Recently, the previously clean condition of the field has vanished, and weeds keep sprouting up every few days.
To address this, he specially made a small wooden hoe.
This weeding hoe has a crescent-shaped blade, with edges sharpened very thin, usually with a cutting edge.
In Chen Zhou's hometown, it's called a kua hoe, a tool specifically for dealing with weeds.
The wooden kua hoe lacks a cutting edge, and can't effectively cut through the roots of the weeds. Fortunately, the soil is soft, and if necessary, Chen Zhou can still pull the weeds out by the roots.
Altogether there are over two hundred crops, which don't take long to weed.
While removing weeds and counting the crops, walking slowly to the end of the field, Chen Zhou discovered that at the very end, a stalk of rice and a stalk of wheat had fallen.
Upon inspecting the plants, he found the telltale signs left by the real culprit on the stems of the wheat and rice — two deep imprints pressed in.
