It's not that the land isn't wide enough, it's that the amount of precipitation is so small every year, and it's quite seasonal, and how much water can be stored before planting basically determines how much grain can be produced that year.

After sowing, there is almost no precipitation, and it is all due to manual irrigation until harvest.

"Did the boy go out and find a new water source this time? ”

In fact, he couldn't figure out why He Da was always snickering alone after he came back, obviously he had misunderstood something.

"Well, sort of. You hurry up and organize the manpower, and a hundred people will dispatch the three of you, preferably in three large groups, and each of you will receive one group. I will reward each person with a pound of grain for the group that is done well. ”

Ye Chen has his own plan, of course, he will not easily reveal it to him, otherwise the specific party will not support it, and he will go to the old mansion to complain.

"I'll do it, and I'll do it in three days. ”

The man is happy, Ye Chen can find a new water source, it means that he can grow more food, more food means that he can feed more people, the strength will be stronger, and their life will be better if they are strong, which is beneficial to everyone.

What Ye Chen wanted was his drive.

Ye Chen waited for him to walk out quickly before his face sank.

There were other sources of water that he found, but there was a ready-made deep well of ice to work with.

And this is what he discovered when his body first took over here, just below the natural reservoir around Zhuangzi.

In the middle of the Zhuangzi is a natural depression, with a slight slope with the surrounding plots, and the reservoir has been artificially expanded, until now, the main work after the autumn harvest every year is to desilt and reinforce, this is the time when the water level of the reservoir is at its lowest, close to the state of dryness.

When he first came here, he was not used to drinking the boiling water in the pool, and his caring nurse said that she wanted to dig a deep well next to the pool, just like in the old house.

But when this well was drilled, there was an accident, and no half drop of groundwater was found below three zhang, and when it was five zhang deep, it finally encountered the permafrost, which was full of extremely cold ice cubes, and there were unknown creatures frozen in it.

These guys dared to ask for this well, so they quickly climbed up and filled it with gravel in a panic, and no one took the initiative to mention it again.

This made Ye Chen worry about it.

What is ice? The solid form of water.

His predecessor, Yin Xiaogong, had no way to deal with him, and he was still very afraid of the creatures frozen inside, but he was not afraid.

He's just going to kick everyone out to work, and then go underground to get ice, and see if he can run into a few unlucky creatures for him to beat.

"Childe, have you really found a new water source?

This girl is the youngest and most temperamental of the few, and is usually the most favored by his master, and only his predecessor knows what kind of favor it is.

She asked by sending hot water to Ye Chen, why didn't she want him to be prosperous, so that they would also rise.

"Hmm. Why are you still here? The whole Zhuangzi people are busy clearing the wasteland, and you should also hurry over and help the nurse, don't stay in the village. ”

Ye Chen is driving people away, and now it is the time to employ people, he has some thoughts about whether he will go into battle in person, how can he tolerate someone being lazy, especially someone who may hinder him being lazy.

"Yes!"

This girl is still quite conscious, although she is not happy in her heart, she answers quite quickly, and there is no emotion at all.

It's just that a few girls get together and it's completely different.

"Why would Childe let us go to the nurse? You can't lie about the military situation, right?"

One of them, who thinks he is smart and clever, was the first to question it.

"If you don't believe it, you can't go. I'm going anyway. ”

"Hmph, as long as you go with me, I'll definitely go too. I'm afraid that you will eat alone at home. ”

The little girls are used to being jealous, so they are afraid that they will not suffer from widowhood, but unevenness.

Ye Chen just swept his sense and found out about this side of the matter, he didn't dare to make too much trouble here, that old friend didn't know if he would monitor them the whole time, if he found that he hadn't completely lost himself, he might take care of him.

Therefore, he did not have full consciousness, but only carefully let go when necessary, and looked at the situation around him, such as now, he had to make sure that everyone in the Zhuangzi was out to work before taking action.

Since there is no way to stay away from here, the people in Zhuangzi directly regard this place as a garbage dump, of course, there is no other garbage in this place, the most difficult to deal with is the construction waste generated when building and repairing houses, especially the broken gray tiles are the most difficult to deal with.

Ye Chen turned into a streamer and drilled directly into the ground, under the rubble, there were still some cavities in the wellhead blocked by rubble, which made him very satisfied.

In a moment, Ye Chen grabbed a piece of black ice the size of a bowl and explored it carefully.

It's the ice, but it's mixed with a lot of unusual impurities, such as resentment, deadly dust, and solidified ash.

That's right, he saw the gray gas here again that caused a great change in the half-immortal realm.

"Hehe, it turns out that he is in this place. ”

He clearly felt that these were dead objects, or rather unactivated states, which would not cause him any harm.

With this, he can do it with confidence.

The next moment, the immortal yuan fluctuated, a large amount of ice was melted, and the water was led by him to the cistern above, and the resentment that tried to pounce on him and occupy his body was detained by him, but the gray gas was wiped out after a wave of his sleeve, and the dust was left in the ground.

He didn't dare to take more, he just had to fill the cistern.

As for how to explain it, does he, the master, really need to explain it to the next people?

Obviously, there's no need for that, just get that token out and fool around.

Next, there is a small sea dragon temple in Zhuangzi, which enshrines a clay statue with a head that looks like a token.

The people in the Zhuangzi all said that this was the sea dragon, the divine dragon that gave them rain.

Of course, these are all ghosts made by Ye Chen's Yin Xiao Gongzi, and he has incarnated into the temple of the Sea Dragon God, and since then there has been no shortage of rain here.

With sufficient rainwater irrigation, the original oats are growing well, and the newly sown wheat seedlings are also excellent, according to the nurse's estimates, the original wheat field can increase the yield by at least 30%, and the newly sown wheat fields can at least be the same as the old seedlings in previous years.

This means that after three months, he, a Zhuangzi, will be able to have at least 23,000 catties of net grain income.

In the past, 10,000 catties could feed 100 people, but this year he can support about 230 people.

He can start to select young and strong people among the homeless and beggars in the county.

Three months passed in a flash, and Ye Chen was ready to drive his carriage to pick people so that they could be used in the next grain harvest.

"Childe, the weather in the old mansion is still the same as in previous years. ”

He Da drove the carriage past the old mansion and sighed not far away.

"Second brother, there are no outsiders here, why are you still so outside. ”

Cha Xingjia on the side didn't wait for Ye Chen to answer before answering.

"Do you think the weather in the old house is better, or is the weather in our Zhuangzi better?"

Ye Chen didn't want to entangle these with this He Da, in fact, this guy didn't call him a few times after the farewell, no matter when there was someone or no one, he continued to be the eldest son and the youngest son, but the Cha Xing family called more diligently.

But he obviously felt that the two of them were more concerned about the affairs of the village, and the contradictions between the two were getting less and less, which showed that he and them were still effective

From a distance, the old house is a gray tile and black-walled building surrounded by a small lake, and the reason for the black wall is that the houses here are all made of black hard stones, which is more time-consuming and labor-intensive than the adobe used by his Zhuangzi, but much stronger and more durable.

He suspected that it was a small crater or crater, that the water level of the small lake was higher than most of the land outside the house, and that it was mainly the spring that fed the lake, which was the most advantageous place to be.

"What's good about the old house, it's all old and stubborn, and there is vitality in our Zhuangzi. ”

The Cha Xing family knew Ye Chen's thoughts better than He Da, and when He Da was still frowning and pondering with a short whip, he had already answered first.

"Just your slippery head. ”

Ye Chen scolded with a smile, there is no doubt that such words will be heard.

"The eldest prince and his gang are still very powerful, I compared, the area of acres outside the old mansion has expanded a lot more than in the early years. ”

He Da is more pragmatic and has a practical focus.

"Well, that's right. It is about half of the planting area of our Zhuangzi. ”

The impression of Ye Chen's Yin Xiao Boy changed from vague to clear, and the appearance of a perverse young man also clearly appeared, that is, his nominal eldest brother.

A lot of unpleasant things came out of his mind, such as being pressed into the ground by him as a pony when he was five or six years old, such as being forced to go to the girl in his photo when he was a teenager, such as suing him for black form from the old man out of nothing, in short, he always suffered a loss.

"Big brother, he has his advantages and his disadvantages, his side is all cooked land, the yield is certainly higher than ours, the water source mainly relies on spring water, and it is easy to irrigate, which is more convenient than us. But he's got to feed the old guys too. I calculated for him that at most he would be able to raise 200 young men. We're sure we'll be able to fill the numbers to 200 this time. ”

Cha Xingjia talked eloquently.

"The more than 200 of us are not all young and strong, and we are all hungry and cold, and we may not have done each other. ”

He Da's confidence is clearly insufficient.

"Grow the ambition of others and destroy your own prestige. The most important thing is to see who is in charge well, I believe that our eldest brother is more than a hundred times stronger than that guy. ”

Arguing and quarreling along the way, Ye Chen rarely expressed his position, as if he had fallen asleep in the car.

He was feeling whether there was any immortal qi in the vast area, but unfortunately he hadn't found a trace of it until now, which made him very annoyed, and he didn't add it, and it was not a good situation to use a little less.

The county seat has finally arrived, it is very gray, the city wall is still complete, and the material is a neat black strip stone, which is much better than the old house of the Yin family, and it is also a lot larger.

The whole city was shrouded in gray mist, and occasionally a few towering trees could be seen dotted in the middle of the place, and Ye Chen inexplicably had the urge to go to those few points.

He deliberately ordered not to enter the city, but only went around the city to solicit ragged wanderers and beggars by the city gate, he sensed the crisis, sensed the deep malice towards him as a living man, and now it was obviously not his best choice to go into the city.

With the birth of the Cha Xing family, a sufficient number of homeless people and beggars were quickly recruited.

Just as they were about to return from the same way, a mutation suddenly occurred.

"You're the one who gathers the crowd to make trouble?

The man who came was a man whose face was completely covered in gray gas, and only a rough outline could be seen, and the pony under the step was all condensed by gray gas, and behind him were a pair of twelve spearmen.

Ye Chen instantly understood who was coming, the county guard.

"Lord Chengwei misunderstood, I am the little son of the Yin family ten miles outside the city, and this time I have made a special trip to collect some homeless homeless people and beggars, and I definitely have no idea of gathering people to make trouble. ”

He jumped out of the carriage as soon as possible, explained to the other party without humility or arrogance, and tried to resolve it.

"Is there a Yin family ten miles outside the city? When did a little boy come out of nowhere, and the bold rats dared to deceive me. Come on, take down the three leading ones for me. ”

It's okay that Ye Chen didn't explain, this explanation directly angered the other party.

The soldiers swarmed around the ponies and rushed towards them.

"Brothers. If you want to fill your stomach, fight with them!"

Cha Xingjia yelled at the people who had already been organized by him.

He personally distributed a pound of cooked grain to these people, who had long been stuffed into their own stomachs, and now had some strength available.

Ye Chen glanced at the direction of the county seat, allowing these people to clash with the city guards.

With his keen intuition, he sensed that not only was there someone watching him firmly from the city walls, but also a few wisps of cold breath that were pouring through the shade of the large trees that were as large as the cover of trees.

He Da grabbed a dog-beating stick with him and got entangled with the man riding a low horse, and the others beat the soldiers in a ratio of ten to one.

These people were quickly leveled and did not attract more city guards.

"Let's go!"

Ye Chen finally spit out a word.

"Hmph, this man is cunning, and he doesn't want to go into the city at all. It's like I waited for the first time to enter the city in a daze, and I was trapped in it before I could recover some of my original memories. ”

"Shhh ”

"I don't know when this guy got here, did we try to get in touch with him?"

The sound faded into silence, and the two men on the ramparts were already biting their ears behind the battlements.

At the same time, outside Zhuangzi, a group of people confronted another group.

"The eldest prince, this is the little prince's Zhuangzi, the grain is planted by us with hard work, you can't say that you will help the harvest. ”

(End of chapter)