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

The East Field and the West Field have a total of 800 mu. If 100 people each have 20 mu, the total amount is 2,000 mu. Therefore, the clerk also distributed a piece of fertile land one mile away from the east of Dongda Road to their village. The total amount is just over 2,000 mu, so they don't care much about the extra part.

Patriarch Li was very considerate of Yun Xi's family, an orphan and a widow, and asked her to choose a piece of land in Xitian. Five people were allowed to choose one hundred acres. Yun Xi was happy on the surface, but she was actually swearing, "One hundred acres! Are you treating people like cattle?"

Helpless Yun Xi chose a large rectangular piece of land at the foot of the mountain from south to north behind her house, which was exactly one hundred acres.

Then there are the mountains. Although the imperial court does not prohibit people from chopping wood and picking fruit in the mountains, it still allocates a piece of land to everyone. The things in this piece belong to each family, and they can plant some fruit trees and so on. Others cannot come to chop wood at will. Of course, those unowned mountains can be visited by anyone.

By the way, we need to plant some mulberry trees on the mountain. Cloth will be collected as part of the tax. If we don’t weave the cloth ourselves, we have to pay, but it’s not cost-effective to pay.

This time, Yun Xi chose the land with bamboo forests and jujube trees. Other families also chose the land in the same way, trying to choose a place with many fruit trees.

After the clerk measured the fields, wrote the land deeds, land deeds and house deeds and distributed them to each family, he collected the old deeds and left.

At this point, the Li family was considered to be under the management and protection of the new court. Three years later, the capital would send people to collect grain taxes.

Lishugou Village was renamed Lijia Village, and clan leader Li served as the village chief.

Li Chunsheng was very excited, "Mom, our family has a hundred acres of land."

Yun Xi curled her lips and said, "Let's feed the cows. Without cows, we can't finish the crops."

"okay!"

After picking up almost all the autumn crops on the mountain, Chief Li led his men to start building kangs. Two kangs were built in each house, and those with more kangs had to hire others to build them at their own expense. With so many people, the kangs were completed in five days. Yun Xi wanted to build one for Li Meizi's house as well, so she paid ten kilograms of rice and the village chief built her an extra one.

Although the village chief thinks she is a spendthrift.

During these five days, Yun Xi and her family collected a lot of firewood and piled them at the door. When they had time, they would slowly chop it into small pieces and carry it back to the house. Of course, this much firewood would not be enough for a year, so they had to continue collecting firewood.

The ten people in charge of cutting down trees cut down a lot of trees, and together with the trees cut down when building the house before, they were enough to make furniture.

Li Ba Niu and ten people can make furniture and beds. They can make two beds and a set of tables, chairs and stools for each family. Yun Xi asked if they could make one more bed?

Carpenter Li Ba Niu said, "A bed costs ten kilograms of rice."

"OK, no problem."

Yun Xi brought rice and asked him to help cook. Li Baniu directly asked his companions to move the three newly made beds to Yun Xi's house.

Well, that's good too, I have a bed to sleep in at night.

Now that the furniture issue was settled, I started chopping wood wholeheartedly. This time I was chopping wood for the villagers. After chopping wood, I would put it together and divide it equally.

While chopping wood, Li Chunsheng dug a few small traps in his own forest hoping to catch prey. Yun Xi didn't hold out hope, as the natural disaster had just passed and people hadn't recovered yet, let alone animals. However, there was no need to say it out loud, as it would undermine the child's self-confidence.

System: "You are only six years older than him, but you are his elder."

"Who says it's not true? I'm in my prime, and I'm going to be a grandmother in a few years. Tsk tsk, nowadays, anyone who marries a wife who's decades younger than me will make headlines."

Yun Xi was chopping wood with a big axe in her hand. She chopped a dead tree into ten pieces and each piece into two halves. The two younger ones were sorting the wood and piling it up beside her. Although they were young, they already had a thin layer of calluses on their hands.

Is a busy life fulfilling? No! It's exhausting. I don't know what keeps me going, maybe perseverance or a yearning for a better life.

The autumn here seems to be even hotter than the summer, and even wearing the thinnest clothes makes you feel stuffy.

The clouds in the early morning float in the sky, changing color with the appearance of the sun, becoming golden and beautiful at a glance. The brilliant rays of light float in the mountains and forests in the north, and being in it is like being in the kingdom of elves.

Beads of sweat flowed down Yun Xi's forehead. At this moment, she was struggling with a dead tree in front of her. She estimated that there were many wood ear spores on the dead tree. If she took it home and raised it, she would have an endless supply of wood ear mushrooms to eat.

"Mom, there are flowers here."

Yanran and Xia Qing held a handful of yellow flowers in their little hands. Yun Xi took them and looked at them. "They are wild chrysanthemums. You can make tea with them. You picked them and put them in your cloth bag, okay?"

As she spoke, she picked up a flower and pinned it on her daughter's little chiffon. Li Xiaqing clapped her hands and jumped up, "Sister is so beautiful."

"Hehe." Li Yanran reached out and carefully touched the flower on her head, smiling foolishly without saying a word.

"Go ahead and pick all the wild chrysanthemums. I'll take them back and steam and dry them three times to preserve them. I'll keep them for making tea to clear away heat and detoxify." Yun Xi smiled.

"Okay! Let's pick the flowers."

The two little guys ran away skipping and jumping.

When everyone returned home at night, their whole body ached. Li Chunsheng would then boil a few pots of hot water for everyone to wash and soak their feet, even though they would still be busy the next day and would still get dirty.

Starting at seven in the morning and finishing at seven in the evening every day, Yun Xi has developed biceps from chopping wood. What she envies most are the chickens, ducks, geese, cows and pigs at home. Really, she also wants to lie down.

Fortunately, around mid-October, the people from the seaside came back and brought back 5,000 kilograms of refined salt. Each family received 50 kilograms. As for firewood, each family received a large pile, which would last for more than the next year.

From then on, there was no need for collective action except for salt production, and each family lived their own life.

"Mei Zi, why did you bring back a bag of seafood?" Li Chunsheng felt distressed and reached out to take it and put it on his back.

Li Meizi said sweetly, "Just pick it up when you have time. I'd feel bad if I didn't pick up food on the beach."

"Isn't that stupid?" Li Chunsheng said helplessly, "Mom bought a lot of food again, enough for us to eat for more than a year."

"Haha, not tired at all."

Yun Xi shook her head and laughed. These two really looked like a couple. "After we finish harvesting the regenerated rice, we'll stay indoors and start making quilts and clothes to prepare for the winter."

"Great, I finally don't have to go out."

The two little ones are the happiest, but they are too young to hold themselves together.

Yun Xi was also happy and looked at everyone, "Don't rush to get up tomorrow, sleep in. If you keep doing this every day, you'll become a dried-up person."

Li Chunsheng had no objection, "Okay."

After a day's rest, we started harvesting rice. The yield of the regenerated rice was indeed not as much as the first crop. After harvesting, shelling, and drying the rice, we only got more than 800 kilograms of rice after all the hard work.

But the villagers were very grateful to Yun Xi for telling them this method. Now 800 kilograms of rice is worth several strings of cash.

After harvesting the grain, Yun Xi led everyone to clean the three houses inside and out. Then the family boiled water and used soap nuts to bathe and wash their hair cleanly.

It feels really refreshing.

It would be better if he wasn't so thin, he would look like an African refugee.