Chapter Six: Hard day's work and a trip into town
By the time lunch rolled around all of the host members were sore in places they never thought exist. When they sat they winced, when they walked they walked like a penguin.
Haruhi chuckled to herself and said to them, "Alright boys get a full belly cause after all the riding we now need to left the other animals out into the wide field and let the roam around for awhile while all 7 of us watch them for any runaways ok?" They all nodded and tried not to cry out when sat down at the table for lunch. After lunch was finished they all went out and watched every flock in the field and fortunately to the host members no animals made a break for it. Once the animals were back in the barn, Haruhi marked off that chore on her list and saw what they had to do next and she laughed so loud the guys turned toward her and looked at questioningly. We she stopped laughing she turned toward them with eyes filled with mirth and said to them, "Our next chore for the day is harvesting anything harvestable in Misuzu garden, but we're not allowed to touch his prize winning blue ribbon watermelons. You do and you're as good as dead to him." The guys remembered his warning about not like his punishments and nodded quickly in recognition of the threat and all of the got to work in the garden. Haruhi showed them what's good to be picked and what's not and the guys did a pretty good job surprisingly to Haruhi, who expected them to mess it up. After taking all the picking back to the house for Misuzu to take them and get them ready to sell at the market, Haruhi looked at the clock and saw it was only 3:00pm so she looked at the list of chores for her and said to the guys the next chore, "Only 2 more guys, so next is we have to shed the sheep for their winter wool coat. Since its summer time they don't need all that wool to making them hot. So we're going to shed them then take it to the tailors for them to buy. By the time we're done Misuzu should be done with the pickings and while we're down in town we could stop by the market and sell them down there. That's the last chore for today, to go and sell every picking and wool we got today." She led them to the barn and rounded up all the sheep and showed them how to trim a sheep by demonstrating on one and the guys watched carefully so as not to mess up and face the wrath of Misuzu. After a few mishaps with the sheep that resulted in a black eye for Tamaki and a muddy Hikaru (All though we're not quite sure it's mud but we're not telling him that) the trimming went pretty well. After gathering all the wool they went back to the house and picked up the pickings, then they all hopped in to truck and rode to town with Haruhi driving seeing as how she knew where to go. They pulled up in front of a building that had a sewing pin and a wad of thread on a sign at the top of the store and the guys assumed it was the tailors; Haruhi told the guys to wait in the truck and disappeared into the store. After about 10 minutes or so Haruhi came out and was putting money into a pouch, when she got back in the truck she drove further into town until they came to a place that had a lot of booths set up. Haruhi turned to them and said, "We're going to unload the pickings and take them to one of the booths were a company buys the pickings from us and sell them to other people in town, but I have to talk to someone whose here looking at the horses that are being sold afterwards, so you guys help me unload and drop off, then go about and look around and meet back here in 30 minutes all right? Please don't make me come look for you guys and please I beg of you don't cause any trouble here, ok?" They nodded and all got out and unloaded the pickings and followed Haruhi to the booth she talked to a man there for a few minutes before he handed her some money and took all the picking from them. "All right guys go look around, I'll be done talking shortly then we'll head back to the house for some down time since we got the chores done. Remember 30 minutes then back to the truck." The guys nodded then spilt up while Haruhi spotted her friend looking a black mustang and went to talk to her. Haruhi came up behind her and tapped her on the shoulder, when she turned around she squealed and hugged Haruhi tightly. Haruhi laughed and hugged her back just as tight and said, "Well hello to you to Sarah."