Chapter 904 The Welcome Ao Qi Couple
The livestock in Shanghe Village were distributed quickly, and the villagers were very happy. Of course, they also saw that the immigrants had more livestock that they had never seen before, but they didn't know how to raise them now, so they didn't think about asking for them now.
While the livestock were being distributed in the threshing ground in the center of the village, many children in the village also ran to the door of the new immigrants in groups and peeked curiously.
Although they had seen adults building these courtyards in the previous month, they still didn't know how people should live in them.
For children who have only seen bamboo houses since birth, this kind of building located on flat ground is something they can't understand at all.
In addition, the many small animals brought by the immigrants are also objects of their curiosity, such as those kittens and piglets, which are things they have never seen before.
"Come on, come in, my daughter, I'll get you some delicious food to share."
Seeing that many children gathered at the door and looked around curiously, Lu Jianan's wife immediately found some red hard candy from the box.
These were all bought in Hanyang County. There must be no sugar on Qiongzhou Island now. If they don't bring it themselves, they don't know when they can taste sweetness again. Therefore, these immigrants have a lot of reserves at home. After all, Luo Chong compensated each of them with 100 yuan for resettlement.
The children didn't understand Chinese, but seeing that the woman had a kind face and didn't look like a bad person, they walked over carefully.
Mrs. Lu stuffed a piece of brown sugar into the little girl's mouth. The little girl's eyes lit up immediately. It seemed that she tasted such sweetness for the first time. She laughed happily and even imitated the adults to make a blessing to Mrs. Lu. Then she took the handful of sugar and went to share it with her friends at the door.
The new northerners had sweet and delicious food at home, which was sweeter than honey. This news soon spread in the village.
After the little girl had distributed the sugar to her friends, she ran to the weaving bungalows in the middle of the village, found her mother, and spit out the sugar in her mouth and stuffed it into her mother's mouth.
Her mother was weaving. When she saw her daughter's sneak attack, she felt the sweet smell in her mouth before she could react. Her eyes lit up immediately. She spit out the candy and put it in her palm to look at it. She saw a round, translucent red hard block. She knew that this must be something that only the newly arrived Han tribe had.
"Did they give it to you?" the woman asked her daughter.
"Yes, it was given to you by the new people in the village. They gave us a lot. We went to their doorstep and saw that they gave us these good things."
"Good child, then you can eat it yourself. I'll just taste it." After the woman finished speaking, she handed the candy to the girl. The little girl happily took the candy and ran away.
On the other side of the village, carpenter Lu Jianan heard Tian Qiao say that the windmill in the village had not been built yet, so he decided to go and see if there was anything he could do to help.
In addition, building a large wooden machine like a windmill will definitely require a lot of wood, so he wanted to ask the mill builder about the local wood prices. It would be great if he could find some scraps from the mill, so he could take them back to make some furniture.
Wen Shou, who knew how to grind flour and press oil in the immigrant team, also said he wanted to go over and take a look after hearing the news. If nothing unexpected happens, he will definitely be responsible for one of the mills and oil mills in the village in the future. It would be a good opportunity to go over and get familiar with the situation.
After the honest man Hu Shan settled his family, he immediately took his son to the fields by the river. He wanted to first take a look at his own fields and the fields of several neighbors around him. There was nothing planted on this piece of land now, only some weeds that he had grown.
In this era where agriculture is the basis and food is the most important thing, it is not a good thing to leave the fields uncultivated. It was fine if they didn't come before, but now they must plant food as soon as possible.
Although the resettlement fee given by the leader is enough for them to live for a year without producing anything, how will they live in the future? They rely on these acres of land to make a living, so they must produce something.
Hu Shan walked around the field and found that this place was indeed similar to what Tianqiao said before. In terms of land fertility, it is definitely incomparable to the Han tribe, but it is not to the point where nothing can be grown. Didn't you see that they have been farming for so many years when they were enemies?
It is a little troublesome to transform dry fields into paddy fields. It may take a few days, so he discussed with his son and decided to plant the auxiliary fields first.
He had just learned from the people here that Shanghe Village currently has no vegetables, only corn, eggs and meat, and bamboo shoots, but the people of the Han tribe are basically not used to eating that, so it is better to plant vegetables as soon as possible.
Ren Zong, the blacksmith, and Shan Peng, the potter, led their donkeys and horses, and ran out of the village with their tools.
Ren Zong was going to cut some bamboos from the nearby bamboo forest to use as building materials. He wanted to set up a blacksmith shop in his yard to make some small things like kitchen knives, scissors, awls, and thimbles, which were definitely urgently needed by the villagers. There were also various farm tools, such as sickles. Only corn and beans were grown here, and it was unknown how the locals harvested them or whether there were any sickles available.
But no matter what, they would definitely need sickles to harvest after they switched to rice next season, and you couldn't just pull them out directly.
Shan Peng led his donkey with Ren Zong. His main purpose was to cut some firewood for burning, and by the way, search near the village to see if there was a suitable source of clay, but not a field, so that he could come back and collect some clay to make ceramic vessels.
They all have courtyards with the smallest second-level title, and they are very large, so Shan Peng also wants to build this ceramic kiln in his own home, which will be convenient for him to work in the future, and will not affect other people in the village.
Xie Li's family just borrowed a bullock cart from Tian Qiao and Guan Tao, and then moved the small stone mill they brought from their hometown to their new home from the boat on the shore.
This stone mill was made by the stonemason they paid money to make, and later placed in their tofu shop, which made a lot of money for Xie Li's family. They didn't lose it when they immigrated this time. After asking for permission to bring it, they brought this stone mill directly with them, and now they finally settled in their new home.
The couple and their children got busy, fetching water from the newly dug well to soak beans, preparing to start work tomorrow and resume their tofu shop as soon as possible.
The leatherworker Ao Qi and his tailor wife have now become guests of honor among the local villagers. One of them makes shoes and the other makes clothes. They may not be good at other things, but they are the best dressed among the ten new immigrants. In addition, Shanghe Village already has its own textile industry, so there is no shortage of cloth in the village, but they don’t know how to make clothes.
So, after being introduced by Tian Qiao and Guan Tao, the two of them immediately became popular in the village.
Ao Qi’s wife has the ability to tailor clothes according to the body’s measurements. With a pair of scissors, she flies up and down, and immediately won the favor of young girls and wives.
Ao Qi himself took out a bunch of shoe patterns and sole samples carved from wood boards and shared them with the villagers. If there were any worn-out linen or something, they could be cut according to the shoe patterns and sewed into the most commonly worn cloth shoes.
(End of this chapter)
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