diskusbooks Chapter 134 Going up the mountain again
Chapter 134 Going up the mountain again
The terraced fields reclaimed by Zhang Deshui set off a wave of reclaiming wasteland in Wangyou Valley.
Five or six days later, a cave was dug more than 100 meters away from the cowshed and pigpen, and Lu Changming and Lu Huahua moved in.
Han Minghai found a deep hole there.
They started digging it into a cave.
Li Lanzhen asked them to make the cave a little bigger and divide it into two or three rooms with wooden boards, so that Lu Huahua could live in one room by herself.
It is not very convenient for a ten-year-old girl to live with her father.
There was a large open space in front of the cave they dug, enough for them to build a small courtyard. In the courtyard, they could build three main rooms and one east and west wing room, which was enough for them, father and daughter, to live in.
After working for a few more days, they built a wooden house inside the cave. Li Erhan and his colleagues helped build kangs in the two rooms that could accommodate one person.
After the kang had been air-dried for a day, Lu Changming and Lu Huahua couldn't wait to move their belongings over.
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that after living here for a while, the father and daughter are smiling all day long.
Li Lanzhen asked Han Yuemei to wash all her old clothes and give them to Lu Huahua. She also gave Lu Huahua a piece of coarse cloth with red flowers, a piece of blue coarse cloth, and a piece of black coarse cloth.
Li Lanzhen looked at it and gave the cloth to Lu Huahua. It was enough for both father and daughter to make underwear and outerwear.
She was given two old thin quilts, a smaller iron pot from home, and two earthenware jars that were as high as her knees.
Li Guangyang brought them a simple table he made of wood, two small stools, and two smaller wooden boxes for the father and daughter to store clothes or other things.
With these things, Lu Changming and Lu Huahua's home now looks presentable.
They became even more motivated. They got up at dawn in the morning and started cleaning the pigsty and cowshed.
According to Zhang Deshui's request, all the cleaned feces were piled up in a large pit designated by him.
Zhang Deshui and his son often went to the mountain to carry back fallen leaves and thatch to dump in the cave.
The children also often went to the mountains to carry leaves and dead grass and dumped them into the manure pit.
Li Lanzhen knew that this was the process of fermenting fertilizer. Farmyard manure has existed since ancient times, and they did a great job!
Li Lanzhen looked at the cowshed and sheep pen, which were well managed by father and daughter Lu Changming and Lu Huahua. They were cleaned very well every day and there was almost no smell of feces.
I was thinking of going up the mountain again, and then bringing back a few sheep, chickens, ducks, and geese.
The cow at home was not pregnant, but the cow in the village was pregnant with a calf. After the calf was born, there would be milk to drink, but there were still three pregnant women in the village.
So, she wanted to lead the female goat out of the space so that her grandson could drink it after he was born.
Take out the chickens, ducks and geese, give some to the villagers, and keep most of them at home, so that you will have eggs to eat.
Li Lanzhen thought about it and decided to go to the space in the evening to see if there were enough old hen for each family. If so, she wanted to give an old hen to every family in the village.
Then they recorded it down, and when the spring came, several families were repairing their houses and walls, and they were allowed to use this as work in exchange for wages.
After thinking it through, Li Lanzhen quietly made arrangements and preparations.
After dinner that day, everyone sat in the yard in front of the cave and chatted. Li Lanzhen told everyone that she would go up the mountain early the next morning, and then she found an excuse for herself.
"I will go up the mountain before dawn tomorrow morning to see if there is a road behind the mountain. Is there a village? Wangyou Valley belongs to Youzhou City. There should be a county town or a town nearby, as well as a village, right?
So I want to go up the mountain and take a look.”
Han Minghai was the first to object!
"Mom, you can't go up alone, let me go with you!"
Xue Bao and Han Mingjiang also said, "Yes, we will go with you!"
Li Lanzhen waved her hand and said, "No! You don't have to go, I'll go by myself, don't worry, I'm very strong and I can run very fast! If you go, you'll only slow me down!"
Xue Lao Hu sat in the distance and looked at her, thinking in his heart.
I don’t know what this relative will bring down from the mountain. If he doesn’t let us go, then don’t let him go. We will just go up the mountain quietly after noon and protect them from a distance!
So he didn't say anything.
Li Erhan and Ye Shi kept instructing Li Lanzhen.
"My daughter, no matter how strong you are, you are still a woman. You can just stay in this valley, plant crops, cook, and look after the children. Why do you always run up the mountain? It's too dangerous!
Didn't you hear Xue Bao say there are big animals in the mountains? "
Li Lanzhen smiled and patted their hands, comforting them.
"Dad and Mom, don't worry, I know what's going on. If there's any danger, I won't go up there, I'll turn around and run back!"
Li Lanzhen, carrying dry food and a water bag, had reached the halfway point of the mountain before dawn. This time, she planned to climb over the mountain and take a look to the other side.
The reason she gave herself, which was also what she had always thought in her mind, was that there should be a county town or village nearby.
If this is the case, even if the new emperor of Li ascends the throne, he will eventually want to stabilize the world.
Then they can just register Forget-Your-Trouble Valley as a village in the county or town.
This way they don't have to be scattered across several villages.
This topic will be discussed in Wangyou Valley every few days. Everyone is afraid that the peaceful and happy days in Wangyou Valley will be broken one day, and they will be forced back to their hometowns, or dispersed to various villages, which they don't want.
Li Lanzhen was also unwilling, but she couldn't live here, isolated from the world. She had so many children, they needed to study and see the outside world. Besides, it was also a problem for the young girls and boys to get married.
You can't just digest it all in the Forget-Your-Trouble Valley. After a long time, wouldn't it just be a marriage between close relatives?
While Li Lanzhen was thinking about this, she did not forget to collect the wild vegetables and herbs she was familiar with into the space.
The route we took this time was different from the last time.
When she was near the top of the mountain, she sat down to drink some water and found three jujube trees. The jujubes were already bright red and looked very beautiful, though they were small.
Li Lanzhen wanted to store these three jujube trees into the space, and then plant them on the mountain in the space to see if the jujubes could be improved.
Then he found an excuse and built a house and a yard the next year, and planted the jujube tree inside the courtyard wall.
But she didn't know if she could get her hands inside the tree if she put them on it and silently said "go in".
There were some shrubs, thatch or small saplings in front, which could be stored in the space with their roots. She had never tried to store such a big tree.
If you haven't tried it, then why not give it a try? Thinking of this, Li Lanzhen clapped her hands and stood up. She put her hands on a jujube tree and muttered something in her heart. Without any sound, the jujube tree disappeared from the spot, and there was not even a big hole on the ground.
She followed the same method to harvest the other two jujube trees. At this time, Li Lanzhen felt a little dizzy.
She thought she was hungry, so she sat down, took out some bread, and ate while bringing out a bowl of spiritual spring water to drink.
After a while, she recovered her strength, stood up and went straight to the top of the mountain. At the top of the mountain, she looked around and walked down the mountain along the left side, which was closer to Youzhou City.
There are more fruit trees and herbs on this side of the mountain, as well as many pheasants and rabbits.
Maybe it’s because there are very few hunters coming here.
Li Lanzhen collected more than a dozen pheasants, dozens of wild rabbits, and even several nests of rabbits that were fully cooked.
She thought that when she returned, she could give one litter to the village and keep one for herself.
Raising rabbits should give you freedom in eating.
Her purpose of going up the mountain today was not to pick wild fruits or hunt, but just to walk down to see if she could see any county town or village, so she walked very fast.
Just when she was relaxing, suddenly, there was a loud "crash".
Li Lanzhen was hung upside down with her feet facing upwards.
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