After Liang Hemiao left the Xu family, no one spoke ill of the Li brothers in front of Xu Erlei every day.

With Xu Dalei's guidance, Xu Erlei gradually realized that he had done wrong and hurt Li Pan and Li An.

He wanted to apologize, but the Li family members were no longer in Wanxia Lane.

When the Li family returned, Xu Erlei watched as they busied themselves every day, paying no attention to him whatsoever.

Xu Erlei felt a strange unease. He couldn't bring himself to apologize.

Until today, when Xu Dalei brought him to pay New Year's greetings at the Li family's house, Xu Dalei took him with him.

Only then did Xu Erlei have the courage to offer the apology he should have said long ago.

After saying that, he felt embarrassed and ran out of the Li family's house.

Xu Erlei ran out of the alley in one breath and sat down on a crooked tree by the ditch not far away.

He peeled off tree bark and threw it into the water to relieve his emotions.

As they were throwing the water, they heard familiar voices and tinkling sounds coming from an abandoned house across the ditch.

Xu Erlei was always bold and curious. He jumped from the tree to the other side of the ditch and ran into the abandoned house.

There was no one in the abandoned house.

After circling around, they found a red headband with a bell in the weeds.

The golden bell pleased Xu Erlei, as he could sell it to buy candied hawthorns.

Xu Dalei came looking for him, and Xu Erlei stuffed the red ribbon into his pocket and followed him home.

Fearing that Xu Dalei would find out and make him hand it over, Xu Erlei hid the red ribbon when he got home.

In the afternoon, Xu Erlei played with the children in the alley.

One of the little girls had a red ribbon tied in her hair. She said that Shushu's red ribbon had a gold bell on it, which was especially pretty.