As the saying goes, "A thousand days at home are easy, but a single day away is hard." While this trip hadn't been difficult—in fact, everything had gone smoothly—they had still been away from home for quite some time.
Both Shen Weimin and Xu Changqing were starting to feel homesick. Before their planned departure on Monday or Tuesday of the following week, they found themselves in another flurry of activity.
First, they had Li Yuanchao find people to demolish the miscellaneous structures built inside the small courtyard house, restoring it to its original state. The workers would also rearrange and conceal the plumbing and electrical wiring.
Fortunately, they didn't have to do any of this work themselves. Li Yuanchao even helped them source all the necessary drainpipes; all that remained was to wait for the construction to be completed.
