The boy suddenly asked, "Mom, why do you have to undress for men to see?"
The woman froze, and the tears that had built up in her eyes began to fall, one by one.
"Ah Bao mustn't ask Mom such questions! You mustn't!" Ah Yun's mother cried.
"Enough! Everyone get inside! You're making a spectacle!" A Zhao family woman yanked the boy away with one hand and dragged the woman towards the house.
"Ah Yun! Ah Yun!" Ah Yun's mother clung to her daughter, refusing to let go.
Several women emerged from nowhere, all hands and feet, they pulled the mother and daughter apart. The woman called Ah Yun didn't struggle or resist; she was as numb as a corpse, allowing them to carry her into the house.
The door slammed shut.