was already exhausted and hungry; he had been beaten up that day and was feeling extremely irritable, "Stop crying, will you? It's so annoying. Dongze and I haven't even had dinner yet. Is there anything to eat at home?"
Wang Chunnian hadn't prepared dinner that evening; it had been Zhou Xiaomei, her sister-in-law, who had made the food and sent it over. Hearing that the father and son hadn't eaten yet, she felt a pang of sympathy and quickly went to the kitchen, sobbing as she started to cook for them.