On the third day of the third lunar month, the Peach Blossom Spring was already lush with grass and birdsong, a scene of busy agricultural activities.

The layers of straw curtains that covered the vegetable greenhouses have now all been removed.

The bright sunshine warmly illuminated every corner of the greenhouse.

Li Lanzhen watched as everyone carefully rolled up the cotton straw curtains, which were filled with reeds and sewn together on all four sides, and put them into the storeroom.

This cotton straw mat was very useful in winter.

When it gets cold, we cover them with a thin mat, and then add a reed curtain on top.

It has a very good heat-keeping effect; this is a great idea that Huangshanhua and her team came up with when winter arrived.

During that period, adults and children alike went to the reed marshes to carefully pick the reed flowers one by one and deliver them to the eleven trees.

Carefully place the reed flowers into a straw bag that is sewn on all four sides with only one opening.

And so, one after another, thick, airtight reed-cotton door curtains were made.

Zhang Deshui also told Huang Shanhua that they would be rushing to make even more reed-cotton curtains this autumn.

As more and more people entered Peach Blossom Spring, Li Lanzhen and Han Shunde discussed the matter.

Continue with the large canteen system, and implement a work point system.

This not only fully motivates adults and children to work hard, but also makes it easier to manage so many people.

Li Lanzhen discovered that ever since she went to Wangyou Valley to pick up Aunt Huaihua and Han Shunkui's family...

Han Shunde became even more motivated, and he made arrangements for many things that she hadn't even thought of yet.

After Han Shunkui arrived, he invited Bai Houpu to examine his leg.

Bai Houpu said that after he broke his leg, it did not heal properly because he did not have his bones set in time.

Even if he recovers, he will still walk with a limp.

To solve this problem, the leg bone that has already healed must be broken, realigned, and then allowed to recover completely.

Later, the mother and her two children decided to break their leg bones and have them realigned.

Aunt Huaihua was very grateful to Li Lanzhen.

She brought them here, originally thinking that as long as they were with their children and grandchildren, they would be happy and it wouldn't matter if they suffered.

But to my surprise, life has been better than I ever imagined!

When I came that night, I didn't see the scene here.

When she woke up the next morning, she was shocked to find Han Shunde's house and yard!

Li Lanzhen led them out of the Valley of Forgetfulness, and in a short time, they built such a beautiful, solid, sturdy, safe, and warm home.

They haven't recovered from the shock yet.

Han Shunde led them to the canteen, and Aunt Huaihua was even more shocked when they ate!

The vegetables on the table were all fresh and green, and there was also stewed potatoes with pheasant and rabbit meat. In addition, everyone, adults and children alike, had a boiled egg!

Although they drank corn porridge and ate wild vegetable pancakes.

But it always felt better than the corn porridge and vegetable pancakes she ate in the Valley of Forgetfulness.

It was only later that we discovered that the wild vegetable pancakes actually contained lard, which made them incredibly delicious!

Wow, so many eggs! So much lard! And most importantly, they're generous enough to share with everyone!

After daybreak, Han Shunde led them to work in the vegetable greenhouse.

Aunt Huaihua's eyes almost popped out.

They couldn't help but marvel at how lucky Li Lanzhen was, their lucky star!

That old geezer wasn't wrong about that!

She secretly rejoiced that her decision was right; leaving that old man and that woman was the best thing she had ever done!

She is no longer bullied or controlled by them, and now lives freely with her son in this paradise-like place.

Therefore, Aunt Huaihua was in particularly good spirits and was always smiling.

Li Lanzhen considered that with the increasing number of people, the canteen was under considerable pressure.

So they discussed with Xue Nizi about letting Aunt Huaihua work in the canteen with them.

With the addition of female kitchen helpers, the pressure on the cafeteria's cooking staff is not so great.

When the ice and snow melt and the underground soil thaws.

The various tasks in Peach Blossom Spring began.

The first thing to do was to build the yard and the house.

The initial budget includes an additional 20 yards and houses.

Construction of buildings continued at the training camp. They didn't need to build courtyards; just rows of dormitories with inner and outer rooms were sufficient.

Zhang Deshui disagreed with putting all the people on building houses and courtyards.

He wants to focus the main labor force on reclaiming wasteland.

After much arguing, a decision was made that all participants in the collective land reclamation would receive ten work points per day.

Those who participated in building the courtyard house could receive ten work points, depending on their job, with the minimum being five work points.

Everyone in Peach Blossom Spring knows that work points are equivalent to silver.

Even the youngest, Douhua and the others, carried small baskets on their backs all day, shouting that they wanted to earn work points.

There are many jobs that can earn work points, ranging from large-scale tasks like clearing land for farming and building houses and yards, to small tasks like going up the mountain to gather pig feed.

Delivering three baskets of pig feed of normal size to the pig farm will earn you two work points.

Like the little baskets that Xiaodouhua and the others carry, four baskets of pig feed can earn them one work point.

So these children are happy all day long.

On their first day, they received a work point. While eating in the dining hall, they happily surrounded Li Lanzhen, telling her that they could now earn money and that their meal hadn't been in vain.

Upon hearing this, Li Lanzhen's eyes welled up with tears. She hugged the children tightly and kept praising them for being so capable!

The work of reclaiming wasteland was possible because of the iron plowshare and the fact that the soil here was not very hard.

There are relatively few stones and grass roots in the soil.

With a dozen or so iron plowshares, plus two iron plowshares that Li Lanzhen retrieved from the old village chief's cave when she brought Aunt Huaihua back, the land reclamation was fast and efficient.

The iron plowshare never stops; the old ox and the man take turns.

So it was the third day of the third month.

More than a thousand acres of paddy fields have been reclaimed near the river.

More than 900 mu of dry land has been reclaimed near Dongshan.

Li Lanzhen and Zhang Deshui discussed that they would no longer increase the number of paddy fields, but would continue to cultivate dry land.

In the paddy fields, rice is planted, while on the dry land, Li Lanzhen plans to plant 1,000 mu of wheat and another 1,000 mu of corn.

As for sweet potatoes and potatoes, the amount of land planted depends on how much land has been reclaimed.

Li Lanzhen originally planned to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes in the vegetable greenhouse, but Zhang Deshui stopped her.

"Girl, after we turn over the soil in the vegetable greenhouse, let the sun shine on it, then we'll apply some fertilizer to let the soil recover. Once we've worked our best, we'll plant vegetables and sell them for money in the winter."

Li Lanzhen looked at him and smiled, "What? Brother Zhang, are we not planting sweet potatoes and potatoes this winter, but vegetables instead?"

Zhang Deshui also recalled the time last year when he argued with them until they were red in the face, insisting on planting sweet potatoes and potatoes.

He burst into laughter, "That's because there's so much land reclaimed this year that there's enough food to eat."

These greenhouses are all used to grow vegetables, which are then sold for money.

The construction of houses and yards was also very fast.

By the third day of the third lunar month, 20 houses and courtyards had been built.

The training camp has added 50 dorm rooms.

After the Lantern Festival, Manager Hua came again.

Two hundred orphans were sent to Xuan Shen.

Currently, there are more than 500 people participating in the training camp.

Everything was proceeding quickly and orderly according to plan.