That same evening, the three siblings boarded the train back to the Northeast, arriving home by noon the next day.
The autumn harvest in the village was over, and with basically no work left in the fields, the team leader had organized the villagers to go to the mountains over thirty miles away to chop firewood for the winter. Because of the long distance, going out took a whole day, and everyone brought dry rations to eat on the mountain.
All the young people in the village had gone, leaving only the elderly and children at home to watch the houses.
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