Summer is the season of enthusiasm. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

When we think of summer, we think of ice cream, watermelon, short skirts, beautiful legs, swimsuits, snow-white skin, beautiful women in the streets and alleys, and of course, we can't forget the sun that hangs high in the sky and exudes light and heat.

In Ireland, however, none of these things seem to exist.

In Ireland, even summer highs don't exceed 25°C, so it's not uncommon to slip on a coat when you go out in the Irish summer.

But this summer, the serfs can no longer feel the coolness of summer, on the contrary, their sweat flows from their foreheads to the upper body of the ****, and they are dry under the sun, wet and dry, dry and wet, sweat can't stop dripping, and finally it turns into white salt grains on their bodies, however, even if it is so hard, the serfs are still smiling.

They were smiling.

"Click-"

Little Odegar, who had been hoeing for three hours in a row, was out of breath and had to rest a little by leaning on the handle of the hoe, but when he looked up in his leisure time, he saw the sight of his father, the 'lucky' old Odega, in his thirties in this vast expanse of uncultivated land, which was now in his thirties, a time when the average age of a peasant was only twenty-eight.

Old Odegar was slumped up, and his perennial toil, and his habit of bowing his waist when he saw the nobles, made his body no longer stand up. But old Odega was not convinced of the 'old', even though he now looked no different from a sixty-year-old man, but he did no less work than the young and vigorous little Odega, and he seemed to be able to do it without any tiredness.

Next to Odegar was his wife, an old woman with a waist and chest circumference, who did not make people feel good. However, although this old woman was not good-looking, she was still irreplaceable in the heart of little Odega-not only because she was little Odega's mother, but also because of her devotion to little Odega--the broad waistline was not because of how good her life was, but because she had eaten grass roots and bark all year round.

And the reason why she eats grass root bark all year round is just to save a bite of bread for little Odega, who is growing his body.

Behind little Odegar was his five-year-old brother, who was holding a crockpot in his hand, as if he were holding the most precious treasure in the world, and the earthen pot contained the seeds that he would protect even if he risked his life.

Compared with normal children, little Odega's younger brother is seriously poorly developed, and his dry hands and skinny skin can see the traces left by the hardships of life. But this child, this five-year-old child, he was never naughty, he was far more mature than his peers - not because he was a genius, but because the hardships of life forced a child who should have been innocent into this way.

In addition, little Odega had an older sister, but she was married to another serf on the same estate, and was now also working in the fields.

This is a typical serf family, a family of five, maybe more, two or three sons, and several daughters, forever struggling on the lifeline of famine, brushing shoulders with death every night when they sleep, living for a day, and never seeing hope.

But now, in this place that is so dark that it is almost impossible to breathe, and it is so eerie that it is suffocating, there is a ray of light.

That's the land.

Land land land land land land

People who have never been hungry will never know the preciousness of land, which can grow food, feed a family, and no longer let mothers strangle their children with tears!

A piece of land, in this era, is worth all that any serf has to pursue.

When the Earl of Little Don offered to take some children as students, the elder Odega was the first to send out the little Odega, not because of how prescient he was, but because the little Count Don promised that when the little Odegar graduated, he would become a respected free man and get a piece of land.

And now, when the Count of Don Jr. had come up with the idea of 'bringing goods to the household,' old Odegar had become one of the first to eat crabs, and his gamble had been paid off handsomely—a whole thirty acres of fertile virgin land to be cultivated!

At that time, the old Odegar drew a charge, and borrowed an iron hoe and sickle from the Count of Little Tang on the spot, and had to go to the field to open up the wasteland all night - because the contract of the Count of Little Tang took into account that the peasants would open up the wasteland, and the calculation of the first year would only start next year, so although the spring plowing season has passed now, it is still barely able to catch the last train of autumn wheat when you hurry up, and this season's grain harvest is all your own!

Although the elder Odegar had never learned arithmetic, let alone what mathematics was, his innate instinct immediately made him discover this loophole and take advantage of it.

However, despite the enthusiasm and sincerity of old Odega, the little Count Tang still stopped old Odegar and solemnly told him: "You must not open up the wasteland at night, let alone run out to work at night secretly, otherwise you will be punished."

Of course, this is not because Count Don is stupid, but because in this day and age, the attitude of wasteland, especially jungles or forests, towards humans is far from friendly.

Wild wolves, cunning hyenas, and snakes and poisonous scorpions that hide in the shadows, each and every one of them can be called the great enemies of mankind - especially wild wolves and hyenas, in this era of war and dead corpses everywhere, they have tasted the deliciousness of human flesh, and they do not want to taste it all the time.

Count Tang didn't want the serfs he had worked so hard to sign a contract to die half of them when he was clearing the wasteland, that would be too uneconomical! Even if you die, you have to create the most value for me, and contribute enough taxes to die!

Therefore, Count Don Jr. made it a rule that the daily clearing of the land should only begin after the sun rises, and must end before the sun sets, and at the same time, the Count of Don Jr. sent out his pikemen, who had just frightened Prince Tad, to patrol the area to prevent any unsightly animals.

On the first day of land reclamation, a fire burned brightly.

This fire is mainly burned with weeds and dead branches, these weeds and dead branches are the most annoying, and even worse than the trees that grow everywhere, because you can still cut down the trees, but you can only rely on manpower to pull out the weeds and dead branches.

The fire burned for two days, that is, on the third day. The first thing to do after the fire was extinguished, the Earl of Little Tang was to have the white powder left behind by the burning of the weeds and dead branches, that is, the ashes of the plants and trees—as long as they were mixed with a little water, this was a fine fertilizer, and it could not be wasted.

Then it's time to cut down the trees, which are much easier to cut down because they're almost scorched, and it doesn't take much effort to cut them down. These trees that were cut down were also not wasted, Count Tang asked them to be stored temporarily, there is no water in these trees, and it is just right to make paper, besides, even if it can't be used to make paper, it is good to use it for chopping as firewood!

When everything above the horizon is cleared, and all that's left is the most stubborn and tiring, and it's time to turn the floor.

Because there were trees growing in this wasteland before, the roots of the trees were planted deep in the ground, as if one hand held all the surrounding soil, which not only made it difficult to plough the ground, but also made the texture of the land very tight, and hoeing the ground was very tiring.

But this land, it had to be turned over.

Planting crops is to plant seeds, seeds to germinate in order to grow into a farmer, and seeds to germinate, you must breathe, if the seeds do not have enough air, the result will be suffocated in the land like people, so turning the ground, not only to make farming easy, but more importantly, in order to improve the germination rate of seeds, reduce input and increase harvest.

In this regard, Count Xiao Tang has nothing to do, as we said earlier, Count Xiao Tang was still an engineering dog without grain before crossing, and it is already unexpected that he can do this point, as for agricultural things, we still don't expect him too much.

Therefore, the work of ploughing the land can only be done by these serfs themselves. Because of this, there was a matter of little Odega's family going out to plow the land together.

The hours of hard work always passed very quickly, and before they could feel it, the sun had begun to set, and the pikemen returning from patrol went from house to house to inform the serfs to rush back at once, not to stay in the field at night, and the little Odega family followed the flow of people and returned to their homes.

PS: I am in a bad state today, I have been in class for a day, I am dizzy, and I have a cold, I hope to return to normal in two days......