Chapter 236: Holidays

For the people of Chiton, the Spring Festival was the most important holiday of the year. After the day he and Esther left the Medlem family, Jason Sowden enjoyed several days of rare peace and quiet. Two days later came this country's Lunar New Year's Eve. For people who had worked themselves to the bone all year, it was one of the few stretches of time when most of them could truly rest. The perfume factory had already shut down a few days early, sending the workers home for the Spring Festival....