For the educated youths, these events were all fresh news, and some even joined in to watch the commotion. By the end of December, as the snow began to fall, the village held its distribution of dividends from the village’s side businesses. Afterward, everyone retreated indoors to hunker down for the winter.
During the first lunar month, a big-character poster was put up on the village bulletin board. On the left was a crude sketch of a person, and on the right were a few lines of text. It stated that the person on the left had been arrested for swindling and had been sent to a neighboring village for compulsory manual labor. This incident became the top gossip topic in Xiaohe Village.
The Hu Family couple, out visiting that day, saw the new poster and stopped to join the crowd. They felt the portrait looked vaguely familiar, but they couldn't put their finger on why. All the way home, they mulled over it. Just as they were reaching their house, Sun Fangfen finally remembered.
Chapter 142