It is very difficult for the Tian family to open a few hundred acres of land before the end of March, and it is too late to plow the fields and pull out the weeds. After the summer solstice, he came up with a way to ask someone for help. Find a few familiar families in the village to help open up the wasteland, no one in the Tian family has five cents a day, and lunch is covered by the Tian family. Xia Zhi lamented that the labor force in this era was really cheap.

The Tian family is not very willing in their hearts, who do the farmers invite, aren't they all busy with their own hard work, but these hundreds of acres of land they are not busy at the end of March, in order not to delay the planting of seedlings, they have to nod and agree, this is not a hundred acres of land in Xujiaji, the family can come out in a hurry, this is hundreds of acres of land, although the wild grass on it has withered yellow, but it has been panicking for so many years, and it is not a matter of hard work to get it out. They themselves know the Tao, so they can't do it, Xia Zhi said to invite people, and they didn't dare to have an opinion.

On the same day, Tian Laosi went out to find someone, and the next day, he saw more than 20 people either carrying shovels, or carrying hoes, or carrying plowshares, and people with sickles came to the door of Tian's house, led by Tian Laosi to the wasteland, Lao Luotou couldn't be idle, and now life is satisfactory, the four brothers of the Tian family don't let him do any work, he proposed to be a supervisor, and no one objected. He swayed behind the group, and also carried a shovel on his shoulder, Xia Zhi thought to himself, this grandpa pretended to be a supervisor, but in fact, it was an excuse to be idle and to go out.

Tian Laosi and Tian Laosan each carried a plow on their shoulders and a cow in their hands, and also followed everyone to the wasteland. Although I invited someone, some things are still convenient with cows.

Here Tian Lao Si and they went to the field, and over there Li and they cooked at home. There was a lot of lunch for more than 20 people. Fortunately, the Tian family now has a lot of inventory. Ma Shang sent a part, there are also vegetables in the Tian family's old house, plus the pickles made by the Li family with several daughters-in-law last winter, there are more than four dishes in one meal, and there are one or two meat dishes. Because it was work, Li cooked rice according to the amount of two large porcelain bowls of rice for one person.

When it was time to eat at noon, seeing everyone gobbling up, the Li family was scared. I was afraid that the rice I cooked would not be enough, but fortunately, everyone gobbled up the first bowl of rice, and when they waited for the second bowl, they slowed down, and when they finished eating two bowls of rice, everyone was already very full. Li's heart was put down, all the people invited were from Tianjia Village, and they were all related to each other, and this first meal was full, and the Tian family didn't know what it was like to be said to be at that time.

More than 20 people, together with Tian Laosi, Tian Laosan, Lao Luotou and two cows, were busy for seven or eight days, and finally reclaimed the wasteland in front of Shili Mountain. Looking at the neat fields one by one, the summer solstice was happy from the bottom of my heart. It's all food, it's all money! At the same time, the carpenter also sent 20 water treading wheels ordered for the summer solstice.

When the carpenter delivered the water cart to Tian's house, he was very excited, and he couldn't wait to see the effect of the water cart immediately. Xia Zhi looked down at the waterwheel, and found that the carpenter's craftsmanship was really not built, and if he wanted to do it well, it was not much worse than modern times.

In order to satisfy the carpenter's wishes, in the afternoon of the same day, Tian Laosi and his family set up the waterwheel at the water's edge, and the Tian family stood on the waterwheel, including several children of the Tian family. When the summer solstice was ordered, everyone began to tread water wheels in unison, and the people of Tianjia Village gathered in a circle to watch them busy. At first, everyone didn't know what the Tian family was doing, and then they saw the water pumped from the river to the field, and everyone knew that the Tian family had come up with a way to pump the water from the low to the high place, and now the family is testing the water car.

Seeing the streams of water being pumped into the wasteland, everyone was very surprised, and they didn't know what they were stepping on on the summer solstice, and they could actually pump the water from the low places to the high places. The curious one even stood on the other ten taels of waterwheels at Xia Zhi's house and stepped on the waterwheel violently. Looking at the people who went up to tread water just now, playing while treading water, the onlookers were bold, the lively people in the village were unwilling, the Tian family was embarrassed to urge people to come down, but the people who went up just now, they would not be embarrassed, the three urges and four urges were less, and some people directly dragged people off the waterwheel and stepped on it themselves.

After a day like this, the summer solstice found that by the time it was dark, the Tian family's hundreds of acres of dry land had been irrigated, and the water man stood in it to the calf, and sure enough, the strength of the masses was strong. Although the summer solstice is afraid that after a night, the water will be eaten into the soil, at least half of it will be less, but isn't there still tomorrow. There are still many people in Tianjia Village who have not stepped on it, especially some children, who must be able to plant rice on hundreds of acres of land one day.

After opening the panic, after pouring water, the next step began to worry about transplanting seedlings, at this time the seedlings planted by the Tian family have been bought one after another, Tian Laosi They have to take care of the seedlings at home, and on the other hand, they have to take care of the seedling planting in the field and the land of Xujiaji. Fortunately, Tian Meihua and Liu Tiezhu went back to Tian's house to help, and the busy situation improved slightly, but it didn't get any better, the Tian family's hundreds of acres of land to be planted, and Xujiaji's land to plow. Tian Laosi: They are busy like a spinning top all day long.

Xia Zhi looked at Tian Laosi, who was tired and paralyzed when he went back every night, and really felt sorry for him and a few uncles, and the next day he said that he wanted to hire someone to plant seedlings, so that Tian Laosi and them could take care of the seedlings at home and the land of Xujiaji, and let others be busy with the hundreds of acres of land in Tianjia Village. Otherwise, this is really unbearable, Tian Laosi and the other three brothers rested all night, and their waists were still bent, not to mention that Lao Luo was old, and he had been beating his waist with his hands in the past few days. But there is no way to do it for the sake of the family's work, and several people have been enduring it.

Now the Tian family has no other expenses, and they didn't earn a few hundred taels because of fish and vegetables all winter, and there are still dozens of taels. So they can still afford to pay for it. It's just that Lao Luotou's thinking has not been changed, the last time he invited someone was to not delay the farming, and now there is still a long time for farming, they think they can, as long as they are in a hurry, they will definitely be busy.

If it has been in this state, Xia Zhi estimates that a few people will be tired before the farm work is finished, so she has to hire someone to plant rice anyway. The idea of the summer solstice is different from them, this money is naturally to live a good life, otherwise why do you want so much money, if you don't bring it to life, you don't bring it with you. The last family couldn't resist the summer solstice, and promised the fields of Tianjia Village to hire people to plant seedlings.

This time, they hired people to give ten cents per person on the summer solstice, but it didn't include lunch, and the Tian family didn't have idlers to stay at home to cook, and the Li family couldn't wait to finish the work in the fields early without eating all day long. However, the people of Tianjia Village are now busy with their family's work, but no one wants to lose their farm work, and it is not worth it to earn a few hard-earned money but lose their own jobs, so this time Tian Jiadong looked for the west and finally found half of the people last time, but the summer solstice is also content.

At the end of March, Tian Juhua and Zhao Changlin also returned to Tian's house, and things were much easier, but the seedlings of the Tian family were sold out in a few days, and the seedlings of hundreds of acres of land were also planted. Just check the fields from time to time for leaks or any livestock that are harming the crops. From time to time, the Tian family would go to the water truck to water the dry land. In general, in early April, the Tian family began to be idle.

The Tian family rested, Tian Chrysanthemum and Tian Meihua wanted to go home, but they were stopped by the Li family, what are you kidding, you are busy and don't leave, now you have to go when you are free, you have to rest at the Tian family, and you can only leave when you grow meat. Xia Zhi nodded in agreement with Li's words, he was busy with his work, and now that he is finally free, he should rest for a few more days.

This time to sell seedlings, in general, the Tian family's income is not bad, nearly a dozen taels of silver in the account.

However, spring is destined to be a busy season, and so the Tian family rested for two days, the fry in the Tian family's fish pond are about to start giving birth, and this year's summer solstice intends to expand production, so Li took a few daughters-in-law to start planting vegetables, and the four brothers of the Tian family, including two sons-in-law and Lao Luotou, began to dig two more ponds. It is said that the matter of the Tian family's fish farming has already spread in Tianjia Village, and some people imitate the Tian family's fish farming, but I don't know if the way he raises fish is wrong, or the luck is not good, so that the fish are all sick and die. He didn't want to ask the Tian family, so he had to give up, and when he saw the result of that person, he also made up his mind, feeling that fish farming is not just anyone's business.

The pond is dug well, and the water is busy into the pond, and then there is the problem of fish fry, although the summer solstice leaves more fish species, but compared to the newly dug two ponds are still a little few. Therefore, in those days, the people of Tianjia Village could see the men of the Tian family everywhere holding all kinds of tools, fishing for fish fry in various sections of the front and back rivers of Tianjia Village.

When the problem of fish fry was finally solved, and it was time to buy livestock for another year, the four brothers of the Tian family rushed to Niangniang Town to buy livestock non-stop. The Tian family built a new house, and all the livestock also built a circle, what chicken pen, duck pen, cow pen, pigsty ......, anyway, the place where the livestock stayed, the Tian family built, and it was not small. So Tian Laosi and the others came back, and the two ox carts were full of mouths, and the number was more than last year.

Xia Zhi looked at such a lively scene, and couldn't help but support his forehead, saying that this livestock thing, but it was not Xia Zhi who wanted to do this, Xia Zhi felt that the Tian family now had an income, and there was no need to rely on these livestock to make money, and the family could raise something to eat by themselves. But Li felt that it was empty, and there were so many people at home, it was better to feed more livestock if he was idle. If you don't sell it, it's good to eat at home, it's better than spending money to buy it. (To be continued......)