The response to Dong Lei was still the pin-drop silence permeating the vegetable market.
Dong Lei looked blankly at the green vegetables in her hands, at a loss for what to do.
As a well-brought-up girl, stealing vegetables was absolutely something she, Dong Lei, would never do. However, with not a single vendor in sight, what was she to do?
"It's over! This is it! There's nothing for the pot!" Dong Lei, looking at the fully-stocked market and those baskets of fresh vegetables, wanted to cry but had no tears.
Now it was truly over!
It seemed her family's dining table was about to "open a skylight"!
"Is anyone there? Is there a vendor?"
Dong Lei, not giving up, circled the market again and again, calling out numerous times, but there was no response.
With no other choice, Dong Lei could only head home with her empty basket, incessantly wondering what incredible event had occurred for the vendors to abandon their stalls with such abandon.
