It was harvesting day. The first batch of wheat planted in Border Town was finally being ushered in.
Serfs used reaping hooks to cut off the wheat straws and bundled them up to be delivered across the river under the scorching sun.
Roland knew it was a cumbersome process to split kernels from wheatears. Before the popularization of mechanical tools and combine-harvesters, the process of separating, cleaning, screening and drying to obtain kernels had to be done by manual labor. Now, he once again witnessed the whole process.
