The Scenery of the Lake and the Mountain by Zhou Daxin

Author:Zhou Daxin [Daxin, Zhou]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781908647832
Publisher: China Tranlsation & Publishing House
Published: 2016-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 35

The next day, Nuannuan woke very late. The many days of nervousness and anxiety had turned to exhaustion, and she slept with complete indulgence, till the sun was high in the sky. Her mother-in-law heated her breakfast in the wok, and told her, while she was eating, that Kaitian had gone for a meeting at the village committee. She nodded, then continued eating and thought to herself that she hadn’t had such a delicious meal for a long time, suddenly aware that she was no longer to be tormented. What a good feeling.

When Kaitian arrived back at midday he said that the township had notified him to go to the town government for a meeting the day after tomorrow. “You should go, a town meeting is such an honour to attend. Zhan Shideng used to go to town meetings with such a smug look on his face.” Nuannuan laughed. Kaitian tugged at his lapel, and muttered: “What, go wearing these clothes?” “What’s wrong with your clothes?” Nuannuan didn’t understand. “You never saw when Zhan Shideng went to the town meetings, did you? His clothes were always prim and proper. If I arrive in these clothes I would surely be the laughing stock of the meeting!” Nuannuan realized that Kaitian wanted some presentable clothing, and said: “Well, this won’t be hard to manage, right? In the afternoon we will go to the Liu family tailor shop in the village; they have ready-made fabrics and do fine handiwork. Tailor Liu will make some presentable clothing for you, and if it is ready in time for the meeting there shouldn’t be problem, right?” Kaitian nodded as he laughed: “Right!”

After lunch, Nuannuan gave Dangen to Grandma, then took Kaitian to the Liu family tailor shop. When Tailor Liu saw the newly appointed leader arriving, he very warmly offered a seat and poured tea, and hearing that Kaitian wanted some clothes made up, he hurriedly brought over fabrics that the family had made for Kaitian and Nuannuan to choose from. When Nuannuan chose a light coloured fabric, Kaitian shook his head: “No no. Haven’t you seen on the television, every leader wears dark coloured clothes?” Nuannuan said: “Fine, then we need a dark blue material.” Tailor Liu asked what the design of the clothing would be, and when Nuannuan said that a jacket would be fine, Kaitian again shook his head, saying: “It should be a suit. Suits are now the government dress. Don’t the big leaders you watch on TV all wear suits?” Nuannuan listened and began to laugh: “Okay, okay, have a suit then!”

When the suit arrived on time, delivered by Tailor Liu before dark the next day, Nuannuan at once called for Kaitian to try it on. The suit was a good fit on Kaitian, and he strolled around the yard, chest out and chin raised, asking Nuannuan: “Do I look like a leader now?” Nuannuan laughed, saying: “Yes, yes …”

Kaitian had two days of meetings with the township, and arrived

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