Old Zhou's family had a habit of keeping records, but they generally only recorded the best and the worst plots of land.
The reason they did this was because of Ms. Qian.
Zhou Dalang quietly told them that when he was young, his parents would fight every year during the spring planting and the autumn harvest.
The arguments during the spring were because Ms. Qian complained that Old Zhou was lazy. She wanted him to break up the large clumps of earth and refine them. He never listened.
And the arguments during the harvest were due to the fact that, with many mouths to feed and not enough land, no matter how Ms. Qian crunched the numbers, the harvested grains were never enough to last the family throughout the year, prompting her to bring up the accounts from the spring planting again.
