Husband and wife are hot on the kang

After the second day of the second lunar month, everyone finished eating the pork head meat, and there was still no share for Yu's family, but the whole New Year was over.

The weather is also getting warmer a little bit, at least it won't snow every now and then.

"It's time to prepare things." Yu Liangji looked at the sunshine outside and silently calculated the time.

On the eighth day of February, Yu Liangji changed into a gray gown and went to the old village head's house.

Once the Hundred Days of Filial Piety is over, there are not so many taboos. In addition, even the first month has passed, Yu Liangji can finally go out for a walk, but Yu Baobao still can't, he is a son, Yu Liangji is just a younger brother, Yu Baobao wants to Keep filial piety for three years, and keep filial piety for one year in Liangji.

Now that half a year has passed, Yu Liangji can go out.

"I want to buy a piece of land, the one in front of my house, and lay a foundation." As soon as Yu Liangji arrived at the old village head's house, he directly talked about buying the land.

The old village head thought that he was going to build a house, maybe to expand it. There was a piece of saline-alkali land in front of Yu's house, and there was no output, but it was enough for a house: "Okay, you want all of it?"

"I want them all." The land was neither too big nor too small, just right.

"Okay, after I finish the contract, I will go to the county with me to complete the formalities." The land is not big, but it still needs to be reported to the county.

"Then trouble the old village chief." Yu Liangji agreed so simply, not only was he particularly satisfied with the hard work of his predecessors in the early stage.

It's not easy for every pioneer!

"By the way, your family's land... how do you want to distribute it? Do you keep everything in your own name, or?" Everyone is concerned about the tax-free quota under Liangji's name.

"Leave them all, I want to open up some wasteland, and then I can collect enough tax-free area." Land reclamation is still encouraged here, but damage to vegetation and forests is not allowed.

"It's okay, don't panic if you have land and food. If you want to open up wasteland, there are only three qualified places. One is the one at the foot of the mountain. It used to be a saline-alkali land, but it is no longer there. The other is the one on the edge of the river, which is close to the river. Irrigation is convenient. If you are right, it is good to grow rice. That one can be sold at a high price. The last piece is a bit far away. The land along the small river ditch on the south side is very fertile. It used to be the river bed. It’s exposed.” The old village head thought for a while: “We haven’t reported any land for reclamation in Shibalipu for a long time.”

It's not that there is no place to open, but that there is no one to plant!

Unlike the south, the climate here is warm and humid, suitable for farming. The weather in the northeast is destined to be suitable for plant growth only in spring and summer.

Moreover, the land here cannot be intercropped like in the south, and it is even more impossible to cultivate in rotation. The natural climate here does not allow rotation in crops.

Besides, the way of farming is entirely manual. It is good to travel through the predecessors. He has already made horse plowing and columbine carts, but it is still artificial cultivation.

For a strong laborer, at most [-] mu of land, no more can be done.

One mu of land produces about [-] catties of grain, which is already a bumper harvest.

This is still the case when there are high-yield crops such as potatoes and corn. Before changing, it is said that life is even worse.

The average annual ration of a person needs [-] catties, and five mu of land is needed to guarantee a person's life, and only food and clothing can be guaranteed. The remaining clothes, salt, cooking oil, etc. cannot be considered.

So, the people at this time are really poor.

Every family wants to eat meat, so they can only raise some livestock and poultry. When they are really hungry, they slaughter one and beat their teeth for sacrifice, that's all.

I usually keep the eggs that lay more, because the eggs can still be exchanged for some living money when they are brought to the county town.