Chapter 54: Another Foolishness
In the end, Xiao Ding made an appointment with Second Uncle Niu and asked Second Uncle Niu to find as many people as possible and complete it as soon as possible. It is estimated that fifty people will be needed, so you might as well recruit him sixty.
You don't have to worry about wages, you can settle the accounts every ten years or half a month, and let Uncle Niu remember the accounts. And Xiaoding also promised that starting tomorrow, he could provide a free lunch for the workers. And asked Second Uncle Niu to divide a few people today, first build a simple shed next to the construction site, and build two stoves in it, which will be used for cooking and stir-frying when the time comes.
Second Uncle Niu nodded in agreement, and then happily went to the wasteland to direct the villagers to work.
After Second Uncle Niu left, Tian Dabao came over from the side and asked Xiao Ding, "How much land did you buy?" How can you do such a big project? ”
Xiao Ding replied truthfully.
Tian Dabao twitched when he heard the old face, and complained in his heart, this fool didn't know that he was distressed about money at all.
But he didn't say anything in the end. After all, he didn't earn much money for spending, he had become a waste, and he still had to rely on these children to live his life in the future.
Xiaoya, Xiao'e, Erniu, Xiaofu and Xiaozhu'er, listening to Xiaoding say that the land in the west and the small hills behind will all be their own homes in the future, and they are all so happy.
Xiao Ding found a large wooden barrel, poured all the wild fruits picked from the mountain into the wooden barrel and washed them one by one, and picked out the insects or damaged fruits and threw them away.
"Big brother, these fruits are sour and astringent and can't be eaten, why are you picking so much?" Xiao Fu asked strangely on the side.
"I'm going to try making some wine out of these fruits." Xiao Ding replied that in fact, when he saw these wild fruits yesterday, he remembered the past when he picked wild fruits and made wine with everyone on that desert island before he crossed over.
Making fruit wine is actually very simple, dry the washed fruit, chop it, and put it in a clean jar, and not a drop of water can be left in the jar. Put a layer of fruit in the jar, sprinkle with a layer of sugar, and put the fruit ...... until it fills most of the jar. Then seal the jar and put it in a dry place to wait for fermentation.
Generally, it takes as little as one or two months, and at most about half a year, and the fruit wine can be brewed.
When Xiao Ding bought seasonings in the county seat before, he also bought a lot of white sugar by the way, but the white sugar in this era was not so pure, slightly yellow, not pure white.
The jar was also bought together with the last time I bought pots and pans. Xiao Ding found an idle one, washed it, and left it aside, just waiting for the fruit and jar to dry before proceeding to the next step.
Then, Xiao Ding went into the house to check Zhao Laixi's injuries. Zhao Laixi is in good shape today, he drank some chicken soup left over from last night in the morning, ate a few pieces of meat, and recovered a lot of physical strength. He can already walk slowly on his own, but his body is still a little weak.
Xiao Ding grabbed Zhao Laixi's pulse and secretly injected him with some spiritual power to help him recover from his injuries. In fact, without hurting the muscles and bones, skin trauma is very easy to heal. Zhao Laixi was mainly due to blood loss and being exposed to rain, which caused his body to be weak and needed to be nourished and raised for a few days.
Seeing that Zhao Laixi was fine, Xiao Ding found the iron rod in the backyard and walked towards the small hill.
As soon as I walked to the front yard, I saw someone outside the courtyard walking in the direction of Luoxia Mountain.
Today, he has found several waves of Jianghu people who are going to Luoxia Mountain. Not all of them rode horses, but some walked in pairs. Most of them are wearing strong suits, cloaks or big hats, with portable weapons, and they are dressed as Jianghu people.
Jianghu people like to wear cloaks because they walk outside all year round, often miss villages and towns, and when they spend the night in the wilderness, there is a cloak that can be used as a quilt to cover their bodies to keep out the cold.
Of course, some of these people wear ordinary clothes, but from the weapons they carry and the momentum on their bodies, it can also be seen that they are Jianghu people.
Xiao Ding Xin said, what kind of treasure is it that makes so many people go to Luoxia Mountain?
Xiao Ding ignored these people and went straight to the small hill.
In front of the entrances of the two caves, Xiao Ding used his spiritual power, brandished a big stick, and smashed it all over the place. It was almost noon, and finally two and a half people's high holes were smashed.
At this point, the man bends down and can get into the hole. Xiao Ding went into the hole and checked.
It was found that the inside of these two caves is not small. The cave with water on the east side has a space about the size of a room, and in the middle of the hole, there is a bubbling splash of water, as if there is still a little heat, and it looks like a hot spring.
And the hole on the west side, where there was no water, had a space the size of three rooms. There is also a flat stone platform, which looks like a natural stone bed.
The light in the cave is limited, and when Xiao Ding looked carefully, he found that there was a cave in the sky around the stone platform and towards the innermost part of the west side. Behind a boulder, there is a cave the size of a room. The two holes are connected like two houses are connected.
This dry cave is completely inhabitable when cleaned up inside. And the cave with spring water, after the drainage ditch is built, dig it well, and dig out the whole spring, so that you don't have to worry about domestic water.
So, Xiao Ding got out of the cave, planned the drainage route again, and the route of the mountain road, and marked them separately, and then went down the mountain to go home for lunch.
In the afternoon, Xiao Ding chopped the wild fruits, sprinkled them with rosewood, sealed them in a jar, and put them in the corner of the shed where he cooked in the backyard. Then I was busy cleaning the caves and planning the various areas of the wasteland and small hills.
By the evening, when the workers had dispersed, he had returned home. On this day, he saw on the mountain that on the road to Luoxia County, many people also came to Luoxia Mountain.
That night, the Mei sisters did not come back to live. Xiao Ding couldn't help but be a little worried.
He knew that although the two sisters had good martial arts, they were new to the rivers and lakes, and their experience was still shallow, and it was easy to suffer when they encountered bad guys.
Although he is not related to them, he has nothing to do with them. But because I appreciate the chivalrous and righteous behavior of the two women in my heart, they also have a two-sided relationship with themselves, so I am a little worried about them.
Dinner was stewed with hare meat. Of course, the hare was easily hit by Xiaoding when he went down the mountain.
When he went down the mountain today, Xiao Ding found a lot of common herbs on the small hill. For example, plantain, foxglove, purslane, nightshade, spiny weed, arthrobus, dandelion, xanthus and so on. In fact, these plants are often seen in the fields of rural areas, but most people do not know that these plants can be used in medicine.
However, these herbs are not worth much, and they are found almost everywhere in the countryside. Generally, Langyu will pick it himself.
Most pharmacies will have their own medicine gardens, or have long-term fixed supply of medicine farmers. Moreover, some kinds of wild grasses and wild vegetables, although they can be used medicinally, are not irreplaceable. For the same conditions, some other kinds of herbs may have stronger medicinal properties than these weeds and herbs.
Xiao Ding knew herbal medicine because when he was a child before the crossing, his grandfather was a village doctor, and at that time he learned a lot of common medicinal materials from his grandfather and mother, and he also read a lot of medical books after going to school, but he did not systematically study medicine.
Thinking of before the crossing, Xiao Ding couldn't help but feel sad, and he didn't know what happened to his mother in the original world. Since that plane accident, I have been stranded on a desert island and have never seen my mother again......
Xiao Ding was sad, and suddenly the second girl pulled his arm next to him: "Xianggong, what's wrong with you?" ”
Xiao Ding hurriedly regained his mind, and saw that everyone in the family was looking at him with bowls, so he hurriedly said, "It's okay, it's okay!" He lowered his head and continued to eat.
Everyone didn't speak again, Li sighed, and said in his heart, this fool is guilty of stupidity again......