Seow Seow's family must be counted as one of the wealthy in this county town, for while others lived in apartment buildings, her home boasted quite a large courtyard.
In my place, most of the courtyards are used for raising chickens and pigs, and some people grow vegetables on the spare land in their courtyards, saving the time it would take to go out to the fields to pick vegetables. Only chickens were raised in my courtyard; I don't know why we didn't raise pigs, perhaps my parents found them too dirty.
It was still early, so Seow Seow invited us to rest at her place for a while before starting the games. At first, I was worried that playing so late might affect our classes tomorrow, but Wang Duo patted my shoulder and asked me what day it was tomorrow. It took me a while to realize that tomorrow was the weekend, and there were no classes.
With that in mind, we had no worries for tomorrow; even if we played through the night, we could just sleep all day in the dormitory.
