The mountain has been reclaimed, and together with the 33 people reclaiming the land on the mountain, there are more than 100 people in total.

There is strength in numbers.

Nearly half of the 300 acres of land had been cleared in just five or six days.

Fourteen oxen plowed the land together, and the people behind them dug ridges with hoes. They used the oxen to pull the plow to dig a long canal. If it was not deep enough, they would continue digging manually.

Dig a big pit every few dozen meters to store water, and fill the bottom of the pit with as many gravel as possible, otherwise the sand will easily absorb the water.

Other villagers in the village are also actively reclaiming the two acres of land they have just been allocated, and the Liu family has agreed to lend them cattle.

A few families were better off, so they decided to pool their money to buy an ox and a plow.

First, prepare the sweet potato field. Tomorrow, we will start planting sweet potato seeds.

Liu Yang and his team began to compost, starting with their own chicken and pig farms and the large compost pit they had dug on the hilltop.

Mrs. Wu has been living in the Liu family for a week, and they have no plans to go back.

After living together for a long time, we got to know each other's temperaments and personalities, and we got along better and better with each other.

Xiao Si and Huo Bei often play together.

Xiao Wu often follows Huo Nan and pesters him to teach him martial arts. Huo Nan is very good with a gun!

Huo Xi often follows Liu Yun and Liu Yao, but what she likes most is to follow behind Liu Yuhan and watch what she does quietly, even if they don’t talk.

Liu Yuhan didn't think too much about it. If she wanted to follow, then let her follow. The little girl seemed to want to talk to her, but didn't know what to say.

But if she takes the initiative to chat with her, she will also talk. This girl is still a little shy, and she has a natural sense of aloofness.

Old Madam Wu was a little older than Old Lady Jiang, but they could still get along well. She even liked talking to Old Lady Jiang and the others about village gossip and family matters.

She changed out of her usual elaborate clothing, removed some of the headdress and jewelry, leaving only the most basic, and wore simple and comfortable clothes like the Liu family.

She felt very relaxed here. This was the most relaxing day for Mrs. Wu in her 65 years of life. She enjoyed such days very much, eating well and sleeping well.

Although ginseng and abalone are not home-cooked dishes, they are very much to her taste. She eats, drinks, chats, and helps with some manual work within her ability every day, and the days pass quickly.

Xu Zhubo brought a few veteran farmhands with him. Like the villagers, they came to see how the Liu family cultivated sweet potato seeds.

In fact, it is very simple to breed sweet potato seeds.

When building a hotbed, the site selection conditions are the same as those for open-field cultivation. After selecting the bed site, start digging a hole that is 1 to 1.5 meters wide, 7 to 10 meters long, and 0.5 meters deep.

Spread chopped grass at the bottom of the bed, soak it with manure and urine water, and make the land moist, about 5 to 10 centimeters of water.

Then mix pig and cow manure with chopped grass and fill it to a thickness of about 30 cm. Cover it with a layer of 3 to 5 cm of fine soil, then place the seed potatoes and cover them with soil.

If you want to grow high-yield sweet potatoes, you must choose good seedlings, those that are undamaged, neat, and strong.

After about 35 to 40 days, simply disinfect the bottom of the cut sweet potato seedlings, sprinkle some wood ash on them, and then cut them into small sections with three leaves as a section before you can start cuttings. When cutting, generally keep about 30 cm between each plant.

After planting, the first fertilization is needed. This fertilization is mainly to allow the grafted sweet potato seedlings to grow new roots, so generally manure and urine water can be applied.

The second fertilization is after the sweet potatoes have taken root. Because their growth is different, they look uneven. In order to make the seedlings uniform, dry manure can be used.

The third fertilization is the seedling-enhancing fertilizer. Adding some manure and urine water when applying dry manure is the most important fruit-enhancing fertilizer.

In order to facilitate harvesting later, the sweet potato seedlings in the field need to be sorted out. Sorting out the seedlings means straightening the sweet potato vines in the field in one direction so that they grow in one direction.

During the process of straightening the seedlings, the excess branches and leaves can be removed. At the same time, the soil can be fertilized and the soil around the sweet potato seedlings can be loosened in time to facilitate the enlargement of the sweet potatoes.

The pests that usually harm the growth of sweet potatoes are leaf rollers, aphids, white grubs and voles.

Leaf rollers and aphids can damage sweet potato leaves and affect photosynthesis, while grubs and voles can eat sweet potatoes in fields.

Pests that harm branches and leaves are treated by spreading wood ash, and voles are mainly killed by trapping.

After breeding, Liu Yuhan briefly explained to them the series of processes and precautions from sweet potato planting to harvesting.

The villagers, having seen, heard, and understood, all returned. The people Huo Er had brought also took the sweet potatoes back to plant.

With the Huo family's help, the Liu family only had about 100 acres of sandy fields left to be reclaimed. There was no need to rush anymore; they had the manpower to work on it slowly.

The rice harvest is just a few days away. Tools and other supplies should be prepared in advance.

During this dynasty, people generally used wooden mortars and pestles to remove the husks from rice.

First, put the unhulled rice into a wooden mortar, then tap it gently with a wooden pestle to crack the husk. At this time, the husk of the rice can be relatively easy to remove.

The advantage of this method is that it is simple and easy to use, and does not require many tools. However, the efficiency of shelling is low, and it requires a lot of manpower and time.

Some people do not have the tools and can only use the most primitive method, which is to peel the rice manually. Although this method is simple and easy, it is very inefficient and requires a lot of manpower and material resources. If there is not much rice at home, manual peeling is generally chosen.

There is also a friction rolling method, which involves placing rice grains into a fan-shaped stone trough, and then turning the central cylinder of the trough by hand to make the rice grains rotate and roll in the stone trough, thereby rubbing and removing the rice skin.

This method is not only efficient, but also can remove the hard and soft shells of the rice husk, thereby obtaining more tender and smooth rice grains.

The advantage of this method is that it can shell a large amount of shells, and generally larger farms will adopt this method.

When Liu Yuhan saw these backward rice-milling tools, he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, thinking that it would be great if there was a rice mill in the space, even a small electric rice mill.