Worried that the outsiders would eat and take too much from the fields, Huo Changzhou quickly threw every person he could spare into the teams harvesting vegetables and grain.
As the saying goes, many hands make light work. Soon, mounds of vegetables and grains piled up along the edges of the fields.
It was a delightful sight.
Huo Changzhou stood in the wind, savoring the joy of the bumper crop, and narrowed his eyes in satisfaction. The lingering displeasure he'd felt earlier scattered to the winds.
'That Miss Gu might be a bit domineering, but she was right about one thing,' he thought. 'Those people who came to help, greedy though they may be, are just ordinary folks. How much can they really eat and take?'
'Compared to the total yield, it's not even worth mentioning.'
Huo Changzhou's eyes narrowed slightly.
