Chapter 111 Moving House

Then there were the meetings at the county town's restaurant, followed by encounters during New Year's when she brought supplements for Old Madam Jing, and then when she went to work in the city and attended night school, seeing him at the school's entrance. What he was doing, Tang Huai couldn't recall now; she vaguely remembered that they had politely greeted each other and then parted ways.

Late on, there was no "then" anymore; when she married Jing Peng and there was a wedding banquet, Jing Hua returned, but he did not.

In the little over three years she was married to Jing Peng, she led a life akin to that of "a widow," as she lived in the city and Jing Peng was rarely home. During the holidays, she never went back to Shuanglong Village and seldom knew what was happening with Jing Xuan.