Under Granny Song's "patient guidance," the Zhou brothers worked until dawn. Regardless of being stained by sewage or not, the entire courtyard was scrubbed with cloth by the two repeatedly. The walls were also replastered, leaving the place spotless, cleaner than the empty pockets of the brothers.
Granny Song personally checked every nook and cranny before letting them go.
The brothers were exhausted and only wanted to wash up and sleep soundly. Who would have thought that as soon as they got home, it felt like being struck by lightning—early in the morning, the village chief opened the ancestral hall, declaring that their family would be expelled from the village.
