Chapter 137 - 136 A Pair of Despicable Lovers
On the road inward from the village, members of the production team could be seen everywhere, busy sowing seeds in the fields. After the spring equinox, it was the perfect season for planting melons and beans.
As An Hao walked, she looked around and headed straight for the first production team’s plot once she found it.
She looked around the fields but couldn’t find any trace of Bai Xue Mei.
Neighbor Zhao, who was resting and smoking with his head bowed, saw An Hao carrying a basket to deliver food and waved her over, "Good girl, have you come to bring your mom her meal?"
"Mhm." An Hao nodded and looked around once more before asking, "Brother Zhao, where is she working? I can’t seem to find her."
"She went over to the Persimmon Tree Forest. It’s not easy for a woman like her to work in the fields, so the team leader lets her rest a bit more," Brother Zhao said with a somewhat odd expression on his face.
"Thank you, I’ll go over and deliver the meal to her." An Hao was puzzled but still thanked him and headed toward the distant Persimmon Tree Forest.
An Hao walked along the edge of the field and reached the forest Brother Zhao had pointed to, but saw no one. Tired and hot from walking, she simply sat down to rest against a persimmon tree for a while.
From not far off, the faint sound of conversation reached her ears. An Hao held her breath and listened for a few moments, her face gradually darkening.
"Team leader Li, how much strength can a woman from a household like mine have for work? If my man’s leg hadn’t been broken, leaving him bedridden, would I be out here in the fields? Just look at my hands, what have they become? Rough and coarse, not soft at all."
That voice belonged to Bai Xue Mei.