Chapter 9: The Fields
This is really a difficult trail, it is a small mountain stream, piles of rocks, it seems that it is really safe to live in it, although there is no cliff on this road, but if you go a little faster, you will fall, although this fall can not kill people, but you will also fall with a blue nose and swollen face, broken muscles and bones! When a horse walks by, it is slower than a human walk, and if you are not careful, you will break the horse's leg.
Fortunately, Yang Heng's board car was sturdy, thousands of pounds of things, and the family of three slowly dragged the board car into it as if it was carrying, "Whew, whew, but I am tired," a mountain road with many roads, this family walked for more than two hours, and they have not eaten anything since they finished cleaning up and eating a supper in the morning, and they have not even drunk saliva until now, and they are sweating profusely on this section of the mountain road.
"Grandpa, this is the hometown you said, this road is too difficult to walk, but this place is really a paradise." Yang Heng was originally complaining, but when he looked up, he changed his words, it was so beautiful, green mountains, clear water, harvested crop fields, and dozens of thatched houses in the distance.
"What kind of paradise, it's just a poor ravine, the people living in it can't even eat enough, and the annual income is not enough to pay taxes, listen to you, I don't know if we can live in the end?" Daddy complained, what kind of vision is this.
Ah, by the way, Yang Heng used the views of later generations to look at this place, although this kind of place in later generations is also a poor ravine, and roads can be built, and this mountain road is not very long, but this era is different, what to use to build roads, this road is large and small, and the large and small rocks almost didn't bump the wooden cart to the bumping frame.
"Hehe, grandpa, where is the woods?" Yang Heng sneered, "To the east, let's go along this trail and pass it." The father said angrily, "Talk to the child well, I think this place is good." "The old lady is not happy.
"You three have just arrived here, you see, I have got your title deeds back, but my uncle has done a lot of money for you, and in order to ask people to do things faster, my uncle has contributed a lot of money." Suddenly there was the voice of the old man's uncle, it turned out that in order to prevent the old man from going to find Ah Weng, after separating from Yang Heng and them, he directly borrowed a donkey and ran to the county office, so that people could handle the new title deed, and even did not hesitate to pay his own money to speed up the process, ah, by the way, there was no explanation, the uncle of the father is here, although it is not in the stream, but there is still a little face in the county, and the people in the county do not even need to come to measure it to handle the land deed directly.
Maybe he thinks that this is to drive Yang Heng's three people to death, that is to say, if the field cannot be reclaimed within a certain period of time, maybe the father will be sentenced to breaking the law, for his own nephew, but he has contributed, I have to say that he contributed to his nephew, that is, his father's half-brother, but what he didn't know was that in fact, these Yang Heng had already been prepared, isn't it just a hundred acres of land, in a year, with his own family of three, he can be reclaimed steadily, which is the reason for having a sharp weapon.
"Let's go, I'll tell you the boundaries of this field." The old man said lightly, since the matter has been done, it is too late to regret it now, and there is no need to face these three people with a smiling face.
Entering the mountains, although it was still a trail, the trail here did not have so many stones, and it followed the south bank of a small stream all the way to the east, that is, in the direction of the stream, to the edge of a larger river, and then to the north, to a flatter place.
"Da Lang, you see, this creek is the southernmost point of your land, north to the foot of the mountain, it is considered the northernmost point, and the east side is to the middle third of this river. It is about 1,000 meters long from north to south, and you can measure 750 meters from east to west, starting from this third of the river, and this is also very clear in the paperwork. (There is no need to calculate the size of the Tang Dynasty here, it is too troublesome, or use the current unit meter to talk about things, and the same will be true in the future text, which is explained here in advance.) The old man said lightly, "It's good, Uncle Xie Xie." Dad said gratefully, "Don't thank me, I said it first, and then you can't reclaim it, and the government asks you about your crimes, but I won't protect you." The old man said very seriously.
"Okay, your family will take care of it, I'll go find you Aye, do you want to come together." But what he meant was, you'd better not come. Daddy naturally won't go looking for the faceless one, this is all home, when to look at it from a distance, "No, no, we still have to settle it, thank you uncle, you go slowly." "Alright, let's go back, I'm leaving." The old man turned around and left, but his face was full of disappointment. I haven't been home for more than ten years, and I can't even go back home, but it's not good to go against my uncle to do it, it's really embarrassing, it's all poor, if it weren't for the troubled times, with Ah Weng's ability, I really can't find this grandma now, this is also the reason why Daddy was squeezed out, according to Daddy, if there is one more him at home, the days are really bad, there are too few fields, and there are many wild beasts, along the way, I found some wolf roars, and even the cry of wild boars, as a group of outsiders, It is good to have such a valley to live in, but the people are poor and weak, otherwise, there will be a lot of harvest in this place just hunting.
It is also time for Yang Heng's family to come back, this is the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, although the Tang Dynasty has been established for a few years, but at this time the country is not very stable, the household registration of Yang Heng's family has not been officially recorded, so that he can travel, and change the identity of the merchant to the identity of the farmer, the field does not need to be bought with money temporarily, and this is a barren mountain and wild mountains, no one needs it, if it is a mountain in the past, it is terrible, but it is a famous Taoist resort, not to mention the wasteland, it is impossible to live in the past.
Yang Heng walked all the way and found that this place, after a few years, it may be impossible to live again, it is not far from Chang'an City, although the mountain road is difficult, but if you really have a good rest, this is really a good place.
"Grandpa, I think the fields here are all good, they can be directly irrigated with river water, how can you say that it is not good?" Yang Heng was still very curious, Yang Heng was talking about the south bank of the creek they came over, there were a lot of fields all the way down, as long as the creek was blocked, the water could flow directly into the fields. "You just see the surface, you don't see what those fields are like, they are all sandy land, the crops are growing very poorly, and from time to time there will be wild boars coming down to scourge, if there is no water to water, it will not be more difficult, when our ancestors came here, that is, to see that the fields here can be watered before staying, and when they really stay, they know these things." Dad said helplessly.
"Okay, don't talk about it, it's going to get dark, let's see how we live, see if there's nothing here, how we live." The old lady looked at the scene on the side and began to feel embarrassed.
"It's easy to say, temporarily let's build a shed first, our tools are good, we can use the fastest time to build a fence to block the beast, and then light a fire, you can rest at ease, and tomorrow we will make a good arrangement, now, let's hurry up, mother, you make a fire, I and Grandpa will pick up some firewood and grass first, and then we will sharpen the machete first, tonight we will build a shed first, and then set up a wooden fence to block the beast." I think a lot of the trees are available. "Since Daddy, the old lady has no idea, Yang Heng first divided the labor of this season, some dry firewood and hay can still be found in the woods, first of all, use an unbladed axe to clean up a piece of land, clean up the weeds on it, and the old lady also lit a fire with a fire rope on the side.