"What is Madam thinking about? Are you so absorbed in your thoughts? Could it be that you haven't lived together for the past few months and you're not used to it?"
Yun Ruoxi answered directly, "A little bit."
Xiao Jingrui's body stiffened slightly, and then as if he had made up his mind, he put his hand under Yun Ruoxi's neck and let Yun Ruoxi sleep with her head resting on his arm.
With a little effort, Xiao Jingrui brought Yun Ruoxi into his arms.
"Since Madam is not used to it now, this is a good time for her to adapt."
Yun Ruoxi didn't expect Xiao Jingrui to be so reserved. Once he arrived in Taohua Village, he seemed like a completely different person.
Actively scare her!
Yun Ruoxi thought about what happened at the Wu'an Marquis Mansion for a while, and then thought about what happened on Liufang Road. Her mind was full of random thoughts.
He fell asleep unknowingly. After Yun Ruoxi fell into a deep sleep, her breathing became steady, and Xiao Jingrui's tense back relaxed a little.
But seeing the woman in his arms sleeping so soundly, a faint bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth. He covered his forehead with his hands and could only try hard to restrain himself and not let his thoughts run wild.
Yun Ruoxi slept soundly this afternoon and slept for a full hour before waking up.
But when she got up, Xiao Jingrui was no longer by the bed.
When I heard the noise in the yard outside, I knew everyone had started working.
When she came out of the room, Xiao Jingrui and Xiao Jingxuan were chopping firewood in the yard.
Yun Ruoxi was originally a little embarrassed that she had slept for so long, but when she looked up and saw Mu Ruxue who was also embarrassed, she felt relieved.
Not only did she have such thoughts, Mu Ruxue also had a relieved expression on her face.
Mu Ruxue spoke first, "The yard is almost cleaned. Let's go to the back garden to plant vegetables this afternoon!"
Yun Ruoxi nodded and said, "Okay, I happened to have brought a lot of vegetable seeds. Let's plant the ones we like first, and we can plant the other ones after we finish them."
Mu Ruxue reminded him, "Okay, yesterday I saw that the backyard is quite large. We don't have any livestock at home, so we can grow more vegetables. Tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, cabbages, and radishes are all our favorites. I think we can even leave two cages of land. Let's plant some potatoes!"
Yun Ruoxi: "As far as I remember, there were no potatoes in this dynasty. This is a high-yield grain. It would be inappropriate for us to just take it out like this."
Mu Ruxue rolled her eyes helplessly. "Please, we are about to experience a time of war and chaos. We must first find a way to store more food. Don't worry about other things. Now the Wu'an Marquis's Mansion has been ransacked, and people from the Yingguo Mansion will have to come here in the future. We have more and more people to feed. The food in the space will eventually run out. Although the space can be used to grow crops continuously, I have tried it before. The food grown in the space still has sufficient spiritual energy. It was inconvenient to take it out before, so it is better to grow it outside."
Yun Ruoxi was quickly convinced by Mu Ruxue's words, "Okay, I'll listen to you."
When the two best friends said this, they had already gathered together and walked towards the backyard, so no one else heard it.
However, there were quite a few horses in the stable. They were all the horses that everyone rode when they came this time. There were at least five of them.
Yun Ruoxi didn't think about selling it. The family would definitely need the carriage many times in the future. If she sold it now, she would have to find a way to buy it back later, which would not be worth it.
But there are probably not many families in the entire Taohua Village who own horses, and their family has two horses.
That’s not all. The others also took the horses to the town. Otherwise, the villagers of Taohua Village would probably go crazy.
Yun Ruoxi and Mu Ruxue divided the land in the backyard into several baskets. They planted tomatoes, cucumbers, radishes, eggplants, peppers, and cabbages in one basket, and potatoes in two baskets.
After planting the vegetables, the two people went to a nearby well to fetch water and watered the vegetables little by little.
Because it was already summer when they arrived in Lingnan, it was actually a bit out of season for them to grow vegetables.
Yun Ruoxi was worried that they would not live long, so she dropped a small drop of spiritual spring water into the bucket she got for them.
It is diluted so many times just to make it easier for the seedlings to grow.
By the time everyone had finished chopping the firewood, cleaning the house, and planting the vegetables in the backyard, all the work in the new home was done.
Now the Xiao family has bought a three-acre residential land in Taohua Village. Since they want to build a house, they can't delay. In the afternoon, Xiao Jing asked the village chief Gu to recruit workers in the village. Anyone who is willing to work for the Xiao family will be paid 50 cents a day, but meals are not included.
When the villagers of Taohua Village heard this, they all signed up to help. After all, although the villagers in the coastal areas had land allocated by the court, most of it was saline-alkali land. Even if there were some better wasteland, it was not easy to grow food.
Therefore, most villagers living near the sea rely on fishing to support their families, but there are risks involved in fishing.
Now that there is a guy working right at our doorstep, and the wages are so high, everyone is naturally rushing to help.
In the afternoon, Yun Ruoxi and Mu Ruxue had already heard Xiao Jingrui talk about the situation in Taohua Village.
There are more than 200 households and more than 1,000 people in the entire Taohua Village. The court distributed land according to population. Adults each had five acres of land, and children only had two acres.
It sounds like a lot, but for the villagers in the fishing village, they would rather not have these lands because they can't grow anything on them.
Moreover, the imperial court insisted on farming. Even if nothing could be grown, everyone still had to work hard to cultivate the land and plant crops.
Over time, many people realized that the land distributed by the court could not grow crops, and more and more people gave up farming and turned to relying on the sea for their livelihood.
The imperial court originally wanted to change the current situation of fishermen going out to sea, but the land was not sufficient and there was nothing they could do.
So now, every household has more than 20 acres of land, but only a few can grow grain. They can barely grow some vegetables, but the vegetables do not grow well.
Yun Ruoxi had checked in the backyard before. The land here has not yet reached the level of modern saline-alkali land. If one wants to grow crops, there is actually a way.
As long as a large amount of fresh water is used to wash away the salt, the land will be irrigated, and people will follow the water. Fresh water will be used to attack the salt in the soil, drain the salt out of the soil, lower the groundwater level, and reduce the accumulation of salt in the soil surface.
In this way, the situation where saline-alkali land cannot be used to grow crops can be effectively improved.
If this is the case, too much fresh water will be wasted. It depends on whether everyone is willing to do so.
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