At the noon banquet, everyone was very satisfied. Twelve dishes are rare in Shuanghe Village at this time, usually about ten, and there are some vegetarian dishes to fill up. Tian Fei's family is a work of conscience.

Although there is a lot of food and drink, it doesn't really cost much. Now the price is very cheap, and it is home-brewed, and it costs less than 100 yuan for a table.

After lunch, several aunts and aunts stayed behind to help clean up their things, and Tian Fei returned all the tables he borrowed in the morning. After all this, Tian Fei sent the Li sisters away. Tian Fei was busy entertaining people today, and he didn't have much time to accompany them, but they could understand that they were both in the village, and everyone was not so hypocritical. Because the two girls came by bicycle, Tian Fei walked with them directly on the village road for a while, and then watched them go home.

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Tian Fei's mother has a total of four sisters, two of whom are married in other villages in Zhuzhai Township, this time the aunts and uncles are here, and the uncles and aunts have also been working in the family farming, so they all came. Tian Fei's father has a total of three brothers, Tian Fei's second uncle Tian Zhenli is a carpenter, and he worked on the construction site with his third uncle Tian Zhenyun, but they all came back this time.

Tian Fei's male elders did not go home after lunch, and planned to help Tian Fei with his work. It just so happened that Tian Fei had something to do in the afternoon, and it was best if there were many people.

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After the groundbreaking ceremony in the morning, the construction of the pig farm began in full swing. Although there are many plans, the top priority is to build a small pig farm first.

Bald Mountain has been contracted, so it has to be asked to see the money back quickly. Now this season, it's too late to plant trees. In order to determine what can be planted on this mountain this season, Tian Fei racked his brains, checked a lot of information, and then consulted many classmates and teachers on the school's forum, and finally decided to plant autumn corn.

Corn is a drought-tolerant crop, although in the period from the male ear to the female ear milk, the water demand is large, but there is a large water tower built by Tian Fei on the top of the bald mountain, as long as the ditch is dug well, there will definitely be no shortage of water.

Corn needs a lot of fertilizer, especially nitrogen fertilizer, and pig manure also has a lot of nitrogen and potassium fertilizer. Growing corn on Bald Mountain is a double win.

Your own pig farm needs a lot of corn to make silage, and the corn you grow can digest itself, which can reduce a lot of pig raising costs.

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Bald Mountain is a barren mountain, but it cannot be said that nothing grows on the mountain. In addition to the fact that there are no tall trees, there are still a lot of shrubs and four-season bamboos in Bald Mountain. If it is cut down manually, it will take a lot of time, Tian Fei plans to set a fire to burn them all, and the ashes can be used to fertilize the soil.

"Xiaofei, it's not a simple matter to burn this mountain. Let's make preparations for today, and come back tomorrow morning. Tian Fei's second uncle Tian Zhenli suggested.

Tian Fei thought about it, such a big mountain, it would definitely not burn up in an afternoon, so it was impossible to keep it at night. I listened to the advice of the second uncle and finished the preparations first.

The first thing is to separate a fire road, Bald Mountain is not a separate mountain, there are other mountains around it, if you don't separate the fire road, it is easy to cause fire to other mountains, and if something happens, you will go to jail.

Bald Mountain has a total of 230 acres, which is basically round. So the side length is about 1,300 meters, and then there is a section on the side of the river that does not need to be separated from the fire path, so the length of the fire road is about 1,000 meters long.

Tian Fei, Tian Fei's grandfather, Tian Fei's father and second uncle and third uncle, Tian Fei's eldest uncle and second uncle, as well as Tian Fei's uncle and Tian Fei's brother-in-law, a total of nine people came to do this work. Probably no one is responsible for about a hundred meters, and the shrubs at the foot of the mountain are very sparse, so the task is not heavy.

The nine men were evenly dispersed at the foot of the bald mountain, and each of them, with a sickle, began to cut down the bushes along the foot of the mountain. In fact, there is basically a road at the foot of the mountain, but there are fewer people walking, so it is deserted, Tian Fei and what they have to do is to remove the combustible objects within one meter on each side of this road, and cut down shrubs and bamboos, and pick up hay and other things that are easy to burn.

Except for Tian Fei, who rarely does farm work, everyone else is a good hand. There is great strength in numbers, and before the sun has set, everyone has already separated this thousand-meter-long fire road. Tian Fei's grandfather even bundled several handfuls of firewood out.

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Yesterday, Tian Fei's uncles and uncles all went home after dinner, and they all rushed over early the next morning. It is planned to set fire to the mountain in the morning, and then in the afternoon you can keep it guarded to prevent the open flames from flying to other mountains to avoid causing fires.

There are more people who come to help today, and basically all the idle laborers in the village have come, mainly for safety. Tian Fei knew that it had been these two years since the mountain was burned, and in a few years, he would be arrested and imprisoned if he burned the mountain privately.

Most of the people stood on the side of the wind on Bald Mountain, each holding a ramie pole, which was the best tool for starting fires in the countryside. A few ramie stalks lying together can be lit into a large torch.

The torches and pestles were lit in the bushes, and the fallen leaves in the bushes were quickly ignited, and by the wind, they immediately burned into a piece. Both the dry branches and the growing shrubs were reduced to ashes.

In less than ten minutes, the fires lit by a dozen people at the upwind outlet were connected into a single piece, and the wind quickly burned downstream of the wind like the sea water at high tide overflowing the beach.

Then Tian Fei and the people in the village began to run to the other side of Bald Mountain, and every forty or fifty meters, there was a person standing on the line of fire that was separated from it, and everyone was staring at the Bald Mountain that had already burned.

The hares all jumped out of their holes, ran along the fire, and ran from the foot of the mountain to the mountain, and before they could turn back, the fire burned again, and they had to run down the hill again with their short front legs, and then they fell one after another with their short front legs; and the snakes that swam in the mountains, and at this time they wondered why they didn't have wings, and no matter how fast they vomited, they couldn't outrun the spread of the fire, and finally they could only become roasted snakes, and maybe there would be a way to live in the holes; as for all kinds of insects, the good and the bad, can only be like the branches beside them, and then turn into ashes in the fire, and finally become the fertilizer of this land.

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In about a morning, Bald Mountain burned to ashes, and there was no green in sight, except for a few sparks still smoking.

After burning the mountain, everyone picked up more than a dozen hares, a few pheasants and more than a dozen snakes, and Tian Fei also asked everyone to take them back for dinner.

Tian Fei did not give money to the villagers who came to help, because the countryside would not ask for money for such a thing. Tian Fei promised everyone that in a few days to plant corn in the mountains, everyone was invited to come for 30 yuan a day. Including the cedar forest where the trees were cut down, more than 300 acres are enough for everyone to stay for several days, and everyone can earn a few hundred yuan.