"Enough, Mom—taking so much back, we can't finish it!" Seeing her mother carry two more large burlap bags of vegetables out from the house, Yao Jinping said helplessly.
"What do you know, the vegetables in the city are all full of pesticides, these are for Xiao Fan's classmate!"
Since the road out of the village was unlit for a long stretch, and worried that it would be unsafe to walk after dark, as soon as the election ended, by six o'clock, the adults were already packing up things to take home.
Grandpa Yao Shulun had successfully been elected Village Chief of Chuxi Village, and following a chat and laugh upon Yao Jinping's return, Yao Jiankun learned that several people had thrown away the roast chicken he had bought, and immediately upset the table in anger. Knowing that his hopes of becoming Village Chief were dashed, he left dejectedly with his money.
If Yao Jiankun knew what his departure implied, he probably would have gone to any lengths to become Village Chief.
