445 Chapter: The Era of Five Turbidities! The Body of an Ancient Immortal! Gary Smith, He Who Commands the Dragon to Descend upon the World!

At the foot of Green Mountain,

Spring rain sweet as suet, incessantly nurturing the Great Earth.

One by one, farmers dressed in coarse sackcloth shouldered their tools, laboring in the fields, their straw shoes squeaking on the muddy path, the air replete with the compound scent of mud, weeds, and cow dung.

To poets, the misty rain over paddy fields might seem romantic, but to them, it only meant dampness and the sticky discomfort of sweat mixed with rain after vigorous work.

Yet they were used to it, taking advantage of the spring rain to prepare for the upcoming sowing.

Elsewhere, women brought over prepared bean and millet porridge, but at a glance, one could see it was mixed with plenty of wild vegetables and cornmeal paste—watery and difficult to swallow. However, for a common household, this was still considered a delicacy fit only for the head of the family.

You could tell by how wistfully the frail children swallowed their saliva.