Now that the village chief had already visited, our family began to prepare for all the things to be cleared.

For this matter, what we said to the village chief is not completely false, our family is really anxious to open up the wasteland, and now it is early May, to open up a piece of land, no matter how strong it is, it will not take a few days to work hard. When you can actually grow crops, you have to wait until late May, and if you get early June later, it will be really late.

So before the land was cleared, we had another family meeting to discuss the specific work of land clearing.

The first question is to determine whether the eldest sister and the second sister's family should open some more land.

Although we lived separately after arriving in Tashan Village, but since we came, we have been busy with one thing at a time, basically the eldest sister and the second sister come to our house every day to help, and eat here three times a day.

After planting seedlings in the past few days, Aunt Liang rarely came over, and the eldest brother-in-law saw that there was nothing to help here, so he went home to work on his own family's affairs.

After everyone sat in the living room, Jiang Zhi told him about it.

The eldest brother-in-law means that he wants to open up some more land and plant something else, his family of four, and there is a half-old boy at home, and they all say that the half-grown child eats the poor old man, so he wants to have a variety of land and collect more food if he has the conditions.

The second sister's family attended the meeting, and the second brother-in-law was able to get up. But you can't be tired, and you have to recuperate for a while. The second sister thought about it and said that their house would not open the land. The main reason is that there is no labor force at home, and even if it is opened, no one will plant. Just those four acres of paddy fields are enough for the husband and wife to work, but she said that she is fine now, and she can help when we open up the wasteland.

Knowing the meaning of the eldest sister and the second sister, things will be easy to do, and after discussing with the eldest brother-in-law, we plan to open up the wasteland together. The eldest brother-in-law's family is alone, and he plans to open four acres of land to look at it first, if he is busy. I'll open it again next year.

And our family's goal is to open up a piece of wasteland next to our paddy field, Jiang Dad and Qu Dad have gone to scout many times, saying that the land is suitable for growing sweet potatoes and potatoes, and it is good land if it can be opened.

Now that the goal has been determined. Then the next step is to assign tasks.

The newly opened land is intended to be used to grow drought-tolerant crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn. Sweet potatoes need to be raised, so now we should start raising sweet potato seedlings in the vacated greenhouse, this matter is guided by the little sister-in-law Jiang Dad and Qu Dad are responsible, and Wei Wei and I are responsible for the daily management of our paddy field, and there are not too many words now, so the two of them are enough. Jiang's mother and Qu's mother still cook at home and do a good job of logistics, while other laborers go to the paddy fields to make great efforts to open up wasteland.

During our assignment of tasks. Several children made their own requests, saying that they wanted to raise some small animals.

I'm good to hear that. Getting some chickens, ducks, geese and so on at home not only satisfies the children's wishes, but also enriches the dining table at home, which is a good thing to kill multiple birds with one stone.

But I still thought about it for a while, and then said to the leader of the list: "Sissi, you must know that raising these small animals now is too expensive to eat, although our family is not to the point of starvation, but food cannot be wasted." If you really want to raise some chickens or ducks, I don't object, but you have to make sure that there must be a beginning and an end, don't be fresh for two days, and if you don't like it for a few days, you won't feed it, everyone in our family is very busy, and you have seen it, and when the time comes, there will be no one to feed you, so my aunt will feed your food to the chickens and ducklings every day. Do you agree? ”

Sissi also said to me seriously: "Auntie, don't worry, we definitely can't give up halfway, we have all thought about it, we have to feed it until the chickens and ducks lay eggs." If we can't persevere, then as you say, feed our food to the chickens, and it's okay. Do you agree? ”

After Sissi finished speaking, she turned back to ask the little radish heads next to her to look for support. Han Han, who was watching us talking, nodded vigorously when he heard Sissi ask, and scrambled to reassure me.

"Okay, then tomorrow my aunt will go to the county to find out for you, if there are any chickens and ducklings to buy, if there are, I will buy 10 for each of you, you compare with each other, see who feeds the best and lays the most eggs." After I got the children's assurance, I decided to give each of these children 10 chickens, ducks and geese, so that they could have a good experience of the difficulties and hardships of the breeding industry.

Of course, it is also necessary to mobilize the enthusiasm of the children, who are eager to start their breeding business now.

When the second sister heard me say that she wanted to buy chickens and ducklings for the children, she said to me: "Xiaoyi, if you can buy livestock, see if there are sheep and cattle in the county, and if so, you can buy two for our family." ”

I looked at the second sister with some questions, how do I want to raise these things.

"It's not your second brother-in-law, these days can go to the ground, watching me and Sissi busy every day, he can't lie down, this just can go down to the ground, I want to do something, I think he can't make a big effort for the time being, just let him raise poultry at home or something, and when his body is better, he will do the work in the field, and then I raise poultry isn't very good." I also wondered if sheep and cows were not just fed with grass and food, so I fed a few of them. People can basically feed sheep at home, and they can still have some meat to eat in the future. The last sentence of the second sister was very quiet, and I heard it.

I thought about it, isn't it, I used to see that most of the last days are fed to sheep, because sheep eat grass when they are easy to feed, unlike pigs who have to feed grain.

"Okay, I'll see if there's any, and if there's a lamb or something, I'll buy some. Eldest sister, do you want a few? "I decided to raise a few sheep and cows at home, because they eat grass and milk is milk. Then I asked the eldest sister what she meant.

"Okay, buy some for my house too, Chenchen and I are idle." The eldest sister also decided to raise a few.

After the discussion, the eldest sister and the second sister both said that when they were at home in the past two days, they would first build the sheepfold and the chicken coop and duck shed, so as to welcome the new members of the family who were about to arrive.

Our family gave this task to three big men, and ordered that the sheepfold must be sorted out today, because tomorrow will start to open up the wasteland, they are the main force, but there is no time to tidy up the sheepfold again.

Early the next morning, we began to do our duty, and after breakfast, the army took the tools and slaughtered the rice fields.

Our paddy field is the easternmost part of the paddy field in Tashan Village, which is closely connected to several rows of shelter forests, and to the east is a large piece of wasteland, and then it is connected to the mountain, and it is estimated that this wasteland has thirty or forty acres.

In the wasteland, the ground is overgrown with weeds, the ground is very hard, and there are occasional large stones in the soil, and there are a few large trees and countless small trees standing upright in the wasteland.

In order to improve the efficiency of land reclamation, I took a picture of the Great Power Charm on everyone.

Li Cheng was the most amused, when he played a role in the giant power charm, he was like a chimpanzee on TV, roaring and screaming, and beating his chest with both hands into fists to show his strength. Laughed at the children who came to help.

There are many yellow weeds left over from last year on the wasteland, and if we want this field to be able to farm, we must root all these weeds, but these grasses have deep roots in order to absorb water and nutrients, which brings us a certain degree of difficulty in clearing the wasteland.

Jiang Zhi took a few of them men, digging deep with a spade and turning over the grass with the roots.

Several of them have great strength in their own right, and now that each of them has used a long power talisman, it is even more powerful like an ox, and shoveling the ground with a shovel looks as easy as cutting tofu. Then Weiwei and Fangfang and I squatted next to each other and were in charge of one person, wearing gloves, and pulled all the soil that had just been turned over, picked out the grass and grass roots in the soil, and piled them aside. This thing can't be wasted, and it will be food for sheep and cows in the future.

Just the two of them worked together, and it looked quite easy, but it didn't take long for everyone's faces to sweat down.

Ploughing the ground is easy for Jiang Zhi and them, but in the process of ploughing the ground, they will encounter trees and stones from time to time, and it is a waste of time and energy to deal with these things.

When we encounter a stone, we all pick it up and prepare to take it home for waste use and build a sheepfold.

When encountering trees, no matter how big or small, they are uprooted, and then dig a pit in the ground and then plant them, don't they all say that the tree moves the dead and the living, I am afraid that the tree will be moved to death by us like this, so I took advantage of everyone's inattention, and secretly poured some spring water in the space on the transplanted tree, hoping to help the tree adapt to the new home.

In this way, we didn't even open an acre of land in the morning.

When we went home for dinner at noon, Dad Jiang said that they had found a good place, soaked the dung, and when it could be used in a few days, they would sprinkle it directly on our newly opened field to increase some fertility.

I know that Jiang Zhi specially took the feces of various animals in a storage bag space, which also contained the inedible internal organs left by his slaughter of chickens and ducks, as well as the excrement that we froze into lumps in the city.

Now Dad Jiang has made full use of the contents of this storage bag, good, very good, not in vain Jiang Zhi uses the precious storage bag to collect these wastes. At the dinner table, I highly praised Daddy Jiang's behavior, and fully praised the desirability of Daddy Jiang's behavior of turning waste into treasure.

The corners of Jiang's mouth were crooked by my praise, and Qu's father was not far behind to explain to us that in the morning, he and Jiang's father, under the guidance of his sister-in-law, planted sweet potatoes and potatoes, and said that when the newly opened land can grow crops, their sweet potato seedlings will basically grow, and try to ensure that the sweet potatoes are planted on time.

I listened, and vigorously praised Qu Dad for their hard work, not afraid of tiredness, encourage them to guard against arrogance and rashness, for the family's planting cause to do more good things, do more practical things, they all said under my encouragement that they are now full of energy, in the afternoon they will clean up the backyard, find a place to build a sheepfold and cowshed.

I quietly wiped my sweat under the table, my work is not easy, I have to do manual work in the field, and I have to express condolences to the people when I get home, which is praise and encouragement, it is not easy. (To be continued.) )