Chapter 371 - 372: Don’t Count on Me
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The Wang Family, thanks to their horse-drawn cart, went down to the fields the earliest and quickest.
They had reaped a significant portion before the neighbors in the adjacent rice fields hurried over.
Looking at nothing else but the neat row of Wang Family members in the field, one couldn’t help but feel envious.
Wang Laozhu had just finished cutting a section and stood up to catch his breath.
A neighbor from the next field couldn’t resist striking up a conversation while reaping, "Old Wang, your family is really something this year!"
Wang Laozhu smiled as he took a drag of his cigarette, "It’s all thanks to good fortune, everyone’s life is better when the harvest is bountiful!"
"Absolutely, our village is doing quite well. I’ve heard there are villages that couldn’t endure these past days; they started harvesting before the rice was even ripe because of the drought. And the Lizheng told me that the taxes are going to rise again this year. For each acre, we’ll have to pay an extra five percent of our crops. How are we peasants supposed to live with this?"
Wang Laozhu frowned and let out a sigh as well.
After cutting another section, he caught up with Wang Yongfu, who was driving the horse-drawn cart. Wang Yongfu felt too ashamed to stand by while his parents worked the fields.
As long as the weather didn’t change, his legs were not much of an issue anymore, so he also went down to the fields.