Chapter 221 219 Terraces
Three years later.

The green mountains are like green gems on earth, shining brightly under the sunshine. The terraces built on the mountain and the winding ridges are stacked up layer by layer, like a green painting with distinct layers.

With the arrival of autumn, the golden rice, lush trees and distant mountains complement each other.

Gu Hua strolled along the path of the terraced fields, which spiraled through the mountains like stairs. The fresh air blowing on her face made her feel the tranquility and beauty of nature.

Looking up to watch the white clouds floating by and listening to the croaking of frogs and chirping of birds, it feels like being in a paradise, bringing peace and purification to the mind that has been busy for days.

The water in the terraced fields was crystal clear. Gu Hua looked at Gu Kun and Qing Niangzi, who were busy leading the villagers from Shulin Village and Xiwang Village who were good at farming to release water to the rice that was about to mature and be harvested.

The water in the terraced fields flows in the ditches, making a soft gurgling sound...

A group of children were laughing and playing on the ridge of the field.

Six-year-old Kang Kang led Sun You, the son of Sun Haihui of the Sun family, and a group of boys around ten years old in the village. They rolled up their trouser legs and shuttled through the fields and water, catching frogs and chasing wild ducks.

On the other side, there is a lively and lovely little girl with a fair oval face and a pair of big watery eyes under curved eyebrows. She is Huanhuan, the leader of all the girls in the whole mountain village.

With Shan Chengshuo, the eldest son of the Shan family, and Shan Yueyue, the youngest daughter, and others, they all hung small bamboo baskets around their waists and caught small fish and shrimps and picked up snails in the puddles in the fields...

"LeLe, look..." Shan Yueyue grabbed a crayfish and shouted happily, "Look, this crayfish I caught is so big!"

"It's really big." The other girls envied.

They also wanted to catch such big shrimps and bring them home to add a meat dish to their family.

After the successful cultivation of rice in terraced fields, every family in the mountains has solved the problem of food and clothing.

But life wasn't so good that we could eat meat every meal.

Moreover, small fish and shrimp are sometimes more delicious than meat, so they would feel envious when they see Shan Yue catching the big shrimps. This is also the normal psychology of children.

An An secretly glanced at his younger brothers and sisters who were playing freely with their children over there. A flash of envy passed through his eyes, which was noticed by Gu Hua who was looking down at him.

"Go ahead if you want to play." Gu Hua touched his eldest son's head, but An An, who thought he was already a big kid, twisted his body to avoid it. "Mom, I'm the eldest brother and I need to learn a lot of skills so that I can protect my younger brothers and sisters when I grow up."

Gu Hua frowned slightly. When did An An have this idea?

The memory flashed through her mind that she was in a hurry to send her youngest son Lele to the Divine Doctor Valley for treatment and neglected An An and his two siblings, causing them to be kidnapped by the Royal Guards. Perhaps it was at that time that An An had this idea.

Guilt flashed in Gu Hua's eyes, and he squatted down, "An An, are you blaming your mother for not protecting you back then, and letting people abduct you to the capital?"

An An raised her small hand and placed it on Gu Hua's fair face, and answered seriously: "I don't blame my mother, my breathing was weak at the time, and my face was swollen.

Mother was in a hurry to save my brother, so how could we blame you? "

Gu Hua hugged his well-behaved, sensible and gentle eldest son, then stood up and held An An's little hand to prevent him from falling on the slippery and weedy ridge of the field due to his young age.

A group of people followed behind them from a distance, silently listening to the soft conversation between mother and son.

"Mom, this year the weather is good, can the high-yield rice we cultivate solve the problem of food and clothing for the people in the entire Bashu region?"

Gu Hua looked at the waves of rice that were rising and falling in the wind and the heavy rice ears, and his lips curled up slightly, revealing a hint of joy. The new variety of rice that he had cultivated in three years had increased the yield per mu from 300 kilograms to 500 to 600 kilograms.

Terraced fields have also largely solved the problem of Shuzhou's many mountains and little land.

She also built a commercial empire in Bashu, Daxuan, and the sea. As long as there is trade, her people will take the caravan there. Under her management, the entire Bashu is thriving in both agriculture and commerce. As long as the people who come here are not lazy, they can have enough food and clothing.

The people behind were listening to the conversation between the mother and son. What amazed them was that An An, who was only six years old, spoke in an organized manner and had clear thoughts. He had already demonstrated extraordinary talent and keen insight, which made the people following behind feel that the little guy had a promising future.

"Master Gu, the sun is shining brightly, why are you here?"

Gu Hua waved his hand, "It's okay."

A group of people came to Gu Kun and Qing Niangzi and watched them drain the water from the rice terraces and bring people to harvest in a few days.

Gu Hua, his uncle Gu Kun, and Ms. Qing, the increasingly shrewd, capable and confident female head of Hope Village, discussed this year's harvest just as she was about to leave.

Gu Kun approached Gu Hua and told him about some recent events in the mountains.

Gu Hua looked at Gu Kun, frowned slightly, and said, "I'll take care of this matter, don't worry about it."

Gu Hua felt that she should teach a lesson to a bunch of lazy and scoundrel people who wanted to reap the benefits, dared to steal the food grown by her people, and still acted like scoundrels after being caught by the people from Shulin Village and Hope Village.

On the other side, Wang Hanyou, who lived at the foot of the mountain, led the exiled villagers.

Because three years ago, they didn't believe that the place they had snatched to build a house would be prone to mudslides due to heavy rain, so they insisted on living at the foot of the mountain.

Unexpectedly, after the drought, heavy rains came, and the place where they originally lived was buried by mudslides. If someone had not discovered it and ran fast, the area under the mountain would have become their burial place.

The originally scoundrel Wang Hanyou also wanted to move his people to the foot of Gu Hua Villa and build a new village.

How can I allow others to sleep soundly while I am lying on the bed?

Without even asking Gu Hua for instructions, Dagui and Zhang Shanhu took their men to teach this group of shameless people a lesson and drive them away.

Wang Hanyou, who ultimately failed to achieve his goal, could only turn his attention to Laoshan Village, which had been leaderless since the accident involving Xiao Hai's uncle and nephew.

When the more than one hundred people who were exiled here were divided into two groups, those who were lazy were eliminated from Gu Hua's team, and people like Wang Hanyou, who were lazy by nature, naturally gathered into one team.

In the past three years, they still did not engage in production, and barely made ends meet by picking up some mountain products and doing some crooked things secretly.

This time, he actually took advantage of the fact that the rice was almost ripe and brought people to steal their rice at dark.

It would be fine if Gu Hua didn’t know, but now that he knew, how could he let it go so easily?

A few days later, Wang Hanyou and several leaders met with accidents one after another.

Among them, several are from the Gu family.

Wang Jitang’s son was one of them.

The whole family hated Gu Hua, and he always looked resentful every time they saw him.

Like his father, he also encountered wild beasts when he went up the mountain...

Liu also went crazy because of her son's death, and her only daughter ran away with the peddler who came to the mountains.

Wang Hanyou's petty-minded, mean-spirited wife remarried someone else shortly after his death, and it was obvious that she had been having an affair with that man.


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