farming female castellan

Chapter 234 Opening Rivers and Building Embankments

Shi County Magistrate sat on the carriage with his eyes closed and meditated, the master hesitated to speak.

"Just say what you want, I can feel you looking at me." Magistrate Shi said.

Only then did the master speak: "This time, I could have entertained you as a host, but now I am just a guest, and I haven't been able to say a word or two."

County Magistrate Shi snorted softly: "That bowl of water in the Zhongshu order is extremely flat, and I have saved a lot of face by saying a few words."

"But looking at the officials, those adults are very kind to the children."

"You also said that they are children, and we are competing with a group of children? That six-year-old Chen Ya and nine-year-old Chen Zhongyan can still hug Mr. Zhongshu Ling, and I will hug him too?"

The master smiled embarrassingly: "I never thought that Miss Chen would get the award so quickly. It is very easy for a woman to have a grade."

"You're confused again." County magistrate Shi opened his eyes: "You asked Wan'er to farm to get a reward? How many people have been farming for a lifetime, and they just get full. Is Miss Chen the same as them? And the ID number, the house number, and the arrangements for those refugees, do you really think that she is just lucky in farming?"

The master fell silent.

Magistrate Shi closed his eyes again: "You have endured it for two days, and now you can't help it? Nagging like a backyard woman."

The master's face was flushed red, but he didn't dare to say anything.

"Xiao'er and Wan'er got along quite happily with them last time, let them move around more in the future."

The Liu family was boiling, and everyone happily gathered around the pile of tiger meat, talking about what the tiger meat would taste like.

The two masters Liu rushed back and carefully looked at the tiger bones.

"These two pieces are the backbone." Liu Er said proudly.

"Really?" Master Liu Er's eyes lit up, "The effect of soaking in wine is very good, we have to ponder over it carefully, and we must not be sloppy."

"How do you arrange the tiger meat?" The old lady looked at her two sons.

"Eat some at home, and then invite a few people to hold a banquet." Grandpa Liu said.

"Then you have to hurry up, the tiger meat won't be fresh until tomorrow." The old lady said.

"Yes, yes, I will invite you after dinner." Mr. Liu replied repeatedly.

Aunt Xie looked at Liu Dingkang's uncle and nephew: "The two children of the Chen family have returned from suppressing bandits, can you go to study too?"

The old lady glanced at her: "Aren't you worried that the two of them will slow down?"

"Ouch, old lady," Aunt Xie patted her face, "Can the progress in school be the same? What's the use of memorizing a lot but not knowing? I used to be narrow-minded."

"Where are you narrow? You want both ends."

"Yes, yes, it's my fault, I didn't understand clearly." Aunt Xie said kindly, and the old lady didn't say much, so she put it down.

Chen Fan arranged for people to nail the house numbers on the gate.

"Who will live in the big house over there?" Some people were not convinced, thinking about the houses of those big families.

Mo Jian glanced at them, and they were so oppressed by the powerful momentum that they couldn't breathe, and they didn't dare to say another word.

On the third day, the refugees continued to cut grass, dig soil, and log.Those grasses are sun-dried during the day and harvested at night. They are served like vegetables, and they are very dry and brittle.

Chen Fan arranged for people to distribute the grass to the planned fields everywhere, and it was all set on fire.After cooling, the ground was plowed again, and the plant ash was buried in the ground.

The stretch of river at the junction has been deserted for a long time.Now the road is clear except for the grass.

The cut branches were basically dried in the sun, and Chen Fan assigned the job of frying the soil.

"Do you fry the soil like a vegetable?" Chen Zhongliang was curious.

Chen Fan glanced at Chen Zhongyan.Chen Zhongyan analyzed: "Stir fry the soil once with fire, and the soil will become mature soil, and there will be no insects and weeds."

"Can it still be like this?" The children were all surprised.

"That's true. Qin Shihuang's straight road was built in this way." Chen Fan said.

"Then the official road was built like this?" The children are very good at communicating.

"Perhaps so." Zhang Ci was half sure.Some official roads are just compacted soil. If you don't walk or maintain it for a period of time, grass will still grow.

Women can do the work of frying the soil, men are still responsible for plowing and digging, and children are responsible for weeding and transporting grass.

"I don't seem to see children under the age of six." Chen Xiu discovered a phenomenon.

"There are no very old people." Chen Ying also found out.

Chen Zhongzhu looked solemn: "The old ones may starve to death, and the young ones may be..."

Some of the refugees knew how to burn bricks, so Chen Fan asked them to build brick kilns and search for clay.

Zhang Ci knew a little about brick-making, so he was in charge of the brick kiln.

The area across Guangyun County is very wide, thirty miles wide and forty miles long.Zhang Ci led people to find a piece of clay land in the west and began to dig the clay.

The river course needs to be dug, and if it is not repaired during the dry season in winter, should it be repaired in the spring when the water is high?
The river mud and river sand dug out can come in handy.

The river channel was dug for four days, and a lot of silt was dug out, which was piled up in a special place, and the silt was piled up in another place.The soil for widening and strengthening the river embankment is dug from those wastelands, which are not fertile, and those wastelands can just be cleaned up.

The refugees can take care of their food when they work, and some villagers such as Qijiadu also want to work.Chen Fan has no objection, it is always good to have more hands to work.

Several villages provided seven or eight large stone rollers, dragged by oxen, to flatten and compact the embankment layer by layer.

"This embankment has been built into an official road, and we built it." The villagers looked at the completely new river and were full of pride.

The second day of October is light snow.It is very suitable for the occasion, it seems to be snowing in the evening.

Chen Fan took out the brewed rice wine and poured it into a bowl, there was actually a thin layer of foam floating on it.

She wrote a poem to Zhang Ci: "Green Ant's New Fermented Wine, Red Clay Small Stove. It's snowing late, can you have a glass?"

After reading Zhangci twice, he said with a smile: "It's easy to understand, but the artistic conception is wonderful. In this weather, it's really pleasant to have a small stove and drink wine with you while enjoying the snow scenery."

Zhang Ci refused to let the children gather around and told them to get a small stove by themselves, but the children made faces and ran away.

Chen Fan looked at him with a smile: "It's such a beautiful day, Mr. Zhang wrote a poem?"

(End of this chapter)