The Bird's Nest Woman

Two housewives chat on a minibus about the village head's "bird's nest woman", who shows off daily that her husband cooks bird's nest for her to eat, but during the conversation she casually remarks that she has died. The author reflects on the baser side of human nature: people often do not envy those far above them, yet they envy those who once stood on equal footing, just as Chapman said — jealousy is like a fly that prefers to settle on a wound that is festering.