Back at the residence, waiting for Gu Changping to take the cattle away and the farm tools to move away, Gu Jincai talked to Shen Jingcheng.

"What if those people won't help us?" Thinking of the situation in the Thirteen Households, Gu Jin was a little worried.

Both of them are too young to support the plow, and if no one is willing to work, how will they open up the land next year? Do they have cattle and they still have to plough the land with a shovel and a shovel?

"We hire people." Knowing what she was worried about, Shen Jingcheng said with a smile: "There are also villages around the county seat, and every year in the spring, those who have no land and no farm tools will look for work everywhere, and we can hire people, take money or use grain to pay." ”

"Huh?" Gu Jin was at a loss when he heard this.

Where will they go to hire men if they refuse to do it?

"When we were buying seeds at the grain store, weren't there still a few people there? They were discussing where to work next year, and I listened to it. Shen Jingcheng patiently solved her doubts.

Gu Jin thought about it seriously, there were indeed a few people in the grain store at that time, but did they say this at that time?

Shen Jingcheng saw that she was still frowning, reached out to smooth the small pimple between her eyebrows, and said softly: "Don't worry, we won't find someone to work next year, and if we don't do it, we will open less wasteland and grow less food, and we won't be hungry after all." ”

Gu Jin thought about it, the two of them are small, and they don't eat much, even if they only open one acre of land a year, they won't have to eat, things have to take their time, the two of them will always grow up one day, and there will always be a day when they can open up their own farmland without relying on anyone.

After thinking about it, Gu Jin was not so entangled, and turned around and started to be busy cooking, now that it was past noon, he was already hungry.

Shen Jingcheng saw that she finally stopped frowning, and raised his eyes to look in the direction of the shore, his eyes mocking.

Originally, I thought that those people had nothing and wanted to cooperate, but I didn't want people to just want to pinch him, so don't blame him for not giving him a chance.

Gu Jin began to be busy, and Shen Jingcheng was not idle, taking the shovel from the unloaded ox cart and starting to dig a pit on the spot.

He wants to make a nest in the ground, and it is not yet December and it is already cold like this, and if it really reaches the cold of nine days or encounters rain and snow, the grass house will not be used. Besides, he bought so many grain seeds, if they get wet, they won't germinate.

On the Gu family's side, the children saw the calf they had just bought, and they kept circling happily one by one, while the Wang family looked at Shen Jingcheng and Gu Jin with a somewhat obscure gaze.

She really didn't expect that the little cub surnamed Shen still had so much money, and she knew that she should have asked for more when she sold Erni, so now the one with the ox cart should be her own family.

But this matter is not without a remedy, as long as he coaxes Erni back again, isn't the little cub's ox cart the same as her family's?

Thinking so, Wang raised his feet and walked in the direction of Gu Jin and the others, but he was stopped by Gu Changping after just a few steps.

"Why are you going?"

"I'll go see if Erni needs help." Wang pointed at Gu Jin and said.

"No, you don't." Gu Changping said lightly: "Even if you want to help, you don't need it, don't approach them." ”

"But ......" Wang wanted to argue, but was interrupted by Gu Changping in a deep voice.

"Come back ......"

Wang looked at Gu Changping's gray eyes, his lips opened and closed, and finally he could only bow his head unwillingly and walk back.

When the Wang family came back, Gu Changping closed his eyes and took a deep breath, and said to his two sons: "You two remember, our cattle and farm tools were bought with the silver from selling Erni, and our family owes her, in the future, you can help Erni if you have something, don't go to the disdain, and be optimistic about your mother, don't let her go to Erni's side, Erni is afraid of her, don't let your mother be scared in the past." ”

"Hmm."

"Okay."

Gu Dajiang and Gu Erhe agreed one after another, and they were not as happy as they were at the beginning when they looked at the newly bought cattle and farm tools.

Especially Gu Dajiang, only then did he understand why his father was not happy even if he bought a cow.

Who can be happy when they sell what their daughter bought?

Gu Changping's voice was neither high nor low, but it just happened for everyone to hear it, and Wang's heart sank when he heard it, and the whole person was not good.

What does this man want to do? Saying these words, what will the children think of her mother in the future?

As soon as Gu Dani saw her face, she immediately quietly moved to the side, trying to stay as far away from her as possible.

After Gu Changping finished speaking, he beckoned his two sons to start digging pits and digging holes in the ground, as for what the Wang family thinks, who cares?

He had already warned the Wang family not to provoke Gu Jin, but she had to find trouble, who was to blame?

Still going to help?

I didn't see her help along the way, and I didn't see her help when I settled here, and as soon as I bought the ox cart back today, she was going to help, who would believe it?

The family has its own thoughts, only Gu Sanni, who doesn't know anything, is still standing not far from the calf, quietly staring at it.

The cow looked at the little man in front of him for a long time, and suddenly flicked his tail and opened his mouth to 'moo', Gu Sanni was startled, and then followed it with a small 'moo'.

Now the land is only frozen with a shallow layer of surface, which is not difficult to dig, when it gets dark, Shen Jingcheng's ground nest has been basically completed, and even he dug a stove at the door, and the chimney leads directly to the ground outside, and now only the cap remains.

After breakfast the next day, Shen Jingcheng and Gu Jin led the calf with an axe to cut down the small trees they saw when they first came.

In the middle of the afternoon, the two of them cut down the little tree and let the calf drag it back, and they took two small trees and put them on the ground as beams, and spread thick bales of straw on them, even if they were capped.

Looking at the top of the nest, Shen Jingcheng and Gu Jin let out a long sigh, finally they don't have to be frozen anymore, you must know that it is not pleasant to be awakened by freezing in the middle of the night.

After the nest was completed, the two of them pushed and pulled the grain and various farm tools they bought, and then they began to dig the nest for the cattle next to them, no way, the cattle will also be cold, in case they freeze to death in winter, the two have no money to buy another one.

After the two of them had finished all the nests, they cut the grass, and of course they did not mow it indiscriminately. The current Gu family is in the east, they are in the west, and they started to cut from the middle ground between their own house and the Gu family. Cut from south to north, then from both ends to the west, and finally cut from north to south at the westernmost end, and the whole was cut into a rectangular passage, wide enough to accommodate two or three people walking. The cut grass was transported to the north of the nest and piled up in a semicircle, semi-encircling the nest.

Gu Changping watched the two of them work as if they were watching children play at home, after all, who only mowed the grass like them? Who would chop the grass into a semicircle?

It wasn't until more than ten days later, on a windless and rainless morning, that a little spark quietly burned from the corner.

As soon as Gu Changping came out of his own nest, he saw the overwhelming fire burning from the nest next door not far to the west, and not far away, his daughter and the boy surnamed Shen were holding shovels and looking at the fire and smiling.

Gu Changping was so frightened that the Seven Souls went to two souls, and ran over with a yell.

"What are you two doing?"

Gu Jin and Shen Jingcheng rolled their eyes in unison when they saw him.

What can you do? Can't see it?

"It's all ours from here to the west, you can't come here to open up the wasteland."

Gu Jin pointed to the pitch-black land left behind after the fire burned, and made a statement to Gu Changping with eloquence.

Gu Chang was speechless.

She just wants this land, is it possible that she can still grab it from her? As for taking up space like this?

But looking at it, Gu Changping suddenly stopped talking.

Because the fire seemed to be very large, but it was not burned blindly, and basically stopped at the passage where the two had cut the grass, until the flame gradually went out, and the land left behind was within the range of the two people who had cut the grass.

"You cut this ...... to prevent fire?" Gu Changping pointed to the place where the two had cut the grass, and asked in surprise.

"yes." Both nodded at the same time,

If you don't make a firebreak, then you can't burn down the company camp?

Gu Changping was dumbfounded, Shen Jingcheng and Gu Jin didn't care too much about him, and went back to check the land without weeds.

This soil is very good, there are no weeds, it will be easy to open up the land next year, from this place to the west, it is half the size of this soil slope, and after the spring cultivation next year, this land will belong to the two of them.

Gu Changping looked at the large vacated piece of land in a daze, and then looked at the two people who were squatting on the ground muttering, and they didn't say anything for a long time.

Originally, he thought that these two children were small, and he was afraid that he would not be able to support himself, so he said that he had to give them some food to grow next year, so that they could live.

But now it seems that although these two children are small, they have brains, and they can do things with their brains, and next year I am afraid that they will both live well without his help!

After vacating this piece of land, Gu Jin and Shen Jingcheng used more than ten days to get out of a piece of land, at this time, it was already a cold winter, and there was already a thick layer of ice in the river, so the two of them began to fight on the bank of the river.

There are a lot of reeds on the embankment and bank, and the two of them want to cut some reeds and go back to make grass felt, ready to build a house next year.

Gu Changping watched the two of them busy every day without touching the ground, and doing things in an orderly manner, which made him can't help but start to wonder, are these two children really children?