"Hey, there's no rush to go back!"

Aunt Liu grabbed Qin Suyun's arm and looked around. Seeing that there was no one around, the smile on her face faded instantly.

Aunt Liu looked at Qin Suyun with a worried look on her face and said, "Sister Qin, you know what happened this morning, right? Such a large group of people came to our village and wanted to divide up our land. What are we going to do next?"

There were originally only more than 700 people in the entire Wanxi Village, and now there are only more than 400 people in the village. The other party came this time, 150 of them, which almost directly accounts for one-third of the total population now.

If this group of people came, they would have to take away one-third and one-quarter of the land they currently owned. Aunt Liu felt very sad just thinking about it, because everyone had planted a lot of things in those fields in recent days.

"Yeah, I was here this morning too."

Qin Suyun nodded and consoled her, "Aunt Liu, don't overthink it. The village chief and his men will decide how to divide the land. It's useless for us to overthink it right now."

Who in the village wouldn't know about the large group of people coming through the door this morning, armed with guns? She was there at the time.

"Why is it useless? This matter is related to us!" Aunt Liu put the firewood on her shoulders on the ground, leaned close to Qin Suyun and whispered, "Sister Qin, you are also a member of our village now. These people want to divide our land. Doesn't this matter concern us? Don't we have to think about it more?"

Qin Suyun was puzzled and didn't know what Aunt Liu was going to say.

Aunt Liu looked at Qin Suyun with a serious expression and said cautiously, "I heard someone say that Director Xu left right after sending the people there, and went straight back to Yunhai City... He didn't care how these people were doing in our village at all."

"Since they don't intend to target our villagers, we must give them land... You said Director Xu is gone, so why should we give them land? Whether we give them land or not, Director Xu has already returned to Yunhai City, so he definitely won't know..."

"What do you think about us following the village chief's suggestion? Just don't divide the land...? If these people really want to farm, at worst, aren't there so many wastelands in the mountains? They can go up the mountain and reclaim them! We can give them as much wasteland as they want, and there's no need to divide our land." Aunt Liu nodded continuously as she spoke, thinking that this suggestion was really good. Even her originally pale face was flushed with excitement.

"Even if Director Xu comes to our village, he probably won't cause trouble for us again. After all, when Director Xu came, he didn't say anything about giving them fertile land. Isn't this wasteland still land?"

There are only so many fields suitable for growing crops in a village, and even fewer that happen to be on flat land. Even the villagers of Wanxi Village themselves have much of their land on the low hillsides.

After all, Yunhai City is not a basin, but a hilly area.

Qin Suyun frowned after hearing what Aunt Liu said, and said hesitantly, "This shouldn't work. I don't think the village chief would agree to this."

"Why wouldn't you agree? Isn't this a good idea?" Aunt Liu said anxiously, "Everyone says this is a good idea."

Qin Suyun pursed her lips and said, "No one is stupid these days. If we give the wasteland to them, they will definitely not agree... If they really make trouble, it will be very troublesome with so many people. The wasteland here is different from the black soil in the Northeast. The wasteland in the mountains is very barren, and there are many broken stones, tree bark and weed roots in the middle. No matter how the other party cultivates it, they will definitely not be able to produce much food."

Wasteland is different from ordinary fields. Clearing wasteland will not only take a lot of time and may cause you to miss spring planting, but most importantly, most of their land is very barren and requires a lot of fertilizer to make it clean.

This group of people just arrived in the village, where would they get the fertilizer?

Even city dwellers without much experience would know that this kind of yellow mud land is not good land.

If the village forced those people to divide the wasteland, those people might not make trouble with the villagers on the surface to avoid being driven out of the village.

But no one can be sure whether they will stab you in the back?

I won’t say much else, but if the other party’s people join the patrol team and someone comes to their village to burn, kill and rob, this person doesn’t have to do anything else. He just needs to open the big iron gate at the entrance of the village and let such a group of bandits into the village in the middle of the night. Who can resist them then?

However, Qin Suyun was not able to say these words. She came out to Aunt Liu and frowned. After thinking for a while, she spoke, "If these people had fled from Yunhai City, it would be natural for our village not to give them land. Even if they could get some wasteland, they would definitely be grateful. But these people were sent here directly by the government, and they had Director Xu's support before. So a small amount of wasteland is definitely not enough. They won't be able to grow much food, and they might even starve to death in our village."

"If people are about to starve to death, they will definitely do anything. By then, the other party will have become in a situation like Cao Shufen before. There won't be many people in our village who can stop them, especially those residents in the village who only have elderly people and children." Qin Suyun didn't dare to make the matter sound too serious, so she picked the one with the least impact.

"But I really don't want to give our land to those people like this..." Aunt Liu said with a grim expression: "Is there nothing we can do?"

In Aunt Liu's mind, even Qin Suyun in front of her had spent so much money to build a road for their village, but the village only gave her five acres of wasteland.

The people who suddenly broke into their village actually wanted to take a share of their land. This was really unacceptable!

Aunt Liu was hit hard by Qin Suyun. She was confused for a moment and didn't want to talk about this topic with Qin Suyun anymore. She lowered her head, turned around and said, "I'll go back first," and then she went back with the load of firewood.

Looking at Aunt Liu's back as she left, Qin Suyun shook her head and sighed, not knowing what to say.

The final decision on this matter still depends on the decision of the village chief and others.

…

What Qin Suyun could think of was also thought of by Zhao Xingguo, Meng Changlong and the others, but no one said it out loud.

Instead, he talked with Sun Guangsheng and others about how to distribute the land this time.

A group of people were sitting around a large round table in the room, each with a serious expression on their face.

"Our village is small, and we don't have many fields. It's completely incomparable to those big villages. When it comes to dividing the land, our rule is to divide it according to the number of people. But the land that men can get is twice that of women. That is to say, if men can get one acre of land, women can only get half an acre. When you come to our village, you should follow the rules of our village. After all, girls will eventually get married, and boys have to stay in the village after getting married and having children. The fields in his hands have to be kept to support his wife and children. The rules cannot be broken just because you are here." Zhao Xingguo sat at the round table with a thick account book in front of him.

This is a yellow-covered account book that looks like it's been around for many years, and indeed, it has. Even the paper inside has started to turn yellow.

Zhao Xingguo opened the thick account book and pushed it in front of Sun Guangsheng and the other two. He said seriously, "We don't have many fields in our village. There are only about 800 acres in total. But in fact, there may be more fields in the village, because there are still many lands that the villagers have reclaimed themselves. And according to the rules, these reclaimed fields cannot be returned to our collective for redistribution. After all, they are the fruits of other people's labor, and we can't just snatch the fruits of their labor halfway. That would be too inhumane. So when we divide the fields for you later, we can only divide them from these 800 acres."

Sun Guangsheng held the account book in his hand, which clearly recorded the fields in the entire Wanxi Village, and behind it was the amount of fields that each household had been allocated 20 years ago. In other words, on average each male had about one acre, while each woman had less than half an acre.

After flipping through the account book, the three of them exchanged glances. The tallest young man in the lead nodded and said, "Village Chief, you're right... We're new here, so we naturally can't break the village rules. Since those wastelands were cleared by everyone, we definitely can't just seize them. When we divide them up later, we'll divide them according to these 800-plus acres of land... But I have something I want to ask."

The other party was able to produce the account book so quickly, it was definitely not intentional to make false accounts to deceive them, but there were only so many fields in this village.

Zhao Xingguo nodded, looked up at the young man and said, "Just tell me what you want to say. I will tell you what I know."

"I just want to ask, if the 150 of us reclaim the wasteland, do we not need to share it with others later? We can just use the wasteland we reclaim for ourselves, right?" The young man said with a serious look in his eyes.

The entire account book shows a total of more than 600 people. Even now, more than 20 years have passed, and some of these 600 people have married and moved to other villages, and some have died, but the overall number is probably increasing.

After all, these years.

The total population of the country has been increasing. That means the average land allocated to each person is definitely less than one acre. On a normal day, this acre of land should be enough to support a family, but in today's environment, the young man felt that this amount of land might still be a little insufficient, so he expressed his doubts.

Uncle Jiu knocked on his pipe, knocking out the ash from the pipe and said, "Whoever reclaims the wasteland in our village naturally owns it. However, the wasteland in our village cannot be reclaimed casually. Some areas are not allowed to be reclaimed. So before reclaiming wasteland, you must consult the village head or village secretary first, and there is a limit on the amount of wasteland that can be reclaimed. According to our village regulations, each person cannot reclaim more than two mu of wasteland. If you exceed this amount, you must report it to the village again and pay a fee to the village."

Whether it is wasteland or foundation, the excess amount needs to be purchased from the village. This is the rule, and it is not deliberately stated to exploit the other party.

Sun Guangsheng and the three young men nodded when they heard what Uncle Jiu and Zhao Xingguo said. Seeing that the other party was doing their job impartially and had no intention of making things difficult for them, naturally, they did not have any strong resistance to what Uncle Jiu and Zhao Xingguo said.

These two acres of land may not sound like a lot, but if you think about the area of ​​the house they live in on a normal day, it takes 666 square meters to make one acre of land. Such a spacious area is enough for them to grow some vegetables, fruits and melons.

"Since we have agreed to let a group of you join our village, then we must fulfill the obligations and responsibilities that should be fulfilled between both parties... This time so many of you have joined our Wanxi Village and want to redistribute the land, so all the villagers in our entire Wanxi Village will redivide the land together. I believe you should have no objection to what I said, right?" The old village chief handed a blue-covered roster in his hand to Sun Guangsheng and the other two.

"No problem, no problem, this is what we should do." Sun Guangsheng nodded repeatedly. In fact, this is the fairest way. And they didn't even think that the other party would actually take out all the land and share it with them.

"There are a total of 721 people in our village, including all the elderly and children..." The old village chief pointed at the name on the roster and continued, "Some of them have been working away from home and haven't returned, so there are only 461 people in our village now. But we don't know whether these people are alive or dead... nor do we know when they will return..."

"Logically speaking, with such a big earthquake, these 260 people are very likely to have had an accident outside... But neither you nor we have any solid evidence to show that they have died in the earthquake. We even had two people rush back from outside a few days ago... In order to ensure that they have some means of livelihood when they come back in the future, if we don't find the bodies of these 260 people, we have to count them as alive. What do you think?" The old village chief's voice was a little heavy.

The main reason for allocating land to these 260 people was that neither the old village chief nor their families wanted their children to die outside. If these 260 people were treated as dead, the 150 outsiders would probably be kicked out by the villagers on the spot, not to mention being given land!

Others were originally fine and could use these fields to comfort themselves. However, this group of outsiders not only occupied their fields, but also cursed their relatives to die outside. Isn't this asking for trouble?

Naturally, the three of them did not disagree with what the old village chief said. If they wanted to live in this village, they naturally had to consider the opinions of other people in the village and not just their own interests.

What's more, doing so is indeed quite immoral. It's like they suddenly break into someone else's house and steal things when the other person is not at home. It's a very shameful feeling.

"Village chief, we agree with what you said. We also think this approach is very appropriate. Let's distribute the land according to the method you suggested." The young strong man nodded.

The strong young man made the decision, and naturally Sun Guangsheng and the other man next to him would not say anything more. Moreover, both Sun Guangsheng and the other man felt that this method was very good. They came to Wanxi Village because they had to make a living, but not to seize other people's supplies and living space and force the other party into a desperate situation.

If it really doesn't work, they can just go back and reclaim more wasteland, and they will always be able to survive.

The most important part here has been decided. As for the specific fields and their allocation to each person, it will take a long time to complete. The implementation of this work will take at least a week.

After Zhao Xingguo and his colleagues had a meeting on how to divide the land, almost the entire village knew about it. Even though everyone was talking about it, no one directly jumped out to oppose what Zhao Xingguo and Zhao Zhengde said. However, someone privately approached Zhao Xingguo and mentioned what Aunt Liu had said before.

Although no one knows where these words came from, anyone who spoke to Zhao Xingguo privately was scolded to death!

By the time Qin Suyun learned about this, the whole village had already started the land division operation in a hurry. These lands were not so easy to divide. The most important thing was that these lands were far and near, some were barren and some were fertile, some were close to water sources and some were separated from the water source by a long distance.

Since many people already had crops and vegetables planted in their own fields, Zhao Xingguo directly distributed these fields to these residents when he divided the land. He only separated some of their original fields and gave them to the outsiders who came from Yunhai City.

As for the group of people in Yunhai City, they were not so lucky. Many families' fields were scattered here and there. Often, a couple, a father and a son had their land divided in the east, and another had his land divided in the west, and there was no way for them to be put together.

Even the most unlucky family had four plots of land, located in the four corners of the village respectively. This almost made the four members of the family worry to death, as it was so inconvenient for them to work!

However, these matters were not the responsibility of Zhao Xingguo and his team. They were only responsible for dividing the fields of the entire village and appeasing the mood of everyone in the village.

This gave a quick-witted guy an opportunity to help these families whose land was scattered to several places to reorganize the contract, using the land of the east family to exchange for the land of the west family. Going back and forth, he managed to do some business and earn dozens of kilograms of grain and some instant noodles.

However, Qin Suyun didn't know about this.

When the land was being divided in the entire village, Qin Suyun was a little confused. She thought that two or three acres of her five acres of land would be divided no matter what. However, she did not expect that all five acres of her land would be preserved!

She was probably the only one in the entire village who seemed completely unaffected by this incident and had completely stayed out of it.

This made many people in the village extremely envious of Qin Suyun's good luck, especially Aunt Liu who had said those words to her before.

"If I had known earlier, I would have been like you and reclaimed more wasteland." Aunt Liu said with great envy, "This way, my family would have more land and wouldn't have to worry about just one or two acres."

Aunt Liu's family has a large population of eight, including the old and the young. Therefore, after the division, Aunt Liu will have to give up a lot of land, which makes her very sad, because her family depends on the land for their livelihood!

Qin Suyun scratched her cheek awkwardly, not knowing how to respond to Aunt Liu's words. She could only say awkwardly, "Luck, luck... I didn't expect my luck to be so good."

Especially when Qin Suyun heard the old village chief on the stage say to everyone that her land was previously wasteland bought with money, and it was re-fertilized and transformed and no longer needed to be included in the village's fields, the envious eyes of others made her want to just find a corner to squat.

These days, land is the capital for people's survival. Who doesn't like farmland? Especially in the current situation, large areas of cities in the entire country have been destroyed. Those prosperous high-rise buildings and towering cities have all been destroyed by the earthquake and people can no longer live there. Nothing is more important than food.

The entire work of dividing the heaven and earth lasted for a full 11 days before it was completely completed. However, by this time, the seedlings planted in Qin Suyun's greenhouse and in her own fields had grown a long way taller.

Since it no longer rains continuously these days and the sky has been clear for several days in a row, Dahei and the others have started to like going into the forest again.

Occasionally, even Zhazha and Heidou would go for a walk in the mountains and forests. However, Zhazha had lived in a zoo since he was a child and was locked in a birdcage every day. Even when he was released on weekdays, he would wander around the zoo. He was a casual person, so in these few days, he only went out for a walk two or three times and came back quickly.

no way……

It's because there is no delicious food to eat in the mountains and plains, nor can it find any birds to play with it.

The birds in the mountains are so stupid that even adults don’t bother to play with those stupid and ugly sparrows!

Zhazha flapped his wings and flew to the flowerpot. He tilted his head and looked at his walnut seedlings. He felt as happy as if he had eaten honey!

This is high-end treatment!

Neither the dogs nor the cat at home have received the treatment of having trees planted specifically for them, as two-legged animals!

It is indeed the tall, handsome and beautiful Lord Zhazha with noble bloodline!

"Haha!..." Zhazha walked back and forth happily beside the flower pot, twisting his little neck back and forth, like a piece of kelp floating in the sea, following his own rhythm and making various wave shapes.

Qin Suyun, who was loosening the soil and adding fertilizer with a shovel and hoe, looked at the parrot in front of her in confusion. The parrot was swaying from side to side as if it had eaten something. Her face was full of confusion.

Qin Suyun: "..."

This parrot she keeps...isn't it a little silly?

And looking at the way he looks, he's so stupid!

Fortunately, Hei Dou was not there, otherwise the big black cat would have definitely lashed out with its claws and fanned the bird so hard that it would have lost its way.

The sun has been shining brightly these days. After Qin Suyun finished tidying up the greenhouse and the fields outside, she planned to tidy up the third floor again and plant some other vegetables she wanted to eat.

Because the space on the third floor is small and a lot of it is occupied by fruit trees and seedlings, there is not much room for growing vegetables. It is also impossible for her to plant just one vegetable every time, so most of the time she plants a batch of seven or eight varieties and then changes to another batch.

These vegetables, such as Chinese cabbage, can be grown again in her small vegetable garden as long as the seeds are saved.

However, no matter how powerful the jade plant is, it still needs to be watered when necessary, and the soil still needs to be loosened when necessary. In order to make these vegetables and fruits grow well, there must be enough fertilizer in the pot.

Just as Qin Suyun had just put some decomposed fertilizer into the loosened soil, the sky outside, which was originally sunny, suddenly became overcast!

"Boom boom boom!——"

Suddenly, a shocking sound exploded in the air, just like a sudden storm in the middle of summer. The whole sky changed in an instant and became completely gloomy, as if day had suddenly turned into night.

Bean-sized raindrops fell from the sky in an instant, hitting the glass and making crackling sounds.

Even the other sounds outside the house were blocked out by the heavy rain, and it seemed as if she was the only one left in the world.

Qin Suyun frowned and looked up at the sky with a rather unhappy expression. She evenly mixed the fertilizer in her hand with the soil in the pot twice, then packed up the things in her hands and prepared to go downstairs to take a look.

Today, Heidou went out with Dahei and the others. They have only been out for more than two hours. According to the time they usually go out, it will take at least two or three hours for them to come back. I wonder how they are doing in the mountains now?

Even though I know the abilities of Dahei and the others, I can still be their master who lives with them day and night.

Qin Suyun was still worried about her dog, especially since there was a cat in their group that always hated having its fur wet by rain.

In such heavy rain, it is impossible for her to go up the mountain alone to look for Dahei and the others. Her ability to survive in the mountains and forests is probably not as good as Dahei and the others.

After thinking about it, Qin Suyun went to the kitchen to boil some water, intending to wait for the dogs at home to come back and then give them a hot bath. Even just soaking in hot water would make them feel much more comfortable. As dogs, Dahei and Xiaoqi were not very averse to taking a bath.

Qin Suyun was boiling water in the kitchen, and the rain outside was indeed getting heavier.

Flashes of lightning accompanied by rumbling thunder kept streaking across the sky above the entire village. The rainwater on the ground was almost gathering into a stream, constantly washing the ground.

In such heavy rain, we are afraid of mudslides in the mountains. However, the vegetation in Wanxi Village is very lush, so it is unlikely to happen.

She boiled six large pots of water and used all the stoves in the house. She kept the water warm on the stove and then started to cook ginger soup at home. She didn't know whether these things would work for her, but at least it made her feel more at ease. The heavy snow on the mountain had just melted not long ago, and the temperature around was still a little low, making it easy to catch a cold.

After the ginger soup was cooked at home, Qin Suyun heard a series of barking sounds at the door and the sound of claws scratching at the iron door.

Qin Suyun quickly put down the work at hand, and hurried out of the yard with an umbrella to open the door for Dahei and the others.

The rainstorm was so heavy that Qin Suyun couldn't even hold the umbrella in her hand.

As soon as the big iron gate opened, the wet wolfhounds rushed into the room with their prey in their mouths. Hei Dou mixed in with the dogs and also ran into the house.

After Dahei and the others entered the yard, Qin Suyun didn't care about anything else. She quickly locked the big iron gate and went back to the house to get towels to wipe Heidou, Dahei and the others' bodies.

Qin Suyun was so busy that she didn't even bother to see what gifts Dahei and the others had brought back today. Instead, Heidou stretched out his wet little paws, patted Qin Suyun's arm, and put the thing in his mouth on the ground. Unexpectedly, it was a little squirrel whose eyes were not even open yet!

Qin Suyun's face was filled with amazement. She didn't even know how Hei Dou had managed to bring the little squirrel back safely in such a downpour. And judging by the appearance of the little squirrel, it looked like it had barely been wet. Except for its long tail, which was a little damp, its fur was barely wet at all.

What Qin Suyun didn't know was that for the sake of this little squirrel, the big black cat almost perfectly timed it and tried its best at all times to hide its body under the bellies of a group of wolfhounds.

If Hei Dou and Da Hei had not spent a long time together, and if the black cat itself had not been very agile and fast, it would have been impossible for this little squirrel to maintain its current appearance.

Reaching out and touching Hei Dou's head, Qin Suyun quickly wrapped the little squirrel with a dry towel.

The little squirrel was so small that she was afraid that if she was a little slower, the squirrel would catch a cold and fever and die.

After wiping the little squirrel carefully with a towel and wrapping it with another towel, Qin Suyun quickly called the other squirrels in the house to go to the bathroom and give them a bath.

Even though he was a cat that didn't like water, Hei Dou was very well-behaved when taking a bath. He let Qin Suyun rub his whole body without any resistance.

On the contrary, when Xiaoqi and the others were taking a bath, they liked to squat in the basin and play with water. Their furry dog ​​paws slapped the water surface and splashed directly on Qin Suyun's face.

"Woof woof woof!--" Dahei shouted immediately upon seeing this. Qin Suyun saw the three words "not allowed" on the other's furry dog ​​face.

"Awooo wooo wooo~!!" Xiaoqi and the others looked depressed and aggrieved.

Qin Suyun found this funny and didn't say anything much, just letting Dahei teach her as he pleased.

It took more than three hours to clean up Dahei and the others, give them a bath and blow dry their fur.

After feeding the little squirrel some milk and having dinner with the squirrels at home, the violent storm outside finally stopped.

The originally dark sky once again showed a little white, just like the usual ordinary storms.

However, if someone stood above the Earth, they would find that this storm, which lasted only a few hours, covered the entire planet.

The whole world seemed to have just rained, and nothing had happened. However...some unknown changes were quietly taking place, and this storm was the catalyst for these changes...