The weather was perfect. It hadn't rained all day, and as evening approached, they headed back to their ancestral home. The sun was gradually setting, leaving a brilliant red afterglow that filled the sky.
After an afternoon of being run ragged by his grandson and granddaughter, Shen Mingquan had no choice but to leave work right on time. Now, he noticed the horse-drawn carriage he was in hadn't even reached his front door yet…
'Good heavens!'
From a distance, he could see a large group of adults and children gathered at his front door, talking and laughing. People were also moving tables, chairs, baskets, and other things in and out of the house.
"What's all this?"
Shen Mingquan genuinely had no idea that his children had decided to celebrate his fiftieth birthday a year early, specially holding it this summer.
