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We had a bit of a feast when Teacher Zhang's daughter came home at the end of her school year. Saozi even killed and plucked one of the chickens that had been running around the yard. You can't quite see it here but there was a big gash in the neck where she had drained the blood. It was all in a day's work and the kids hanging around didn't pay much attention to it. Of course I had to take a lot of pictures of it and write an entire paragraph about it in this little travelogue. There were many chickens and much crowing left in the schoolyard after the loss of this one chicken. Indeed, I wished that instead she had killed the rooster that would start crowing every morning at 4am, sometimes earlier (note: roosters are Loud!)