Chapter 11: Idle
didn't sleep all night, even Chen Yu felt a little sleepy, but fortunately, Chen Yu is still a child and can go back to make up for sleep. When I woke up, I was refreshed, and my sister came to call me for lunch.
Today we eat chestnut rice porridge, the yield of chestnut rice is not very high, but those unfertile lands are not suitable for growing wheat, so they are used to grow sorghum, corn and chestnut rice. Therefore, sorghum, corn and chestnut rice are the staple foods here.
The family divided 100 kilograms of corn, 100 kilograms of sorghum, 200 kilograms of chestnut rice, and 30 kilograms of brown rice. As for wheat and rice, they have been sold before, after all, the price of fine grains is high, and it is not cost-effective to eat them yourself, and the rest of the grain is sold and bought back, and the price is higher, and you will suffer a loss.
Farmers have suffered from famine, so unless they run out of money, they generally do not sell out the food at home, and basically keep enough food for the family for a year. Of course, if you are too poor, then there is no way.
It is also because of this that every household has a cellar, which is used to store grain. Chen Yu went into the newly built cellar at home with his mother, and a layer of stone was laid inside, which was to prevent rats from burrowing and to prevent moisture. A layer of straw was laid, and then the granary was placed.
Now that the family is separated, although the cellar in Chen Yu's house is usually locked, Chen Yu can also sneak in together when his mother goes in to get things, after all, Chen Yu has never entered the cellar before.
Chen Lin stole a handful of chestnut rice, a handful of corn kernels, and a handful of sorghum inside, as seeds, and secretly sprinkled them in other locations in the space that are not in the field, although these locations are much worse than the fields, and they are also in line with the plant growth time and will not shorten the time, but the space climate is very suitable all year round, and the yield will be higher than that outside, and the harvest will be faster.
However, this is not a crop in the field, you have to harvest it yourself, you can't directly order the harvest, but this is nothing for the harvested crops, after all, Chen Yu's strength is not smaller than that of an adult man, the strength of an adult ordinary man is 10, and the strong man who works all year round may be about 13, Chen Yu 12 is already very good, after all, Chen Yu is only a little more than a year old.
Because of the ability, Chen Yu's body element is also very high, and with the improvement of the ability, the body element will definitely be strengthened, and it will definitely be okay to do some farm work.
However, these seeds are planted, not can be harvested in a while, and the area of the background in the space is actually many times larger than the area of the field, at least tens of thousands of acres of plantable land, and I don't know if it will increase in the future, and there are several mountains, lakes and so on.
These extra places, if all of them are used, will not be worse than the harvest of the fields, but they will be a little more tiring at the time of harvest.
Thinking that there were basically no quilts in the house, Chen Yu bought a bag of cotton seeds and sprinkled them on another hillside, so that they could be harvested in the autumn, so that he could make a few quilts for himself, or have the opportunity to take them out for his family to use in the future.
Now Chen Yu is still too young, and it will be much more convenient if he wants to do anything when he is older. However, being young also has the advantage of being young, when you are older, you will definitely have to help the family, and you will have less time for free activities, and in this time and space, women get married at a very young age, they start to get engaged at the age of thirteen or fourteen, and they basically get married at the age of fifteen, which makes Chen Yu not so much want to grow up.
When I came to the yard, I looked at the hens who were looking for food, everyone was doing their own things, and the village was also a peaceful scene.
It's a pity that this small mountain village is relatively closed, the farthest people go is a small town, their ancestors have lived in this place for generations, no one has ever gone out at all, and after many years of peace, there are no people who even join the army, so the outside world, Chen Yu can't know from the people in the village at all.
Even the most knowledgeable village chief, in this small mountain village, still does not know what is going on outside. I don't know what kind of world this world is, although it seems that this village is an ordinary small mountain village, but maybe there is something different outside.
Maybe there will be the martial arts that Chen Yu longed for when he used to read novels? Or an even more magical immortal cultivator? Although it is unlikely, Chen Yu is still very yearning, in the outside world, Chen Yu doesn't want to live a lifetime, just live a lifetime in this small mountain village.
Moreover, Chen Yu's lifespan will increase as his ability level increases, and even if he wants to live here for a lifetime, it is unlikely. However, he didn't know anything about the situation in the outside world, and it didn't seem to be very good, Chen Yu decided, when he was a little older, he would go to the town to inquire, after all, there were many businessmen from other places in the town, and those people must know the situation outside.
Because of the separation, Chen Yu's family's newly built yard still looks bare, Chen Yu's father, Chen Tiezhu went to the mountain to dig a few fruit trees, an osmanthus tree, which makes the yard not look so empty. Chen Yu's mother has already asked Aunt Li next door to help hatch a nest of chicks, and when there are chicks in the yard, it will be a little more lively.
Now that the family has just separated, the seeds have been planted in the field, so there is no need to worry, my mother has sprinkled some vegetable seeds in the yard, and soon she will be able to eat the vegetables grown by her family. Because there is not much work to do now, the children are very free, and Chen Yu's sisters went to play with their friends early in the morning.
Only the youngest Chen Yu was left, and because he was young, he couldn't go out. Although Chen Yu now knows that he is no worse than those older children, and his strength is not much better than that of adults, in order not to be regarded as a monster, he can only hang around in the yard.
It's a pity that there is nothing else in the yard except the hens brought from grandma, so boring. Occasionally you can see birds flying by, Chen Yu is sitting on a small stool, his eyes are purring, I don't know what the hell he is thinking, now there is only his mother and Chen Yu in the house, and his mother is sewing clothes in the room, and she will not come out in a short time, so Chen Yu thought, can he secretly go out to play for a while?
As soon as the idea popped up, I couldn't stop it. Look at your little arms and legs, if you want to walk to the opposite mountain, I'm afraid it will take a lot of time, if you are discovered, it will be miserable. And there is a river not far away, now that the winter has passed, the river has already melted, the river is turbulent, if the adults find themselves going to such a dangerous place, will they not be able to get out in the future?
But reason is reason, action is action, Chen Yu comforted himself, as long as he was careful and came back quickly, then nothing would happen to him. Even if you are discovered, you can say that you are playing nearby, so you shouldn't have an accident, right?