As such, One Finger Village became especially busy after spring. Each family had a severe lack of manpower so Fangzheng could not bring himself to get Dog Song to deliver the hoe to him.
Yet this was the season that children liked the most. They could play in the delightful weather. When exhausted from running, they could go to any end of a field where there was a well to draw water from. They could then drink a mouthful of sweet, uncontaminated underground water. It refreshed their entire bodies, right into their hearts… The main reason they enjoyed the spring stemmed from not being supervised by their busy parents. They could let loose and have a blast.
Parents had no other choice. They could only allow the children, many of which had not reached the age for kindergarten, to run around freely since they could not bear to pay for daycare.
