Beating bowls loudly with chopsticks, treading over mud and water, these people swarmed across the courtyard toward the row of cave-houses in the south, which served as the Office of General Affairs.

• 他们把碗筷敲得震天价响，踏泥带水、叫叫嚷嚷地跑过院坝，向南面总务处那一排窑洞的墙根下蜂涌而去。