Reborn farmhouse busy farming

Chapter 255

Building a city wall is a big project, requiring stone, wood, lime, iron, and manpower.Yi County is very mountainous, and the mountains are full of stones and trees. There is no shortage of these, but to transport stones from the mountains, you need shovels, bucket carts, and mules to pull carts; Tools like a saw and plane.

Yi County has been abandoned for so many years, and the better ironware has been taken away by the Yi people, and the ones left for the common people are all rusty, unusable and stupid guys. You need iron to get it out, and you have to go to the Yantie Division to apply for it.Not to mention that it is the end of the year, and the quota of the Yantie Division has been used up long ago. Even if there is, you have to write a document to apply for it. Even if it goes well, it will take several months or half a year. By then, the day lily will be cold.

Furthermore, manpower is also a problem.Now in the entire Yi County, only the 58 households registered in Luo Baisu that day, a total of more than 130 people, have re-registered their household registrations.

Of course, Luo Baisu couldn't expect these 80 or [-] people to build the Great Wall. He could only find another way, dig a deep canal outside the county seat, and arrange some organs in the future. It could barely be regarded as a fortification. , it happened to be lucky to build a wall, Jane is a bit crude, but with today's conditions, it can only be like this.

Not many people came to dig the canal in the first two days. They were all those who had registered before. They brought rusty shovels and poles from home.

Luo Baisu had breakfast every morning and went to the construction site to watch, while the Fang family cooked at home.

Yi County is located in the southeast. Compared with Huaxi Prefecture or Shangjing, the winter is much warmer, and it rarely snows. However, the north wind blows every day, and the climate is humid, which is not very comfortable.

Fang’s cooks several big pots of porridge every day and puts hundreds of pancakes on them. Although the porridge is so thin that people can be seen, only a few grains of rice are added to the rice soup, and the pancakes are mostly vegetable cakes, but they can’t stand it every day. The amount to be prepared is too large. Rao’s family bought a lot of rice grains and prepared enough. The rice noodles in the tank are still decreasing rapidly at a rate visible to the naked eye every day. According to this consumption rate, they will have to eat them all within the first month. At that time, we have to go out early to buy food.

Luo Tiandu collected a lot of information about Yi County before, but when she got here, she realized that the place was almost completely deserted, and she had to start all over again, and she was very sad, but she also knew that Luo Baisu had done nothing wrong What.Their family lives in this county town, not to mention for the sake of the people in the whole city, but also for the safety of their own family. The fortifications of the beacon tower city wall have to be built. Luo Baisu's is already simple and simple, saving and saving. But the daily expenses are still like running water.

This is still a small matter, but when the spring of next year comes, according to Luo Baisu's intention, it will definitely be reclaimed.In the past few days, she followed Luo Baisu around. She didn't look at the villages outside. There are many fields around Yi County, but because there are many mountains, they are all sporadic and small, unlike the north. They are contiguous, but the land is all good, but it is difficult to divert water. Some grains are planted in spring, and some grains can be harvested in autumn.

It's just that to open up land, you need grain, plows, and cattle, and the open land can't be harvested until autumn. During this period, the people have to eat and dress for three seasons.Furthermore, even if all these things are survived, the city defense cannot be slack. It is bound to be built during the autumn harvest. Otherwise, when the barbarians come over, there will be nothing left. People also have to be guarded. There are so many people in Yi County alone, it is definitely not enough, and people have to be invited outside, and they have to be paid.

After all, everything costs money.

Although Luo Baisu wrote a document a few days ago and asked Cheng Qing to send it to Ba Xun's mansion, it is still uncertain whether the imperial court is willing to take care of this mess. If you take ten thousand steps back, it means that the imperial court is willing to allocate money. It will take a long time for the food to be arranged, but now Yi County is waiting for the rice to be cooked, and work has to start after the New Year, and there is no delay for a day.

Luo Tian did all the calculations, but he felt that his eyes were full of money, and he was worried.

"Ahhhhhh..." She threw the pen and threw it on the table and yelled.

"Ahhhh..." Luo Zijin followed her, ran to her side with a few fat short legs, and threw herself on her lap, blinking like a pair of black grapes With big eyes and a mouthful of small young teeth, he smiled at her without knowing any worries.

Luo Tiandu put down his pen, hugged Luo Zijin and put it on his lap, pinched his tender little face, and said, "Little villain, I'm so worried, you still dare to laugh at me." He put down his hands while talking , pinching his arm and shaking it from side to side.

Luo Zijin thought that Luo Tiandu was teasing him, and kept laughing "giggle".

Luo Zijin is now two years old, can walk and run, except for being quiet for a while when sleeping, he really can't calm down for a moment at other times, he really has to be watched all the time.The female relatives of the family all went to help cook the porridge, and Luo Tiandu, as the accountant of the family, settled the accounts in the house and took care of Luo Zijin at the same time.Now that Luo Zijin interrupted her like this, Luo Tian didn't even think about those annoying things. It was a rare day today, so she pinched Luo Zijin under her arm and went out to bask in the sun.

Luo Zijin was sandwiched face down by her, the two of them were used to playing like this, and they were not afraid, they laughed "giggle", and kept kicking their two little fat legs behind them.

Fang Shi and Xiang Lan were kneading noodles and cooking porridge in the yard. Seeing her come out, Fang Shi said, "What are you screaming in the house again? It made Zijin follow you."

Luo Tian didn't want to worry Fang because of this matter, so he said casually: "It's nothing, I'll just yell twice in the room."

Fang glanced at her, and said angrily, "If you're bored, come out to play with Zijin more often. Don't stay in the room all day long. The room is damp, so be careful not to catch cold."

Luo Tiandu said "hmm", if the biggest advantage of coming to Yi County is that the winter is not so cold, she doesn't touch cold water, and her hands don't get frostbite anymore.

Luo Zijin looked at the pancakes on the panel, so he refused to let Luo Tian hug him, twisted his body and got down on the ground, ran to the chopping board on tiptoe, grabbed a freshly kneaded pancake, and was about to put it in his mouth.

Fang became angry: "Xiaodu, look at your brother."

Luo Tian hastily took down the raw flour and said, "This is raw, I can't eat it, it hurts my stomach after eating it."

Luo Zijin wanted to fight with Luo Tiandu, but he couldn't, so he opened his mouth and started yelling, and by the way, complained: "Eat... the baby is hungry, my sister is bad."

When he saw him grinning, Luo Tian knew something was wrong, and his head hurt.I don't know what's going on with this child. When it was a baby, I just gave birth to it and didn't tease him. After eating and drinking, he would go to bed honestly. It was very easy to take care of. Now that he is older, he has become a real person If he doesn't follow his heart, he will howl when he opens his mouth, and he likes to complain, when he is cute, he is really cute, when he smiles, he looks like a little angel, coaxing people to want to give him their hearts, but When I get annoyed, I really want to strangle him to death.

The younger son was crying, Fang quickly wiped his hands, and came over to coax him: "Be careful, don't cry, this is not edible, mother will bring you something delicious."

Luo Zijin was still crying with his mouth wide open, and he couldn't shed tears by howling. He knew it was fake crying at a glance.Luo Tian was angry and funny watching it, and he knew how to fake crying to bluff people at a young age: "Mother, don't give him too many snacks, or he won't eat after waiting, it's not good for a child to get used to it like this. "

Fang said: "I know, I'm busy now, I don't have time to coax him, you go and get something, let him have something in his mouth, so as not to cry all the time."

Luo Tian couldn't help it, so he went to the kitchen to break off a small piece of cake, and squatted down to feed Luo Zijin bit by bit.

Luo Zijin stopped crying when he had something to eat, probably because he was still angry with Luo Tiandu and refused to let her feed him. Two chubby hands pulled the cake to his hands, tilted his head, and put half of his face on the In Fang's arms, he began to eat slowly.

Fang's anxious builders hadn't cooked dinner yet, seeing that Luo Zijin had stopped crying, he put the person into Luo Tiandu's hands, and said, "Look at your brother, don't make him cry all the time."

Ever since the child could walk, he didn't like being hugged, so he broke out of Luo Tiandu's arms and ran around the yard. Luo Tian was afraid that he would bump into him, so he had to follow behind without stopping.

Fang looked at them and thought of something, she kneaded the dough and sighed and complained: "Oh, what do you think your father is doing to get a son-in-law to do this? Going out every day is troublesome, and you have to pay for it yourself. People pay for food, and when others become officials, they buy property at home, and it’s not good for your father to give money outside.”

I couldn't explain the official affairs to Fang, so Luo Tian could only say: "Father knows what's going on, let's do our best to help."

Fang thought about it, and said: "Yes, the people here are really suffering. I used to think that my life was miserable enough, but compared with them, the little hardship I suffered is nothing."

The two were talking, but they saw Zi Shu hurried back from the outside with a skinny monkey in his hand, entered the yard, threw him to the ground, and said, "Ma'am, little lady, let this child be put in our place for the time being." Home, madam and little lady are watching."

Fang said: "Oh, whose child is this? How can you be so thin?"

Zishu said: "It belongs to Uncle Ding's family. His grandfather is not well. The uncle said, let him stay at home for two days."

"What happened to Uncle Ding?" Luo Tiandu asked.

"After going back that day, I have been sick. There is not even a doctor here. They live far away. Everyone is busy these days, and no one thinks of their father and son. Today, this child ran outside and followed the adults to dig the canal. I only found out when I was there. Hey, little lady, please help me to watch, there is still something to do with the uncle."

After Zishu finished speaking, he left in a hurry, and didn't have time to say more.

(End of this chapter)