happy apocalypse

Chapter 132

Now that the village head has visited, our family started to prepare for all matters of land reclamation.

Regarding this matter, what we told the village chief was not entirely a lie. Our family is really anxious to open up wasteland. It is now the first ten days of May. Oh my god.When the crops can really be planted, we have to wait until the end of May. If we get to the beginning of June later, it will be really late.

So before the land reclamation, we held another family meeting to discuss the specific work of land reclamation.

The first question is to determine whether the eldest sister and the second sister's family want to open some more land.

Although we lived separately after arriving in Tashan Village, we have been busy with one thing after another. Basically, the eldest sister and the second sister come to our house to help every day, and eat here three times a day. According to the real situation It is said that they just live separately and have never been officially single.

After planting rice seedlings these few days, Aunt Liang seldom comes here. The eldest brother-in-law sees that there is nothing to help here, so he goes home to work on his own affairs. I want to ask them what they think about land reclamation. I can't just let me have the final say on everything.

After everyone sat in the living room, Jiang Zhi talked about it.

The elder brother-in-law meant to open up some more land and plant something else. There are four people in his family, and there is a half-grown boy in the family. They all say that the half-grown boy eats the poor, so he wants to, if conditions permit, A little variety of land, it is better to collect more food.

At the second sister's house, the second sister participated in the meeting. The second brother-in-law can get up, but he can't be too tired and needs to rest for a while.The second sister thought about it and said that their house was closed.The main reason is that there is no labor force in the family, and even if it is opened, there is no one to plant it. The four acres of paddy fields are enough for the husband and wife to keep busy. But she said that she is fine now, and she can help when we open up wasteland.

Knowing what the eldest sister and the second sister mean, things will be easy to handle. After we discussed with the eldest brother-in-law, we plan to open up wasteland together. The eldest brother-in-law’s family is alone. He plans to open up four acres of land for planting. If he is busy, he will come next year. Open it up.

And our family's goal is to open up a piece of wasteland next to our paddy field. Dad Jiang and Dad Qu have gone to investigate many times, saying that the land is suitable for growing sweet potatoes and potatoes, and it is a good land if it can be opened.

Now that the goal is determined, the next step is to assign tasks.

We plan to use the newly opened land to grow drought-resistant and hungry crops such as sweet potatoes, potatoes and corn. Sweet potatoes need seedlings, so we should start raising sweet potato seedlings in the vacated greenhouse now. My uncle instructed Dad Jiang and Dad Qu to be in charge, and Weiwei and I were in charge of the daily management of our paddy fields. We don’t have much to say now, so the two of us are enough to cope.Jiang Ma and Qu Ma still cook at home and do logistics work, while other laborers go to the paddy fields to work hard on land reclamation.

When we were assigning tasks, several children put forward their own requirements, saying that they wanted to raise some small animals.

As soon as I heard this request, it is good to get some chickens, ducks, geese and so on to raise at home, which not only satisfies the wishes of the children, but also enriches the dining table at home.

But I still thought about it for a while, and then said to the leader, Sissi: "Sissy, you should know that raising these small animals costs too much food now, although our family is not starving, but food can't be wasted. If you really want to raise some chickens and ducks, I have no objection, but you have to make sure that there must be a beginning and an end. Don’t be fresh for two days. Everyone is very busy, as you can see, there will be no one to feed you, so my aunt will feed your food to the chickens and ducklings every day. Do you agree?"

Qianqian also said to me very seriously: "Auntie, don't worry, we must not give up halfway, we have all made up our minds, and we will feed until the chickens and ducks lay eggs. If we can't persist, then we will follow what you said. Let's feed our food to the chickens, it's okay. Do you agree?"

After Sissy finished speaking by herself, she turned around and asked the little carrots next to her, looking for support.Hanhan and the others, who were watching our conversation eagerly, nodded vigorously when they heard Sissy's question, scrambling to assure me.

"Okay, then tomorrow my aunt will go to the county to look for you, if there are any chickens and ducks to buy, if there are, I will buy 10 for each of you, and you will compare to see who feeds the best. Lay the most eggs." After I got the guarantee from the children, I decided to give each of these children 10 chickens, ducks and geese, so that they could experience the difficulties and hardships of breeding.

Of course, the enthusiasm of the children must be mobilized, and they can't wait to start their breeding business now.

The second sister heard me say that I want to buy chickens and ducks for the children, so she said to me: "Xiaoyi, if you can buy livestock, see if there are sheep and cattle in the county. If there are, you can buy them for our family." Buy two."

I looked at my second sister with some doubts, why would I want to raise these things?

"It's not your second brother-in-law. He's been able to go to the ground these days. Seeing Sissy and I busy going around every day, he can't lie down a little bit. He just wanted to do something when he was able to go down to the ground. If he can’t work hard, let him raise poultry at home. When he is healthy, he will do the work in the field, and then I raise poultry. Isn’t it good? , It doesn’t cost food, so let’s feed a few. People’s novels basically feed sheep, and there will be some meat in the future.” The second sister said the last sentence in a low voice, and I heard it.

I thought, isn’t it? I’ve seen most of the post-apocalyptic texts feed sheep, because sheep eat grass when they are easy to feed, unlike pigs that have to be fed grain.

"Okay, let me see if there are any. If there are lambs or something, I will buy some. Sister, do you want some?" I decided to raise some sheep and cows at home, because they eat grass squeezed out It's milk.Then I asked the eldest sister what she meant.

"Okay, buy some for my family too, Chenchen and I are both idle." The eldest sister also decided to raise a few.

After the discussion, both the eldest sister and the second sister said that when they were at home in the past two days, they should first build the sheep pen, chicken coop and duck shed to welcome the new family members who are coming.

Our family entrusted this task to three big men, and ordered that the sheepfold must be cleared out today, because the wasteland will be opened up tomorrow, and they are the main force, but they have no time to clean up the sheepfold.

In the early morning of the next day, we started to perform our duties. After breakfast, the large army took tools and rushed to the rice fields.

Our paddy field is the easternmost part of the paddy field in Tashan Village. There are several rows of shelterbelts next to it. To the east is a large piece of wasteland, and then connected to the mountains. Visually, this piece of wasteland has an area of ​​[-] to [-] mu.

The wasteland is overgrown with weeds, the ground is very hard, and there are occasional large stones in the soil. There are also a few scattered large trees and countless small trees standing upright on the wasteland.

In order to improve the efficiency of land reclamation, I took a picture of a giant power talisman on everyone.

Li Cheng was the most amusing. When the Juli Talisman was in effect, he was like a chimpanzee on TV, roaring and beating his chest with both hands to show his strength.It made the children who came to help next to me laugh out loud.

There are many withered and yellow weeds left over from last year on the wasteland. If this field can be planted, all these weeds must be removed by their roots. However, in order to absorb water and nutrients, their roots are very tight. Deep, which brings us a certain degree of difficulty in land reclamation.

Jiang Zhi took a few of the men and dug deep with one shovel after another, turning up the grass with its roots.

The few of them are strong in themselves, and now that each of them uses the Long Giant Power Talisman, they are even more powerful. Shoveling the ground with a shovel looks as easy as cutting tofu.Then, Weiwei and Fangfang and I squatted next to each other and took charge of each one. Wearing gloves, we pulled all the soil that had just been turned up, picked out the grass and grass roots in the soil, and piled it aside.This thing can't be wasted, it will be the food of sheep and cattle in the future.

It seemed easy for the two of them to work together, but after a while, everyone's faces were dripping with sweat.

It is easy for Jiang Zhi and the others to dig the ground, but in the process of digging the ground, they will encounter trees and stones from time to time, and it is a waste of time and energy to deal with these things.

When we encountered stones, we picked them up and prepared to take them home for waste utilization and build sheep pens.

When encountering trees, no matter how big or small they are, they are uprooted, and then a hole is dug on the ground before planting. Isn’t it said that the tree is moved to the dead and the living is moved? Note that I secretly watered the transplanted tree with some spring water in the space, hoping to help the tree adapt to its new home.

That's it, we didn't even open an acre of land all morning.

When I went home for lunch, Dad Jiang said that they had found a good place and retting the manure. It would be usable in a few days, so they would spread it directly in our newly opened field to increase some fertility.

I know that Jiang Zhi specially took the feces of various animals in a storage bag, including the inedible offal left by him slaughtering chickens, ducks and other animals, as well as our frozen excrement in the city.

Now Dad Jiang has made full use of the things in this storage bag, good, very good, no pretense Jiang Zhi uses the precious storage bag to collect these wastes.At the dinner table, I highly praised Jiang's father's behavior and fully praised the desirability of Jiang's behavior of turning waste into treasure.

Father Jiang's mouth was twisted by my praise, and Father Qu explained to us that he and Father Jiang, under the guidance of his uncle, planted sweet potatoes and potatoes in the morning, and said that the newly opened land would be able to grow. When planting crops, their sweet potato seedlings can basically grow out, and try to ensure that the sweet potatoes are planted on time.

After listening to this, I highly praised Dad Qu's spirit of not being afraid of hardship and fatigue, and encouraged them to guard against arrogance and impetuosity, and do more good and practical things for the family's planting business. They are very motivated now, and they will clean up the backyard in the afternoon, looking for a place to build a sheep pen and a cowshed.

I quietly wiped my sweat under the table. My job is not easy. I have to do physical work in the field, and I have to express condolences to the people when I get home. This is both praise and encouragement. easy.

(End of this chapter)