C140 Drop into Water

The next day, the sky cleared up.

Soong Xintong stood under the peach tree at the edge of the cereal field. Listening to Village Head Wan talk about how the village paved roads, one sentence summed up how the rich had to contribute and the powerful had to make roads in the middle of the village to avoid falling down again.

In the past, the yellow mud road was hard to walk on once it rained