September 26, 2015, 9:00 PM.
F City lies in the southern part of the Lubei Plain, a mere four hundred kilometers or so from Beijing—a short drive away. Less than a week after the Beginning of Autumn, the city was already experiencing its first autumn rain. True to the old saying that each autumn rain brings a drop in temperature, the local weather was bound to grow progressively colder starting today.
The forecast predicted that the light rain on the twenty-sixth would continue all the way through the thirtieth—five consecutive days of rain, a rare occurrence indeed. Consequently, a construction site in the suburbs of F City had granted its workers a five-day mini-break. Combined with the seven-day statutory holiday in October, the construction workers here were looking at an exceptionally long twelve-day vacation. Only a fifty-year-old watchman remained at the site.
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