After fleeing famine, I have thousands of acres of fertile land

The vegetables on the riverbank are edible, and the cucumbers are tender and juicy. Ye Qing’s favorite thing is to pick a tender cucumber every morning, wash it in the river, and eat it raw. It is crispy and sweet.

"Qingya, pick some beans and send them to your aunt's house." Zhou thought that the Sun family didn't grow beans, and if they grew too many beans at home, they wouldn't be able to eat them all.

"Mom, if we don't pick the beans now, they will get old. Let's make them into pickles."

"You can send it there first, we'll pickle it in the evening." Zhou urged Ye Qing to go out quickly, as her sister-in-law and her family would be going to open up wasteland soon, and if she didn't go now, there would be no one at home.

"Auntie has brought you some beans. All the beans at home are edible. You can try some."

"Qingya is here. Last night your uncle was still saying that he wanted to eat beans, so you brought them today. The tomatoes at home are ripe, so you can take some back as well."

The Sun family's vegetable garden is also on the riverbank, so they can pick vegetables right outside. The Ye family didn't grow tomatoes, and Ye Qing hadn't eaten fruit for a long time. Although tomatoes are not fruits, they are sweet and delicious.

Ye Qing picked a few, and then saw the leeks on the ground and cut some, preparing to take them back and stir-fry them.

Ye Qing sent the tomatoes back and took some beans to his grandfather's house. The Zhou family rarely farmed in the mountains, and they only planted some easy-to-grow vegetables in their vegetable garden.

"Grandma, you're alone at home. My mother asked me to bring you some beans."

"Qingya, come in quickly. Your uncle and his friends have gone hunting in the mountains. They have been clearing the land recently and haven't hunted for a long time."

"Then I'm in for a treat today. My uncle and grandpa are both amazing."

"Qingya, these beans are growing really well. Your uncle just can't grow them well. If your father hadn't taught him, the land at home would have gone barren."

"Uncle just hasn't planted before. He will learn to plant it this year. It's okay to go hunting occasionally, but it's too dangerous to stay in the mountains all the time."

As he was speaking, he heard footsteps outside. Ye Qing pushed the door open and saw his grandfather coming back with his uncle and cousin.

"Grandpa, you guys are back. Did you catch anything?"

"Qingya is here. Don't leave at noon. Stay here for lunch. Grandpa caught a few rabbits today."

Only then did Ye Qing see clearly the little rabbits in his uncle's hands. They were more than two months old, a little smaller than the ones Ye Qing fed.

Ye Qing looked carefully again and found that there were no wounds on the rabbit's body. It was covered with a condom.

"Grandpa, don't eat this rabbit. When it grows up, you can sell it. It can fetch a lot of money.

Ye Qing counted the numbers carefully for his grandfather, "The rabbits will have baby rabbits in two months. There will be six in a litter, and one litter every two months. By the end of the year, there will be forty or fifty. Each rabbit costs eighty cents, so we can make more than three taels of money."

Grandpa Zhou hasn't changed his mind yet. He didn't farm in the mountains before, and had nothing to feed the rabbits, so he just sold them directly.

Now we have vegetables at home, and we will have food soon after the grain is harvested. Raising rabbits by ourselves is much safer than hunting in the mountains, and we can make a lot of money every year.

"Is Grandpa thinking in the wrong way, or is Qingya right? I'll listen to you and ask your uncle to build a rabbit cage now."

"Boss, go build a rabbit cage. We won't eat rabbits anymore, so just keep them."

Uncle Zhou was still boiling water, preparing to kill the rabbit, and didn't understand how he ended up raising rabbits.

Ye Qing repeated the account with his uncle again and successfully rescued the rabbits.

The uncle packed six eggs for Ye Qing and said, "Qingya, take these wild pheasant eggs home and eat them. We just picked them up today."

The chickens in the village had not grown up yet, so if they wanted to eat chicken, they could only look for pheasant eggs. Ye Qing took the eggs back, thinking about eating dumplings.

"My uncle gave me some eggs. Let's make dumplings with leeks and egg filling."

Zhou was a little reluctant. All the gray flour at home was purchased, and the new grain had not come in yet. It would take a lot of flour to make dumplings.

Seeing that Zhou looked a little strange, Ye Qing pulled Zhou's sleeve and said coquettishly, "Mom, we're just having one meal. Let's make a few and try them. I've almost forgotten what dumplings taste like.

Zhou felt a little sorry for Ye Qing. He had to flee with others at such a young age. He didn't eat well for most of the year and he didn't grow taller.

Thinking about the four children at home, Zhou made up her mind to give some.

Ye Qing went to the river to wash the leeks. Zhou took four eggs, mixed some egg shreds, waited for the leeks to dry, mixed the eggs and chopped leeks together, and added some seasoning. It smelled delicious before she even ate it.

When the dumplings were cooked, Zhou asked her children to deliver some to several families first, and then came back to eat together.

The aroma of wheat and the aroma of leeks and eggs bloom together in your mouth, and the fragrance is so delicious that you want to swallow it.

Several people at home devoured the dumplings. They were so delicious that we will have to wait until after the summer harvest to eat them again.

Time flies, Ye Qing's rabbit is pregnant with a baby rabbit, Ye Qing has been paying attention to the rabbits recently. In the past two days, the big rabbit has started plucking its fur to build a nest.

Ye Qing fed the rabbits separately, put clean grass in the cages, and waited for the little rabbits to come out.

Ye Qing no longer wandered around in the woods, but stayed at home taking care of the rabbit, giving the big rabbit extra meals every day to ensure its nutrition.

No one else was allowed to pass by the rabbit house, for fear that any noise would scare it.

Rabbits lack nutrition or are frightened, and will eat the baby rabbits after giving birth. Ye Qing doesn't want to see such a thing, because a rabbit can be exchanged for 80 coins when it grows up.

Five days later in the afternoon, the rabbit finally started to move. Ye Qing watched carefully from the side, observing the situation of the big rabbit.

After two quarters of an hour, all six baby rabbits came out, and Ye Qing watched from the side, a little excited.

I didn't dare to touch the little rabbit. If I touched the little rabbit, the big rabbit would smell a strange odor and would stop feeding the little rabbit.

Ye Qing went to the vegetable garden to pick some vegetables and fed them to the rabbits. He also replaced the grass in the rabbit cage with clean ones before he felt at ease to do other things.

In the evening, several brothers came back and rushed to see the little rabbit. Ye Qing only allowed them to look at it from a distance.

"Qingya, the little rabbit is so small, its eyes are not even open."

"Brother, it takes about ten days for the rabbit to open its eyes. You can't open them secretly."

"I thought my eyes were covered." Ye Chenming said embarrassedly.

As the days passed, three of the four rabbits, which were female, gave birth to baby rabbits.

Ye Qing now has twenty-two rabbits. When the little rabbits grow up and give birth to more rabbits, he can sell some of them.

The three brothers Ye Dalang looked at Ye Qing with a bit of envy, as the chickens, ducks and geese they raised had not laid eggs yet.

The three of them discussed it secretly for a while, and all agreed that the reason for not laying eggs was lack of nutrition.

After Ye Dalang finished his work in the fields, he would go find some insects to feed the fish. He would also go to the river to catch some snails to feed them as a snack in the evening.

Thanks to Ye Dalang's unremitting efforts, the geese in his family began to build nests and their feathers became shiny.