As a result, he came back to a nagging from the woman of the house who went on about how he managed to stumble when it was dark, he never used to fall, but now that there are streetlights, he ends up taking a tumble.
That single sentence made Zhou Dalian remember why he had fallen—it was precisely because the streetlights had been installed that he had tripped!
Before, there had been no streetlights, so he had gotten used to it, no big deal. Anyway, it was just this one street that he walked down every day, so he knew exactly where each step was and where a small piece was missing from the cover over the ditch.
Sometimes when it was really dark and overcast, he would even bring a flashlight or a hand lamp to light his way home.
