Compared to the Yun family's fanfare, the villagers' building of houses was not that exaggerated.

We took a wooden frame from a nearby water channel and covered it with some yellow mud, then it became the shape of bricks and put them together piece by piece.

This loess is thick and dries quickly.

Each person and family can build two or three mud houses, which can be built quickly.

When the Yun family's wooden house was half-baked, the villagers' adobe houses were almost finished.

They hollowed out a section of the river, and the mountains behind it became bald.

I still followed the local people's habits and built a roof with dry palm leaves and wooden boards.

In the eyes of the villagers, these leaves are much better than straw.

They live in the northwest. On windy days, the straw on the eaves can be blown all over the ground. The leaves are very heavy and cannot be blown away easily.

What's more, the leaves can be found anywhere and don't cost much money.

Economical and suitable for them.

The houses are almost built, and farming is also a big problem.

Most people in Nantong Prefecture grow rice. There is no rice in the northwest, so all they eat is chestnuts.

Rice is a precious food in the northwest, and they can't afford it on weekdays.

But there is a more critical thing for growing rice, paddy fields.

There are barren mountains all around here waiting for them to be reclaimed. The barren land has not been reclaimed yet, so where can they find fields?

"How about we plant some sweet potatoes first!" Yun Huachun suggested.

There are sweet potatoes in Dajin, and it is said that they were found in the woods in the south.

Yun Huachun's sweet potatoes are not a rare commodity, except for the fact that the yield per mu is several thousand kilograms.

But I only have so much at home, and there isn’t enough to divide it, so I can’t plant anything else in time with the season.

After hearing what Yun Huachun said, everyone agreed.

It's good to grow if they have land, but they are afraid that if there is no land to grow, they will feel uneasy if they don't grow food.

Although there is work in Nantong City, how can we expect the whole family to rely on men to do the work and buy food?

People in the village began to dig the land one after another, planning to go to the city to buy potato seeds and plant sweet potatoes.

Yuntao looked at her house and then at the busy villagers in the village.

Each house is in the finishing stage, and some people have even moved into new houses.

Some people are busy all day cooking and selling salt. The price of salt at the seaside is very low, and even if you sell it to a dealer who specializes in collecting salt, you won't get much money.

But the best thing is that there is no shortage of salt at home!

The children are so good at going to sea that they can bring back a lot of food every morning with buckets in their hands.

Every household can eat seafood as a meal and enjoy the busy life.

At present, it seems to be relatively stable, but this is not the case.

"Dad, let's plant some sugar cane!" Yuntao said.

Yun Huachun put down the carpentry work in his hands and asked: "It's okay to plant sugar cane, but it's a little late to plant it now. At least you have to wait until the next crop, August or September."

"Making sugar cane and selling brown sugar?" Yun Huachun asked.

The main cash crop in Nantong City is sugar cane.

The brown sugar produced every year is sold throughout the Jin Dynasty. It is said that Nantong was a wasteland a hundred years ago and became rich by making sugar from local sugarcane.

"Sell sugar." Yuntao pursed her lips and said mysteriously.

"White sugar!!"

Compared with white sugar and brown sugar, the market gap is self-evident.

"Daughter, can you make sugar?" Yun Huachun said in surprise.

"I took a history class when I was in college, and I covered it in this class!" Yuntao said with a smile.

When she was in college, she took an elective course called Smart Ancient People.

Sugar is not a product of modern science.

It first appeared in the Ming Dynasty, still using a very simple method.

After the method of making white sugar came out, the Ming Dynasty made a lot of money from white sugar. Businessmen from various countries rushed to buy white sugar with gems, gold and silver.

Coincidentally, there is no sugar in Dajin.

"Okay, I originally wanted to let the villagers grow some sugar cane!"

“It’s more profitable to grow sugarcane than to farm land!” Yun Huachun sighed.

"How much sugar cane does our family grow?" Wan Hongmei interjected.

"I'm thinking, our family is not suitable for growing sugar cane, and we can't grow more sugar cane." Yun Huachun said, suddenly remembering something, and revealed a simple smile.

"Didn't the yamen servant say that we should open up wasteland ourselves?"

"All the land that has been reclaimed can be registered."

"Plant the sweet potatoes first, and we will slowly open up the land!"

"We can either spend money to ask people from the village to open up wasteland for us, or we can do it ourselves. It won't be a loss anyway!" Yun Huachun thought.

This wild wasteland is different from the land bought with money.

What you buy is cultivated good land and you can just plant it directly.

Yun Huachun inquired and found that there were not many people living within seven or eight miles around them.

The nearest village is eight miles away. Even if they start to open up wasteland now, they can't go eight miles away.

Even if they were in a hurry and registered the land with the government officials before the sugar cane yielded, it would all belong to them.

"In the future, we can either invite people from the village to help us plant sugar cane, or invite people from outside to plant it."

"There's really no rush, dad. Let me experiment first." Yuntao thought.

It's one thing to watch it in class, but it's another thing to do it yourself.

Fortunately, the sugar cane in Nantong can be planted twice a year. The sugar cane seeds they bought in September were planted by others in early spring. They still have several months of experimentation time when the sugar cane in the field grows well.

Before it was time to plant sugar cane, the summer typhoon arrived as scheduled.

At first, the wind outside was a bit strong, the sky was overcast, and the waves were a lot bigger.

"This is going to be a typhoon!" Yun Huachun looked at Tiandao.

Recently, he dug a lot of sand from the beach to spread in his yard. He also spent money to buy a lot of slates and pebbles.

Prepare to lay it from the yard door to the house door.

There was a lime seller in Nantong Mansion. Yun Huachun originally wanted to use some cement to pave the floor, but Yun Tao refused because it was too ugly.

It is true that cement is strong, but a wooden house does not fit well with a cement floor.

"Dad, let's take a break and talk to the villagers and ask them to stop too!" Yuntao thought and looked at the doors and windows of her house.

The door is installed, but the windows are not installed, and a lot of wind pours in from the outside.

"I'll go with your mother, don't go out, stay at home!" Yun Huachun warned.

My daughter is small and light, so she might be blown away by the wind.

"The typhoon won't come so soon, I will pay attention to safety!" Yuntao said obediently, thinking about how to bet on the window.

Yun Huachun and Wan Hongmei ran from house to house, telling them that there might be a typhoon in the next few days.

Never let your children go out, and don’t go to the beach!

A wave comes and can sweep people away.

Let these adults be careful and don't worry about going out to work. It's more important to avoid the typhoon.

Everyone nodded after hearing this.

I asked the kids at home not to let them go to the beach to play.

But the next morning, no matter how strong the wind and rain were outside, I still carried the hoe and continued to work in the fields.

The advantage of heavy rain is that the ground is wet, making it easier to dig.

A strong wind blew past them, making walking a lot easier. Even swinging a hoe became easier than usual.
Chapter completed!