The happy little days of the Ye family

Since Father Ye invited 20 people to come back to help open up wasteland, the speed of land reclamation has increased immediately.

In a few days, all the fields and ridges of more than 20 acres of land at the foot of Xiaohou Mountain were built, and canals for water diversion and drainage are now being dug.

Now that there are people working to open up wasteland, Father Ye feels that Mr. Ye deserves a good rest after working hard for half his life. He is determined not to let Mr. Ye do the work of clearing up wasteland and only allows him to be a supervisor.

Dashan Village is a bit far away from Taohua Village. It is really inconvenient for land reclamation people to rush back to Dashan Village every day.

Mr. Ye thought that after the wasteland was cleared, he would still have to plow the land and plant rice, which would take at least two months, so he decided to let the people who opened the wasteland build a simple thatched house at the foot of Xiaohou Mountain.

Fortunately, the winter in the south is not very cold, and spring is about to begin, so people can live in thatched houses.

Mr. Ye brought a few old quilts from home, and these 20 men settled in a thatched house at the foot of the mountain. You don’t have to rush home, and you can have more time to rest every day.

It is not convenient to start cooking at the foot of the mountain, so Mr. Ye would cook a large pot of thick corn and sweet potato porridge every morning, plus a basket full of corn buns. These were the breakfast for those who came to open up wasteland.

Early in the morning, Mr. Ye pushed the cart and delivered the steaming breakfast to the foot of Xiaohou Mountain.

Twenty men each had a large bowl of polenta and two palm-sized steamed buns. They all ate with gusto and sweat broke out on their foreheads.

After breakfast, a new day begins again. The men who had eaten and drank enough took their newly-made hoes and shovels and started again today's land reclamation.

In order to open up wasteland, Ye's father went to Blacksmith Fang and bought a large number of farm tools, including hoes, shovels, sickles, etc. He spent a lot of money.

There was no one else here except the people who opened up wasteland. The men who opened up wasteland felt that their shirts were in the way, so they took off their shirts and dug ditches in the ground bare-chested.

After breakfast, everyone worked very hard. After a while, the soil dug out of the ditch was piled up into a hill.

In order to open up wasteland, the Ye family not only purchased a batch of new farm tools, Mr. Ye also hired a carpenter in the village to build two new sturdy large carts. Together with the old family carts, the Ye family has a total of three carts. .

All the excavated soil was transported to the open space at the foot of the mountain on pallets.

The thatched houses at the foot of the mountain can only be lived in temporarily. When the beginning of spring arrives, the rain will gradually increase. After the rainy season, the thatched houses cannot be lived in at all.

Therefore, Mr. Ye wanted to use the excavated soil to make soil embryos and build a small mud brick house at the foot of the mountain.

Mr. Ye thinks long-term. His family now has two hills. The wasteland at the foot of the hills can produce more than 50 acres of paddy fields. In the countryside, he is already a small landowner.

Although their family cannot afford long-term labor, they still need help taking care of the fields.

The few members of their family alone cannot take care of so many fields. In the future, they will definitely need help from plowing, fertilizing, weeding and harvesting grain.

There are also two hills, and the bamboo shoots, honeysuckle and dates on the mountains require help.

If you build a mud brick house at the foot of the mountain, you can have a place to stay if you hire people later.

Moreover, a mud-brick house does not cost much, and the manpower is readily available. At most, you can spend more money to hire people to make mud bricks and build houses.

But the most important thing now is to open up wasteland. There is no rush about the house. Mr. Ye plans to wait for the wasteland to be cleared before starting to build a house out of mud.

Mr. Ye plans to build five houses, one is a hall, and the remaining four are used for living.

Mr. Ye had already chosen the place to build the house, and it was on a higher slope at the foot of the mountain. The terrain there was high, so there was no need to worry about flash floods even if it rained heavily.

Mr. Ye is busy clearing land here, while Mother Ye and Ye Qingqing are busy making lunch at home.

There is little rain during this period and the vegetation in the mountains is dry. Mr. Ye does not dare to open fire in the mountains. Every day breakfast and lunch are prepared at Ye's house and then sent there.

Opening up wasteland is a laborious job, and the food needs to be rich in oil and water, so the food that people who open up wasteland eat is the same as the food that the Ye family eats.

It was troublesome to cook when there were so many people. To save trouble, Ye Mu made her best braised rice.

The dried mushrooms and dried beans that have been soaked in the morning have been soaked. The dried beans are cut into small pieces and the mushrooms are cut into thin slices.

Then he took out a piece of bacon and cut the bacon into thin slices. Ye Mu first sauteed the bacon to remove the oil, then added dried mushrooms and dried beans and sauteed until fragrant, then added washed rice and water to simmer.

Ye Qingqing on the side cooked a large pot of radish and egg drop soup, and also steamed a lot of corn buns. These corn buns were the supper for the people who opened up the wasteland. They were made just at noon and can still be eaten in the evening.

Winter in the south is still a bit cold in the morning and evening, but when the sun comes out during the day, it feels like summer.

Old Mrs. Ye specially cooked a large pot of mung bean soup on the stove in the yard for these pioneers, which was perfect for drinking during their afternoon break.

Mrs. Ye originally wanted to borrow the Tang family's cart to deliver meals to Mr. Ye and the others, but Tang Xiaojing felt that there were too many things.

A bucket of bacon stuffed rice, a bucket of radish and egg drop soup, a bucket of mung bean soup, and a large basket of corn buns, which the cart could not transport at all. Tang Xiaojing simply drove a bullock cart to deliver meals to Mr. Ye and the others.

The speed of the oxcart was fast, and when Tang Xiaojing delivered the lunch to the foot of Xiaohou Mountain, the meal was still steaming hot.

Mr. Ye took the stuffed rice handed from Tang Xiaojing from the ox cart and said with a smile: "Why are you the one bringing the food? Didn't you and your father go to Yueya Town to pull bean dregs?"

"Most of the bean dregs from Lijia Oil Shop were brought back yesterday, and there isn't much left. My dad said he could just go and pull them out himself."

The fertility of the wasteland was insufficient. Tangshan sold the soybeans recovered from the valley to the oil mill years ago, and ordered a batch of bean dregs from the Lijia Oil Mill to fertilize the fields.

Seeing the food delivery person coming, the hungry men swarmed around him.

Ye Mu’s food is delicious and the ingredients are abundant. The daily meals include not only meat, but also egg drop soup and mung bean soup to relieve the heat. Even the food at night is big and sturdy steamed buns. The food is better than at home. On many.

The people who opened up the land also remembered the good things of the Ye family and worked very hard.

Most of the people who opened up the wasteland were hunters from mountain villages, and only a few made a living by collecting medicinal materials in the mountains.

Although opening up wasteland in the Ye family is a bit harder and the money earned is not as much as hunting, it is steady and not dangerous.

There are also people who want to stay in the Ye family as long-term workers. Although the money they earn is not as much as hunting, it is at least stable and there is no need to worry.

With so many newly opened paddy fields in the Ye family, manpower will definitely be needed for fertilization, weeding, and grain harvesting in the future. Even if you don't hire long-term workers, it's not bad to come to the Ye family to do odd jobs for a few months every year.

Therefore, these people work harder and want to leave a good impression so that they can be contacted next time when hiring someone.