Brothers fill summer with tobacco chores

Xiao Longlin helps wrap a wound on his brother's finger, August 11, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua]

The Xiao brothers bundle tobacco leaves in a remote village of Xuan'en county, Central China's Hubei province on August 11, 2011. [Photo/Xinhua]

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