The happy little days of the Ye family

After the year, Tangshan stopped going to towns and counties to solicit customers, and was mainly busy taking care of the 50 acres of paddy fields in the valley.

The newly opened paddy fields were not fertile enough, so Tangshan ordered 3000 kilograms of oil bean residue from the Lijia Oil Factory in Yueyue Town to be used as fertilizer.

But for a 50% paddy field, these 3000 kilograms of bean dregs are far from enough. But there was no way. There were too many people at Lijia Oil Mill who wanted the bean dregs to be used as fertilizer, so he could only get these 3000 kilograms of bean dregs.

3000 pounds of bean dregs. It can only cover 10 acres of paddy field at most. There was not enough fertilizer, so Tang Shan and Tang Xiaojing visited nearby pig raising houses and bought some farmyard fertilizer.

All the New Year pigs in the village were slaughtered before the New Year, and the fertilizers were obtained from several sow raisers in Tangshan.

The father and son visited nearby pig-raising houses, but they only got back fertilizer for 10 acres of paddy fields.

Tang Xiaojing didn't know that farming required so much fertilizer before, so he whispered to Tangshan in a low voice: "I knew we would have raised a few big fat pigs."

Tangshan smiled and said: "For 50 acres of paddy field, a few pigs are not enough. At least dozens of big fat pigs must be raised."

When Tang Xiaojing thought of raising dozens of pigs, he immediately gave up the idea of ​​raising pigs. The Ye family raised eight pigs last year, and both Mr. Ye and Mrs. Ye were almost overwhelmed.

There are only father and son in the Tang family. If they really have to raise dozens of pigs, these pigs will probably starve to death.

"Take it slowly step by step. If it is so easy to open up wasteland, how can it be our father and son's turn to come back to open up wasteland in these barren mountains and wastelands in the village."

"To cultivate a medium-sized paddy field, it needs to be cultivated for at least 10 years, and to cultivate a high-quality paddy field, it needs to be cultivated for at least 15 years."

"But if these paddy fields are cultivated, our family will be a small landowner with 15 acres of high-quality paddy fields."

Tang Xiaojing said with a smile: "We still have two hills at home, and the output of these two hills is quite a lot every year. Soon our Tang family will be famous big landowners from far and wide, hahaha!"

The more the father and son talked, the happier they became, as if they would soon become big landowners with countless properties.

The father and son covered their noses and mouths with thick cloths, then bought farmyard manure at a high price and spread it on the paddy fields.

There is not enough fertilizer. 3000 kilograms of oil residue can only cover 10 acres of paddy fields, and the farmyard manure purchased can only cover 10 acres of paddy fields. The remaining 30 acres can only be left to fate.

After spreading the fertilizer, the soil can be plowed.

Although these paddy fields had been plowed during the land reclamation years ago, the soil in the newly opened paddy fields was relatively hard and the plowing was not thorough.

After applying fertilizer, the paddy fields need to be plowed several times again, firstly to turn the spread fertilizer into the soil, and secondly to turn newly grown weeds into the soil as fertilizer.

During this period, every household in the village was busy clearing land, and without any manpower, Tang Shan and Tang Xiaojing had no choice but to plow the land themselves.

Fortunately, the Tang family has two strong big green oxen. The father and son each drive an ox to plow the fields.

If there were no cattle, just relying on the father and son, these 50 acres of land would not be plowed until the end of the year.

The father and son had never plowed the ground much before returning to Taohua Village, and they were both clumsy at plowing the ground.

Either they got stuck in the mud and couldn't move, or they fell into the fields. After plowing the fields every day, both father and son turned into mud monkeys.

Tangshan and Tang Xiaojing worked hard plowing the fields in the valley every day, while Dahuang and Xiaohuang went wild in the mountains every day.

The hunting skills of the two little guys are getting better and better. They can catch several fat rabbits every day. The rabbits on the rabbit mountain are probably frightened by these two guys.

In addition to the rabbits caught by Dahuang and Xiaohuang, many rabbits were also caught in the traps dug by Tang Xiaojing on the two hills.

Tang Xiaojing was busy opening up wasteland and had no time to sell what he caught to the county. All of them were made into bacon rabbits. This year, he didn't have to worry about running out of meat.

A lot of rabbits have been caught, but not a single wild goat has been caught yet.

Tang Xiaojing was worried about the wild goats on the mountain, and later dug two traps in areas with lots of tender grass. Unfortunately, it had no effect, and he didn't even see the goat's hair.

On this day, Tang Shan and Tang Xiaojing were sitting at the foot of Stone Mountain roasting rabbits, and heard the cries of Rhubarb and Little Huang in the distance.

Tang Xiaojing turned the rabbit over and looked at the fragrant roasted rabbit with greedy eyes.

"Dahuang and Xiaohuang probably hunted some big animal."

After coming over for a while, Dahuang and Xiaohuang actually drove a newly adult wild goat down the mountain.

Tang Shan and Tang Xiaojing were very happy to see the wild goat and immediately tied up the wild goat.

Tang Shan looked at Tang Xiaojing and said, "There aren't many paddy fields left. I can just plow them myself. You can take the rabbits and wild goats that Dahuang and Xiaohuang hunted to the county and sell them."

Tang Xiao nodded and put the wild goat tied with five stripes on the bullock cart.

Then he took a big basket and put it on the bullock cart. There were several rabbits in it. These rabbits were hunted by Dahuang and Xiaohuang in the morning.

Tang Xiaojing drove the ox cart to the county with a smile on his face. The wild goat was still alive and would definitely be sold at a good price.

The Tang family has just plowed all 50 acres of paddy fields, and all [-] acres of wasteland in the Ye family have dug canals and built ridges.

Mr. Ye diverted water from the creek to the fields and soaked all the 50 acres of paddy fields. After a few days, when the soil in the fields softened, the fields could be plowed.

There used to be many weeds and wild trees on the wasteland. Although these weeds and wild trees have been cut down, there are still many tree roots and grass roots underground. Even if the soil is soaked, it is not easy to plow the ground.

Fortunately, the Tang family's land has been plowed, and Mr. Ye has rented the Tang family's two big green cattle.

Originally, Tangshan did not intend to collect money. The relationship between the two families was so good, and he was embarrassed to accept money.

But Mr. Ye refused. The two cows would use the 50 acres of land for half a month.

Tangshan can no longer go to the town to recruit people, and it has delayed a lot of things for the Tang family. Mr. Ye has a tough attitude and must pay for the rent of the cattle.

During the past few days of soaking in the paddy fields, Mr. Ye was not idle either, and happened to be leading someone to make clay embryos.

It's already the beginning of spring, and there will be more rain soon. If we don't get rid of the mud, it will be too late. If there is a heavy rain, the current thatched houses will not be able to live in people at all.

With more people comes greater strength. In just a few days, 20 men were able to lay the clay embryos they were going to use.

In addition to the two big green oxen of the Tang family, the three donkeys of the Ye family were also requisitioned by Mr. Ye to plow the fields.

The number of donkeys and cows is limited, and the extra manpower is arranged by Mr. Ye to build houses.

Mr. Ye originally planned to build a house with five rooms, but considering that it still needed a kitchen, he built six rooms.

One is the hall, the other is the kitchen and bathing area, and the remaining 4 rooms are used for sleeping.

The house is at the foot of the mountain. Mr. Ye was worried that wolves or wild boars would come down the mountain and hurt people, so he specially asked people to beat some more clay embryos and planned to use the clay embryos to surround a small yard.

The yard does not need to be big, but the fence must be high enough and strong. With the wall, it would be safer to live at the foot of the mountain.