Chapter 142 A Large Field
At night, Xu Zhiyi took advantage of the fact that Su had not returned to her room and was chatting with her grandmother and aunt next door, and quickly slipped into the space.
Holding a small packet of seeds in his hand, he dug a small piece of land at the foot of the mountain, scattered the seeds, and then watered it with some spring water.
The time in the space is the same as that outside, but she doesn't know if there will be any difference in growing things inside. If there is no difference, then she might as well choose to grow them in the fields outside.
When she was planting outside, there were so many people helping her. When she was planting in the space, she was the only one busy. The most important thing was that she had the same time. It was impossible for her to come into the space and open up the wasteland by herself all day long! That seemed a bit unrealistic. Alas.
Then, looking at the seeds that had not been sown, an idea suddenly popped into his mind. The spiritual spring water in this space can speed up the healing of wounds and restore people's fatigue. What's more amazing is that he is stronger than before!
So she used this spiritual spring water to soak the vegetable seeds, and then planted them in the ground after they sprouted. Will there be any surprises?
With this in mind, I immediately took action and soaked the remaining seeds in a bowl of spiritual spring water. I couldn't help but start to look forward to it.
Early the next morning, the village chief took the workers to the homestead. There were five craftsmen and twenty laborers, a total of twenty-five people, and eight houses. Normally, when the village built houses, it usually hired five or six workers to build one house, and it would take about twenty days to complete!
Now, with 25 people, building houses for eight families will probably take at least 40 days.
Everyone in the family also took their hoes and went to help. Although there were many hired workers, their own people were idle, and if they went to help, the house could be built faster.
The village chief said: "They have dug the foundation today. You can ask the master to calculate the nearest auspicious day. Once the day is calculated, they will start to build the mud wall."
The head of the village was a little confused when he heard this, for he used to believe in ghosts the most, but after fleeing from famine and encountering various dangers, and having killed people with his own hands, he suddenly realized that ghosts and monsters were not as scary as the human heart.
I had no choice but to ask everyone's opinion: "What do you think? Should we calculate a date for the wall to be built?"
Doctor Li: "I don't care about you, old man. You already have one foot in the coffin!"
Wang Daniu: "It's all right, but if there is no such day as this year, it will be difficult to deal with!"
Village head: "So you don't choose a day?"
Su, who was standing by, heard this and said, "Why don't you just go and get it calculated? It will be a comfort to you."
After hearing what Su said, everyone thought for a moment and decided to ask a master to calculate the date.
Xu Zhiyi watched everyone helping to dig the foundation, looked at Su Manman and shouted: "Manman, let's go to the fields and take a look."
Su Manman: “Hey, okay.”
The two walked along a path at the foot of the mountain, made a circle and arrived at the other side of the river.
Su Manman pointed to a large field in front and said excitedly, "Cousin, this large field belongs to us. The one further away is Aunt Hu's, the one further away is Sister Xiaohe's, and the one further away is..."
Xu Zhiyi was afraid that she would continue talking, so he interrupted her and said, "Okay, it's enough for us to know where our land is."
Looking at this large piece of land, his family can get six acres, and the Su family can get nine acres.
Then I walked along the ridge of the field and saw that the soil above my own field had been turned over.
"Cousin, these are not our fields, they belong to the villagers. They came here yesterday and turned the fields over. They were really bad. They dug up all the ridges on our fields. But yesterday, Dad and his friends built new ridges."
Upon hearing this, Xu Zhiyi looked at the new ridge. It was obvious that someone had dug a little bit into it. The ridge was just left yesterday, and now they want to occupy the land bit by bit again?
I'm afraid if they continue like this, it won't be long before my one acre of land will be reduced to just a few acres!
Looking at the ridge of the field, he stroked his chin and thought for a while: "Manman, let's go and move the stones."
Su Manman was a little puzzled when she heard this: "Cousin, why are we moving stones?"
Xu Zhiyi: “You’ll know in a minute.”
The two men came to the foot of the mountain. There were some stones on the other side, but they were all too small. After searching for a while, they finally found a satisfactory large stone, about the size of a small wooden barrel.
Su Manman looked at the big stone and said distressedly: "Cousin, this stone is so big, it seems we can't move it!"
Xu Zhiyi pointed to another smaller one and said, "You try to move the smaller one. I'll do the bigger one."
Su Manman looked at the smaller one on the other side and wanted to say that it wasn't that small, but looking at her cousin's expectant eyes, she still bent down to give it a try.
She had originally prepared herself for the possibility that she would not be able to move it even if she tried her best.
Finally, she hugged it!!
And it doesn't feel heavy at all, as if I could even lift another big stone.
"Cousin, I...I swear, I didn't have this much strength before. Maybe...I've been eating too much recently?"
Upon hearing this, Xu Zhiyi remembered that he had been drinking a mixture of the spiritual spring water in the space and the water he fetched from outside during his escape from the famine. So, was it the spiritual spring water that was working?
"Oh, when I think back to when I met you and grandpa at the gate of Lincheng, you were both unconscious and I almost thought... Woohoo! Fortunately you made it through. You didn't have much strength before because you were hungry, but now it's okay. Everyone has overcome the hard times and you will be able to eat every meal in the future, so it's normal for you to have more strength."
Su Manman was very moved when she heard this: "Cousin, you are absolutely right. Since I met you, I have never been hungry again, so my health is getting better and better. I will definitely grow stronger and stronger. I can help you farm and dig the land in the future."
The two men carried a big stone and went to their own fields. When they reached the ridge, they dug a big hole beside the ridge and buried the stone in it. As long as they continued to dig in their own fields, the stone they buried would serve as proof.
Su Manman now realized what was going on: "Cousin, this way my land won't be taken advantage of?"
"Here is the evidence. If they dare to take advantage, as long as they surpass the buried stone, we will make them unable to quibble."
Then he looked up at the rising sun. The weather was good today. "Let's go to the mountain to have a look."
Su Manman: "Hey, cousin, give me the hoe, I'll take it"
The two returned to the foot of the mountain where they had built their house. They looked up at the halfway point of the mountain and saw many women carrying small baskets and digging something with small hoes.
Xu Zhiyi: "Let's go up and take a look."
The girls on the hillside were digging wild vegetables and chatting when they saw Xu Zhiyi and Su Manman suddenly coming up the mountain. In their eyes, these two people were from other villages and they were not familiar with each other. They just looked at each other curiously, but no one took the initiative to say hello.
When they saw Xu Zhiyi and Su Manman were going up the mountain, another younger girl in the crowd stood up and shouted, "Hey, you two, don't go up the mountain anymore. There are big insects on the mountain. It will be dangerous."
Hearing this, Xu Zhiyi stopped, turned around and looked at the girl, thanking her: "Thank you for the reminder, I won't go deeper, I'll just look around here"
When the girl heard this, she continued, "Do you want to pick wild vegetables too? If so, there are plenty of them halfway up the mountain. There are fewer of them higher up in the mountain, unless you pick wild produce in the summer, when there are more of them on the mountain."
Xu Zhiyi: "Okay, thank you for letting me know."
"Xiaojuan, where they are going is none of your business. If they want to go to the mountain, let them go!"
"That's right. They even told us where there are more wild vegetables. Now there will be two more people coming to snatch the wild vegetables from us."
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