For a full three hours, Sheng Xia did not stop for a single moment, her hands repeating the motion of fluffing and beating the cotton.
It was only when the previously hard, compacted cotton had been fluffed up into something soft and lofty that she finally stopped.
"All done! Eight pounds of cotton in total, that comes to forty-eight cents!" Sheng Xia stretched her shoulders and arms with a relieved smile, turning back to look at the woman sitting and waiting beside her.
Chapter 44