Chapter 168: The War Ends
"Little Yingchun, my aunt will take you out to bask in the sun!" The half-year-old baby is very cute, not only the aunts and sisters-in-law in the village like to tease her, but the children also like to come together to see this cute little sister.
Yao Huang had just carried Yingchun to the courtyard for half an hour, and Xiao Ke came back with Guan Nianen. Xiao Ke is about to turn six years old, because of exercise, he looks like an eight- or nine-year-old child, and he will no longer have the malnourished appearance when Yao Huang just wore it, although his facial features are immature, they have also grown a little, and they are very delicate, it can be expected that Xiao Ke Baozi must be a beautiful man comparable to Pan An when he grows up. Guan Nianen is two years old, and Cuihua's sister-in-law gave birth to a son last year, so she doesn't have much energy to take care of her. This child is very sensible, he doesn't cry or make trouble, and sometimes the adults are too busy, and he will help coax the little brother. The well-behaved performance made the Yao sisters like to pity them very much, and they also took more care of them. The little girl is very smart, and she knows that the Yao family treats her well, and she is much closer to the Yao family than to other villagers, and often follows Xiao Ke and becomes his little tail.
"Auntie, when will my sister be able to talk to us?" Guan Nianen teased Yingchun with a rag doll made of bright broken steps, making her giggle. The little girl was disappointed that the little baby couldn't call her sister and couldn't help but ask.
"The baby will not be able to speak until he is one or a half years old, and Yingchun is only half a year old now, so you can wait for half a year." It was Xiao Ke who answered the question, with a little expression of "I know everything", which was very cute.
Yao Huang was amused in his heart and praised him: "Yes, Xiao Ke is right." It seems that Xiao Ke's reading is not in vain, in order to reward you, I will make you steamed pork ribs for you at noon today. ”
Xiao Ke was overjoyed: "Xie Lu Xie Aunt!" ”
Nian'en flapped her eyes wide. looked at Xiao Ke enviously. Yao Huang smiled slightly. Take two pieces of candy corn out of your purse and give them to the two children. Nian Eun happily took the candy corn. Immediately put the envy just now behind me.
Yao Huang was funny in his heart, he was still a child.
Corn sugar is boiled by grinding corn ballast, which is similar to maltose, but wheat is less in quantity than corn, and the price is expensive, so the cost of corn sugar is naturally lower than maltose. A year ago, after food support was provided to people from other villages, it was just enough for the family's food rations. Yao Huang doesn't waste food by making corn candy; That is, this year's grain harvest was abundant, and the people in other villages also had enough food to feed them, so Yao Huang would boil a little corn candy for the children to make snacks.
"Good news, big news, great news!" Yao Qing ran into the village with a few half-grown children of Erhuzi shouting all the way, and the cry was so loud that the birds on the branches flew into the air, and they didn't dare to fall down.
"Xiaoqing, what's your name? What's the good news? Yao Huang put Yingchun on the chair and let the two little ones take a good look at her. I walked to the gate of the courtyard and asked my brother loudly.
Yao Qing and his gang of boys couldn't stay idle all day long, plus they practiced kung fu. With their skills, these boys often sneak out into the woods to find out the outside world.
"Second sister. The Zhou Dynasty and the Xia Kingdom have ceased war! The war is over! The imperial court has sent people to help the displaced people return to their hometowns and settle down! Yao Qing replied loudly, "Sister, I won't tell you more, we still have to tell the village chief uncle about the news." ”
This is indeed good news! Yao Huang waved his hand and asked Yao Qing to quickly report the news to the village chief's uncle.
When the village chief received the news, he immediately gathered all the villagers from the outer and inner villages together and announced the good news.
"The imperial court wants to help the refugees return to their hometowns and settle down, what are you going to do?" The village chief asked all the villagers from the outer villages.
After the villagers from the other villages gathered to discuss in a whisper, an elderly representative spoke: "Village chief, we don't want to go back to our hometown. The environment and life here are even better than our previous lives, we don't want to leave, please take us in and let us be official villagers of Qingshui Village! ”
The other villagers from other villages echoed each other, and the village chief discussed with several respected village elders, and finally decided to take the villagers from other villages into the village. So the formation between the outer village and the inner village no longer existed, Yao Huang took out the spirit stones scattered around the village, and the transformed mountain disappeared without a trace in the eyes of everyone. Yao Huang didn't take out the Earth Spirit Bead, and Qingshui Village was still a large Spirit Gathering Array. Not only the inner villages have benefited, but the outer villages have also received a small number of benefits. Crops grow rapidly and produce twice as much as an average field. When the people from other villages harvested the grain, they were stunned by such an output, and under the joy, they were naturally reluctant to leave Qingshui Village. The formation in the woods has also been canceled, but Yao Huang only moved the trees in the eye of the formation one meter away, if there is a disaster in Qingshui Village in the future, the villagers can transplant the big trees to the eye of the formation, and the big array can be reformed.
Without the barrier of the formation, the villagers were able to enter and exit the grove freely, and they reopened their fields on the wasteland outside the woods. The fields in the outer villages originally belonged to the villagers in the inner villages, and the villagers in the inner villages could not only cultivate the little land in the village, and it was the duty of farmers to cultivate a variety of fields. Now that the fields are planted by people from other villages, it is inconvenient for the villagers in the inner villages to take back the source of livelihood of the people in the outer villages at once, so they rent the fields to the villagers of the other villages, and open up a few acres of new fields outside the woods. The villagers in the outer villages also wanted to have their own fields, so they also stepped out of the groves and opened new fields next to the fields of the villagers in the inner villages. The newly opened fields were only thin fields, and could not be planted with rice and wheat, so the people had to focus on potatoes, sweet potatoes and peanuts first, and then when the fields were fertilized two or three years later, they could grow other food crops.
When the officials sent by the imperial court came to the outside of Qingshui Village, they saw a scene of labor in full swing. Unlike the people of other villages, who were suffering and uncertain about the future, the people of this village were full of hope and even began to cultivate and produce on their own without waiting for the help of the imperial court. What surprised him the most was that these villagers were all ruddy and plump, and there was no skinny and gray appearance of the other victims. How did they escape this catastrophe?
The officials kept their doubts in their hearts, and led their officials to help the villagers keep records of the newly developed fields and issue land deeds to the villagers. The village chief accompanied the official, listening to the official's intentional or unintentional investigation of the secret of the village's integrity, and secretly wondered in his heart, which really made Mr. Wenren expect it.
"Our Qingshui Village has been able to survive thanks to this grove outside the village." The village chief sighed and said, "This forest was originally a formation, and it usually looks no different from the ordinary woods, if there is a military disaster or the village is in danger, you can move the position of a few trees, and the formation can immediately exert its power to prevent outsiders from entering the village!" (To be continued......)