The safety and comfort of traveling through farming

Chapter 30

Land reclamation is not an easy task, relying on strength and luck.

There is not much flat land in Shunan Prefecture, and the area where they are located is even more densely covered with hills. There are many unowned lands, but they are all on the hillsides!The good land has long been occupied by the aborigines, and the only choice for land reclamation is the unowned dwarf hills!If you are lucky and occupy the land early, if there is a nearby water source that can be easily selected for water diversion, and there are enough strong laborers to dig the hillside to level ground, you can barely develop paddy fields, and the rest can only cultivate terraced fields on the hillside, because of the terrain. The high ground cannot be irrigated, so it can only be irrigated by natural precipitation or fetched water. This kind of wasteland can only grow broomcorn (yellow rice) and dryland wheat, as well as miscellaneous grains such as soybeans, sweet potatoes, and taro.

Most of the barren land soil is not fertile enough, and it is not possible to grow food immediately after it is opened. It is necessary to plant crops that are not picky to raise the land, and only after harvesting a few stubbles can grains such as wheat be grown.

Even so, the final output of the reclaimed land is not high, only about seven or eight layers of fertile land, and some even fail to reach the third layer.

Therefore, even if Daqi was exempted from grain tax for the first three years of land reclamation, not many people had the courage to try it. They were afraid that they would have no harvest, not to mention no gain, and they would have to pay a grain tax after three years.

Qin Dashu was one of the victims who fled from the famine more than 30 years ago. He was an orphan. After he settled in Tianshui Village, he held his breath and opened up the famine. Planted food, married a wife, and raised children.

"Uncle Qin, you are really amazing!" He Tao gave a thumbs up without hesitation.

In the past, He Tao always thought that the He family was lazy. The six or seven strong laborers in the family would not go to open up wasteland, but would only guard the family's few acres of land and be hungry. How lazy!After listening to Qin Dashu's talk about the risks of land reclamation, she changed her view of the He family. She didn't think the He family was lazy, but timid!

Fu Quan also expressed admiration: "It's really amazing!"

When he separated from Fu Shi's father, Fu Hai, he divided the land left by his parents equally, and the family got four acres of paddy fields and two acres of dry land.After each of them got married, he also opened up wasteland, and only opened up six acres of dry land intermittently for more than ten years.Compared with Qin Dashu's land reclamation of [-] acres, it is not enough to see, so he can't help but admire it!

Qin Dashu smiled honestly: "What's so great, it's all because of being hungry! What can I eat if I don't open up wasteland? However, I'm consummated now. My eldest son has made money in business, and he wants to take me to enjoy the blessings. In the future, I will You don’t need to farm anymore! I’m telling you this, just to let you know that opening up wasteland is not easy, so treat the land well in the future!”

Fu Shi nodded again and again: "Don't worry, we will definitely not leave the land barren!"

Only then did Qin Dashu press his fingerprints on the sales contract, and left with the money.

After everything was arranged, Luo Baocheng accepted the agency fee with a smile before he said: "Is this land going to be rented out to others? If you believe Uncle Baocheng, I will introduce you to a family. The surname of the east head of Tianshui Village is Liu." The family of my family is all good at growing crops. The only grandson of that family was seriously ill the year before last, so they had to sell half of the land, and life was very difficult. You did a good deed by planting them. "

Fu Shi and He Tao originally wanted Luo Baocheng to help introduce them, but they didn't know anyone in Tianshui Village, so it was impossible to go door-to-door to ask.Of course, he was very willing to say this, and Fu Shi hurriedly thanked him and said, "Thank you, Uncle Baocheng."

He Tao also thanked him, thinking in his heart that he was indeed a businessman, and the business was really thoughtful.

Fu Quan also said next to him: "Uncle Baocheng mentioned it just now, but I didn't meet because I was in a hurry. If you are interested, take the time to meet them these two days and make an appointment earlier Come down, someone will take care of it so that the crops will not be ruined."

Fu Shi nodded to express his understanding, and said that he would go to Tianshui Village to find that family early in the morning.

At this point, the first real estate purchase of the Fu family in Dahuangdi was completed. The three said goodbye to Luo Baocheng. Fu Quan drove He Tao and the goods in a bullock cart, and Fu Shi took the cow and walked back to Rongshu Village leisurely.

In the following days, Fu Shi was very busy. First, he went to Tianshui Village to meet the tenant Liu's family.

There are only five members of the Liu family, the old man Liu and his wife, his son Liu Shu and his wife, and their only son Liu Chuanzong.The old man Liu, Liu Shu and his son seemed to be authentic farmers, and they talked about the work in the field in a clear way.Fu Shi set the terms of renting the land with the Liu family on the spot, and he didn't care about anything. After paying the tax, he took six floors of the harvest as rent.In this way, the Liu family can get more than half of the total harvest. This is a very generous condition. The Liu family is naturally grateful and promises to work hard.

He had already ordered chickens, ducklings, piglets, and fish fry from other villages with the relevant people before, and Fu Shi also went to pretend them one by one.Their own ox cart shed hadn't been finished yet, and they still borrowed the ox cart of the second room for a while. They ran back and forth for five days, and even the old cow with the second room was a little tired.When returning the car, Fu Shi himself was ashamed to look into the cow's eyes, and in the end he insisted on sending half a carload of fodder to the second room, saying that it was for the old cow's health, which made the second room people dumbfounded.

The fish fry were put into the lotus pond, the piglets were put into the pigsty, and the chickens and ducklings were also put into the cages. This was just the beginning of the trouble.He had to be fed twice a day, the shack had to be cleaned, the pigweed had to be mowed, and the fodder had to be slaughtered for cooking. Fu Shi, who had never raised livestock before, was in a hurry and his head was full of lawsuits.

Not to mention that, the fruit saplings were the most troublesome for him.There is no orchard in Liushu Town. He Tao had inquired about a seller of fruit saplings in a neighboring county before. He ordered the goods through a dental store, and the seller delivered the goods to the door.Fu Shi's head hurt even more when he looked at it!

He got up early every morning, cooked porridge and went to the backyard to feed the animals. After finishing his work, he went back to the front yard to have breakfast with He Tao, then washed the dishes, and then went out to cut pigweed.Come back before noon to make lunch, plant saplings under the sun in the afternoon, then feed the pigs, make dinner and feed He Tao, there is no time to stop!
"Daughter-in-law, do we have to raise so many animals?" Fu Shi was exhausted.He always felt that the good days were gone forever, it was completely different from what his wife said before!

He Tao hugged his hand and said softly, "Everything is difficult at the beginning, and it will be fine after this period of time! Shitou, just hold on for a while, okay?"

In fact, Fu Shi has lived through the more difficult and tiring days in the army, that is to say, he has been lazy for more than a year after retiring from the army. .When He Tao acted so coquettishly, he immediately surrendered. It was all for our family. If you are tired, you will be tired, and you will get up early to work the next day.

He Tao also immediately began to think about it. She was the one who came up with the idea of ​​raising pigs and planting trees, but she didn't help at all when things came to an end. Although Fu Shi resolutely stopped him, Fu Shi would definitely feel unhappy if this continued. It's comfortable, didn't you have a good life before, why do you want him to suffer this alone?The first time I just shouted tired, will I just put down the burden and quit the next time?

As the saying goes, men and women work together without getting tired!Scholars have red sleeves and add fragrance to study at night, and we farmers will come to feed the strong pigs with a clumsy thorn!
The next morning when Fu Shi was tired for the first time, He Tao got up early regardless of Fu Shi's objection. She thought that no matter what Fu Shi did, she would follow him, talk to him, wipe his sweat, etc. It can be regarded as contributing, letting Fu Shi know that he is not fighting alone.

Unexpectedly, as soon as she approached the pigsty and smelled pig feces, she would feel sick. The fluffy chicks and ducks looked cute, but when she saw it, she would think of words like bird flu, chicken plague, and avoid them. There was only one thing she could do. She moved the table and chairs and sat with an umbrella, blinking and watching Fu Shi plant the tree.

Although it deviates from expectations, the effect is still very good.

Fu Shi was stared at by her adoring and expectant eyes, as if he had been injected with chicken blood. He was diligent and hard-working from beginning to end, digging holes one by one, and destroyed hundreds of trees in less than ten days. Planted!

After planting the last sapling, Fu Shi threw the hoe and sat down on the small stool next to her, lying on the table and said roughly: "Tired, really tired! Finally planted!"

"Stone, you're amazing!" He Tao didn't dislike the smell of sweat all over his body, and hugged his head and kissed him.

Fu Shi patted his head: "Daughter-in-law, give me another kiss!"

"It's hard work for the stone!" He Tao hugged and kissed him several times, and then helped him pinch his shoulders and beat his back like a dog: "Come, let your wife take good care of you!"

Fu Shi raised his head and said with a chuckle, "Daughter-in-law, rest your hands first, and serve me well at night!"

"..." Color Embryo!He Tao stomped her feet in embarrassment.

Ever since she self-defeatingly helped him masturbate once when she moved, Fu Shi remembered her "hands" and would pull her hands up and down almost every night.If there is a rating for this skill, she should already be at the master level!
"I'll feed the pigs," Fu Shi stood up and said, "Stop sitting here, go back to the house and wait for your man!"

He Tao covered his hot face and glared at Fu Shi, then stood up.She supported her waist with one hand, touched her slightly protruding belly with the other, and watched Fu Shi walk through the short fruit trees.She thought that in a few years, there would be a forest of fruit trees, the branches were bent by the fruit, and there would be flocks of chickens and ducks in the forest. The children of her and Fu Shi might be chasing chickens and ducks, or they might be picking fruits from the trees. , or maybe she was hugging their legs and acting like a baby, so she couldn't help laughing, good days are ahead!

(End of this chapter)