The whole family traveled through ancient times to start a new business

Su Antong and his two companions went back quickly and soon bought potato and sweet potato seeds from the county.

Su Anton distributed the supplies to each family according to their needs.

The Su family planned to plant half of their 20 mu of wasteland with potatoes and the other half with sweet potatoes. The planting methods of sweet potatoes and potatoes are slightly different. Potatoes can be planted directly by cutting into pieces, but sweet potatoes are best planted after raising seedlings.

Su An Dong thought about growing sweet potato seedlings, and of course the sooner the better. Now only the Su family's land has been cultivated, and the land of other families has not been cultivated yet, so they should grow sweet potato seedlings in their own sweet potato fields first.

Su Anton shared his idea with everyone, and they all agreed. There was no reason for them not to be unwilling. The sooner the seedlings were grown, the better.

In this way, each family temporarily put aside the matter of land reclamation and started to grow sweet potato seedlings.

Each family was given a piece of land. This time, they did not work together to grow sweet potato seedlings. Instead, each family worked on their own. Although the Zhao family had a small population, they had cattle. The other families took good care of the Zhao family and took the initiative to help. So the progress was not behind the others.

After the sweet potato seedlings were grown, each family began to cultivate the land.

The men of the Su family went to the fields to help cultivate the land, and the women stayed at home to cut potatoes. This was a relatively easy job, so it was left to the women.

Cut the potatoes for seeding into pieces with a knife. One potato can be cut into two to four seed pieces. The number of seed pieces is determined by the buds on the potatoes. Each piece should have one or two strong buds to ensure the germination and growth of the seed pieces.

Sprinkle the cut potato seed pieces with wood ash and mix them evenly. Make sure the seed pieces are evenly coated with a layer of wood ash, and make sure the cut edges are not wet. The remaining wood ash after mixing the potato seed pieces can be used as fertilizer and applied to the ground.

Wood ash can play a certain disinfecting role, and the potassium, phosphorus, calcium and other minerals in it are also beneficial to the growth of potatoes.

The wood ash was specially saved for cooking these days, and the Su family used it to mix potato seeds, which was enough. But since they had not been here for a long time and had not saved much wood ash, it might not be enough if other families used it.

Su Anton thought that even if it was not enough, it didn’t matter. At worst, he could go to the village to buy some wood ash.

At this time, I realized that a broken home is worth a fortune. Now even wood ash is not enough and I have to spend money to buy it.

The main reason is that I just came to this village and I am unfamiliar with the place. It is difficult to ask people to borrow money, and they may not be willing to lend it. It is better to buy it with money, anyway, it will not cost much.

After the Su family prepared the potato seeds, they began to plant potatoes.

Because of the cows, planting was quick.

Su Yuanyuan and other children also helped to plant potatoes. After all, it was very simple. All they had to do was to evenly place the potatoes in the ground. But they had to pay attention to the fact that the buds should be flushed upward.

After the Su family finished planting potatoes, everyone started helping each family to open up wasteland, and they were working very hard.

After everyone's efforts, the land was finally cultivated and the potatoes were planted.

The other four families were impressed by how quickly the eight families had finished planting their fields. It could be said that the eight families had not wasted any time, and they were very united.

Although the other four families had more livestock than them, they did not work as fast as them. They hired villagers to open up the wasteland, unlike Su Andong and his group, who did all the work themselves.

After planting the land, Su Anton went to the county to find a well digger, selected a location and dug a well at home. Going to the village well to fetch water is not only far but also inconvenient. Having a well at home is always more convenient, and you can also chill some food in the summer.

After the well was dug, Su Anton began to lead each family to make adobe sheds. Sheds are only temporary residences and cannot be lived in forever. Now that the weather is warm, it is okay to live in them, but it will not work when the weather gets colder.

Everyone started busying themselves with making adobe molds and collecting the wood needed to build the adobe house.

Su Yuanyuan looked at the busy people and found Li Chunsheng. She said directly, "Uncle Li, I want to raise rabbits. Can you help me catch a few live rabbits?" Su Yuanyuan would not let Li Chunsheng work in vain, but she did not directly ask for money, fearing that Li Chunsheng would say something to refuse. She thought it was troublesome to be polite back and forth, so she thought she would just pay him when she caught the rabbits.

Li Chunsheng agreed and said, "Okay, I'll catch it for you."

Su Yuanyuan thanked him politely: "Thank you, Uncle Li."

Finally, after Su Zhihao knew about this, he followed Li Chunsheng up the mountain. He wanted to learn something about hunting. Su Zhihao thought that since he was strong, learning these things would give him some advantages. Besides, it was better to have more skills, so learning one would be better.

Finally, Li Chunsheng and Su Zhihao went up the mountain twice and successfully brought back eleven rabbits, three large and eight small, for Su Yuanyuan. Su Yuanyuan started her own rabbit-raising business again.

In the past few days, the women of the Su family have cultivated a vegetable plot and planted the seeds. Other families have also cultivated a vegetable plot on their own homesteads and planted vegetables.

The Su family's place is large, and Su Yuanyuan wants to cultivate more vegetable fields so that she can grow vegetables for the rabbits to eat.

As time goes by, the sweet potato seedlings have grown well, and each family starts to plant them. After planting the sweet potato seedlings, the planting is over, and the rest is daily maintenance.

The potato seedlings have grown out, and the families have started weeding. It must be said that this place is just as Mrs. Su predicted, with good weather and good harvests.

Now that enough adobe bricks and wood have been prepared, each family has started to build adobe houses.

Although the Su family has many people, they do not plan to build so many adobe houses, but only one. In the future, when they have established a firm foothold in the village, they will have to build brick houses. It is not that they do not have the conditions, so why should they keep making do?

The eight families helped each other to build adobe houses, and they all decided to build one for the Su family first. Su Anton accepted the friendship of the families and did not refuse.

The Su family's house has three rooms, two large and one small. The kitchen is located at the entrance, with a stove on each side. The stove is connected to the kangs on the left and right, so that cooking can also heat the kangs.

The two rooms on the left and right were built relatively large, with two heated kangs in the north and south of each room. This made four heated kangs, so men and women could sleep in separate rooms. The walls in the room were all made of heated walls, so it was easy to keep warm in winter.

If you are afraid of getting too hot on the kang when cooking on the stove in the house in summer, you can cook on the stove outside the house. There is a shed outside the house with a stove under it.

After the houses were built and dried, each family moved into the adobe houses. Now that they had a house, even though it was just an adobe house, each family felt much more at ease.