Capítulo 1096: Chapter 1095: Seize the Opportunity 5

The farming busy season meant early departures and late returns, awakening before dawn to head to the fields and coming home after dusk.

This year, the Wanglou Brigade was exceptionally busy for two reasons. First, a bumper harvest had increased yields, naturally requiring more labor, and second, no teachers or students from the city were available to help. With classes suspended, many teachers had fallen on hard times and it was difficult to replicate the progress of the previous two years. The one consolation was that youth like Lu Tianzhi could now shoulder nearly as much work as an adult laborer.

During the clear weather, all the elders and folks of the Wanglou Brigade were toiling in the fields, sweating profusely as they reaped wheat, tied bundles, loaded carts, transported crops, threshed, and spread out the grains for drying. They were so busy they barely knew if they were on foot or horseback.