The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

   Chapter 82 82 wasteland, new house

   Zhou Jia came back the next day with ready-made farm tools and cattle bought for Li Mei's family, and hired a dozen long-term workers to help open up the wasteland.

  The long worker plowed the ground and picked out the stones and dead tree stumps in the wasteland, and then raked the ground with a rake, picked out the small stones hidden in the soil, and plowed deeply.

Li Yu and Zhou Jia led Li Qing, Jixiang and Ruyi to find a bush to dig up the dead grass on the ground, dig up the mulch under the dead grass and scatter it on the back of the plough. The ground is about to open. Li Yu led people to screen out the wheat, leaving full-grained wheat seeds, which were exposed to the sun several times to prepare for planting.

   Twenty people have been busy for more than ten days before they opened up the 40 acres of Li Yu's family and the 60 acres of Zhou Jia's family, and sowed the seeds of winter wheat.

  Li Mei invited the ten long-term workers to help out the 80 acres of land allocated to the family after a few days of famine, and planted them with wheat seeds.

The wheat seeds were sown, and Li Yu brought auspiciousness to the corner of the field. Every few acres of land, they dug a four-foot-wide and six-foot-deep compost pond. A total of more than a dozen compost ponds were dug, and then they were collected from the forest. Dig up the mulch and dead grass, and fill up the compost tank.

  The people in the village followed Li Yuxue to the forest to find mulch and dig it back. Following Li Yu's example, they spread the mulch on the ground to dig a compost pool for composting.

  After the wasteland was opened, Zhou Jia went to take care of the shop with Lucky Fortune.

Xu Chun and Carpenter Chen came to the shack to find Li Yu, Xu Chun said to Li Yu, "Miss Li, the house has been basically completed, and there is one more thing in Tongzhou, which is much colder than that in Qingzhou, and we have one or two every year. It snows heavily, I think it's better for you to set up a few kang beds in the lower house."

   Li Yu felt right after hearing it, "Then let's make the bed! The craftsman who makes the stove is better, and the color on the stove should be cooler."

   "Okay Miss Li, I will tell the master." Xu Chun replied with a smile, Li Yu gave Xu Chun the blueprint of the stove, and Xu Chun took the blueprint and left.

  Lin Carpenter also came to ask Li Yu, "Miss Li, the last time the carpenter's work is finished after brushing with tung oil and varnishing it, do you need to do anything else?"

  Li Yu felt that Carpenter Lin's craftsmanship was not bad, so he asked him with a smile, "Master Lin, I still want to make a few pieces of furniture I'll draw for you, can you see if you can do it?"

   "Miss Li, you can draw it and show it, let me see what it looks like." Carpenter Lin said happily when he saw that he still had work to do and could see the new look.

Li Yu nodded and took out the booklet with a charcoal pen, and drew a set of mahogany sofas, coffee tables, wardrobes, cupboards, and several other relatively simple furniture styles. Carpenter Lin's eyes lit up when he saw Li Yu's drawings. "Miss Li, this is how Mr. Zhou taught you to paint! It's as if the things you draw are standing in front of your eyes."

   Li Yu smiled, "Mr. Zhou said this is called an elevation, I just drew it for you to see, and you need to figure out the specific size yourself."

  Lin Carpenter looked at the furniture patterns Li Yu had drawn, and thought to himself: If I had such exquisite furniture, if I had these patterns, the business in the shop would definitely be booming.

"Miss Li, I have a wooden shop in Tongzhou City. The business has always been tepid. After I finish the furniture for you, can I use your drawings to make furniture and sell it? I'll give you a share." The forest carpenter discussed with Li Yu.

   Li Yu smiled and said: "Master Lin, please help me to make the furniture and place it to see the effect, and then we will talk about cooperation."

After hearing this, the carpenter was a little disappointed, but he still smiled and nodded: "Okay, you can rest assured that I will definitely make these furniture, and I will discuss the cooperation with you later. I still have some rosewood and camphor wood in my house. Camphor wood for wardrobes and cupboards can prevent insects, and the rest are made of rosewood, do you think it will work?"

  Li Yu nodded, "I know camphor wood to prevent insects, but I'm a layman and you're a master, so just do as you say!"

   "Then I'll go to work." Carpenter Lin was very happy to see that Li Yu trusted him. He took the blueprint and left with a smile. Li Yu packed up and went to the new house.

Zhou's house is the furthest house. It is more than ten feet away from Li Yu's house. Next to Li Yu is Li Mei's house. Li Mei used to be Xiao'an's house. There are more than twenty families built in a row, and each house is more than ten feet apart. distance.

   In front of the house there is a dirt road that can accommodate two scooters at the same time, and there is a vegetable field with the size of two acres on the side of the road. Li Yu thinks it a bit like the pattern of new rural areas in some places in modern times.

Li Yu walked under the courtyard wall. The courtyard walls were all built with stones and were more than six feet high. The double-door courtyard door was made of high-quality rosewood. The rosewood color was dark red, and the wood grain was somewhat similar to the shape of a feather. Looking gorgeous and luxurious.

   Li Yu said to himself: At that time, Zhou Jia said that it was not bad for this amount of money, and asked the craftsmen to use rosewood for all the doors and windows. The grade is really different. No wonder modern rosewood is so expensive.

Li Yu pushed the door open and entered the yard. He saw that the stone slabs in the courtyard were smooth and clean, the water well was drilled in the corner of the courtyard wall on the left, and the flower beds left around the courtyard wall were also separated by stone strips. Flower manure has been piled up in the flowerbed.

Standing in the yard, Li Yu saw the hanging part of the wooden building. It happened to be the eaves corridor on the ground floor. The eaves corridor was supported by eight columns. Some cloud patterns and auspicious patterns are carved.

The door of the main room is a little narrower than the courtyard door. Li Yu pushed open the door of the main room and walked into the room. The room is about 30 square meters. Used to paste window screens.

Li Yu was downstairs and saw that there was a carpenter painting tung oil upstairs. He turned and walked out of the courtyard. Ruyi and Li Qing were carrying some chrysanthemums, honeysuckle, gardenias, roses, jasmine, and orchids. They happened to walk to the door of the courtyard. When Li Qing saw Li Yu, he happily pointed at the flowers in the back basket, "Sister, look, Brother Ruyi and I went to look for it in the forest behind. We found so many after a long time of searching."

   "It's already a lot," Li Yu smiled and helped Li Qing put down the basket, "Are you two good at planting?"

   Ruyi scratched his head, "Uncle Zhou will take care of this, he will be here right away."

   "Okay, then help Uncle Zhou to plant them."

  Li Qing nodded sensible, "Sister, it's getting harder and harder to find mulch now. I'll dig some more fertilizer when I'm free."

Li Yu said with a smile: "You don't have to look everywhere, just pour the animal dung and plant ashes into the composting pond, and then cut some grass and leaves and pour them into the composting pond and put some grass on top, and it will be composted after a while. "

  Li Qing nodded and praised, "It's still better for you, I know you're busy with your work!"

  Li Yu came out of the house and looked at the fields opened in front of him, and decided to take a good look around the mountain to see how much land was left.

Li Yu walked down the stream, and after walking for an hour or two, he saw more than a dozen ponds of different sizes. The ponds were covered with rushes. The leaves of the rushes had begun to wither and yellow, and the wormwood on the sticks had also fallen off. , the sticks become bare.

Li Yu looked at these cattails happily. This is a good thing. Puhuang can be used as medicine and can also smoke mosquitoes. The cattails are delicious and nutritious. The cattails can weave fans, straw mats, and hats. The old people in the village are all good at weaving. Opening a workshop would also allow them to earn some pocket money, buy some lotus root seeds to mix in the pond, and raise some fish. Li Yu felt that the money would be considerable.

   Li Yu turned around and went back, and decided to go to the town and let Zhou Jia go to Tongzhou City to buy all these ponds.

   (end of this chapter)