Zhou Tianyu woke up to find it was already past eight o'clock, with the sun dazzlingly high in the sky, and just walking around in the yard had gotten him covered in sweat.
The house was silent, and his dad had just returned with a deep blue pesticide sprayer on his back.
"Dad, it's so hot, are you still spraying pesticide now?"
"Have to, we got busy in the spring and didn't take care of the fields. Your mom also has to pick the tea leaves, and the weeds in the tea and vegetable gardens have grown so tall."
It was more than just weeding, their tea garden was much bigger than Song Tan's, covering over a dozen mu. Weeding wasn't a matter of just pulling lightly to get them out by their roots. Those wild weeds dug in deep, and it took a lot of effort to pull them out—exhausting work!
And with more than a dozen mu of tea garden, it would take the couple almost half a month to weed by hand. Look again later—a lush carpet of new weeds where they started weeding!