Chapter 42 Enclosure and Reclamation

Lan Yi is a layman in choosing the land to open up the wasteland, but she knows that the hillside that Second Uncle Wang can fancy must be good.

"It's close to the water source, so it's easy to manage in the future, and we can save a lot of trouble by enclosing the land in one place. Although there are forty or fifty acres, I am afraid that our two families will not be able to eat it. Lin Xilin Yuan and I discussed buying five acres first, and if these five acres were planted with peony seedlings, it would be a lot. Second Uncle Wang said his plan.

"Yes. Listen to the second uncle, I will also buy five acres first. But second uncle, you should say hello to Uncle Weiyang first, that large area of the hillside is reserved for us, and we can't buy it this year, I'm afraid it will be about the same next year. Besides, there is Sister Xia, she probably has to circle some of them, and I will ask her in two days before I will call you back, and I am not in a hurry to tell Uncle Weiyang about this matter first. Lan Yi said.

"Done. I'll tell you Uncle Yang first, there's no problem with keeping it for us. If it is ten acres and eight acres, we can still say that it is wasteland, such a large area, I am afraid it is difficult to hide. Second Uncle Wang responded simply, his love for the field came from his blood, and he was a little excited to think about it when he could circle that large area.

"Second uncle, we are going to open up the wasteland, and there is nothing to hide." Lan Yi smiled.

"Hehe, yes, yes." Second Uncle Wang reacted, this oil extraction thing needs to be hidden, there is no need to cultivate medicinal materials in the wasteland, even if you want to hide it, such a big action can't be hidden.

"Second uncle, let's plant the two families first, if it can really be done, and then call the people in the village to plant together, everyone can be regarded as having a way to get rich. But now we're just getting started, we can't be too public, and we have to leave a way out, right? Lan Yi knew that Second Uncle Wang and Zhao Lizheng had a good relationship, so she specially advised.

"Eldest daughter-in-law, don't worry, I know what's at stake. I'm going to get busy with things at home, so let's talk about what's going on. "Second Uncle Wang should go down.

"Second uncle, I can't help the family build a house, you can keep the five taels of silver." Lan Yi handed over five taels of silver, "Besides, it's because our mother and son came back that you rushed to build a house for the third brother, if you don't accept it, you will treat my nephew and daughter-in-law as an outsider." ”

Second Uncle Wang was gagged by her, and the family had to build a house and enclose land these days, so they were indeed tight. The family built a house, and there were relatives who took some wood or silver money to add color, but one or two hundred wen was already the sky, and Lan Yi took out five taels of silver to really scare him. But seeing that Lan Yi's face insisted, he had no choice but to accept it and secretly write down this feeling.

"Second uncle, build a house and cook people in and out, I can't go over to help, you go back and tell the second aunt to send the three children to this courtyard, and the second aunt and the two younger siblings can also free their hands." Lan Yi sent Second Uncle Wang out of the house, and said again.

After Second Uncle Wang left, Lan Yi put the two little pigs into the pigsty, and put grass and water on the donkey and the little piglets. Yu'er and the baby also stared wide-eyed, very curious about the new member of the family. Lan Yi repeatedly told them not to enter the donkey shed, this was not a trivial matter when they were kicked by the donkey.

Lan Yi looked at the living creatures all over the yard, the green of the vegetable garden and the children running in the yard, she felt that this home was becoming more and more vibrant, more and more like a real home.

On Tuesday, the fortune family agreed to Lan Yi's desire to use wheat oranges instead of Yichengtian's rent, and not only sent the wheat oranges of the rented land, but also sent them from his own field, filling Lan Yi's family's firewood room to the brim.

In addition to the wheat straw in this firewood house, 400 catties of wheat were also delivered. Lan Yi's grain was stacked on the Xiwu earthen kang, looking at so much food, the baby was fine, Yu'er's little mouth couldn't be closed all day, and she said that she didn't have to be hungry if she had food to eat in winter, and she felt that "the family has surplus food".

Lan Yi bought two bags of wheat bran and rice bran from the mill, mixed with them to feed the living animals in the family, to increase their nutrition, especially the donkey, which is now the main labor force in the family, Lan Yi took care of it carefully, and fed the donkey with bran and grass before going to bed every day according to what Uncle Wang said. Of course, the goats next to it bleated also improved their food treatment, and their leftover wheat oranges and excreted feces Lan Yi cleaned up every day and poured them directly into the pit under the pigsty, so that the piglets could step on the fertilizer, which was also regarded as an ecological cycle.

Lan Yi spent the past few days taking care of the children and the living animals at home, as well as weeding the fields. When Uncle Wang's house was busy, Chen and Liu sent the two Niu Niu over to ask Lan Yi to help take them, and Dafu would report to Lan Yi's house with Niu Dan every day to eat and drink, so this house was also lively.

Now that there are more living animals in the house, it takes a lot of time just to prepare for food, especially grass. Lan Yi felt that she had overestimated her combat effectiveness, and at the end of the day, she was a little too busy to be a child or a matter in the fields at home.

Lan Yi thought about it, so she asked the second uncle to go to Zhao Lizheng first to help her buy ten acres of hillside on the hillside in the east of the village, which is called raising donkeys. Second Uncle Wang saw that Lan Yi wanted to buy ten acres, so he followed her own family to buy ten acres.

Zhao Li was very digestive of Lan Yi's reason, and then calmly completed the formalities for them, and buried the gray line and the boundary stone that symbolized the boundary on the hillside. Because Lan Yi set up a female household, this time the field property was directly registered in Lan Yi's name, and it can also be said that Lan Yi's first field property.

Lan Yi asked someone to circle the place with the most grass on his hillside with wooden stakes and fences, and led the donkeys and goats to graze and graze every day, and then brought them back in the evening, and by the way, he could take some pigweed back to feed the pigs, killing three birds with one stone. This place is not far from the village, there are no big beasts, and the safety is guaranteed, Lan Yi has led the goat and the donkey back and forth between the hillside and the house every day, which can be regarded as solving the problem of these two guys eating grass.

She inspected the soil on the hillside and found that the soil was deep and acceptable, but it was difficult to use because of the large and small stones mixed in the soil of these barren slopes. In her hometown, such a barren slope must have been contracted by the villagers to plant economic tree species, medicinal herbs or engage in breeding, and now she has not contracted for five or ten years, but bought it and made it her own land, so she spent this little money! She thought she was very smart, and she knew that the story of her raising a donkey and a sheep in the enclosure had already been rumored as a joke in the village. It wasn't until Second Uncle Wang explained that they were enclosing the land to open up the wasteland, and herding sheep and donkeys was just to gnaw the grass in advance, that everyone slowly put down the matter.

It was so lively that it was the fifth day of the fifth month of May. The Dragon Boat Festival here not only worships Qu Yuan, but also a woman named Cao E and the famous Zhang Tianshi. Because the weather is hot in May, all kinds of poisonous insects and animals are ready to move, the main purpose of the Dragon Boat Festival is to avoid the five poisons, and the intention of sacrificing Zhang Tianshi is also to invite the heavenly master to suppress evil and expel diseases.

There are a lot of clay statues of Zhang Tianshi in the bazaar, with wormwood as the head and garlic as the fist, the appearance is very strange, and the villagers buy it and put it on the portal to drive away evil spirits and avoid ghosts. There are also people who paint a portrait of the Heavenly Master and sell it for money, Lan Yi couldn't stand the artistic shape of the clay figure, so she bought back a painting and pasted it for a few days.

As for Cao E, Lan Yi felt that this little girl was weird and terrifying. It is rumored that Cao E is a native of Shangyu in the Eastern Han Dynasty, his father drowned in the river, and the body was not seen for several days, when the filial daughter Cao E was only 14 years old, crying along the river day and night. After 17 days, on May 5, she also threw herself into the river, and after five days, she took out her father's corpse, and the locals erected a monument and built a temple for her to comfort her filial piety, and even changed the river she jumped to Cao'e River. Since then, it has become a tradition to worship Cao E on the fifth day of the fifth month of May.

According to Aunt Wang's instructions, before the Dragon Boat Festival, Lan Yi asked Wang Linyuan to take the baby to Huajia Village to visit Wang Linshan's maternal uncle's family. After coming back, Lan Yi didn't ask much, but Wang Linyuan still told his sister-in-law about the trip, and the baby has been obsessed with riding a donkey since then, and he can't wait to ride a lap every day before stopping.

After the Dragon Boat Festival, Xia Shun, who was sent by Xia Wan to run the peony business, arrived.

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