In the afternoon, Shen Yun and his party also went to the nursery school. Elder Luo brought it up. Shenjiazhuang's nursery school is on the agenda, but the owner of the door has not been to see it once. Therefore, he took advantage of the fact that the master of the door came back this time and specially brought it up. And Shen Yun also agreed.

Shen Jiumei didn't plan to go. She wanted to go to the nursery because she was worried that Qiu Bao would also take in orphans like the rebels, so that she could raise the dead. Now that it was determined that this was not the case at all, she was not interested at all.

Of course, more importantly, Shen Yun and their visit to the nursery this time was completely official business. She's not from the Aoki faction, so she's blindly involved in the past.

When Shen Yun asked her, she politely declined on the grounds that she had been there in the morning.

Shen Yun looked at Luo Ahua. The latter came out of the crowd and gave a brief explanation, and at the end, scratched his head and asked: "The dolls inside, one crying, can bring a crying doll to the whole house." The cry was loud and loud, and it could tear down the roof. I have a headache listening to it. My lord, I've been there once in the morning, and I'm familiar with the nursery again, so I'm not going to follow this trip, right?"

Shen Yun was noncommittal, but looked at Aunt Qian and her aunt and nephew, and asked, "Aunt Qian, Senior Sister Qian, what about you?"

"We're with Jiu Niang. Aunt Qian said.

"That's fine. Sister Hua, you go and get busy by yourself, you don't have to go with us. Shen Yun bowed his head and said to Camp Master Liu, "Ninth Sister and the three of them want your women's camp to live for a few days and see how your women's camp usually operates." Before leaving, I'll pick them up again. These days, the camp owner is tired of taking care of it more. ”

Camp Master Liu clenched his fists and ordered: "Yes." ”

She is a cheerful person, and immediately arranged for Steward Yu to accompany Shen Jiumei and her party these days.

As a result, the remaining steward did not have to go to the nursery school.

After sending Shen Yun and his party away, she asked Shen Jiumei for instructions, whether to ask the guest house to rest, or where she wanted to go.

Shen Jiumei didn't say anything polite to her, and asked bluntly: "On the way here just now, I saw many female disciples carrying furniture back from outside. Are you digging up the surrounding areas? Why don't you take us to see it?"

Hearing this, Qian Liu's face showed a look of joy.

Steward Yu pointed to the southeast: "There is some land over there. It's not far, out of Zhuangzi, over the slope to arrive. The solar terms in the mountains are later, just in time for spring ploughing. Are you going now?"

Shen Jiumei looked at Aunt Qian and their aunt and nephew with inquiring eyes.

"Neither of us is in the habit of taking naps. It doesn't hurt to go now. Aunt Qian smiled.

Shen Jiumei nodded: "The tired and restless steward will lead the way." ”

"You're welcome. ”

As Steward Yu said, the road is not far. After a while, they climbed the southeast slope. The three of them stood at the top of the slope, looked down, and couldn't help but exclaim.

Terrace!

This side of the mountain, as well as the other side of the mountain, is full of paddy fields. Under the midday sun, the waves shimmered and scaled, like layers of mirrors. The number is in the hundreds.

If you look closely, you can see that all the paddy fields have already been planted with seedlings.

"No wonder they all came back for lunch, and they didn't have to bring food to the fields. It turned out that it had already been plugged in. Steward Yu introduced to them, "The soil here is more fertile, and there is a river at the bottom of the mountain, so there is no shortage of water. Therefore, they spread out in the shape of the mountain and planted rice. He turned around again and pointed to the southwest direction of Zhuangzi, "It's much worse over there, the soil is poor, and some vegetable fields have been opened." ”

Shen Jiumei laughed from the bottom of her heart: "You guys are really powerful when you have opened up so much land." ”

Actually, that's not what I said.

She's counting the production of these paddy fields.

After a rough estimate, she felt that it was not a problem to support hundreds of people. For a while, the mood was better, and it was even brighter than the blue sky overhead.

That's the long-term solution!

Unlike the rebels of the past, they were completely unable to provide self-sufficiency in grain and grass equipment, and relied to a large extent on going out to kill the rich and help the poor to "collect grain and grass". But after years of war, the real rich have already moved their families away. In order to survive, the rebels often have to lower the bar for killing the rich. This also caused the surrounding people to flee when they heard the rebels' discoloration. As a result, the situation of the rebels became even more difficult. At that time, she often reflected on what could be done to change the situation. Seeing the vast terraces beneath her feet, she felt like she had found the answer.

Thinking of this, she clenched her fist excitedly in her sleeve. Once again, it felt worthwhile.

Then, Steward Yu took her to the southwest to see the mountains and soil.

There are many mountains and rocks, but it is not suitable for land reclamation. All the vegetable plots are reclaimed because of the topography, one by one. It is not too much to describe it with the words "see the seams and insert the needle".

But each vegetable patch is well served.

After Shen Jiumei saw it, she understood why there were no flowers planted in the main courtyard of the lord of the mansion, but ordinary fruits and vegetables. It's all because of the shortage of vegetable fields.

Qian Liu also saw it. She pointed to the dense mountains and forests around Zhuangzi and asked, "Why don't you open up some vegetable fields in the forest?"

Steward Yu replied, "There are cattle in the forest." ”

Of course, this is only one of the reasons. And the least important reason.

The reason why these mountains and forests were left behind is because they suffered losses and learned a lesson.

When they arrived, they chose the valley as their camp, and then cut down the miscellaneous trees in the valley.

Cut down trees and use them to build houses. And the house was built on the vacant land. It's a perfect arrangement.

There weren't enough trees, so they started cutting them down the southeast slope as planned.

Why do you start from the southeast? First, the slopes of the hills are much slower. It is more suitable for farming.

But in less than a month, three heavy rains fell in succession. And they suffered—the rain washed down the hillside over there. Most of the newly cultivated fields and the crops that were still harvested were destroyed.

At this time, they found that the rest of the hillsides that were ready to be reclaimed next year were fine, and there were no landslides or landslides.

Coincidentally, the rest of the battalions were more or less in the same situation.

After surveying the disaster together, the camp owners found an interesting phenomenon: where there were no landslides, all the mountains and forests had not been cut down, and the collapsed ones, without exception, were all the forests above had been cut down.

The reason for this is that the soil is relatively soft. Without the protection of mountains and forests, you can't resist the rain.

The campers rejoiced – the rain came just in time. Each battalion has only completed the first step of the reclamation plan. Therefore, the surrounding forests have not been cut down. Otherwise, you can only consider changing places. Not to mention that the previous hard work was all ruined, and these preferred camps were ruined in vain, so they could only retreat to the second.

However, the forest has been cut down, and it is difficult to recover in a short period of time. And if the battalions want to be self-sufficient, reclamation is also necessary. As a result, the battalions worked together and came up with many ways to remedy it. Eventually, there were terraces and vegetable patches between the stone crevices.

As for the mountains and forests, there is no waste. On the one hand, chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep and cattle are appropriately stocked for meat; on the other hand, according to local conditions, the cultivation of medicines.

Of course, aunts and grandmothers are guests after all, and it's not easy to talk to them about these inside things. The remaining steward did not say a word, and only followed the instructions of the camp owner to be a good guide.