Lu Xiaoting nodded, lowering his voice, "Alright, aunties, I've got it all. Keep an eye on the kids during this special period. Try to stay at home and keep the doors locked."
Many families in the neighborhood knew Lu Xiaoting and his wife Susu, not because they were particularly high-profile, but rather due to their triplets.
As soon as the triplets were mentioned, gradually everyone got to know the couple and learned that the father of the triplets was a police officer at the local police station.
The reason it took a whopping ten minutes to get from the usual couple-of-minutes walk from the alley entrance to their home today was that they ran into old men and women along the way, who stopped to chat for a good while.
Without exception, they all told Lu Xiaoting that they had seen a lot of unfamiliar faces today.
For the old folks who had lived in this area for decades, it wasn't just about which family everyone knew well and what they could talk about.
