Lin Changxi replied, "Don't worry, Rui Ge'er has arranged everything. I'll bring you some meat. Rui Ge'er also sent some to Changhe and the village head's uncle's house. We've come all the way here with great difficulty. We can see that we can live a good life now, so we can't die here."
"Yes, yes, we will definitely make it through. We've already embarked on such a difficult road, so why should we be afraid of opening up new land?"
That night, the Lin family had a decent meal thanks to Lin Rui. When they fell asleep in the shack at night, they were still savoring the aroma of the chicken legs.
When Lin Ziming was sleeping at night, he heard a sound like a mouse stealing food from his brother's bed next door. When he lifted Lin Ziren's bed, he found that Lin Ziren was still gnawing on the chicken leg bone left over from his meal.
Seeing him lift the quilt, she awkwardly handed him the chicken leg bone and said, "How about you take a bite too?"
Hey! What's wrong with that? His saliva is all over the chicken leg bones. It's so disgusting.
But why didn't he think of keeping the chicken leg bones as snacks? Now he didn't know where they were thrown away when his mother cleaned the dishes in the evening. He regretted it so much!
After eating a full meal at night and replenishing enough oil and water, everyone will feel different when they wake up the next day.
Ermao Sanliang, Shuanzi and the other two divided the work and transported the broken stones to the land where they were going to build their house. After working for half a month, the weeds on the wasteland were finally cleared. Lin Rui felt that his life was almost over.
Knocking down the stones and cutting the weeds in the wasteland is only the first step, and the soil needs to be turned over later.
Turning the soil is very difficult, especially in ancient times when there was no industry. Plowing the land was done either manually with a hoe or by using oxen.
Of course, using cows can achieve twice the result with half the effort, but the two big blue cows in Lin Rui's family are meritorious cows. They have accompanied them through all the hardships along the way. They were so tired that they were skinny and had never lifted the carrying pole or lost the luggage. Now that the hardships have finally ended and the happiness has come, how can they bear to let them plow the fields again?
As for the matter of plowing the land, Lin Changxi was the first one to disagree. He said he would not agree to it no matter what. He could be exhausted to death, but he could never exhaust his ox to death.
Everyone in the Lin family knew how important these two cows were to the patriarch's family, so no one asked to borrow them to plow the fields.
But there were also people nearby who were clearing the land. They wanted to exchange food for the time the big blue ox would spend plowing the land. At worst, they could exchange it for an hour of time to clear the land and hoe the land, just like they did with farm tools.
Lin Changxi refused without even thinking. On the one hand, the two big blue oxen in his family had not recovered yet. On the other hand, spending food in exchange for an hour of hoeing the fields would mean working his oxen to death.
The farm tools provided by the Xing family army, such as hoes, sickles, axes and hatchets, always broke down before they were used for five times. Human nature is so unpredictable. Some people deliberately broke the farm tools so that the next person could not use them, thus making their reclamation speed lag behind their own.
Sustainable development and the shared prosperity and loss of all have nothing to do with them. As long as they can get benefits, it is real.
Because the people of the Xing family army said that whoever was the first to reclaim the wasteland would be rewarded by General Xing with a plowing ox.
With the ties of interests tied to them, no refugee from famine would want to be left behind. After their food and drink needs are met, their greed begins to extend to another level.
If Lin Rui and his family, except for the children, used the farm tools they were good at, they would be no slower than others in turning the crops. As for the internal competition of working hard just to get rewards, Lin Rui not only did not participate, but also did not allow his family members to participate.
As for his clan... he doesn't make the decision, whoever is capable will take the lead, don't expect him to get involved anyway.
Isn't it good to live a good life? Why do you always end up getting tangled up everywhere?
When they were halfway through the land reclamation, it started snowing heavily again in Huangmo Pass. There was no strong wind like in Baixing Town, but the goose feather snow fell from the sky and in less than an hour, it pressed down the part of their roof covered by the tarpaulin.
Lin Changxi hurriedly called several young men including Lin Ruisanliang to help him enclose the yard with the two big blue cows, for fear that the two cows would freeze to death in the drafty straw shed at night.
In short, Lin Changxi cared very much about the two big blue cows. He used the branches of different lengths he picked up from the wasteland to keep them warm, and he used them to build a tent around them to protect them from the wind and snow. Even the place where people lived was not as densely surrounded as theirs.
The tents that Lin Rui's family was temporarily living in were mostly made of rainproof cloth and thermal blankets to provide shelter. Lin Changxi, against all odds, took two pieces of rainproof cloth from the limited number of them to begin with to make a roof for the cowshed.
This pair of big blue oxen's way of caring for each other is quite unique.
A heavy snowfall slowed down everyone's land reclamation task. The weather was extremely cold and the snow kept blowing. Everyone in each household had to set a time to clear the snow on the roof, otherwise the snow accumulated on the roof would collapse when it reached a certain weight.
The heavy snow continued for three days. During these three days, there were some anxious people who braved the snow to open up wasteland. However, after a man died of frozen toes while opening up wasteland, this reckless behavior was stopped in time.
They could only hide in their shacks and wait for the snow to stop. Special people would come to check the progress of land reclamation every ten days. If the standards were not met, not only would their relief food be withheld, but they would also miss the qualification to be selected for the cattle viewing. No one dared to relax and they held their breath!
But how can we clear the land with such heavy snow? Can’t we just take a shower and sleep at home?
Lin Rui wished it would snow every day so that his old waist could slowly recover while he lay by the fire. It was too painful and almost killing him!
But this time, God really didn't listen to Lin Rui's advice. After only two days of snow, the weather began to clear up again, and the frozen snow on the wasteland was melted by the sun before noon.
It’s time to open up new land again! Lin Rui almost cried.
When he saw other people, including his parents, turning the soil with hoes, Lin Rui felt that this was not going to work and he had to start saving himself.
Otherwise, if these thirty acres of land were cultivated, half of the family’s lives would be lost.
Lin Rui turned his attention to the alien tribes across the river. The Huangmo River was the dividing line between Linchao and many alien tribes. Every winter, these alien tribes would begin to plunder the people on the border because of lack of food.
Since the Xing family army was stationed here, they have lengthened the border guards and trained the border people to become militia, who can come and fight when called. A well-trained border man can fight against a man of another race on equal terms, provided that the people of their own country are well fed, otherwise their fighting power will be greatly reduced.
The wasteland here at Lin Rui's place is far away from those alien tribes across the Huangmo River. When the Huangmo River flows into those alien tribes, it forms a mudflat, attracting many cattle, sheep and horses to eat the aquatic grass that can only grow on the Huangmo River on the river beach.
Lin Rui was moved, and the solution came to him!
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