A few days later, Cousin pushed a wheelbarrow to their house and hauled away two sacks of corn kernels. Yuanchun followed him to the edge of the village to see what the commotion was about.
Throughout the village, every household was busy loading grain onto their flatbed carts or wheelbarrows. Those who finished early waited at the village entrance, where a long, crowded queue had already formed.
Yuanchun spotted Liu Tiezhu in the line. His leg had mostly healed, but he still walked with a slight limp, and it would ache if he walked for too long—a lingering consequence of not having been able to rest properly during the autumn harvest. This was something that would likely stay with him for the rest of his life.
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