The daily farming life of the black-bellied young lady

Chapter 54
"Lizheng, this child Chu Ying doesn't know, so don't make it too difficult for her. The child is still young, and such a big scene frightens her." Wang Naiyuan knelt beside Chu Ying and shouted loudly. Much noise from other people.

"I understand the matter, and the child doesn't know, right? Then fine him or plant a tree. Everyone, stop shouting, it will scare the child into a fool." Li was holding Chu Ying who was kneeling on the ground in a daze. Help him up, "Don't cut down trees in the future, it will be bad if you disturb the mountain god, and the mountain god will be angry and harm the villagers."

"Hmm." Although Chu Ying had no expression on her face, her hands were shaking slightly.Chu Ying looked at these normally friendly villagers who would become extremely vicious when encountering tree cutting, as if they wanted to tear themselves up and eat them.

Even though Chu Ying was halfway home, she didn't say a word. "Don't be obedient to them. A few years ago, some officials wanted to build ancestral halls and cut down all the trees on the mountain. Although the villagers who cut down the trees made a lot of money, it rained continuously for several days. Several families were washed away, and many people died."

"Go to the foot of the mountain to cut some bamboo or branches, and gather some firewood. You can't cut down trees. It takes several years for a tree to grow up. Those on the mountain were planted by the villagers before, and they have to be replanted every year. , Plant as many trees as there are people in the family, I planted them for you before, it’s troublesome to miss you, you’re weak, it’s all my fault.”

"No, I didn't ask first." Although Chu Ying knew the seriousness of soil erosion and knew that this matter was indeed wrong, Chu Ying just felt that something was blocked in her heart, which seemed very uncomfortable.

"It's a good thing that the tree you cut down wasn't too big, but you'll be fined 80 cash, or you can plant 8 trees. I'll plant it for you later." Chu Ying nodded, and tapped on Wang Naiyuan's shoulder, who was carrying her on her back.

Leaning her head on Wang Naiyuan's shoulder, her heart was extremely depressed, tears flowed down her face, she understood those truths, but she was wronged.

Wang Naiyuan felt a little wet on his shoulders, so he walked slowly. Poor man, I can love you as long as I can. Wang Naiyuan wishes time to stop here. Looking at the colorful sunset and feeling the gently blowing wind, I just I want to keep walking behind your back like this.

When Chu Ying returned home, she remembered that her ax was still in the woods. "Brother Wang, I still have to get my stone axe."

"The stone ax is at home. Someone brought it back for you earlier. Take a good rest, this is not urgent. I will go with you when I buy saplings."

"Well, I'll give you the money when the time comes. Thank you for your hard work." Seeing Chu Ying's absent-minded look, Wang Naiyuan left early and left her alone.

After mourning for a while, Chu Ying picked up the stone ax and went to the woods behind, picked out a few chestnut trees of suitable size and chopped them down. The pine trees and sumac trees couldn’t bear to cut them down. It would take several years for these smaller chestnut trees to grow chestnuts. The chestnut trees in my hometown are enough to pick by myself.

Chu Ying piled up the cut trees in the yard, waiting for Uncle Qi to come to help tomorrow, she ate some chestnut pancakes and then lazy on the bed, today is really unlucky.

On the second day, Chu Ying got up early, waited for Uncle Qi at the door after breakfast, and explained to him what to do when Uncle Qi arrived, "Actually, there is no need to add eaves. If you are afraid that these earthen bricks will get wet, paint them on the outside." The mud is fine, your bricks are quite strong, it’s fine.”

"I want to make the wall thicker, so the current eaves are not enough, let's add them."

"Okay, then I'll start." Chu Ying helped Uncle Qi take out the tools, and then started.Watching Uncle Qi cleverly use the mortise and tenon structure to lengthen the eaves.

No wonder mortise and tenon joints are not often used in modern furniture, because tenon and tenon joints are all made by hand, and it really can’t be done in a few years, and only furniture with relatively high profits such as mahogany furniture can afford it. manpower.

When the eaves were finished, Chu Ying gave Uncle Qi half a coin, "Do you want to build this wall yourself?" Seeing that Chu Ying didn't hire a mason, Uncle Qi probably wanted to build the wall by himself.

"Well, I'm fine anyway, so I can do it myself, and it shouldn't be too difficult with the wooden walls."

"When building the wall, try to lean a little towards the wooden wall so that it won't fall down, so I'll go first." Chu Ying is not in a hurry to build the wall, she must plant the tree that was punished last time, otherwise When I go out, I feel like I'm being watched.

When I ran to Wang Naiyuan's house, I saw a row of trees at the door. The roots of the trees were covered with a lot of soil, which was still relatively humid. "You are here. The tree has been bought, let's go."

"Miss Ying, wait a minute, Naiyuan, remember to take a detour and go to the field for a walk. Let others see it."

"Okay." Chu Ying felt that what Aunt Wang said was absolutely right, Jiang was still old and spicy.Waiting to take a long detour with Wang Naiyuan for everyone in the village to see, Wang Naiyuan went to the mountain.

"Choose an empty place to plant, don't plant it on the road. I'll dig the hole and fill it with soil, but you have to let it go, so that the mountain god will know your sincerity." Although Chu Ying knew it was a bit superstitious, But still nodded, sometimes it is better to have some beliefs, at least respect and reverence for nature, and not blindly ask for it.

"Are these planted every year? You can't plant that many." There are not many villagers in the village, and there are already dense forests here.

"Those rich businessmen and officials cut down a large number of trees before, so they planted most of these trees. After all, they made the villagers suffer." This is also reasonable. Chu Ying put the saplings in the hole and moved the soil with her feet. Come in and step on it.

When it was done, Chu Ying carried some firewood and went back, "Brother Wang, do you still go to school?"

"I went to school for a while when I was a child, but I didn't go there after that, what's the matter?" Wang Naiyuan put the hoe on his shoulder and brushed the dust off his legs.

"It's nothing." In this day and age, a woman's lack of talent is virtue, and Chu Ying didn't intend to tell Wang Naiyuan that she wanted to learn to write.

After returning home, Chu Ying dug a pond with a width of 2 steps and a length of 3 steps in the yard, stepped on the pond firmly, and then took out the fragments of pottery pots that were really unusable before, and hammered them into the soil piece by piece with a stone axe. The surface is relatively smooth and free of soil, and then water is poured in to peel off the bark of the firewood, and the firewood is chopped into pieces and placed in the pool.

Chu Ying shoveled some plant ash into it, and retting the wood in the pond. Some of the straw paper from before was used up and there was not much left, so it was time to make some more.And Chu Ying wondered if she could make thick paper for writing, and pine soot could be used as ink, she didn't know how to do it, but it was good to explore slowly.

After everything was finished, Chu Ying started to stir the adhesive, used it to build walls, mixed the soil with the burnt porridge, and added some plant ash. She couldn't bear to look at it, and she didn't know how to do it. Keep the ratio of plant ash to soil at 3:1.First and some try.

(End of this chapter)