"Aunt, you're right. Our family is still short one straw hat—I heard there's a commune nearby, isn't there? Why don't you tell me where it is, and I'll go have a look."
The selection of vegetables growing in the family area's personal garden is limited, and at this time he can't get any seedlings, leaving the land barren, which just feels like it's cutting into his heart! It'd be better to go to the village, even if he has to spend his own salary, he could at least exchange it for some seedlings.
And little chicks…
Da Dan grew up in the village, familiar with the way things are done around here.
These days, although chicken farming is distributed according to household quotas, who doesn't secretly raise an extra two? They don't dare let the chickens out of the yard for fear of someone having evidence against them...
