Secretary Qian's funeral was quickly forgotten by the people of Ge Village. After the autumn rice was dried, the village chief immediately started making plans to sell the grain. The entire village was looking forward to the good news the chief would bring back from the foot of the mountain.
But the news was not as good as hoped.
"The people at the Grain Station are too oppressive," the chief complained after two trips down the mountain. His face, already darkened from shouting orders during the harvest, was now clouded with anger. He had brought more than fifty kilograms of rice down with him, not only to show the Station the quality of the grain, but also to negotiate a fair price.
