There's usually nothing to do during the first month of the lunar calendar. In the past, people would visit relatives and friends, but now everyone is struggling to make ends meet, so the first priority is to ensure their survival.
They built a wall around the back of the mountain. In the past, families in the village who hadn't gotten any piglets or lambs wouldn't have been very enthusiastic, but today was different. Today, they not only received five taels of silver, but also a donkey!
For the sake of this donkey, a wall is a must, absolutely necessary!
This is the most important family property. It can be used as laborers for several people. It eats grass, so we have to treat it well.
Then another question came to mind, and someone shouted, "By the way, how many female donkeys do we have here?"
Before the words were even finished, everyone started checking their own donkeys!
In an instant, joy and sorrow intertwined.
However, the one who drew the male donkey thought about it again and realized that it was a good thing for them that there were many female donkeys in the village. If their own female donkeys gave birth, they wouldn't have to buy donkey calves from Shuiqing's family.
They can buy it first, it's the same, it just costs a few more taels of silver.
Thinking of this, I chuckled again.
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Magistrate Wu was arrested on the fifth day of the month, and the wall behind Shanshui Village was started on the sixth day.
This project is significantly larger than the one that built the village wall last time.
Furthermore, they knew to plan for the future—after this incident, there would inevitably be young girls seeking husbands, and land had to be reserved for them in advance.
The village is surrounded by waterways, and there is a lot of rain in the summer, so the land for building houses cannot be drawn forward; it can only be drawn along the side and back of the village.
Shuiqing said that land should be reserved in advance, whether it is next to or behind the property, so that each piece is neat and uniform. This will make the buildings look better in the future, avoid disputes over the occupation of other people's land, and make travel more convenient.
When the houses in their Shanshui Village were built two years ago, there was no planning. They were scattered here and there, looking very messy. But it doesn't matter. When the houses get old or when they have more money to build brick and tile houses, they will re-plan and unify the planning.
Just like the one above Shuiqing, it's neat and tidy, making it a comfortable place to live!
The wall on the back hill will definitely not be finished before the potato harvest, but that's okay. Each household will be responsible for a section, and they can continue building it when they have free time after the potato harvest.
The Zhao, Sun, and Fan families were in special circumstances, and the old village chief did not assign them any specific roles. Apart from some objections to the Fan family, the rest of the villagers agreed with the decision.
After ten days of busy work, the task of building the wall was put aside for a while, and the whole village turned to harvesting potatoes in full swing!
Even if some small potatoes can continue to grow, we don't care. There's no other way. The world outside is too chaotic. We can't feel at ease leaving the grain in the ground. We can only feel at ease if we harvest it and store it in our own warehouse!
Potatoes have a high yield. Last year, all the households in the village except for Zhang Tuzi, Fan Qian, and Ding Jia planted them, and even the smallest household planted 30 mu (approximately 2 hectares).
Thirty mu, with an average yield of two thousand jin per mu, even if half of it is divided with water in a 4:6 ratio, there are still tens of thousands of jin left!
We can't finish it, we simply can't finish it!
Shui Qing's family didn't grow potatoes, but a large quantity of potatoes were delivered every day. Feng Da and the others would store them in the warehouse first, and then process them into potato flour or potato starch for preservation when they had more free time.
While you're at it, teach the people in the village a little something.
But she doesn't have time now; she has more important things to do.
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