You are my golden finger

Before the whole family arrived at the martial arts training ground, Lin Xijin carried the tiger cub to the training ground, hid the tiger cub in the flowerbed nearby, and told it not to come out until everyone arrived. The tiger cub seemed to understand and made two sounds similar to the meow of a kitten.

Soon, everyone came to the martial arts training ground. Except for Old Madam Shangguan and Aunt Qi who were practicing the Eight Section Brocade that Lin Xijin taught them, everyone else was running around the training ground.

Before I finished two laps, I heard Jin'an's voice.

"Sister, sister, mimi! Mimi!"

When Lin Xijin heard the cry, she knew that Xiao Jinan must have found the tiger cub. She looked in the direction of the sound and saw Xiao Jinan staggering towards everyone, holding the tiger cub.

When Xihui and the other boys heard Jin'an's call, they no longer had the heart to run and rushed to Jin'an.

"Ah! What is this? Is it a cat?"

"A bit like!"

"I don't think so!"

Everyone was talking about it, and everyone wanted to take the tiger cub from Jin'an.

But Jin'an was very stubborn and refused to let go. He still staggered towards Lin Xijin holding the tiger cub.

Lin Xijin hurriedly took two steps, took the tiger cub from the little guy, and praised: "An An is so good! Where did Mimi pick it up?"

Xiao Jinan pointed at the flower bed and said, "Huahua!" meaning that he picked it up in the flower bed.

"Oh, I found it in the flower garden! An An is awesome! What's its name?"

“Mimi!”

"Oh, our An An calls it Mimi, so let's call it Mimi. But sister, let me tell you, it's not a kitten, it's a little tiger."

"Brain Tiger, Mimi!"

Finally, with An An's final decision, the ferocious tiger cub was given a super cute name "Mimi".

The tiger cubs made the kids who were doing morning exercises distracted and curious. Lin Xijin simply let them go and let them play with An An and the tiger cubs.

After breakfast, Lin Xijin ran to the clan leader's house again and asked him to recruit villagers who were willing to help reclaim the land on the back mountain to help him reclaim the land. The treatment would be the same as last time.

He explained his land reclamation requirements in detail to the patriarch.

Since they only planted medicinal herbs to cover their own space, and at the same time they had to protect the vegetation on the mountain to prevent soil erosion, Lin Xijin planned to only use the method of splitting ridges on the flat land in the valley. In the places where the ridges were opened, the shrubs were cut off, the weeds were removed, and the soil was turned up. In other places, only the large shrubs needed to be cut off. In this way, the villagers could also cut firewood and sell it, earning two incomes.

As for the mountain area near the pond, Lin Xijin planned to ask her family to spare a male servant and find a few strong tribesmen to dig some tree pits and plant some fruit trees next year. After all, it was more remote there, and although the tiger and the wolf leader had expressed their submission, they were still afraid of unpredictable dangers.

Without saying anything, the clan leader took out the gong and started beating it "bang bang bang" at the camphor tree. Soon a crowd of people gathered at the camphor tree. When they heard that Lin Xijin asked everyone to reclaim the wasteland in the valley behind the mountain, the firewood they cut would be theirs and they could sell it, they all hurried home excitedly to get their sickles and hoes.

The clan leader called Xingwen, Xingcheng and Xingwu, brought measuring tapes, hemp ropes and registration books, and the grandfathers and grandsons went back to their old ways to measure the land for everyone.

Lin Xijin arranged the affairs at home, took the male servant who could spare time at home, called a few villagers, and headed to the pond with tools. In order to prevent the villagers from accidentally falling into the trap, they filled the trap.

After explaining the size, depth, and distance between the tree pits, everyone started digging. Lin Xijin looked at it for a while and felt that there was no problem. He reminded everyone to pay attention to safety and went back to the front of the mountain to check the progress.

The wasteland in the valley had some rocks in some places, but the soil was thick and black, which made Lin Xijin very satisfied. He told the villagers to pay attention to safety and just put the excavated rocks aside, without the effort of moving them far away.

Some villagers were excited when they saw Lin Xijin planting medicinal herbs, so they asked if they could plant them too.

Lin Xijin told them that they could follow suit, but the return on investment from medicinal herbs was slower, so she suggested that they grow more food to solve the problem of food and clothing first. Next year, she would ask Master Shangguan to help them find some high-yield food seeds for them to grow, and they could sell the food they couldn't eat to her, and she would buy it all.

When the villagers heard that Lin Xijin was helping them find high-yield grain seeds, they were extremely grateful and kept expressing their gratitude, almost kneeling down and kowtowing.

Naturally, they worked harder, and the reclaimed wasteland fully met the standards and there was no need for any inspection.

After arranging all the tasks, Lin Xijin went home to do his own things. He checked the winery and pharmacy, and asked everyone to be careful.

Although the family's pharmacy was making medicine every day, Lin Xijin stayed in her own independent medicine room most of the time. She told everyone not to disturb her after she entered the medicine room, saying that she was researching medicine. In fact, Lin Xijin just plunged into the space to take care of crops, medicine fields, and make medicine.

During this time, the clan leader mentioned to Lin Xijin that her grandfather Lin Guiqi also went to open up wasteland. The servants who collected firewood in the firewood room also said that Lin Guiqi often brought firewood and left without waiting for it to be weighed.

Lin Xijin didn't care. She just told the two of them to remember the data and settle the money with him when the time came!

Time passed like a white horse, and in the blink of an eye, another ten days had passed. The greenhouse in the farm was built. Lin Xijin sent some vegetable seedlings over, and while no one in the farm was paying attention, she poured a lot of spiritual spring water into the pond.

The clan leader and Uncle Mu Xiong's family also gave them a few buckets of spiritual spring water, but Lin Xijin added some grass juice to it, using the excuse that it was a nutrient solution he mixed himself, and asked them to add two scoops of it when watering the vegetables.

The reclamation of the valley has been completed, the tree pits have been dug, and the firewood has been collected in two large firewood sheds. Some villagers also deliver the firewood to their homes, and there is really no place to pile it. Lin Xijin had to ask everyone to deliver the firewood after half a month.

As the projects were completed one by one, money flowed out of his pockets. From building houses, repairing roads, and establishing a clan school to buying houses and farms, to buying hilltops, and then building greenhouses and purchasing firewood, he had spent nearly 20,000 taels. Although he had the money given by Shangguan Rui and General Wu before, he could still be said to be spending money like water.