C63 Number Three

Gudong, gudong...

The next time...

A burly old man took big bites of the stewed White Song (cabbage) vegetable leaves and scooped up the dried powder under the stewed soup. With a light suck, he swallowed all of it. Then...

Cough, cough. Cough, cough!

He choked and all the powder in his mouth was poured into the soup.

It made the rest of the people on the table frown