When Yan Fei's mother Lin Xiumei returned home and saw the New Year preparations her son had made, she was moved to the brink of tears.
However, Yan Fei's part was done; now he could play freely. Yet when his friends came over to play, he soon lost interest.
All he did was throwing firecrackers everywhere - into snow piles, onto frozen lakes - every conceivable odd place, and that was all the fun there was.
So when Pang Fa came looking for Yan Fei the next afternoon, he was surprised to find him actually doing his winter break homework — having played heartily with the girl next door just yesterday, Yan Fei had turned studious today?
But then recalling Yan Fei's parents were back, Pang Fa understood.
