Chapter 40 - 8_2
"Grandmaster..."
"Little Yuanhou, the rice bowl I eat from is exactly this business. Besides, there's nothing to worry about, I've seen my fair share of storms and never capsized."
"When are we going?"
"That depends on Liu Xiazi to pick the day, but I estimate it'll be soon. We must get a head start. Your grandfather Yuanhou just came to deliver clothes and said that they're about to organize everyone for river-dredging."
"River-dredging?"
"Yeah, it's digging the river, an old tradition for decades, not just from our... no, pretty much all able-bodied men from the entire Jiangsu countryside have to participate.
So you see, we have to conduct the funeral rites before river-dredging."
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"We have to conduct the funeral rites before river-dredging, otherwise there won't be peace at home."
Not far from Li Sanjiang's house, Niu Fu stopped under a tree by the small river, leaning on the tree with one hand and undoing his belt with the other, preparing to relieve himself.
After finishing and doing up his belt, he somehow felt his back straighten a bit and even hopped on the spot.