Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

Lin Yinan did not join in the fun in the city. The fish in the fish pond outside the city had been raised for half a year and it was time to catch them.

He helped Yun Shijiu put on a padded jacket and gave her a tiger hat.

The winter in the south is not really that cold, with only a few cold winds blowing every now and then.

If this were in the north or the Central Plains, it would have been snowing heavily by this time.

A hole was dug in the fish pond two days ago, and now there is only a little water left at the bottom of the pond. The men are not afraid of the cold and go down shirtless to catch the fish.

The big fish weigh three or four pounds, and those weighing less than two pounds are placed in another small pond filled with water. They will be put back to be raised after the old pond mud is cleared.

Women and children carried baskets and buckets and picked up clams and snails along the edge of the pond.

The several pieces of vacant land next to the fish pond also need to be dug into ponds. It won’t take much time to dig them out since it’s the slack season for farming now.

Yun Shijiu, who was held in Lin Yinan's arms, saw the child by the pond and babbled excitedly. If Lin Yinan was not so strong, he would have almost been unable to hold her.

"Anan, let me hug you if you're tired." Li Shulan next to him would tease Yun Shijiu from time to time.

Lin Yinan smiled and shook her head, "Mom, I'm not tired. Nineteen is very strong, you can't hold her."

Yun Shijiu might be as strong as her. Last time, when Yun Mu was holding her, she was not paying attention and was slapped in the face by her. The clear slap mark took two days to disappear.

From now on, anyone who wants to hug her must be wary of being slapped by her.

Li Shulan grabbed Yun Nineteen's chubby hand and teased her, "Well, grandma is old and can't hold Little Nineteen anymore!"

Although Yun Shijiu couldn't speak, he responded to her with a loud laugh.

Also outside the city, on the wasteland near the mountains and forests, Lin Shuo was directing a dozen villagers to dig yam.

Their cheers and chatter attracted the villagers who had just bought meat to watch.

The villagers saw that the hole they had dug in the ground was very deep, and they cut a bunch of vines from the edge.

He walked up to him and asked, "Brother Shuo, what are you digging?"

When planting rice, it was Lin Shuo who brought people to teach them, and they were quite familiar with Lin Shuo.

Lin Shuo picked up the yam vines on the ground and said, "We are digging the yams we planted."

"Can the things that grow from this thing be eaten?" This kind of vine is common in the mountains, but they didn't know it was edible.

"It's edible."

"How do we eat it? This stuff is already in the mountains, why do you want to grow it?"

So Lin Shuo began to explain to them the differences between cultivated yams and wild yams.

Wild yams have a long growth cycle without human intervention and grow very thin. However, cultivated yams have sufficient fertilizer and water management, and the growth period is short. The roots and stems grown are thicker and have higher food value.

After saying that, Lin Shuo picked up a piece of yam he had dug out from the ground and showed it to them.

"Here, look, this is yam. Wash it, peel it and cook it directly. You can also make porridge with rice."

The villagers' eyes sparkled when they heard this. "Brother Shuo, give us these vines. We will take them back and plant them."

Lin Shuo grinned and said, "These vines are useless. They won't survive. You have to go to the mountains to dig up their roots and plant them."

The villagers dropped the vines upon hearing this, and Lin Shuo picked them up. "Take the vines and look for them when you go back. Don't dig the wrong way."

"Hey, thank you, Brother Shuo."

Each villager pulled off a piece of vine and returned home happily with beautiful expectations for the future.

The villagers under his jurisdiction were very convinced of Lin Shuo's words.

They could see with their own eyes that under his guidance, in just half a year they had harvested food and had regained their human form.

All the affordable meat was sold out, and it received a good response the first time.

Then Lin Yinan asked Lin Qingxiang to lead people to continue slaughtering pigs. The pigs slaughtered now were to be distributed as New Year benefits to everyone.

She has asked Lin Yiheng and Pan Qingfeng to distribute the meat to everyone based on their performance this year.

Each family can basically get five kilograms of meat and one hundred kilograms of rice, in addition to a silver reward ranging from two to ten taels.

After discussing with everyone, we decided to give everyone a formal holiday after the New Year's Eve.

The canteen will no longer provide meals during the holidays and will not reopen until after the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

Of course, the canteen still has to provide meals to the soldiers and secret guards on duty.

"Anan, aren't we going to kill the remaining pigs in the pigsty?" Lin Qingxiang pointed at the remaining pigs and asked Lin Yinan.

Lin Yinan said, "These are to be sent to the soldiers stationed in Xihe and the salt fields."

"When will it be delivered?"

Lin Yinan calculated the time it would take to get there and decided to send it to them as soon as possible. "We'll leave in the next two days."

Lin Qingxiang, "Then let me go and send it off."

"No, let Liang Wen take the team there. He is familiar with the area and will need to transport some more vegetables."

The two of them then discussed in detail the issue of house construction in the city.

Finally, Liang Wen and Yun Ming led a team of thirty people to deliver meat and food to Yun Ye and others in Xihe.

Before leaving, outside the city gate.

Yunmu warned Yun Ming earnestly, "When you get to Xihe, listen to your second brother and don't cause trouble for him."

"I know, Mom. I'm not a child anymore." Yun Ming was a little helpless.

It seems like he is the most ignorant person in this family. He has grown up!

Lu Yashuang held her son in her arms and handed him the bundle in her hand, "Fourth brother, inside are the clothes I made for your second brother, take them to him."

"Okay, second sister-in-law."

More than a dozen fully loaded mule carts drove out of the city gate. Yun Ming jumped onto the horse swiftly, waved to the people and left.

Xihe County

Yunye, with a full beard and rough, dark skin, sat in the conference room studying the map.

Near the sea of ​​Xihe, exposed to the wind and sun every day, the handsome man of the past has long disappeared.

Just then, a secret guard came in hurriedly to report.

"Second Master, we found a large Japanese pirate ship on the sea. The ship is moving very fast and it seems that there are quite a few people on board."

Yunye's eyes lit up, another group of Japanese pirates came to deliver a ship.

"Where are they now?"

The secret guard lowered his eyes, "The other party was very alert. When they were approaching the coast, they found something wrong and turned around to drive away from the shore."

Upon hearing this, Yunye threw away the smile in his hand and said to the secret guards, "Quick! Let the brothers board the ship and chase them!"

Yunye and his men drove the modified ship and quickly chased after the Japanese pirate ship.

They had a total of four ships, three at the salt field and one left in Xihe.

The Japanese pirates' ship was much better than theirs. Yunye picked up the telescope and looked. They had already sailed away from the coastline and were getting farther and farther away. It seemed that they were about to be lost.

"Second Master, we can't catch up!"

This cunning Japanese! Yunye was so angry that his teeth itched.

If you can't get it, destroy it.

Yunye gritted his teeth and decided to kill.

"Ready explosives, fire!"

With a loud "bang", they fired a long-range attack cannon designed and installed by Lin Yinan.

The explosives hit the Japanese pirate ship directly, and thick smoke immediately rose up, mixed with red flames. The whole ship was instantly engulfed in flames, and huge tongues of fire illuminated the sky red.

Screams and incomprehensible curses were heard from the burning ship. A moving fireball, unable to endure the high temperature, chose to jump off the ship into the sea.

After the first one, there was the second one.

The people on the broken boat jumped into the sea one after another like dumplings on a boat.

Yunye had a mocking smile on his face, "Archers, get ready!"