The First Day of the Weekend

 This 3,024 word instalment follows on from The Last Day of the Second Week.  I hope you enjoy it!

I woke up with the taste of very good candied peaches on my mind if not actually in my mouth.  There were no raised voices from the He household this morning and I went downstairs to find the three Dees having breakfast together.  I said good morning to them, then went to make the daily offerings to the Lao family shrine.  Generations of past scholars seemed particularly benevolent this morning, even the ones I was fairly certain had been machine pistol toting resistance fighters.

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This is now followed by The Second Day of the Weekend.

The First Day of the Weekend

This 3,024 word instalment follows on from The Last Day of the Second Week. I hope you enjoy it!

I woke up with the taste of very good candied peaches on my mind if not actually in my mouth.  There were no raised voices from the He household this morning and I went downstairs to find the three Dees having breakfast together.  I said good morning to them, then went to make the daily offerings to the Lao family shrine.  Generations of past scholars seemed particularly benevolent this morning, even the ones I was fairly certain had been machine pistol toting resistance fighters.
Back in the kitchen Smallest Dee was saying, “And then we had tea with Master Ran.  She has a cat who likes giving head rubs.”

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This is now followed by The Second Day of the Weekend.