It was after dark when Yan Fei grabbed his shovel and left the cattle yard, preparing to dig a hole near the roadside to erect that big stone as a sign for his liquor store.
Xu Xiaoyan was holding a flashlight, helping him decide the best location. As long as it was far from the turn in the road, that'd work. They didn't want it too close to the curve in case anyone cycling took a tight turn and crashed into it.
Once they picked the spot, Yan Fei started digging.
He was annoyed in the afternoon when the men had hauled the stone back into town, showing off. He had wanted them to just dump it, but they ended up keeping it.
However, when he heard their suggestion to use the stone as a business sign, he thought about Xu Xiaoyan having laughed at his disorganized small liquor store. Nowadays, no trace of the two characters he had drawn on the outer wall was left. No one knew there had been characters there before.