Xu Genyou took Xiaoman and talked a lot, but mainly he apologized for Xu Genbao and asked about Xiaoman's grandma's physical condition.
There is also Dazhu, the child who grew up behind him before, but this time he was left behind during the military disaster.
Obviously Xu Genyou and Xu Genbao are different.
Xiaoman's attitude towards him was also different: "Brother Genyou, my family had a little harvest last year. Mixing it with green rice flour will help you stay full.
There are also a few rabbits and chickens raised on the mountain. My brother and grandma can eat meat, and they are in good health. "
Thanks to word-of-mouth propaganda from Yaozu's wife and sister-in-law Genbao, Xu Genyou not only knew that Xiaoman's family raised rabbits, but also knew that the sweet potatoes they grew were all gluten, so he had no intention of asking for them.
Xu Genyou mentioned Xiaoman’s farmland: “Two days ago, I saw that outsiders were digging on your farmland, so I asked about it, and they said they were helping.
I'm worried that you live on a mountain and you don't know if someone is snatching your seeds. I will keep an eye on it for you in the future and if anything happens, just go up the mountain and let me know. "
He knew the location of Xiaoman's charcoal shed, and his family also had a charcoal shed on the mountain. A few years ago, they burned several kilns of Qinggang charcoal and the medical shed in exchange for some food.
There was someone at the bottom of the mountain helping to keep an eye on it. This was what Xiao Man wanted most: "Then there will be a brother named Lao Gen!"
To be honest, Li Cheng was not practical in his work. If Xu Gen, who knew everything, was keeping an eye on him, nothing would go wrong.
Xu Genyou waved his hand: "Oh! Don't thank us, as long as you don't hate us. This is something right under your nose, so don't bother."
Hearing this, Jiang Zhi coughed, and the three of them turned back.
Unexpectedly, when he saw her, Xu Genyou's expression that had just relaxed became tense again. He hurriedly said hello: "Aunt Jiang!" He said he was busy and left.
Jiang Zhi curled his lips: He is not a tiger!
Forget it, if others don’t want to interact, don’t stick to it.
"Er Rui, Xiao Man, we are going back!"
Jiang Zhi believes that making money is as important as farming. Once the inn is repaired, his own house will also be repaired, which will require a lot of money.
Before leaving, she told Li Laoshi again about the land in the village: not to plant coarse grains such as sorghum and beans. The land was still empty. In two months, corn would be planted directly.
The seeds distributed by the imperial court were given to the farmers who helped with the farming, and they were told by the medical shed to just pick up manure and splash it on the ground.
Li Laoshi remembered them one by one and said that as long as he was given a few kilograms of grain, someone would definitely do the work.
Jiangzhi has already made plans. The winter wheat has missed the season. Now the fields are full of vegetables, and there are still three months until spring corn planting.
These three months cannot be wasted. We must quickly fertilize and accumulate manure to prepare for the two-crop interplanting of corn.
Two crops of corn are indeed like this. You read that right.
There were no hybrid varieties in this era. The corns were the size of modern fruit corns, and they were sweet and glutinous. The grains were shiny and round, like jade.
So when Jiang Zhi saw tender corn, his first reaction was to eat half an acre of land.
Now that there is a lot of land, she wants to plant a crop of tender corn to eat first, and the second crop of dry corn.
Interplanting sweet potatoes in raised cornfields will not delay the next season's grain production at all.
On the way home, the little wild boar was waiting in the bushes again. This time, he was not scolded. Jiang Zhi touched it and said, "You must hide it well in the future. If someone finds out, your legs will turn into hams!"
Xu Changshou and his family have been sent away, and no one has seen the little wild boar again.
Moreover, Jiang Zhi also felt the power of the wild boar during the pig riding that went wrong on the 30th night. As long as it wanted to run away, no one could control it.
The first thing in the new year is to build roads.
If you want to get rich, you must first build roads. They were not built before because they deliberately made it more difficult to go up the mountain. In the future, it will take more time to go up and down the mountain. Any more detours will be a waste of energy and time.
Both families, those who could take action, were dispatched, including Xu Errui, Jiang Zhi, Xiaoman and Chunfeng, with Mr. Xiaoman as the commander-in-chief.
There are old, weak, sick and disabled people left in the family.
Except for the road leading to the hilltop where the two families are located, which was deliberately filled up by Xiao Manye, the rest of the road was destroyed by heavy rains last summer.
The stones and soil accumulated on the road need to be moved down the mountain, and the blocked ditches need to be cleared.
These things are not cumbersome, they just need to be time-consuming. After all, they were just to delay the refugees going up the mountain.
The other thing is to cut down trees and build bridges over mountain streams, which has never been done before.
People in Xujia Village only burn charcoal for a few days at a time, and it is winter. They can walk on dry ditches, and the roads are only so-so.
This busy process lasted another half month. After the completion, the journey up the mountain will only take more than an hour, which is half less than the previous three hours.
But the road hadn't been completely repaired yet, so Li Laoshi came again: "Sister-in-law Jiang, Zhang Juntou said that the migrant households have some left over after renting the land. Do you want it? It's just the corner, don't rent it. When the time comes, you can Just fold it into tender corn!”
Jiang Zhi was surprised: "How does Zhang Juntou know about tender corn?"
Li Laoshi coyly said: "I told you, Sister-in-law Jiang, you need to plant two crops, one for the tender ones, and Zhang Juntou will share some."
This big mouth... He has not even eaten yet, but he is already being remembered.
How much land is left?
Jiang Zhi called Xu Errui: "Go down the mountain and take a look. Count the land and make a list to see how much harvest there is! If you are not sure, ask other people in the village to help you check."
This is a simple matter that Xu Errui can handle, and Jiang Zhi also deliberately started to hone his ability to do things.
Xu Errui responded and followed Li Laoshi.
He stayed in the village for two days, and when he returned to the mountain, he brought back a stack of paper, which was full of words, all of which were place names.
What Xu Errui knew was what he memorized by recognizing the names of medicines this year.
I can barely recognize it, but writing it is even harder. It's like drawing, for example: "二道✔️", "小^地". If I ask whether it is Erdaogou or Xiaojiandi, I can still give the name. Come.
Jiang Zhi counted and found that there were more than ten acres of land left, scattered within two miles, with dozens of large, small, long and short areas.
The number of steps you take on WeChat every day will explode. No wonder no one is renting this land. There is nothing left after paying the rent. It is better to take good care of the land.
"Mom, Li Laoshi wanted those outsiders to plant the seeds as they pleased. I didn't agree, so I wanted to ask Brother Gen You to help me watch." Xu Errui rarely had the right to make his own decisions, and he was very nervous at this time.
Jiang Zhi nodded without hesitation: "It's okay for Li Laoshi to do some trickery, but there can be no adulteration in growing crops.
If people fool the ground, the ground will fool others. Xu Genyou has an old way of doing things, which makes him look reliable. "
Seeing that he was not wrong, Xu Errui breathed a sigh of relief and felt confident, so he told all his other arrangements in the village.
"Mom, I see that there are a lot of those fields that can be connected to our previous fields, so I want to dig the field ridges and merge them into one piece, and then dig out ditches, so that water can flow through the ditches in the future."
Jiang Zhi nodded again: Yes, this is a good idea.
After receiving the praise, Xu Errui became a little more excited and continued, but this time he spoke hesitantly: "Mom, we need to hire people to dig the field ridges and ditches. If we do it ourselves, after building the road on the mountain and digging the ground again, it will be too tiring!"
Jiang Zhi, who was smiling just now, frowned slightly. This was not like Er Rui's style: "Is it Li Laoshi who invited people again?"
