Tong Su's Journey

In Tong Su's chest pocket tucked inside a handkerchief were vegetable seeds. Hidden among the grains was a large amount of money he had taken from the inside wall of the shanty, where he and a dozen others slept. Money that belonged to a man who had died a year earlier. He climbed steadily without rest using the trees that had survived to pull himself up. When he eventually reached the crest he could see below almost halfway down the other side,. The small farmhouse where he had been born and where his parents had most likely died.