Otherworldly Days

Chapter 436 The Snow Melted

The snow melted quietly in one night, just as it came and went quietly.Under the light of the moon, the ice on the surface of the creek broke open, and then was washed away piece by piece by the flowing water washed down from a high place. The creek that had been frozen for the whole winter melted, and the stream gurgled by.

When the door of the house was opened on the second day, people were pleasantly surprised to find that the world had changed quietly outside.

Spring is here, the ice and snow melt, and the fields can be turned up to sow seeds, which means a new beginning of the year, sowing seeds in spring, and harvesting in autumn. For many people, this is what they always do. Food that can satisfy the hunger for a year.

"The snow has melted. After a few days, the master's land can be turned over to grow grain." Liu Guizhong woke up early to notice the changes outside, and turned to his wife who was following him.Mrs. Liu, who was following Fu Lang, nodded and said with a smile on her face, "Yeah, I'm finally looking forward to the coming of spring."

"The master's house doesn't have much land, we can plant it soon if we work hard."

"kindness……"

Last year, the few acres of land were not fully planted with grain, only one piece of land was planted with grain, and the other two were planted with small peppers. The small peppers were delicious when made into sauce, and the owner gave them a jar. I don't know how to make the sauce, but it tastes delicious.After this winter, all the jars of sauce have been eaten, and they can’t ask the master’s house for it. They can only wait for the peppers to be cooked this year and pick them up to make chili sauce. Maybe the master’s house will reward them with a jar, Liu Guizhong is thinking. With that chili sauce.

I just don't know if this land is full of grain this year, I have to ask the owner to find out.

"Father, why don't the master's family buy more land?" the second boy of the Liu family asked his father.In his understanding, the lords in their village used to have a lot of fields, and their lords only had a few acres of land, so why didn't they buy more fields.

The more land they have, the more grain they grow, so the host family doesn't have to buy grain anymore.At that time, if you can't grow so much, you can rent it to others, and you can rent a lot of grain every year.

"The master has his own reasons for doing things, strong boy, don't talk nonsense in front of the master." Liu Guizhong knew that their master was a wise man, which was different from the elders he had met.

"Father, I know, I won't talk nonsense." Liu Qiang nodded in response.

Every day, Liu's family gets up earlier than the main family. They get up early to clean up the yard, clean the stables in the backyard, feed the livestock in the backyard, and when they clean up the yard, the main family The people in the room over there also got up.

Opening the door of the house, Cao Xiangnan paused in stretching his waist, and felt happy when he noticed the changes outside.He just said that he found that the weather outside is very cold today. It turned out that the snow outside here has melted. It is cold when it snows, and it is even colder when the snow melts.

Two dogs, one black and one white, heard the sound of the door opening, ran over one after the other, circled around their master's heels, wagging their two big tails.This winter, the two dogs ate smooth and oily ground. Cao Xiangnan ravaged a handful of dog heads, touched one, and the next dog head squeezed in. Seeing that the two dogs were still fighting for favor, he couldn't help laughing.

Entering the house, he threw a few firewood into the fireplace to make the stove burn more vigorously.

The fire in the stove was lit, and he put the pot with rice on it to make porridge. He thought about breakfast this morning. He planned to bake egg pancakes, and he still had dumplings.

"The master has woken up. I'll bring you the goat's milk."

Outside the door was Liu Guizhong bringing goat's milk, Cao Xiangnan opened the door, took the goat's milk, thanked him, Xiao Bao'er still drank goat's milk every morning, but Lele refused to drink it long ago.

This goat's milk is now squeezed and delivered by the Liu family every morning, and then he boils it hot for Xiao Bao'er to eat.With the Liu family, they don't need to do the work in the yard, which saves him a lot of work.

"Master, I woke up this morning and saw that the snow outside has melted. After a few days, the land will be overturned and we will be able to grow grain. Is it better to grow grain in this land like last year?" Liu Guizhong took advantage of this time By the way, he asked how to plant the land. There is not much land, and he took two boys to plant it, and it can be planted quickly.

"It's all good to plant food." Cao Xiangnan planned to buy all the wasteland on the side of the mountain to grow peppers. This year's peppers can be more varied.I didn't have so much silver in my hands before, but now I have more money and land in my hands. Why don't I just buy all the land here, so that it will be convenient for me to do anything in the future.

With this land deed in hand, unless the dynasty changes, the land will be his.

After receiving the reply from the master, Liu Guizhong left, planning to turn over the land after two days.

It's spring in the blink of an eye, and it's time to start working again.

This person has been living a leisurely life for a long time, and he doesn't want to move anymore, but Cao Xiangnan also knows where can he get food if he doesn't work?There are still several mouths in this family waiting for him to feed.

He didn’t know that he was not a parent before, but now that he has a family with a wife and children, he also understands something called responsibility. He wants to provide a good life for his wife and children. It takes hard work to have food to satisfy our hunger, a place to shelter from the wind and rain in rainy days, and a family to be together happily.

Looking back, Cao Xiangnan told Wanfeng that he wanted to buy the land in the past, Qi Wanfeng nodded and said, "Of course it's good, let's buy it." After thinking for a while, he said again, "Fulang, our family has so little land, why don't we buy a few more acres of land?"

The fields in their family are still the few acres of land they got when they separated. Now that there are more and more people in the family, the food grown in those few acres of fields is not enough. How can there be any reason to dislike too much food?It is better to buy a few more acres of land to plant, and also have more grain, so as not to spend money to buy it outside, and the silver to buy grain can buy a few more acres of land in a year.

What's more, the family has few fields, and when the children grow up, they don't have any land to distribute to their children. Why don't they just buy a few acres of land now and plan for the future.

"Okay, buy it." The daughter-in-law said that she bought the land, so she bought it naturally, and Cao Xiangnan made a decision to buy the land without hesitation.

Qi Wanfeng knew that Fulang Zhi was not in the field, and they could not plant so much land, so they could hire others to grow it. When the time came, the food would be taken back from home, and it would save money to buy food.Compared with Fu Lang's extravagant life, Qi Wanfeng is more budget-conscious.

Breakfast is ready, and the family sits down to eat breakfast together.

The baked omelette is golden, the skin is a little burnt, and has the aroma of eggs. The children like to eat omelets the most.

Although there are many children in the family, all of them are well-behaved. The older ones almost eat by themselves. An An has grown up a lot in the past year, and she looks decent after becoming an older brother.Even Lele gave him something to eat, and he could eat it by himself, holding the omelette with both hands and eating it deliciously, at least it made people worry about him.

Xiao Bao'er's appetite has not been particularly good since he was a child, so Lele eats so chubby, and Xiao Bao'er has been as thin as a bamboo pole since he was a child.

Every time I eat two bites, I refuse to eat, and I have to be coaxed.

Some brats just cause headaches. They just don’t like to eat. It’s best if you don’t force them to eat. If you force them to eat, they will eat a few more bites.Fortunately, Qi Wanfeng has always been careful in taking care of little Bao'er, and the child has grown up to this size.

"Ah..." Qi Wanfeng tore the omelette to the child's mouth, motioning for little Bao'er to open his mouth to eat.

Little Baoer opened his mouth, ate into his mouth, chewed twice, his round eyes were rolling.

Cao Xiangnan took a look and didn't tease the little guy, lest the little guy refuse to eat and his wife would be anxious with him later.

"Is it fragrant?" Qi Wanfeng asked.

"Xiang." Little Bao'er is just learning to speak, and he will follow your suffix after you say a word.With the child's affirmation, the smile in Qi Wanfeng's eyes became wider, and he said, "Xiang Bao'er should eat more, okay?"

So the little guy didn't respond, and looked at you with a pair of eyes.

Cao Xiangnan let out a muffled laugh, but didn't dare to laugh out loud. His wife gave him a blank look when she heard it, and he ate honestly.

Now that he decided to buy land, after breakfast, Cao Xiangnan went to Lizheng, asked if there were any good fields in Lizheng Village, and talked about how many acres of land he planned to buy.

"Well, you want to buy a few more acres of land. I remembered this earlier, and I forgot to ask you whether you want to buy a few more acres of land." When Li Zheng heard Cao Xiangnan talk about buying land, he was Agree with Cao Xiangnan to buy a few more acres of land.

Li just knew that the fields that Cao Xiangnan planted were still a few acres of land when the family was separated, and this was his testimony at the beginning.Nan boy is not short of money now, so he should buy a few more acres of land.

There is no farmer who does not have a few acres of land in his hands. I am afraid that there is no family in this village that has more fields than the pitiful few acres in the hands of this kid.

There are not many fields in Caojia Village today, some are scattered a few acres, and there is no whole piece of land. There are still a lot of fields adjacent to Chenjia Village outside Caojia Village, and the fields there are all in one piece. , the land is considered fertile.

It’s just that people in the two villages feel that the land is over there, and the land is a little far away. They are afraid that the things they planted will be stolen by people in the neighboring village, and no one wants to buy there, so it has always been vacant.

But if Boy Nan bought it, Li Zheng believed that even the people of Chenjia Village wouldn't dare to do anything bad.

After the two discussed it, Cao Xiangnan decided to take a look with Li Zheng.

Waiting to look over there, the whole field is not bad. The two of them walked along the field to have a look, and the land looked fertile. There was a large piece of land stretching beyond the horizon, possibly tens of acres of land.Lizheng's own people would not cheat him. After seeing Cao Xiangnan, he decided to buy all the land here. At that time, he didn't need to hire outsiders to plant it, just let Wang Dahu pull a group of men from him to plant it.

This piece of land has been planted with food, and it is estimated that there is no problem with so many people's food for a year.

After one winter, this group of men worked diligently, and there was nothing to be lazy about, so all of them stayed.It would be the best to have a field in this place in the future, marry a brother and have two lovely children.

Cao Xiangnan took the paperwork from Lizheng, went to the county government office, invited someone to measure it, and bought it together with the wasteland on the other side of his house.After half a day, the matter of buying the land was completed. After giving the money and taking the title deed, the land was his.