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Afterword:

Well, I was going to leave today, but it's a holiday tomorrow (the 80th anniversary of the founding of the CCP), so Xianping wants to buy some good food and celebrate. Looks like I'll stay another day.

This morning Xiuying finally got fed up with her lazy husband, who didn't come to help us in the fields yesterday evening. She left early without even saying goodbye, returning to Wuming to sell vegetables again.

Xianping took me to Fucheng, the nearby (very) small town. We walked around buying and eating fruit as he talked with every other person we passed. If the earth is a small world, the countryside can be described as miniscule. Before returning to Small Yin, we bought plenty of food, all of which I cooked for dinner except the whole, live, chicken, which I left for Guoliao to handle.

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