The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

   Chapter 77 77 Fengming Mountain

   After a quarter of an hour, Shen Wu finally came out of the yamen in anticipation of the villagers.

Shen Wu smiled and said to Zhou Jia: "Mr. Zhou, the general took the young master to inspect the military camp. Before leaving, he explained that you will be arranged in Fengming Town, at the foot of Fengming Mountain, where there is a large wasteland with fertile land and water sources. Convenient, that place has been deserted and no one is farming. The general said, in order to thank Miss Li and those few heroes for helping my son, I will set aside for you, and give each person 200 catties of rations, 20 acres of land, and waste land. You don’t need to pay taxes for five years after opening, and some scribes will go to Fengming Mountain to settle your households and issue land deeds for food.”

   Everyone was pleasantly surprised after hearing this, thinking that they had come to the wrong place, and that they had landed fields thanks to the blessings of Xiaoyu and Mr. Zhou, and they would not have to pay taxes for five years.

   Zhou Jia bowed to the yamen to thank him, "Thank you, General."

  Shen Wu waved at Zhou Jia and the villagers, "Let's go! It's still a day's journey to get there."

   As long as you don’t have to be a military household, the village chiefs feel that they are farming wherever they are.

  Everyone followed Shen Wu towards the outside of the city. After resting for a night in the middle of the road, they went east through Fengming Town. Around the end of the afternoon, Shen Wu took everyone to the front of a mountain surrounded by mountains on three sides.

Shen Wu pointed to the mountain in front of him and said to Zhou Jia: "Mr. Zhou, this is the mountain, you see there are mountains and rivers here, and there is such a big piece of land, if it weren't for the general's words, which round would you get! "

   Zhou Jia stuffed a purse into Shen Wu's hand and thanked him, "Brother Shen, I'm sorry, I'll invite you to gather after we've settled."

  Shen Wu took the purse and folded his hands with a smile, "It's easy to say, it's easy to say, Mr. Zhou, if you have anything, you can go to the garrison yamen to find me."

   "Thank you, Brother Shen." Zhou Jia bowed his hand to Shen Wu, and Shen Wu rode away, leaving the villagers of Xishan Village standing in front of the wasteland excitedly, looking at the green mountains and waters in front of them.

   Zhou Jia looked at everyone stupidly, "Everyone first unload the car, lead the animals to release, and then go to the mountain to cut down some trees and come back to build a temporary shed."

  The village chief wiped away his old tears, "Okay, let's build the shed first."

Li Yu looked around and looked at the Fengming Mountain that Shen Wu said. There is a large wasteland under the mountain, covered with weeds and various small shrubs, and there is a mountain stream about zhang wide. The water is very shallow. Also very clear.

Li Yu thought this place was pretty good, so he turned to ask Zhou Jia and Li Qing, "How do you two feel about this place? I think it's not bad, there are mountains and waters, there is such a wide piece of land, and there are no locusts and it's not like Qingzhou. So dry."

   Zhou Jia laughed, "It looks pretty good, let's settle down first and then make other plans."

The village chief walked to the wasteland with a hoe, picked a few places to dig a few hoes, bent down and grabbed a handful of soil and squeezed it with his hands, smiled and turned to look at everyone, "Yes, the soil is fertile. Loose, General Shen did not fool us."

After two hours, the people who went up the mountain to chop down trees carried logs and bamboos down the mountain. Zhou Jia pointed to the high-lying place at the entrance, "Let's put the shed here first, make it firm, and move in until the house is repaired. ."

Everyone started to act. Some men picked up hoes to dig a pit, some buried wood in the pit, knocked it into the soil with an axe, planed the soil to cover the stake, and then rammed it with a hoe. After the frame was finished , split bamboo woven fence to cover the frame.

  Women cut weeds and vines into straw curtains, covered them on bamboo sheets, and tied them with vines. The two rows of grass huts were covered before dark.

  The animals were led to the grass shed and tied up, divided into the grass shed, and everyone moved their salute into their own grass shed.

   After eating, Aunt He boiled the water, and Li Yu finally took a bath for the first time in more than two months.

   After the women took turns to wash, the men also took turns to wash. Everyone smelled their bodies that were no longer sour, and laughed happily at each other.

  Li Qing ran to Li Yu and looked at Li Yu, "Sister, will we stop fleeing from the famine in the future, and just settle down here?"

   "Yeah! We won't run away, we'll settle down here."

  Thinking about the turbulent life of fleeing from the famine since the beginning, everyone was full of emotion, "Great, I finally settled down."

   Zhou Jia quietly took Li Yu's hand, "Yes, we have settled down."

   Early the next morning, the village chief came to Zhou Jia, "Mr. Zhou, let's choose the place to build the house first. It's early in August and it will get cold later."

   Zhou Jia nodded, "Yes, I'll let Uncle Zhou see where to build the house."

   Zhou Jia found Zhou Bo, "Zhou Bo, look at where everyone is building their houses."

   Zhou Bo looked around and pointed to the mountain not far away, "We can build against that mountain. After the house is repaired, it will sit north and face south, and there is a mountain stream in front of it. It is also convenient for everyone to use water."

  The village chief looked at Zhou Bo and smiled and cupped his hands, "Butler Zhou also looks at Feng Shui!"

   "I have seen some things behind the old man before, and I know a little bit of fur." ​​Zhou Bo said politely.

   "Butler Zhou knows even a little bit of fur is enough for us, so let's choose what Butler Zhou said. I'll draw lots and everyone will decide which one to build in to avoid making a noise."

Li Yu pointed to the weeds and small shrubs that were almost as tall as a person, and said to the village chief: "Village Chief, let's burn these weeds and shrubs first, and then go to the plot to repair the house! In case there are snakes and worms in there. It's troublesome to bite someone,"

  The village chief felt right after hearing this, "Okay, just listen to Xiaoyu, burn the grass first, and then look at the foundation."

   Chen Yaohui took out the fire book and planned to set fire to the grass. Li Yu quickly stopped him, "Uncle Chen, you can't burn it directly like this. If a mountain fire starts, it will be very serious."

  Chen Yaohui looked at Li Yu, "Then how do you burn?"

  Li Yu pointed to the foot of the mountain, "We dig a few fire belts on the back of the mountain, and then set it on fire so that the mountain fire will not be ignited."

   "Okay, let's fix the house as soon as possible." Chen Yaohui took the lead and walked over there.

   All the adults and children went into battle, cutting with knives, axes, and hoes. After an hour, several fireproof belts of one or two meters wide were opened. Everyone took out fire sticks and set fires everywhere, and the fire burst into flames.

  Li Mei looked at the fire and smiled at Li and Qian: "Last time I opened up the wasteland and it was also a firebreak made by Yu'er. After digging, I lit a few fires, and in a while, the grass of dozens of acres of land was burned."

   "This child's brain is easy to use." Li also praised.

After the weeds were burnt, the village chief looked at the large area in front of him, and was satisfied with the open and flat area, "We only have twenty or so households in such a wide area, make it a little wider and keep it farther apart, and you can repair it as you want. "

   Butcher He nodded involuntarily, "I'd better live at the end of the village! To avoid disturbing everyone when slaughtering pigs."

   "It's all in a row, so there's no village head and village tail." The village chief smiled and began to draw lines to divide the foundation. Twenty households were divided into one piece of land, and they were divided in a while.

   (end of this chapter)