After the meal, more than a hundred people of all ages, including men, women, and children from the Song family went out together to the fertile land allocated to them by the government, and began to allocate homesteads and fields to each household.
After everyone unanimously agreed, the area closest to the mountain was designated as the village's homestead. The approximate location of each house was determined by drawing lots, and then the size of the homestead area was measured based on the population.
It is up to each family to decide how big the house should be, and the extra land belongs to the family. If you feel that the land allocated to you is not enough, you can exchange it with another family.
In the end, it took a whole morning just to allocate the homestead.
Song Xixi, who had also been busy all morning, always felt that she had forgotten something, but could not remember what it was, so she simply stopped thinking about it and concentrated on measuring the dimensions of each family's homestead with her hoe on her shoulder.
This hoe is neither too long nor too short, just about five feet, so it's quite convenient to use as a ruler.
Song Xixi didn't know that Lu Zezhi stood there with food and waited all afternoon beside the big stone where he tested the poison yesterday.
It wasn't until Lu Dagen came up the mountain, worried, that he turned back and went down the mountain step by step, with disappointment written all over his handsome face.
In the afternoon, each family's fields were also divided.
There are a total of fourteen people in the Song family. According to the standard of one acre and half an acre of land per person, the Song family is allocated a total of 14 acres of fields and seven acres of dry land.
Of course, both fields and fields are now wilderness overgrown with weeds, and it takes time and effort to clear the wasteland and cultivate the land.
It will take at least three to five years to cultivate the fields to maturity so that future harvests will be no worse than normal fields. This is assuming the land is already fertile, otherwise it will take even longer.
"Fourteen acres of land, seven acres of land, oh, the old woman never dreamed that there would be so many fields!" Looking at the large fields that belong to her family, Zhang Xiaomei smiled from ear to ear.
In the original Songjia'ao, the Song family also had more than ten acres of dry land, but the land there was so barren that the annual income from the land could barely feed a family of fourteen.
It’s not that we don’t want to cultivate more land. Firstly, the land is scarce and the price is too high to afford it. Secondly, we have limited manpower and don’t have the livestock power to farm.
Nowadays, the third generation of the Song family can work as a small labor force. No matter how hard the adults work, cultivating the twenty-one acres of land will not be too strenuous.
"When we have free time another day, we will build the field ridges, divide them piece by piece, and dig them over before the grass grows in autumn and winter. We will not be afraid of grass growing when spring comes next year." Song Wufu's face was also filled with joy, and he clasped his hands behind his back.
Went back and forth several times.
"The roots of this grass are deep. I'm afraid it won't work if I dig through it." Song Jin picked up a piece of grass and revealed the dense root system in the ground: "We have to build a house and plow the ground. We are very busy this year!"
Song Cai suggested: "Let's plow the fields first. The fourteen acres of land are enough for us to take care of until next year. These seven acres of land can slow down the work."
Before anyone else could speak, Song Xixi deliberately lowered her voice and said: "The ancestors said that we have a field and will send a cow over in a while."
This news was like pie falling from the sky, and everyone was shocked: Niu? Is that what they thought?
It was Song Cai who reacted the fastest and asked eagerly: "Good boy, did our ancestors really say that he would give us a cow?"
Song Xixi nodded: "When did our ancestors deceive you?"
Song Wufu was so excited that he didn't know what to do: "Cow, cow, I didn't expect our family would have a cow! Our ancestors really... really thought about us unworthy descendants..."
When it came to the emotional part, the old man shed two lines of tears.
Others were also moved to tears. If there were not other villagers around, they would have knelt down to thank their ancestors.
Song Xixi didn't expect that just a cow would cause everyone to react so fiercely. She had no choice but to divert their attention: "Cows are not cheap. When people ask, you have to find a good excuse to fool them."
Song Wufu quickly wiped his eyes, nodded and said: "We have to find an excuse. In our hometown, a calf costs five taels of silver, and a large cow that can plow the land costs twelve taels. We can afford to buy a cow all of a sudden. Who can
Everyone will be suspicious."
Song Cai came up with an idea and said: "This is easy to handle. Didn't Guobao set up a trap in the mountains? Then he said he would catch the big guy in exchange for it. Guobao has a lot of strength, no one will doubt that she can't beat the wild boar."
This statement was immediately recognized by everyone, and Song Xixi was asked to go out for a while, so that when the villagers think about it, they won't feel it is out of the ordinary.
In the evening, Song Xixi went up the mountain with everyone. When she passed a familiar fork in the road, she suddenly remembered what Lu Zezhi said before leaving yesterday:
Tomorrow at this time I will go up the mountain to collect firewood and wait for Sister Sangou here.
Song Xixi didn't respond at that time, but when she thought that this person might still be waiting for her by the big rock, she couldn't pretend that she didn't know.
Seeing her standing still, Song Qingqing behind her wondered: "Little sister, why don't you leave?"
Song Xixi came back to her senses, covered her eyes and said, "My legs are cramped."
After hearing this, Song Qingqing asked with concern: "Does it hurt? I'll carry you for a while."
Song Xixi shook her head: "I'll just stand there for a while. You can go up first."
After Song Qingqing left with the rest of the village, Song Xixi hesitated for a while, then walked towards the small fork in the road, and soon came to the big stone where the poison was tested yesterday.
It's just that it's empty here, not even a ghost.
Song Xixi breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't know whether the young man didn't come, or whether he came and went back without seeing anyone.
She didn't stay long, looked at the big stone and left, and hasn't been here since.
In the next two days, Song Xixi stayed in the cave to recuperate. Zhang Xiaomei's mother-in-law and her daughter-in-law took all the work of collecting firewood and digging wild vegetables, and the villagers would not accuse her of being lazy and slippery.
The principals of each family also successfully met the mayor of Hongfeng Town, and settled the matter of land deeds and borrowing money from the government. They only waited ten days to get back the government-sealed land deeds and the borrowed money from the mayor.
of silver.
When Song Xixi's strength finally recovered, she took her hoe and headed into the forest without telling the rest of the Song family.
001 said expectantly: [Host, will there be a lot of prey in the trap? 】
Song Xixi laughed: "So many? Do you think the prey is Chinese cabbage!"
It is very possible that a wolf pup fell into the pit that day. There were wolves lingering nearby, and those herbivores would not go there at all.
Now three days have passed. Even if the wolf pups are rescued, the wolves have already left, and it is unlikely that any small animals will dare to show their heads in a short time.
[Host, you still have to have dreams, what if you are chosen by this system?] 001 is very confident, but really wants to see the scene of prey piled up in the trap.
"Then you'd better go to sleep first. It's easier to daydream." Song Xixi joked and took the lead to walk towards the small trap in the forest.