careful y, waaid Loy and returned to the shop happier than he had been for years – happy to have met a kindred spirit, especial y because it was one of his own making.Heng sat in the shop with a beer Chang and waited. He thought that they would come by bus and there was only one a day, which was due in at three p.m., but it could be two or three hours late. It arrived at four and Heng got his friend Bon, the shopkeeper to give them a lift the short distance to his farm, not so much for his sake, but out of deference to his guests, although they would have been happy enough to walk anyway, but they could not speak enough Thai to tell Heng so.
On arrival at the farm, Heng passed the new-comers on to his daughter and went to check on the progress the tilers
