Yang Family Village
It’s the busy farming season, and every household is out harvesting corn, just like the Yang Family.
Even though these days the Yang Family is busy with the fish pond and workshop, they’ve still assigned people to help with the farming.
Yang Dong is the one working in the fields.
This corn harvesting work is a collaborative effort.
Soone in front picks the corn and throws it to a spot for easy loading.
Soone behind uses a sickle to cut down the corn stalks, allowing the cart to enter the field more easily.
Once enough corn is harvested, the cart is brought in, and everyone helps load the corn onto it and brings it ho. Typically, no household wants the harvested corn left overnight in the field; they transport ho everything they harvest in a day.
The farming season is lengthy because many families don’t have horse or ox carts, so the whole family carries the corn and stalks back ho.
The Yang Family doesn’t need to do that now because they have both a horse cart and an ox cart, saving much ti compared to others, so not everyone has to work in the fields, allowing so to stay at the fish pond and workshop.
Yang Dong was assigned to cut the corn stalks, which is a more labor-intensive job than picking corn.
Won can pick corn, but using a sickle to cut the stalks is generally done by n.
This year, the rainfall was adequate, the corn grew well, and the kernels are plump, which makes the whole family happy and full of energy for work.
At this mont, Yang Dong wipes the sweat off his forehead and swings the sickle, slicing through stalks swiftly.
One by one, the corn stalks are neatly laid behind Yang Dong.
The cut stalks also need to be arranged neatly to facilitate bundling and transporting ho later.
Overall, everything is done for convenience, to avoid hassle in the next step.
Yang Dong swings the sickle energetically, but suddenly, the handle breaks, almost cutting his leg.
He yelps, picks up the handle, and checks if he can reattach it, only to find it completely broken and irreparable.
He looks at his family around him, all busy with their tasks.
There aren’t spare sickles, and if the corn stalks are not cut, the cart can’t go in. Thinking it over, he shouts to his brother in front, "Bro, my sickle is broken, I’m going ho to fetch a new one."
Yang Chun glances at the sky; it’s almost noon, and lunch should be arriving soon at ho, so he shouts back, "Got it."
Yang Dong was going to drive the cart back but realized it’s not too far from ho, and with the busy season, he might run into people carrying corn back, slowing the cart. He decides to walk ho with the broken sickle.
Before reaching the village, he ets two people coming towards him, one large and one small, carrying a basket.
Yang Dong knows these two, as they are from the sa village.
The older one is Lan Hua’s younger daughter, Yang Xiaocui, and the younger one is Lan Hua’s grandson, Yang Dabao. Clearly, they are delivering lunch to Lan Hua in the fields; during the busy season, it’s exhausting and easy to get hungry, so no matter how thrifty a household is, they wouldn’t skip this al.
Living in the sa village, it wouldn’t be right to pass by without speaking, so out of courtesy, Yang Dong starts talking, though he feels shy to talk directly to a girl, he addresses Yang Dabao, "Are you two bringing lunch to Lan Hua?"
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