Lijia Village is more than 40 miles away from the rolling mill, and there are also shuttle buses to that side at this time, but there are very few, only two shifts a day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, and you can go to their town. However, it was too early in the morning, the car at seven o'clock, too hot in the afternoon, and there was no air conditioning, and it was more than 30 degrees at noon, crowded in the bus, and I felt uncomfortable thinking about it.

Li Zhao rode a bicycle, and it took more than two hours to get home, and before arriving home, he didn't forget to call his two sisters from the town and let them take their children to the house together.

The traffic in this era is really inconvenient, and it is very unsafe, first of all, you can see wild things from time to time, not to mention that their town itself is not far from the mountains, and their village is on the side of the mountain, occasionally the hunters of their village can see leopards on the mountain, and they also heard that there are wolves around.

Two years ago, he heard that several village tyrants in Liujia Village, not far from them, tied up an aunt of the Niu family in the town, and the Niu family had a good life in the town, and several brothers worked in the town or at the grain station or the supply and marketing cooperative. Because they were not far away, let the aunt of the Niu family hear who tied her, so she shouted out, I heard that although the person was saved, but the beating was not light, and in the end he didn't know exactly how it ended, so he listened to it, but someone may really cut the path.

The reason why Li Zhao chose to go back at eight or nine o'clock was also because at this time, it was the time when personnel exchanges were most frequent. It's early, it's early, there's a car, people who are in a hurry are in the car, it's not okay, it's late, it's late to catch a meal, and there is no one on the road. Nine o'clock is the most appropriate, the road is full of pedestrians, ox carts, donkey carts and so on, the most safe. And in the afternoon, for the same reason, this weather, there are the most people around four o'clock in the afternoon, just in time to go back to the courtyard.

Li Zhao is not his eldest brother, his eldest brother is also the captain of the militia in the village, and he has learned from his father, usually two or three people can be easily solved by him, and if he goes out at night, he takes the guy with him, and his marksmanship is also very good.

Li Zhao is not good, in the years of the war, he was young, and he had seen the training of the guerrillas in the village, and at most he followed to learn cultural knowledge. His brother was different, he was a little guerrilla, that is, some children organized by the guerrillas, when they had nothing to learn and go out on a mission, when they were short of manpower, they would let these children help guard in some hidden places next to the village.

And when Li Zhao's elder brother was old enough to join the army, the war was over, and because his father was wounded, he followed his parents back to his hometown to take care of them. Due to the lack of teachers in the primary school in the town at that time, he, who had studied in junior high school, became a teacher, and at the same time served as the captain of the village militia.

When I got home, there were two children in the family, the two younger ones in the eldest brother's family, the eldest brother had three children, and the eldest was born at the end of forty-nine years. The second child is called Yuejin, and he has started elementary school, and he is struggling with his homework at this time. The third child is a girl, only four years old, called Sunset, and now belongs to the second child. The rest of the family went to work, and at this time it was just in time to hoe the weeds, and liberation could be regarded as half a laborer, either to beat pigweed or to bring water to people or something.

As soon as he entered the door, the two of them were called, Li Zhao also hurriedly gave one of the prepared sugars, he is very poor now, but he can't afford to buy any good sugar, he just bought a little hard candy, and nothing else was bought, adults know his situation, just went to work, he is a poor ghost, but you can't help but give benefits to children, otherwise they won't recognize you.

After pacifying the two little guys, Li Zhao walked towards the field, now the corn has grown to the height of most of a person, and he is hoeing the last grass at this time, and after this hoeing, the grass basically cannot affect the crops. After asking all the way, I finally found the part that their family is responsible for, and now they all work in a unified manner, and then record the work points, fortunately, Li Zhao and the people in their village are relatively kind. Hehe, those who are not kind are targeted by his brother, and those who dare to play tricks, when the militia is training, they catch such people and practice to the death, and when they record their work points, they will be less recorded. After a few years, all kinds of thorns have been cleaned up. Because of Li Zhao's idea, in the past four or five years, their village has become better, with more food than others, more meat and eggs than others, and those who want to make trouble are the targets of the whole village.

After Li Zhao found his father, he also started to help him, but he didn't work long before he got off work, half past eleven o'clock, when the land was planted less in the past, he got off work at ninety o'clock, and this year he planted more, and he has done almost two hours more, but everyone is also happy, this year is definitely a bumper harvest.

Lijia Village is actually a small valley behind it, and the reason why the village was built here is because the stream on the mountain passes through here, and the village is built along the stream. In fact, this village used to be an official's farm, and the people in the village were all tenants, and later they were occupied by warlords and little devils, most of them fled at that time, and then some came back, and after the liberation, some people were arranged, and Li Zhao's family also came back after fleeing.

Lijia Village is Li Zhao's basic plan, and Li Zhao has a plan, that is, to operate the entire village as a farm, and it can be turned into an agricultural company in the future. There are mountains, water, and a lot of land, and as long as the business is good, the future income will be considerable, and these plans began to be gradually implemented when Li Zhao was in college.

The first step is to enclose land, because the population is still relatively small in this era, Li Zhao persuaded his father to go to the town to ask for land, because there is no other village in their direction, near the south of the mountain and the east side of the mountain have been allocated to their village, so that the village directly has the original more than 400 acres of land, in addition to the mountain, there are almost seven or eight thousand acres of woodland and wasteland, plus the mountain, Li Zhao and their village have more than 20,000 acres of land, basically their village began to go up the mountain, and along the mountain to the south for ten miles are their village place. And to get to the next place where there are people, you need to go east to the town, and to the south, west, and north, you need to go over the mountains to get people.

As for personnel management, Li Zhao directly asked his father to manage it according to the period of the Anti-Japanese War behind enemy lines, after all, the current slogan is to prepare for war, and this management method is just right. Other villages basically carry out militia training in response to the call when the farmers are slack, but Li Zhao's village, as long as they are not busy, they will go out to exercise when the weather is suitable, making the village like a military camp.

However, if the forest land is occupied, thousands of logging tasks will be apportioned every year, and when the wood is fell, it will be counted as money for the town to be transported by car, so that the village will have more income, and this can have an income of 1,000 children and 800 per year. Because of this alone, every family in the village can share dozens of dollars every year. And the land after logging has also been reclaimed into farmland, which is also the reason why Lijia Village can have an extra three or four hundred acres of land at once.

The second thing to do was to dig a ditch three or four meters wide and two or three meters deep along the side of the mountain, connect it with the stream, widen and dig the stream deeper, and build a dam at the outlet. From the beginning of the land, when their village is a little idle, as long as the exercise is completed, it is to dig a ditch with people, the village side along the side of the mountain has been completed three or four miles, when it is idle, it is still digging, and the dug out stones are built on both sides of the ditch, the soil is filled into the low-lying place, the most convenient place to enter and exit the mountain does not leave a road, but a stone bridge is built at a distance of several hundred meters next to it, and gatehouses are built at both ends of the bridge, and gates are installed, so that wild beasts can be prevented from entering the village. At the place of the mountain pass, there are no stones on one side of the mountain, and the creek also comes down from here, and there are many animals that run into the ditch from here every year, especially wild boars, and in recent years, a few can be caught in the ditch every year.

The third thing to do is to divert water, because the stream is often infested with animals, in fact, it is not clean, Li Zhao also persuaded his father to buy a lot of bamboo, direct water from the mountain to lead the water down, directly built a hut on the spring, and the bamboo is shielded to ensure that the water source is clean.

Because there are four rows of houses in the whole village, the bamboo also walked four ways, and in order to facilitate the use of water, each house has a device for taking water, which is a short bamboo, this section is not broken, but the mouth is opened on the bamboo, and a thinner bamboo is installed, this section of the bamboo can be rotated, and the outlet can be turned down when taking water, and the bamboo can be directly connected to the house, and the water can be directly led to the water tank, and then the mouth is turned up when it is used, and it is necessary to climb the ladder. The water that is not used up flows into the stream.

Li Zhao also engaged in some non-powered pumping devices, which are the kind of pumps that use the pressure difference of the water to pump water, raise the large iron bucket, connect the upper end to the water pipe, and connect the lower end to the water pipe, after filling the water, close the irrigation port, open the water inlet, and then open the water outlet, you can use the pressure difference to pump water, and now it is like a paradise here.