Still Need to Take a Day Off, Two Rows of Blisters

I had two rows of blisters where a cat's paw pads would be, and the center of my left palm had swollen from pushing against the shovel's round wooden handle.

Actually, my hands had already been like this before I started working yesterday.

That sore, satisfying ache...

I slept all day today, and they still hurt!

The gap between me and people who did manual labor was way too huge. I heard they could move ten tons—twenty thousand jin—in a single day...