Having received the village chief's approval, the Jiang family members put down their farming tools and sprinted towards home.
The villagers who were working alongside the Jiang family heard the news and wanted to join in on the excitement, but they had work to finish in the fields, and the team leader was watchfully standing by.
Resigned to their fate, they continued working, knowing that soon enough, when the Jiang family members returned, they too would find out.
Zhiwen and Zhiwu ran home alongside Jiang Changhai. When Jiang Changhai parked the bicycle in the yard, the two boys clustered around it, eyes filled with envy as they looked and touched it.
Before long, the rest of the Jiang family arrived one after the other.
"Mom, this is for you," Jiang Changhai handed the meat and pastries he had bought at the Supply and Marketing Cooperative to Zhang Guihua.
