【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

The clan leader paused and said, "I mean that these seeds should be distributed equally to each household, and as for spring plowing, each household will take turns. We should have enough time, and there will be other land after planting.

Now there's no news from the court, and Landlord Zhang's family has died out. We'll make special arrangements. Landlord Zhang's 500 acres of paddy fields will be divided among everyone, five acres per person. After the spring plowing, everyone should quickly clean up the land. Once the grain is harvested, there will be plenty of seeds, and we can plant the entire land next year."

(One mu of land is about 580 square meters, smaller than modern land.)

Yun Xi nodded, the patriarch did a good job, it was very fair.

But the tribe members also had questions. For example, Li Daniu asked, "Chief, isn't it a bit unfair that when we build houses for different families, the sizes of the houses are different, regardless of the size of the family?"

The clan leader stroked his beard and said, "I've already thought of this. After the spring plowing, there's nothing to do. Those who are free can go up the mountain to look for wild vegetables. You who are building houses can continue to build houses. Each house should be built on eight mu of land. There should be five main rooms, two east and west wing rooms, and two rooms each with courtyard walls, leaving a backyard. In total, build forty-five houses, three for each family. This way, you don't have to worry about your descendants having too many houses to divide up in the future.

As for lime, you can go to the mines. The mines are located high up, so I think they might have some in stock. As for blue bricks and tiles, you can also go to the caves that specialize in making them. If you have any, bring them back directly. If there's any left, we'll use them to pave the floors of every house."

Patriarch Li also figured it out. This was a rare opportunity to take advantage, and he had to seize it. Otherwise, he would have to spend money to buy blue bricks, tiles, lime, etc. when building a house in the future.

"Chief, do we need to build a school?"

Yun Xi spoke.

Chief Li pondered for a moment and said, "Even though no one in the village can read, we still need to build a school. Just in case it's needed, we should build it next to the ancestral hall."

The system laughed out loud, "Not a single one can read."

"That's not right. The original body can read, but maybe the clan leader doesn't know." Yun Xi raised an eyebrow.

Next, everyone started to work according to the division of labor assigned by the clan leader. Li Sanniu's family used to have a house, two acres of paddy fields, and one acre of dry land. The harvest was good, and Li Sanniu was good at hunting, so he could eat meat occasionally. Now, if there is no other way out, he will probably live in poverty in the future.

"Chunsheng, do you want to go with them to move bricks?" Li Meizi looked at Yun Xi, hoping her stepmother would persuade her. Yun Xi understood immediately, "Don't go. It's too tiring. You're only fourteen. If you follow me to the fields, the clan members won't have any objections."

Li Chunsheng looked at the clan leader, who nodded and said, "You follow your stepmother to the fields. Your mother is the one who finds the most food for the clan, so no one will have any objections."

Only then did Li Chunsheng go to the fields. After the flood, soil erosion would normally occur, but Lishugou Village was at the foot of the mountain, and a lot of rotten soil and dead leaves washed down from the mountain, replenishing the nutrients in the ground.

Now we need to turn the land over, and then start growing rice and pepper seedlings in March, and plant corn and peanuts. There is a lot of work to do, so let's do it one by one.

Li Yanran and Li Xiaqing were holding hands as they searched for wild vegetables in the fields. The snow had just melted and there were not many wild vegetables. They could only find half a basket a day and cook them in the evening. As for the food they found in the mountains, there was not much left and they could only eat it once every two days.

Yun Xi slowly turned the soil with a hoe. When she saw wild vegetables and weeds, she bent down to pick them up and threw them on the ridge. The two little ones would run over to take away the wild vegetables, while the weeds were left exposed to the sun on the ridge, dying with their roots.

The first one is Li Daniu’s family, followed by Erniu, Sanniu, Siniu... After Shiniu, there are Li Dalu, Erlu, Sanlu, Silu and Wulu.

Among these fifteen families, the one with the highest seniority is Patriarch Li. He is the only one left in his generation. His next generation consists of the fifteen people including Li Daniu. Patriarch Li and Li Wuniu are from the same family, and they only have one son, Li Wuniu. So except for Li Wuniu and Yun Xi's family, the other families are headed by cows and deer.

Each family has different amounts of land, but those with more land have more labor, while those with less land have less labor, which is fair.

Everyone worked step by step for half a month. After the land was turned over, they were ready to plant seedlings. Half of the people planted seedlings, and the other half planted corn and peanuts. The family was not given even one mu of land for corn and peanuts, so they had to plant them all on dry land.

The people building the houses were still hauling bricks, tiles and lime to Lishugou Village. All the remaining bricks and tiles from the brick and tile factory had been brought here. Ten thousand bricks and thirty thousand tiles were simply not enough, so they had to dig in the ruins of An County, and the progress was slow.

There was more lime, and we brought back twenty-eight carts, which was enough.

Yun Xi thought it was a good idea. It was March 18th now, and there would be a big earthquake in 13 days. Even if the house was built, it would collapse. It would be better to wait and build it later.

The Li family members were busy with their work, completely unaware of what the outside world was like, and the outside world had no idea how the people in this corner of the world were living.

After King Jin Guoan ascended the throne, he was busy defending against foreign enemies while also needing to let the country recuperate. Therefore, he provided very generous living conditions for the people in the country. Unfortunately, the Li family members did not know that they were severely affected by the disaster. The court thought that the people here either fled or died, so no officials were sent for the time being. They couldn't let officials govern an empty city, right?

"It seems like there won't be any more disasters in this weather. Should we build a house?" Li Chunsheng lay on the straw mat, shivering from the cold.

Yun Xi's straw mat was behind a tree. Upon hearing this, she said, "The clan leader said he needs to go to An County to pull tiles for another day."

"Oh, I see." Li Meizi sniffed, she felt like she had caught a cold.

How could Yun Xi not notice it, but there was nothing she could do. It was useless to give her medicine now because she would still be cold. It would be better to wait until the house was built before giving her cold medicine. Thinking of this, Yun Xi lifted up one of her quilts and folded it over Li Meizi to cover her. In this way, Li Meizi was covered with four layers of quilts.

Li Meizi was puzzled, "Mom?"

"I'm not cold, just cover yourself up and don't catch a cold. There are no doctors or medicines available right now."

Yun Xi took out the ten-pound cartoon quilt she bought from the system and covered herself with it, then covered the top with the only remaining tattered quilt to pretend. Li Yanran and Li Xiaqing beside her felt the warmth and rubbed against her, so she hugged the two dolls and slept together.

When the sun shone its first rays, Yun Xi woke up and felt a slight shake.

System: "An earthquake is about to come. Hurry up and put away your blankets, then go hide somewhere open."

"Didn't you say April?"

“This is the appetizer.”

Yun Xi didn't care about the appetizer or not. She put the big quilt into the space, picked up the two children, and shouted, "The earth dragon is turning over, get up quickly." By the way, she pushed Li Chunsheng and Li Meizi.

The quiet camp suddenly became chaotic. Everyone instinctively followed Yun Xi and ran to the edge of her own paddy field. There were fields on all sides and it was very empty.

The earthquake happened in an instant and ended in an instant. Everyone sitting in the fields felt that the shaking was over in no time.

Chief Li pointed to the pear tree in the distance and asked, "Are our pear trees buried?"

The pear orchard stretches for two miles in a long ditch and is an important source of income for everyone.

"Go dig!"

Everyone ran over like crazy and dug out the soil under the pear tree, which was as high as a person's height. Yun Xi shook her head. Chief Li saw it and looked at her, "Sanniu's wife, what's wrong with you?"

Yun Xi explained, "Uh, I read in my dad's book that earthquakes usually happen several times. Why don't we wait until the earthquake is completely over before cleaning up?"

"What? Several times. Will God let me live?"

Li Meizi turned her head and saw her aunt sitting on the ground howling.

"That's enough! What's the use of crying? Recently, everyone has to put their things in their own fields to prevent the trees on the mountain from falling and hitting us." Chief Li said with disgust.

There was no other way, so the Li family members had to live on the edge of the fields, not daring to work or build houses. Until the second day of April, the biggest earthquake came, shaking everyone so much that they could not sit still. There was also a loud rumbling sound coming from the mountains in the north. I don’t know if the mountain had collapsed, but fortunately there were no casualties.

After waiting for five days after the earthquake, there was no more earthquake, so Yun Xi told everyone that it was over.

Chief Li breathed a sigh of relief and asked the tribesmen to discuss not building houses at the foot of the mountain. They were really afraid of another earthquake.