It wasn't until the sun streamed into the house that she seemed to wake up as if startled, not bothering to comb her hair or wash her face, she bolted outside.
Everyone in the village had gone to work in the fields by now, and there weren't many people around, at most a few elderly or children at home preparing meals and looking after the house.
As Song Chunhua ran past like a madwoman, some perceptive old folks saw her and shook their heads, thinking, "If only she had known this would happen, why did she do it in the first place?"
Song Chunhua, out of breath, made it to the Wang Family's field where she had been yesterday, only to find it had already been cleared and not a soul was in sight.
