Plans for next year can wait, but this year, at this very moment, Old Li stood lost amid the vast rice fields, with a similarly vacant gaze in his eyes.
"What... what has happened? Is the way they harvest rice now so clean?"
Throughout the entire rice field, he hadn't found a single intact rice ear!
It's not that he found nothing, there was an ear of rice hidden under the straw, and on top of it were three grains of rice—an embarrassingly scanty harvest!
In all his years of farming, he had never heard of a rice field being this clean!
Old Li wasn't willing to give up and simply called over his old ox, flipping through the rice field while laboriously collecting the scattered grains to take another look... Finally, he simply let the old ox lead the way, slowly heading toward Song Tan's house.
Song Tan was just getting ready to store the rice in the warehouse when she saw Old Li coming over with the big ox. She couldn't help but be a little surprised: