Chapter 67 - Chapter 67: Chapter 67: Mung Bean Soup in the Heat (Second Update) (1/2)

Chapter 67: Chapter 67: Mung Bean Soup in the Heat (Second Update)

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After the busy period of harvesting rice and transplanting seedlings, peanuts and sweet potatoes at home began to be harvested.

Xiao Siqian knew that farming was busy during the farming season, but when he truly experienced it, he realized how busy farming could be.

Harvesting peanuts and digging sweet potatoes are not heavy work, but they do tire people out, especially when all the work has to be done manually.

Xiao Wanshan and his son could not bear to see their wife and daughters (mother and sister) get tired, so they began to take care of the peanut harvesting and sweet potato harvesting.

To harvest peanuts means pulling them out of the ground, the upper part is the plant, and the roots are all peanuts.

When harvesting peanuts, if someone needs the land to cultivate rice, they would pluck the peanuts and pick them up to be picked at home.

Once picked and brought home, there was no hurry to remove the peanuts.

If there was time, they would pick them. If they did not have time, they would leave them as they won’t get spoiled right away, so, first, they would get busy with the rice seedling transplanting.

The Xiao family only grew one acre and five of rice. By comparison, there was no urgency for this peanut harvesting job.

Aside from Xiao’s mother doing household chores like washing clothes and cooking at home, the other four were all in the field pulling peanuts.

After pulling out one peanut plant at a time, they neatly put them aside. When there were enough, they would tie them into large bundles and directly transport them home on a tricycle.

However, the small paths in the field were too narrow for a tricycle to enter.

This was when Cow King played its part.

The bundled peanuts were placed on Cow King’s back, and then Cow King would transport them to a broader place where the tricycle was parked and put the peanuts on the tricycle.

The peanuts from five points of land were not much. With Cow King transporting some, and Xiao Father and Xiao Junxuan carrying one or two loads, it was more or less done.

Xiao Jinli patted Cow King’s head and said with a smile, “Cow King, you’ve worked hard. I’ll give you a reward later.”

As soon as Cow King heard the word ‘reward’, its eyes bulged round and gleamed brightly, it was clear that it liked the idea of the reward.

Given that Xiao Siqian was delicate, Xiao Wanshan did not let him carry the peanuts, after all, this was arduous work; nor did he let Xiao Jinli carry.

Fearing that the weight might hurt Xiao Jinli’s little waist and impede her growth in future, what should they do?

Xiao Bao was quite strong, but her strength lied in her arms. Her small waist would not be able to bear the heavy load.

Not long after Xiao Wanshan and others left, elderly villagers came with small baskets to pick up peanuts from the field.

Some even used hoes to turn the soil in the field, plowing out the peanuts buried deep in the ground.

This phenomenon was common.

Just like when people finished harvesting rice in their fields, others would go and pick up the fallen rice stalks and thresh them at home.

No one would say anything, nor would anyone find it strange.

After Cow King returned to its shed, it waited for its owner to reward it. As expected, after a while, its young master came to it.

Xiao Jinli patted its little head and said with a smile, “Well, Cow King, you’ve worked hard. Here is your reward!”

After saying this, Lingquan water flowed out of his fingertips directly into Cow King’s mouth.

After drinking the Lingquan water given by Xiao Jinli, it was very pleased and rubbed its head against Xiao Jinli’s palm, evidently satisfied.

Xiao Jinli stroked its fur and said, laughing, “All right, it’s ticklish. You rest now. I’m going home!”

Cow King was loath to see Xiao Jinli leave, but after drinking the pure Lingquan water, it felt very satisfied, it was in high spirits now, and it could even flirt with some cows!

However, other cows were still kept in the cattle shed and were not accessible for flirting. Well, it might as well rest for a while.

Next, Cow King laid down on the clean and dry floor, and quickly fell into a state of dormancy.