2 posts tagged with "Family Ethics"

Spring in Beiping, the wind still so unruly, swirling willow catkins and dust, finding its way straight down your collar. The Ma family's old window, patched with layers of paper, still couldn't block that strange 'whuuu whuuu' moan. Inside, though, it was nothing like the weather outside – stiflingly hot, like freshly steamed buns.

Wang Deshun felt his heart was like that piece of crumbling cement hanging precariously from the windowsill, just waiting to fall with a final "splat." But that sound, it was stubbornly slow in coming.