Yan Shaomei is working in the small orchard.

Across the narrow but paved country road is a two-story house of 300-400 sq m with a large front yard and, tucked to one side, a few fruit trees under which stand a stone table and a few stone benches.

Yan is shy; she is not used to talking to strangers. She is not rich, she explains. The house is actually two attached houses, one for her and the other for her older sister. And they happen to be married to a pair of brothers named Zhong.