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Kaoshan Village

It is harvest season again. The weather in July is very hot. It is dawn before 3:00 in the morning. The villagers get up early and go to the fields to pick peppers.

The Chili Workshop is now seeing a huge increase in orders, and as it is harvest season, they are now working in shifts again.

In the rice fields, the long rice ears are bent, and the rice grains begin to turn from green to yellow. After a while, when the peppers are picked, it is time to harvest the rice.

The Zhang family went to work as usual. Even though Erya was seven months pregnant, she still went to the garment workshop every day.

Dachun and his wife went to the stewing shop early in the morning, and Sanchun also went to the makeup workshop.

Dadong and the servants were not idle in the morning. They were in the fields, busy picking peppers and peanuts.

The gate of Zhang's courtyard was open, and villagers kept coming in. These villagers were recruited by Hong Gu to dig lotus roots in the past few days.

This lotus root was planted two years ago, and it is now the third year. If the lotus roots are not dug up, the lotus roots underneath will not grow big, so they must be dug up this year.

The villagers had never seen lotus roots before and found them strange. They also heard that the flowers they produced were particularly beautiful.

It’s a pity that the flowering season is over now and they can’t see the flowers.

Previously, when the Zhang family held a banquet, some people ran to the backyard to play and saw it. I heard those people describe that the lotus was as big as a face, pink, and very beautiful.

Hong Gu and Da Chun discussed it and offered the villagers who dug lotus roots a daily wage of 20 cents.

These villagers also need to pick peppers for their own families, but they have enough labor and can spare some manpower, so they come here to earn the wages.

Some of them planted peppers early, just finished picking one crop, and have not yet harvested the rice, so they have some free time for the time being.

A few days ago, the word was spread that 20 people were needed to dig lotus roots, and they were quickly recruited, including both men and women. There were more than ten men and only four or five women.

Because Hong Gu said that this is digging lotus roots in the mud, which is a physical job that is best done by men, and many people backed off after hearing this.

Some women come because they feel they are capable of doing it.

Digging lotus roots is a technical job. They have been digging for three days. Of the several women who came earlier, only one is left.

Because digging lotus roots is so tiring, my lower body is almost buried in the mud, my legs can't move, and it's difficult to move a step.

Moreover, I have to dig lotus roots with my bare hands. I don’t feel anything during the day, but when I rest at night, my fingers are swollen and painful.

Because no one was an experienced worker, the 20 people only dug less than 100 kilograms of lotus roots on the first day.

There are more than 20 to kilograms of lotus roots that were dug up and silt poured back in. Some of these need to be processed before they can be eaten.

After all, the lotus root is full of holes and filled with silt, which makes it difficult to clean.

Today is the third day of digging lotus roots. There are fewer people today than yesterday because everyone’s life is much better now.

They no longer have to worry about the next meal after eating the previous one, so some villagers felt tired and could not earn the money, so they did not come. There was no choice but Hong Gu to increase the wages to 25 cents a day.

We managed to gather 20 more people, thinking that if we continued digging for a few more days, we would almost finish digging all the lotus roots.

Seeing the door that was usually closed was open, Xiao Hai ran out. He is now two and a half years old, and is curious about everything.

Now Wu couldn't keep a close eye on him. If she wasn't careful, he would run off somewhere, because Wu was pregnant again, and it was less than two months.

Now is the first three months, and it is not very stable yet. Xiaohai is naughty and naughty, and Mrs. Wu is unable to take care of him. He always feels sleepy during this period.

In the past, there was Hong Gu looking after it, but these days Hong Gu is not free either, as she has to take care of the progress of digging lotus roots.

Just after breakfast, Mrs. Wu felt sleepy again. She left Xiao Hai to Liu Ya, Le Le and Qiao Qiao and others to take care of him, and went back to her room to sleep.

Liu Ya and the others were playing hide-and-seek at the moment. After a while, they searched several houses but couldn't find Xiao Hai, so they became anxious.

"Sixth Aunt, what should we do?" Lele was also scared. She had just been playing hide-and-seek and had hidden herself, and she didn't know where Xiaohai had gone.

"How about we tell Third Aunt?" Qiaoqiao was about to go back to her room to call Wu, but Liuya pulled her back: "Don't go, let's look for her again."

Several little kids were searching anxiously, but they found that Xiaohai was nowhere to be found, either in the front yard, the back yard, or inside the house.

Then they also began to get scared.

"Woooooooo..."

"Sixth Aunt, what should we do?" Qiaoqiao burst into tears.

"Let's go find someone quickly!" Lele's face was also full of panic.

He had never been so scared before. He didn't know where Xiaohai had gone. The adults at home were busy.

Third Aunt also told them to look after Xiaohai, but now Xiaohai is missing, what should they do?

I don’t know if it was because of nervousness or the heat, but the kids’ faces were flushed and beads of sweat the size of beans were dripping down, but they didn’t bother to wipe them off.

Liu Ya bit her lip and said, "Don't cry. How about we go to the backyard and look for it again?"

There were many people in the backyard, so maybe Xiaohai ran to the backyard, but they just didn’t find him.

"Okay! Let's go quickly." Qiaoqiao wiped her tears.

Several kids ran to the backyard.

There was a smell of mud in the backyard, and 20 people were digging in the pond. Hong Gu stood by the pond, directing everyone.

From time to time, I would help receive the lotus roots handed over by the villagers.

There was a pile of lotus roots by the pond, covered with black mud, and had not yet been cleaned.

A few children were walking in the backyard, glancing at the people in the pond and Hong Gu beside it, but Hong Gu didn't notice them at that time.

Liu Ya and the others looked carefully at the flowers in the backyard, and after looking around, they still couldn't find Xiao Hai.

At this moment, Qiaoqiao stepped on a piece of mud and slipped, falling to the ground, screaming in pain.

"Ouch~"

This shout successfully attracted Hong Gu's attention.

Hong Gu turned around and saw them in the backyard. She looked anxious and quickly came over to help Qiaoqiao up. "Sixth Miss, this backyard is a mess, dirty and smelly. Take Master Sun and Miss Sun and go back to the house quickly."

Qiaoqiao was already in great pain from the fall, and now she couldn't hold it in any longer and burst into tears.

"Woooooooo..."

When she cried, Hong Gu also became nervous. She wondered if the little girl had fallen somewhere, so she quickly checked on her.

"Miss Sun, where did you fall? Tell mother-in-law." Hong Gu looked nervous and looked around, but she didn't find any injuries.

In response to Hong Gu's question, Qiaoqiao cried even harder.

Liu Ya and Le Le didn't dare to say a word.

At this time, Hong Gu finally realized that something was wrong. It seemed that Sixth Miss and the others were hiding something from her.

"Miss Liu, are you hiding something from your mother-in-law?" Hong Gu looked at Liu Ya without blinking, and Liu Ya lowered her head guiltily.

“Wow, wow, wow…” Qiaoqiao burst into tears and said as she cried, “Xiao Hai is gone.”

Hong Gu heard a buzzing in her head and felt unwell. Miss Sun actually said that Young Master Sun was missing.