"Okay, Uncle Ding, don't worry, I understand."
Ding Heli looked at Hu Wenhua, who was usually full of energy and seemed to have inexhaustible strength, and saw that he looked dejected. He really wanted to tell him that he was worried about him.
Is his "understand" the same as my own understanding of "understand"?
Ding Heli kept looking back, finally consoling himself that things would get better with time.
However, only the four of them knew about this matter, and overall it was resolved satisfactorily, as it was more serious than Wen Hua's own Jia Jia's situation.
After all, one was intentional and the other unintentional. It's much harder for the one who was intentional to let go. He needs to go home and see Jiajia as soon as possible.
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After digging for more than ten days, all the land in Shanshui Village, except for the Fan Qian and Zhang Tuzi families, was converted into farmland.
The same was true for Shui Qing's family, who arrived a day or two earlier than them.
However, the difference is that her family has finished transporting soil from the fields and is now turning to plowing, while the villagers are about to plant potatoes, and if they don't plow their fields soon, it will be too late.
Shui Qing understands. One mu is equivalent to six or seven hundred square meters. One square meter would require at least two baskets of soil, right?
It relies entirely on manual labor to dig, and you also have to remove stones, dead branches, weeds, etc. from the soil, then put them into baskets, and then transport them to a cart. Once the cart is full, a strong man pulls it to the field. How many trips can you make in a day?
Even if all the able-bodied people in the family are mobilized, after more than ten days, they can only manage to cultivate two or three acres of land at most.
Our family was different. The fertile land we were allocated, plus the land we bought from Fan Damu's family, totaled only a little over 20 mu, which was about the same as the old village chief's family.
But the old village chief's son and daughter-in-law, a total of six people, came out of the village. Not to mention his own family of twenty-three, including Feng Da, Feng Er, Da Ni, and Er Ni, there were also eleven livestock.
Animals are much more capable of carrying heavy loads and working harder than humans. In dynasties where only human labor was used, one animal was equivalent to two or three strong laborers.
So, while most villagers had only managed to pave two or three mu of land in ten days, this family had already pave all twenty-plus mu of land and then went to cultivate it.
Needless to say, the plowing was incredibly fast, thanks to the oxen and donkeys pulling the plows, which made the old village chief and others who couldn't even get to the fields extremely envious.
“In the past, when there were no livestock in the village, you couldn’t see the difference. Now, seeing the livestock that Jin Xiao’s family has, I’m really envious. I wish we could have one ourselves someday,” Old Man Xu said with emotion, looking at the ox pulling the plow in the field.
Pulling a plow is exhausting. You have to carry two hemp ropes on your back and you need to be very strong to pull it. You often have to use all your strength. When it comes to busy farming seasons, the women, daughters, or young children in the family will be so anxious that they will cry.
After a whole day, my entire shoulder was red, swollen, and painful, feeling like it wasn't even mine.
The reason why Fan Qian and his wife separated Jin Xiaozi's family was that they had many sons who were all grown up and they didn't lack labor; while Jin Xiaozi's family had two daughters who couldn't carry heavy loads and three young sons who couldn't help with farm work. They were determined that after they separated, the fields would be left to lie fallow.
But man proposes, God disposes; who could have imagined that the family didn't need to farm at all!
With servants and livestock, they lived a more relaxed and comfortable life than any other family in the village, and their lives were thriving.
Indeed, having a brain is the most important thing no matter what you do.
Looking at the livestock in the fields, and thinking of his children who worked tirelessly day and night, the old village chief said, "In the past, we toiled in the fields, and it was already difficult enough to make ends meet all year round. But now, shouldn't the livestock think about that too?"
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