Zhang Dezheng took his last drag of the cigarette, "No, Luo Qiao wouldn't be looking for trouble. If Luo Qiao's foster mother treated her well, she wouldn't have sent her back to the countryside to suffer. Let's get something to eat first, and then we'll go wait outside the Great Theatre's family compound."
Zhang Dongze saw the conviction on his father's face and stood up, "Alright, then where can we go to find something to eat?"
Zhang Dezheng replied, "When we came over just now, I saw a state-run restaurant after the turn. Let's head that way."
In Chaoyang Commune, the news had spread throughout the production brigades: Qingshan Village Secretary Zhang Dezheng had been expelled from the Party, stripped of his duties, for his daughter, who, out of jealousy for someone doing better than her in exams, had resorted to harming them.
This news, somehow, spread like wildfire in just one morning, and many who had attended school with Zhang Qiaoyan had trouble believing it.
