The midday sun shines on the town.

On the mountains, on the rooftops, on the roadside, everywhere there was snow, and the whole world was white, quietly.

In this kind of weather, if you just sit in the house and have a fire, it won't be cold. Nance drank a tea made from an unknown leaf, and squinted out into the house, where the sparkling icicles hanging from the eaves were as attractive to him as beautiful crystal decorations.

During tea time, the wind kept ringing.

"The tea leaves are picked in the mountains." Mrs. Li knitted a sweater and said, "Dry it in the summer and drink it in the winter." It quenches your thirst and warms your body."

In the beams of winter, the dust is entangled with each other.

The tea is fragrant and has a faint aftertaste, and the atmosphere of drinking tea is great.

"It tastes good!" Susa smacked her mouth.

"What kind of plant leaves?" Nance asked.

"Ah, I really don't know the name, everyone here calls it Little Leaf Flower." Mrs. Li smiled and looked at Nance: "The flower tree is dwarf, it blooms in July, and because it smells good, I try to pick it as tea. Some exotic beasts also like to eat this flower."

"Are there a lot of strange beasts?" Nance asked.

"It's usually winter activities. In the summer, there is plenty of food in the mountains, and they generally do not come out close to humans. But in the winter, when the snow covers the mountains and the vegetarian animals are gone, the meat-eating beasts will appear frequently near the town."

"For the sake of stuttering."

Hearing the food, Susa tilted her head and muttered, "I'm so hungry."

"I'm going to make you lunch." Mrs. Li put away the needle and thread, got up and bowed slightly, and then walked to the kitchen. From the living room, you can see the kitchen at a glance, and she rolls up her sleeves to wash vegetables by the sink, and her back is quite beautiful.

Pale yellow sweater, long beige skirt to the ankles.

The long black hair was tied in a loose bundle and attached to the back, looking very gentle and virtuous.

"Why is there such a big difference between mother and daughter...... "Nance sometimes looks at Madame, sometimes at Madame's youngest daughter. The sun shone into the house through the eaves, and the youngest daughter turned over and continued to nap on the floor.

The light is bright, and her delicate little face is also covered with a layer of bright and gorgeous charming colors.

What a lovely girl.

This shining look, even an angel will be ashamed of herself when she sees it, but it's a pity that she has a mouth that can speak.

"Sleepy guys, open your eyes quickly." Nance shook the girl's shoulder.

Li Qingxian opened his eyes slightly to look at him, and then closed his eyes again. When Nance shook her shoulder for the second time, she rubbed her eyes and sat up reluctantly, "Uncle, can you please not be so annoying."

"Your dad is working in the fields, and your mom is preparing lunch, why are you embarrassed to sleep?" Nance asked.

"Ha~"

The girl yawned and walked lazily towards the kitchen.

She had a very delicate little heart, and by the tone of Nance's voice, she could tell that he was going to help his mother cook.

Normally she would not have bothered to move, but she was even more lazy to talk to Nance here, so she simply moved to the kitchen to sleep.

As soon as she reached the kitchen door, she yawned again, and her body struggled with laziness for a few seconds, and then the whole person was paralyzed. ….

The shadow immediately jumped up from the ground, hugged the body in his arms, then turned his head and said to Nance angrily, "Don't force the body to work, or she will be unhappy!"

Nance thought to herself, no problem.

In the future, only the shadow will be forced.

After more than ten minutes, Mrs. Li brought an iron pot from the kitchen and placed it on the fire.

There was a chowder in the pot, with potatoes and onions and some pork, which she put on a plate and added a bowl of rice to everyone.

The dish was simple, but the seasoning was good, and Nance ate it quite happily. After eating, I drank a cup of tea, my whole body was warm, and it was time to get down to business.

Mrs. Li filled some food in a thermos box and woke up

The youngest daughter: "Bring lunch to your father."

Li Qingxian pursed his lips reluctantly.

"Be nice, don't let Nance see the jokes, what a cute child, how can you be so lazy." Mrs. Li gently put her fingers into her daughter's hair, scratched the pink hair fluffy, and then put her nose on her daughter's face, "Qingxian, mother loves you......

Li Qingxian's expression hesitated.

Apparently she is not interested in this kind of parent-child interaction, her lips squirm slightly, as if she wants to scold "stupid"?

However, she still didn't scold her own mother for being stupid after all, and it seemed that she still kept the moral bottom line after all, and Nance was deeply gratified by this.

After her mother took her hand away, the girl shook her little head a few times, and her long fluffy pink hair returned to its vertical shape.

"Uncle, let's go!" She lifted her eyelids to look at Nance and snorted, "Take you to meet the weirdo who only cares about seeds."

Nance put on his coat and hat, and bent down towards Mrs. Lee, "I'm out."

"Stay safe on the road." Mrs. Li smiled gently, bent down to take Nance's leather shoes from the shoe cabinet, half-squatted down, and while helping Nance put on his shoes, she whispered to him softly, "It's cold outside, it's getting dark early, you come back early, I'll make dinner at home and wait for you."

Nance's gaze fell on her slender neck.

She was such a gentle and skilful wife.

- knows how to please men better than the younger daughter.

"Goo!"

Doraa rolled his eyes in a daze.

Xiao A thinks that the next time he sees the queen, he must make a small report and say that Nance likes ***!

Although it didn't snow outside, it was windy, and it was still difficult to walk on the road. The streets are sparsely populated, so the narrow streets feel much wider, maintaining the quiet that is characteristic of a deserted area.

When I walked to the edge of the wall, I saw people gathering under an announcement.

Nance passed by and glanced at the announcement.

[Cement worker: male required, 20-40 years old, in good physical condition, 200p per day]

[Lathe worker: male required, 25-50 years old, with lathe experience, pay 300p per day]

[Handyman: Male required, age is not limited, 100p per day]

The townsfolk gathered around the announcement and made a loud noise; In front of the small inn next to it, some people who looked like mercenaries looked at the mountains to the north.

"Cement workers are recruited to strengthen the city walls, and lathe workers are to process firearms, both to prevent the impact of foreign beasts." Li Qingxian half-squinted, and said impatiently, "There are also those mercenaries, who come over every winter, trying to get some oil and water from the strange beasts, and they are noisy and annoying." ….

Hearing her words, Miss Su's eyes lit up.

The organs of some exotic beasts are precious potion raw materials, if you can encourage Nance to go into the mountains to hunt, the old lady will make a fortune, ahahaha...... The corners of her mouth showed a hint of Yin-like smile, and she blinked at Nance with her peach blossom eyes: "Eh, dear......

"Get out, it's impossible, let's die!" Nance directly dissuaded three in a row.

Miss Su was unwilling and aggrieved, and kicked out suddenly.

Nance, who had long expected her to move, avoided it instantly, allowing her to kick the air.

Miss Su's legs are slender and good-looking, and she is also wearing a pair of queen-like high-heeled leather boots, which is really eye-catching.

It's a pity that the temperature is low today, the roadside is icy, and it's so slippery that you can fall even if you walk normally.

With a kick with all her might, she also lost her center, stumbled two steps, fell directly on the ice with a snap, and then slid all the way down the slope out of the fence.

Outside the town, the undulating sections between the mountains form gentle snow valleys, like specially designed ski runs.

Miss Su crashed headlong into the snowdrift on the side of the road, half of her body buried in the snow.

"Bastard!" She yelled at Nance.

"I just want to see you make a fool of yourself." Nance walked over with an owl on her head.

"You guy!" Susa stood up tremblingly, patted the snow off her hair, and then bent down and rubbed a snowball and smashed it on the side of his face. Without waiting for Nance to fight back, she sat down on the ice and continued to slide down the ramp, leaving a string of very heroic laughter along the way.

The warm sunlight shone on the silent ice, and a little girl of seven or eight years old came up shaking the bell in her hand, and was frightened by the laughter, and sat down.

Miss Su slipped past her with a gust of wind, and Nance, who was dragging behind, picked up the little girl and put her on the slippery mud next to her, and then admonished, "Don't learn from this sister when you grow up."

The little girl blinked in confusion.

"Ah~" Li Qingxian yawned and passed by.

Her pace was swaying all the way, and I was really worried that she would sink into a ditch or cow dung on the side of the road as she walked. The cow dung was fresh and steaming, and Nance had just watched as a cow raised its tail right under his nose and snapped a large lump of things on the ground.

It's too undeserved to bury the beautiful girl's face in cow dung.

Nance glanced back at the girl's swaying body, slowed down, and walked side by side with her, just in case she was about to fall.

"I have a shadow, I don't need to worry about my uncle!" Li Qingxian took a long breath and stretched.

She wears a romantic jacket with dark blue and rose red, and blue trousers underneath.

The forehead is fair, the lips are delicate and lovely, but the eyes are lazy at all times, sorry for the youthful vitality that is almost overflowing in her body.

"Why didn't you just eat lunch?" Nance asked her.

Li Qingxian cleared his throat and said boredly, "Mom's cooking is too unpalatable, I don't want to eat it. I want to eat dry fried chicken, hamburger beef patties, raisin soft crackers......

"These things are high in sugar and calories, eat less." Nance said earnestly, "At your current age, you should eat more nutritious food to grow up better." ….

"Long-winded uncle." Li Qingxian muttered in a low voice.

"I think you have to be considerate of your mother......" Nance thought about Mrs. Li like that last night, and was about to say a few words to her, but Li Qingxian preemptively asked him, "What did you and my mother do last night?"

「……」

Li Qingxian looked at him suspiciously: "My mother is also too enthusiastic about you, which is obviously beyond common sense!"

"It's a bit out of the ordinary." Nance smiled and said calmly, "It's not that I'm quibbling, but because of what your mother said last night, I have a little hard to shirk. It's a long story, but in a word, she asked me to take care of you sisters."

"Take care?"

"Yes, it's to take care of. She was afraid that the fire at your gate would affect you and your sister, so she asked me to take you away."

"Funny." Li Qingxian pursed his lips indifferently.

"It's funny." Nance admitted.

"Hey, you don't have a crush on my mom, do you?" The girl put on a very old-fashioned look, shook her head and said, "Let me tell you, although I hate my father, I don't want to replace you as my stepfather! Adults are all like this, and none of them are pleasing to the eye......

「…… How to speak!"

Nance gave her a big mouth.

It was beaten lightly, just to show the meaning of the lesson.

"It's ridiculous!" Li Qingxian finally put down the next sentence, then carried the thermos box, ran forward, chased after Susa's back and shouted: "Sister Su, let me tell you, the uncle is *** control, he has a crush on my mother......

Nance shook her head helplessly.

Alas, what a problem girl, it is necessary to train well.

The weather is cold and clear, and from time to time the chirping of birds pierces the air sharply.

Leaving the town's limits, there were snow-covered fields all around, and some straw roots sprouted out of the snow. The three of them made their way in the direction of the mountain to the north. The fields are sparsely scattered

Some thatched huts, dilapidated houses, really make people worry that they will be blown into the sky by a gust of wind.

In the distance, a plastic greenhouse appeared at the foot of the mountain.

Nance walked across the field path and crossed a single-plank bridge over a creek, the cold wind blowing in his face.

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Winter is not the right season for farming.

Li Ting has always been very fond of winter.

After his family arrived in South Bay, every winter, he liked to snuggle up in the house, handwriting some articles on agriculture and posting them on the Internet for free. In addition to the principles of agriculture, he also discusses physics, philosophy, and ...... online His life in Southbay was extraordinarily fulfilling, with only occasional feelings of unsatisfying resentment.

This year's winter has been exceptionally cold and long.

Dark clouds covered the land, quickly covering the water with a thin layer of ice, and the climate suddenly surpassed the soil eroded by natural disasters and became the number one enemy of agricultural production.

Early this morning, Li Ting put on his big boots and coat and went to inspect the experimental field. Wading through the dizzying frozen streams of the sun, stepping on the ice and sinking into the snow at the next.

This plastic shed at the foot of the mountain has devoted his life's work.

When he came to open the door, the workers who came to help had not yet arrived, and he first went to see the livestock. ….

The cows had been put into the paddock, their smooth fur shining, basking in the sun and mooing to go up to the meadow.

Li Ting stared at this group of cows with admiration, he knew their situation clearly, when to give birth, when to ***, and what type of bull he liked...... He broke a branch, opened the calf's enclosure, and with a smile on his face, drove the little ones out of the barricade and let them bask in the sun for exercise.

This winter's calves are exceptionally good.

According to Li Ting's estimates, the slaughter period will only take more than a year, three to five months earlier than the current mainstream beef cattle in the empire. And the nutrition of the meat is not bad, but the taste will be a little more chai. In terms of feeding, this breed of beef cattle will also be more cost-effective, only dry roughage mixed with a small proportion of soybean meal, and a small amount of protein can be supplemented.

Such beef is destined not to be recognized by the upper class.

But if they can be successfully promoted and farmed on a large scale, their meat can cut the current price of beef in half, and become the most important source of nutrition for the inhabitants of the empire.

Li Ting took out hay fodder from the barn and sprinkled it in the trough to feed the calves.

The wooden fence next to the trough was broken, and he was going to call a carpenter to repair it yesterday, but unfortunately the carpenter was called by the town government to repair the fence and did not have time to come and help. There was no way, he could only plan to stay and repair himself after finishing the work at hand today, and it didn't matter if he went home later.

As the sun rose, a nearby peasant woman came to help in the field.

Li Ting did not pay them, but promised to give everyone a little grain at the time of harvest.

In such a remote town, it is already very good to have food, so many housewives who are idle at home are willing to come over to help. Moreover, Li Ting also promised that except for some of these new varieties of grain seeds for research, the rest would be distributed to everyone for free.

Some of the townspeople who were still eager for him to experiment with the high-yielding grain crops in the fields were now willing to work for him.

A large group of peasant women, and scattered old people, were busy clearing the wasteland.

The shovel dug into the hard earth, making a wonderful tremor that shattered the taut air.

Li Ting searched the warehouse for a long time, then ran out of the door and shouted, "Aunt Mary, I was going to tell you yesterday that the rake needs to be repaired. You know, today is the time to harrow the fields."

"Huh?"

A peasant woman looked up in surprise.

"Didn't you tell me to fix it today?"

"I'm talking about asking you to fix it yesterday, your ears are really bad ......" Li Ting shouted, but it was useless to get angry now, so he stopped halfway through speaking, and just sighed: "Hurry up and fix it, you can rake a little bit, don't waste everyone's time."

Aunt Mary rushed into the warehouse.

Li Ting turned to another peasant woman and asked, "What happened to the six acres of land that I raked yesterday?"

"I have already let Vasily go over and sow seeds, and today I can plant at least three acres of land."

"Why can't you sow them all?" Li Ting shouted.

"The shed over there hasn't been erected yet, and it's all snow......

"Okay, you hurry up and take a few people to build a plastic greenhouse, don't let the low temperature delay the harvest." ….

"Right now!"

With a wave of her hand, the peasant woman immediately led a few people to the warehouse to get stakes and plastics.

Li Ting was a little annoyed, and he also went to help.

Only half of the six acres of land are planted, and even the shed is not built, and the seeds are sown under the ice and snow, which will definitely affect the harvest, and these acres of land will be wasted.

"Why are there so few people?"

"Everyone is busy with their own business."

"What?"

"Five people are laying potato seedlings, four people are feeding eggs and ducks, and, No, look......" The man who spoke pointed to the cowshed, "It takes three people to milk the cows......

Li Ting glanced at the cowshed.

Three gray-haired old men, wearing fur boots and thick bloated coats, were working slowly.

"Hey!"

Li Ting waved his hand angrily.

Really, on such a clear day, it would be nice if there was enough labor.

"Ignat!" He shouted to the young man who was rolling up his sleeves and feeding the ducks, "Get some young people to town......

"Sir, where are there any young people in the town now...... the man shouted helplessly, "the boys are either going to repair the city walls, or they are going to the big city......

Li Ting was silent.

He encountered resistance again, and he knew that no matter how hard he tried, there would be no greater miracle in such a remote place......

"I'll take a look, you wait......" called the Ignat man, wiping his hands, and running out of the test field.

"Master, there's still a manpower missing here!" The peasant woman who feeds the ducks shouts at the top of her voice, "Ignat has to find someone to do it!"

"I want it here, there is no young man to build a shed, it all depends on us women......

"Master, the rake is not good, come and take a look......

The whole test field was noisy, and there was a shortage of people everywhere, which made people dizzy.

A calf snorted, swung its reins, and walked briskly on its hooves.

Li Ting looked around speechlessly.

If he had enough manpower, he could plant three hundred acres of wheat, a hundred acres of potatoes, and one hundred and fifty acres of corn; You can create a pasture next to the test field, dig a pond, and build a movable corral to accumulate fertilizer...... It won't be long before not a single acre of land in this town will be deserted.

Immersed in a helpless mood, the calf approached him and snorted a few white breaths.

A well-dressed young man walked in from the test field with an owl on his head. He was flanked by a tall, long, gray-haired woman, both of whom seemed to be able to work in the fields...... As for the pink-haired girl, forget it, the owl is more useful than her.

So, Nansi and Miss Su, who had just walked in, were stuffed with a saw and a hoe by a middle-aged man, one covered a plastic greenhouse, and the other went to the field to hoe.

Even the owl, after a frightened "coo", was caught by him and taken to the chicken coop to incubate eggs.

"Ha~"

Li Qingxian put on a stinky face very rebelliously.

She was tired of even looking at her old father, so she let the shadow carry her to the roof.

Squint your eyes and go to bed in the sun.

Fish fish move quickly