Shopkeeper Liu had received a travel itinerary that was based on a letter sent from Jiang Ziqi when Lin Yue and the others had set out, calculated according to the time needed for the journey, without accounting for the two-day delay Lin Yue and her group would encounter due to the heavy rain. Dalang and his brothers had been anxiously waiting since hearing the news; they were counting the days for their parents' return. Once they knew their parents were coming back, they asked for leave from their teacher and returned home to wait, but to their dismay, they waited in vain for two consecutive days, their hearts filled with anxiety.
"Erhu, didn't they say our parents were supposed to arrive yesterday? Why haven't they come back yet?"