Feng Qingxue planned to visit Wang Jiao once her work was done, and take the opportunity to probe into her background. However, the work that should have been done in winter was delayed until now. To avoid delaying the farming and irrigation, everyone got up early and returned late, exhausting themselves daily. Many women eventually had to join in just to finish the job within a month.
Feng Qingxue felt as if she had stripped off several layers of her skin from exhaustion.
This was the first time she had suffered so much hardship and exhaustion in her two lifetimes.
In the second half of the month, there were so many people working, the food was not enough. The main food changed from plain flour pancakes to wild vegetable buns made with sweet potato and corn flour. Two buns were not enough to satisfy the hunger of those who were exhausting themselves with work, so they could only drink more vegetable soup, causing everyone's stomachs to rumble while working.