The little sister ran in the field with her feet scattered, running back and forth several times, sweating all over.

"Brother, is this land really given to our family?"

The fifth sister's face was flushed and full of excitement.

"Well, this land will be our family from now on." Luo Feng sat on the ridge and looked at this flat land, which belonged to him, a full twenty acres.

"Great, then our family has 80 acres of land, such a good piece, we can harvest a lot of more grain a year." The little sister wrenched her fingers and calculated how much she could increase production in a year by adding so much land.

However, Luo Feng knew very well that even if these twenty acres of good land were added, the Luo family's life would not improve much. In this era, the productivity was low, the water and fertilizer were insufficient, the land had to be cultivated in rotation, the lack of fertilizer and water, and the lack of large livestock The land could not be ploughed deeply, so that the yield was extremely low.

Don't look at 80 acres of land, but not only to take out part of the mulberry and hemp, but also to rotate, and because of the lack of water and fertilizer, the land can only be planted for one season, and the yield per mu is about one stone.

Eighty acres of land, it is already very difficult to receive fifty stones a year, and the Luo family has to pay at least fifteen stones a year just to pay the rent and grain of the righteous warehouse, and the remaining thirty-five stones or so have to pay some other apportionments in addition to rations, and the daily expenses of the family.

The peasants are miserable.

Even in the best years of the emperor's reign, in fact, the people could barely eat and dress at most.

And now, under the rule of the Son of Heaven, who is ambitious, life is getting harder and harder day by day.

"In addition, this land can be irrigated near the canal, and we can grow wheat, which is much higher than that of millet.

The yield of wheat is higher than that of millet, but it requires water to grow wheat, while the Luojia at the foot of Changbai Mountain is mainly based on dry land on the slopes, so it can only grow millet that is relatively resistant to drought, but the yield of millet is extremely low.

But even if you plant wheat, the extra buckets won't change anything.

"Little sister, in the future, our family will have more and more fields, and there will be 100 acres or even 1,000 acres of fertile land, and there will be no shortage of food and clothing."

"Brother, I believe in you." The little sister took Luo Feng's arm and said with admiration, the fifth brother is a capable person, and now he has already done fast catching, and after he came back, he brought so much money back, and let her eat several full meals.

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When she got home, the little sister took the initiative to lead the black horse to the edge of the village to graze.

Luo Feng entered the door with bacon, eggs, and deerskin, but saw Xiao Liu walking out with his horizontal knife.

"What are you going for?"

"Fifth brother, I have something urgent, I'll talk back to you."

Seeing that he was in a hurry, and he also carried a knife, how could Luo Feng rest assured, he dragged him down, Xiao Liu's strength was as strong as a cow, and he almost didn't hold it yet.

"Stop talking."

With a black face, Xiao Liu was still suppressed by his brother.

"Say, where are you going with the knife?"

"I didn't go anywhere, so I went out and played." Xiao Liu lowered his head and didn't dare to look at Luo Feng.

"You lied to me? If you lie as soon as you hit the young, you don't dare to look up and tell the truth. ”

"Wang Laogui caught Du Da and Fusan, hung them at the head of the village and beat them, and said that he would pull them to the mountain and hang them on the trees in a while, waiting for the wolves to eat." Xiao Liu raised his head, his eyes red and said.

"Tell me slowly, what the hell is going on?"

Xiao Liu's words were a little messy, but Luo Feng still figured out the facts.

Du Da and Fu San are Xiao Liu's playmates and friends, Xiao Liu usually herds cattle for the rich man's house next door, while Fu San herds sheep for the rich man's family, and Du Da herds pigs for the rich man's house.

The rich man's house is next door to Wangzhuang, and he is also the uncle of the chief of the king, and he is considered to be the number one rich man in Changbai Township, with thousands of acres of fertile land, and there is a mill in the mill, and there are many cattle, sheep and pigs at home.

However, although the rich man has money, he has always been more picky, usually everyone has something to borrow a debt from him, although he will borrow, but the interest is extremely high, and he can't pay it off, so he wants someone to sell his son and daughter to pay off his wife and daughter, so he has a notoriety of a king old ghost.

Xiaoliu helps this old ghost Wang to herd cattle, that is, there is only one meal a day, and then only two buckets of wages in a month, saying that it is herding cattle, but he usually calls Xiaoliu to do this and that, the same as his family worker.

Fu San and Du Da are poor teenagers from other villages, Fu San has an aunt or a concubine of Wang Lao Ghost, the three teenagers are about the same age, they are all eleven or twelve years old, so they became friends, usually the same as the three brothers, the sixth is the oldest, so it is the eldest brother, the third year is slightly second, Du Da is the youngest, and he became the third brother.

The three teenagers are all children of poor families, but the conditions of the Luo family and the auxiliary family are slightly better, after all, they are self-cultivated farmers, and the Du family is more difficult, his father was a government soldier in his early years, and later became a deserter on the battlefield, and he disappeared, so the military government took back the land he gave his father, and even the house property was taken away.

Leaving their orphans and widows with a young sister helpless, they built a broken thatched hut by the Nanxi River to settle down, Du's mother usually made some money by doing some handymen, and Du Da also came out early to herd pigs for the Wang family.

Some time ago, Du's mother was sick, and she couldn't get up to do things for more than a month, and her family was out of cooking. Du Da looked for the rich man Wang and wanted to go home in advance, but the old ghost Wang refused, he said that Du Da and his wife had borrowed grain from him several times, and the old accounts had not been repaid, and this time the debts were not paid.

The third assistant is a more righteous person, seeing Du Da's situation, he quietly stole one of his sheep in the middle of the night and killed it, and took the mutton to the Du's thatched shed.

Du Da's family of three has been hungry for a few days, who cares where this sheep came from, eat it first.

There was one less sheep, and the Wang family soon found out, and finally found out that Fu San stole the sheep and ate it with the Du family, so Wang Lao Ghost Zhuang Ding caught Fu San and Du Da and hung them and whipped them, and said that they would be sent into the mountains to feed the wolves.

"Fu San is quite righteous, but what are you doing with my knife now, you want to cut people?"

"Fifth brother, I can't let them send Du Da and Fusan into the mountains to feed the wolves, I have been good brothers with them, and we have worshiped together." Xiao Liu said with red eyes.

Luo Feng laughed a few times, usually Xiaoliu looks stupid, he can't imagine that he is still a brother with his playmate, and he can be so righteous when something happens, this is a friend who is neck-to-neck, but he looks down on this younger brother a little.

"Silly brother, there are many ways to solve things, if you go directly with a knife, that's just the stupidest and worst one, even if you have a knife, it's just alone, how many people can you win? And have you thought about it, even if you win against the people of the Wang family, but they report to the official to investigate it, you still can't run away. ”

"Fifth brother, but I can't watch them being fed to wolves."

Luo Feng patted his stupid brother, "Do you believe my brother?" ”

"Faith!"

"It's good to believe it, leave this matter to the fifth brother to do, you put the horizontal knife back in the house first, and then you take me to the Wang family, and I will help you save Du Da and Fusan."