Chapter 53: Buying Wasteland
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The next day, Grandpa and Uncle Li bought some wine and meat, and went to Lizheng's house together, so that Lizheng could help measure the twelve acres of wasteland. Li Zheng was surprised to hear that the Yang family and the Li family wanted to buy the wasteland at the foot of the right mountain, and of course they persuaded the two families to buy the one near the back mountain, but the two families had already discussed it, and naturally insisted on buying the one at the foot of the right mountain.
The twelve acres of wasteland were quickly measured out, and a few wooden sticks were used to mark them, and Yang Yun had explained to her grandfather before that the middle of the six acres of land of the Yang family and the Li family should be marked. It's not that Yang Yun wants to divide the two lands so clearly, but Yang Yun plans to build a wide road of about one and a half meters in the middle, so that he can use a trailer to pull grain in the future.
Yang Yun was going to design a trailer, just like the car that pulled goods in the wholesale market in her previous life. The trailer can tow a lot of food, which can not only improve work efficiency, but also reduce the burden on grandpa.
Li Zheng helped to measure the wasteland, and made an appointment with his grandfather Uncle Li to bring the silver tomorrow and go to the government to get the land certificate of the wasteland, so that the two families could start to open up the wasteland. Yang Yun went to the wasteland by himself and took a turn, the wild grass on the wasteland can be burned with a fire, the stones on the ground will be picked up slowly, the twelve acres of wasteland are trimmed to the beginning of spring, the time is very sufficient, ploughing, loosening the soil, and manure Yang Yun is confident that when the spring comes, the twelve acres of wasteland will definitely be fertile.
After Yang Yun went home, she cleaned up the chicken manure in the chicken coop and poured it into the pit to make manure. The twelve chickens that grandpa bought back grew very big, and began to lay eggs some time ago, and the chickens were able to lay eggs so early, thanks to the three brothers and sisters, who caught some vegetable insects, grasshoppers, and earthworms from time to time to feed the chickens, and several chickens were raised fat, and the roosters were kept for the New Year to kill and eat, and the hens were kept to lay eggs.
Twelve acres of wasteland twenty-four taels of silver, the Yang family and the Li family each paid silver, and then spent two taels of silver to honor the people of the government, and then gave Li Zheng one or two taels of silver, and the three taels of silver for the two families to share. In this way, the land certificates belonging to the Yang family and the Li family were finally completed. Yang Yun took her grandfather home, stamped with the red seal of the government, and was so excited in her heart, we are finally landed. Yang Yun felt that she had taken another step towards the class of landlords' wives.
In this way, the two families reclaimed the twelve acres of wasteland, and Grandpa and Uncle Li listened to Yang Yun's suggestion to burn the withered weeds on the wasteland.
The ditch digging was carried out by Grandpa, Uncle Li, and Aunt Li, and Yang Yong took over from time to time to help, but Yang Yun really couldn't dig it, so he followed the other two children to pick up stones on the wasteland. In winter, Grandma Xu's health became very bad, as if it was like this every year, and Dr. Xu had no time to teach Yang Xuan because he had to take care of Grandma Xu. During this time, Yang Xuan didn't go to Dr. Xu's house to learn words, Dr. Xu saw that Yang Yun knew a lot of words, and he didn't break Yang Yun, but only asked Yang Yun to take what Yang Xuan wanted to learn home to help Yang Xuan review.
Yang Yun felt that Dr. Xu was a doctor, and there should be a lot of bizarre things, from the information that his grandfather occasionally accidentally revealed, Dr. Xu was not an ordinary person when he was young, but Yang Yun didn't know why he wanted to come to Zhoujia Village, a poor and remote country, to be an unknown doctor. Everyone has secrets that they don't want people to know, and if one day Yang Yun tells Dr. Xu that she is a resurrector who borrows corpses, Dr. Xu may not be too surprised.
After Yang Xuan no longer went to Dr. Xu's house to study, Yang Yun chose the morning to teach Yang Xuan to read and write, and by the way, urged him to memorize the herbal knowledge he learned some time ago, and the morning is the best time for human brain memory. With Yang Yun's supervision, Yang Xuan's learning has improved a lot, and there are many words in it, Yang Yun uses modern, relatively simple stories to tell Yang Xuan some small truths, so that Yang Xuan now likes to pester Yang Yun to tell stories, and he doesn't even let go before going to bed at night. Yang Yun felt that she had found a chore for herself.
Dabao, Xiaobao and Yang Yong all chose to finish their work in the evening, and then they learned the words they needed to know for a day in the Yang family's house in the light of the sky. Yang Yun sighed in her heart, the children of the poor know how to cherish this hard-won opportunity.
Yang Yun took two small ones during the day, slowly picked up the stones on the wasteland, and then poured them to the periphery of the fence to be built, under the simple fence designed by Yang Yun, there will be some relatively large holes, which will be picked up from the wasteland The stones can just be used to pile the holes, and at the same time, it can also strengthen the solidity of the fence, and will not fall due to strong winds or wild objects.
The fire ditch of 20 acres of wasteland was dug by several people in turn for five days before it was dug well, of course, this is much faster than slowly cultivating with a hoe, as long as the barren grass is burned and the stones of the wasteland are picked up, you can rent cattle to turn the ground directly, saving time, effort and speed.
The wild grass was burned clean by a fire, and the burned grass ash could also be used as fertilizer, and when the time came, the ground was turned over and buried directly in the ground. After burning the wasteland, the two families slowly picked up the stones on the wasteland, and this one was not fast, so they had to work slowly and carefully to pick up the stones in the field before they could turn the ground.
Before picking up stones every day, Grandpa and Uncle Li first went to the mountains to cut some wood and came back, and the wood had to be dried before it could be nailed into the soil to make a fence. You don't have to be very thick in wood, you can just cut some two-finger-thick branches from the tree.
Grandma was sick last time, and she couldn't do heavy work, so she stayed at home and was responsible for cooking, feeding the chickens, and cleaning. Half-grown children eat poor Lao Tzu, this will make Dabao and Yang Yong grow their bodies, and the amount of food at each meal is about to catch up with Uncle Li.
The two families worked hard for half a month to pick up the stones on the wasteland, and the wood cut down some time ago dried for half a month, and then they started to build a fence. Before building the fence, Yang Yun asked her grandfather and Uncle Li to dig a big pit two meters wide and one meter deep in the middle of their own land, which is the lower corner of three acres of land.
Grandpa and Uncle Li were very puzzled, so Yang Yun carefully explained to them how to make fertilizer and what organic fertilizer was, and grandpa and Uncle Li couldn't understand it for a long time. Yang Yun summed up a sentence for them, that is, let the two families go to the mountain, turn over the leaves on the top layer, pick the leaves that are close to the ground, have rotted, carry them back and pour them into the pit to make fertilizer, and then pick up the fertilizer from the thatched pit at home, pour it into the pit and make fertilizer together, and then sprinkle these fertilizers into the ground, which can definitely fatten the wasteland.