Farming in space: the struggle of peasant girls

Chapter 90 090 Explore Taoyuan Village

The first step in exploring Taoyuan Village is to explore these houses in the village.

There will definitely be no food in the house, but there are still some other useful things. Ordinary items such as pots and pans can be left alone, and some important items and utensils can be taken away for unified management.

Such as buckets, agricultural tools, knives, pens and paper, property and so on.

Although he didn't say it directly, the most important point was to find someone.

Regardless of whether they are dead or alive, they must be found and placed properly, and they cannot just be left alone.

Because it is not easy for the three of them to act separately, they simply have no points and go together.

Yang Erlang was familiar with the situation and took the lead, Mu Yuer went in to look around, Li Dayou was the last, and was also responsible for taking all kinds of things that needed to be taken away.

After searching more than ten houses, Li Dayou piled up several piles on the corner of the street, but they didn't find even one person here.

The three of them stopped at the corner of the street for a short rest, discussing the matter by the way.

"No one. This situation is a bit similar to Jijia Village. It should be that there were living people who helped take care of the funeral at that time."

Of course, it’s not exactly the same as Ji’s Village. Ji’s Village used to have food, and they ran into them after two or three months without food, so Ji Xiucai’s family survived, but here in Taoyuan Village, there was no food for two or three years. Can't make it through.

Sooner or later they will find one or a few people.

The three agreed with this, but they didn't say it out loud, and continued to search after the break.

With the previous experience, the speed gradually picked up later, and I searched all the houses in the village just after noon.

What puzzled Mu Yu was that they still didn't find anyone.

Not inside the house, not outside the house, so where would it be?
Yang Erlang looked in a certain direction thoughtfully, and said,
"follow me."

Mu Yu and Li Dayou looked at each other and followed.

Yang Erlang took the two of them out of the village. At first they were a little puzzled, but soon they understood what was going on.

On the sloping ground in front of them appeared one by one small soil bumps, some with stone tablets.

cemetery.

The three of them walked into the cemetery with solemn expressions, and found a stone tablet among the small soil bags, with dozens of names engraved on it.

This should be the people who died due to the drought in the past two years, and they were buried here together.

Yang Erlang knelt down and stroked the names tremblingly, then looked at the flat land behind the stele where dozens of people might be buried, knelt down and kowtowed three times earnestly.

Mu Yu closed his eyes, bowed in the direction of the stele, and wished them a peaceful sleep.

Then they found a pit near the stele, and there was a person who had died for a long time in the pit, who should be the last person to die.

He dug a hole for all the people in the village, buried them, and in the end, no one buried him.

Yang Erlang found a shovel that was put aside, and filled the pit with soil one by one.

Li Dayou wanted to step forward to help, but was stopped by Mu Yu.

In the end, Yang Erlang buried the man himself, and erected a stone tablet, as well as the tomb of the head of the mountain village.

So far, the first step of exploring Taoyuan Village has been completed.

After paying homage to the villagers of Heshan Village, the three of them returned to the village, cleaned up the largest stone house in the village from the inside to the outside, and then put the materials they collected earlier into it for storage.

This will also be the center of Taoyuan Village in the future.

After these two steps are completed, the third and final step is to fetch water.

The three of them came to the well with wooden buckets and ropes and started to draw water, which would be poured into the water tank in the stone house for storage.

One barrel, two barrels, three barrels...

From the third bucket, the water brought up began to become muddy, and by the sixth bucket, even the muddy water was only half of the bucket.

The good news is that they got a tank of relatively clear water in total, and a tank of turbid water. The turbid water can be used just as easily after being filtered and boiled.

The bad news is that this well will no longer produce water in a short period of time, which may be more than half a year.

This is tricky.

Mu Yu glanced at the naive Li Dayou, and thought that it would be great if he could be lured away just now.

That way, except for her and Yang Erlang, no one will know about the lack of water in the well. In the future, she can secretly put water from the mustard space in, and limit each fetching of water, so that no one will know about the lack of water in the well.

However, as it is now, it is not impossible.

Mountain villages are closed, and it is more difficult to survive than ordinary villages. It is difficult to persist with only one water source.

She remembered Yang Erlang said that he knew at least two water sources,

"Are there any other wells?"

Yang Erlang looked back at Jingkou with a frown, nodded and said,

"There is another well nearby, follow me."

Yang Erlang found a shoulder pole and a bucket, and Li Dayong, one pole and two buckets each, went to the dry forest by the village.

He said that there used to be a lot of fruit trees planted there, and the well was used for watering the trees.

Mu Yu followed into the withered forest, and felt no different from the withered forest around the ruined temple. The trees were all dead, but there would be no shortage of firewood in the future, and even small carpenters could have wood to make some furniture and utensils.

As soon as she finished thinking about it, she felt a flash of greenery in front of her eyes. She immediately widened her eyes, thinking she had misread it, and hurriedly went back to check.

She was not mistaken, two young leaves really grew on a small tree, and there were still a few fresh buds on closer inspection.

"Yang Erlang, come and see, there is a tree here that is still alive!"

Yang Erlang and Li Dayou gathered together, looked left and right at the young sapling, with surprise on their faces.

"It's strange, so many trees are dead, but it's still alive."

Yang Erlang said,
"It's a small almond tree."

Mu Yu smiled and said,

"It would be great if it was a peach tree, it just fits the name of Taoyuan Village."

Yang Erlang laughed at her,
"There's no such thing as a coincidence."

"Too."

This tree gave Mu Yu a lot of hope and made her feel much more relaxed. The well here should have water.

Just as she thought, the well here is still clear after four buckets of water have been pumped.

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief.

Even if Mu Yu knows that if the well continues to be drilled, it may not be long before the water in the well bottoms out, but as long as it doesn't bottom out in front of others, with her around, there will never be a day when it bottoms out.

It was already evening when the three returned to the village with water.

The few tanks of water that I got were saved enough to last for a few days.

On this day, they explored all the places that should be explored in Taoyuan Village, and did all the things that should be done.

According to the prediction, the others will arrive almost tomorrow.

Bringing them into the village, arranging for them to live, and bringing them on the right track of farming are the next things to do.

Thinking of this, Mu Yu suddenly remembered something, before it was completely dark, he ran out from Yang Erlang's house and went to the stone house.

(End of this chapter)