Liu Xin was freezing and dazed in his thatched house, but the house of his elder brother Liu Ji was extremely warm.

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, there were already fire walls and fire kangs in northern my country. Hao Chunmei was lying on the kang and was still excited about ten thousand dollars today.

"Master, what do you think we use the ten thousand dollars to buy a small courtyard in the county town? Then it will be convenient for your students to go to school, and no one will laugh at him anymore." Hao Chunmei said to Liu Ji.

"I see... we can't touch this money now. If the village owner asks about this money, we can't answer. We still rent 40 acres of land from this family! Without this land, we have to rely on our own 20 acres

Damn it, this whole family must not starve to death!" Liu Ji said to his daughter-in-law.

"We are also unlucky. A family with eight mouths and such a rich family can be destitute... Head of the family, you said that if Liu Xin leaves this family on his own, we can't use the money casually, right?" Hao Chunmei's mind flashed.

Turn, said to her husband.

"The third child is only 16 years old. Where can he go? His father-in-law Wang Qingxun is the shopkeeper of Zhangjia Cloth Store. Don't mess around." Liu Ji said.

"How can this be chaos? You see, your two brothers have reached the age of starting a family. We can't support them for a lifetime. Let's just separate the family. After the separation is completed, when the contract is completed and the fingerprints are drawn, it will be Liu Xin himself.

If he goes out, even if he files a complaint with the village owner, we will still handle him." Hao Chunmei looked at Liu Ji with a smile on his face.

"How to divide it? We only have these few things at home, how will your students get the money to go to school after they are divided?" Liu Ji shook his head and said.

"My father knows the village elder Huang Patriarch. My father saved Patriarch Huang's life in the past. Tomorrow the two of us will go back to my parents' house and let my father go to the Huang family. We will give him a big gift..."

Liu Ji listened to his wife's words in silence. Hao Chunmei kept talking to him. He knew that her husband was already moved. This money is not a small amount, and this matter must be determined. Furthermore, the ownership of the 20 acres of land at home must be determined early.

After coming down, they had to let Liu Gu and Liu Xin stop thinking about this place long ago.

Early the next morning, Liu Ji and Hao Chunmei went out early, and Liu Guisheng also went to the county school. When Liu Xin got up, he saw that his mother and little sister were the only two people left at home.

"Xin'er is up, but your head still hurts today?" Liu Xin's mother asked with concern.

"It doesn't hurt as much as yesterday. Where is my eldest sister?" Liu Xin looked at her mother and asked.

"Your eldest sister went to dig wild vegetables, and your second brother went to the farm. In a few days, it will be time to fertilize the fields. You can't run around then, help the family!" Mother said to Liu Xin

said.

"Mom, I know!" Liu Xin left home after saying that. It was still early for lunch, but he was already very hungry. Thinking about this body, before, whenever he was hungry, he would go to the northern river to find food.

Food, but whether or not you will get anything depends entirely on luck.

Liu Xin's dream was to be a ranger in the future and travel around the world doing justice, so he learned some martial arts from Zhang Fei, but they were just superficial. Now that he has a system to know his attributes, he has a sense of crisis in his heart, and he must upgrade his martial arts as soon as possible.

Get up, but before practicing martial arts, he must fill his stomach!

Liu Xin shivered when she left the house. It was still very cold in the early morning in February, and no one was busy in the fields yet. They would not go to the ground until after lunch.

Across the fields, most of the fertile fields here belong to the Zhang family. Half of the grain produced by the tenants on the leased land must be handed over to the owner every year. Even so, the common people still have to rush to cultivate. If the family has more grain, they can eat more times.

In order not to go hungry, what can I do if I put in a little more effort?

After walking for more than three miles, there was a small river ahead. Most of the people here used the water for irrigation. Liu Xin saw some village women washing wild vegetables here.

Across the river is a barren mountain. There are some terraced fields on the mountain surrounded by stones. This is newly opened barren land by poor families. The Liu Xin family has also reclaimed 30 acres of barren land on the mountainside, but it cannot be cleared yet.

What kind of food is coming out!

Zhuo County stipulates that people should not pay public grain for three years to open up wasteland. The county boss here encourages people to open up more new fields.

It is not that easy to cultivate a new field. First, you need to weed and level the land, and then use manure or silt from the river to fertilize the land. Because you are worried about the loss of water and soil when it rains, it is best to surround the land with several circles of stones.

If the land is cultivated for two years in this way, it is possible to have a harvest in the third year. If you plant 8 kilograms of grain in one acre of land, it is considered good to have a harvest of 60 kilograms. After a year of hard work, you can only earn half a stone, which is much more expensive than a mature field.

After three years, the wasteland will turn into mature land, and if the harvest is good in one year, the harvest will be more than one stone per acre. After another three to five years of planting, if people work harder and cultivate it well, the mature fields will become medium-sized fields, with a yield of three stones per mu.

If the land is cultivated well for ten consecutive years, the middle field may become a high-quality field, with a yield of more than six dan per mu, which is considered a good land for grain production. However, most of these good fields are only available to wealthy families.

The common people have worked hard for several years and if something happens to their families, they have to borrow money from their owners. What if they can't pay back the loan at the end of the year? They can only use the land they have worked hard to raise for several years to pay off the debt.

The owner does not harvest poor land, but only good fields that have been cultivated for more than five years. It is considered good to give 500 yuan per acre of land. The owner of the best land will only give 3,000 yuan at most.

"Big sister!" Liu Xin saw Liu Wanliu bending down by the river and grabbing something, so she shouted from a distance.

"Third brother, I caught a loach!" Liu Wanliu heard Liu Xin's voice and turned around and shouted to him happily.

Liu Xin and Liu Wanliu previously set up some small traps by the river. Some small fish, loaches and the like would be difficult to come out if they went in. This way, their family could occasionally improve their food. When Liu Xin was hungry, the first thing he thought of was to come here.

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"It's quite fat. Just wait while I go to find firewood!" Liu Xin saw a small puddle next to Liu Wanliu and was about to go to the mountain opposite to find firewood. He was very hungry.

"No, let's take this loach home and make soup to drink. We can all drink the loach soup even if Guisheng is not here!" Liu Wanliu said quickly when he heard that Liu Xin was about to light a fire to roast the loach.

Liu Xin stopped after hearing this. The family was short of food, and it was difficult to find any oil or water in a year. At least there were at least two taels of these loaches, which could provide a good source of food for the family.

"Okay, let me look for it again and see if there are any more?" Liu Xin put on straw sandals and entered the river. He shivered from the cold, but hunger made him unable to care so much. The elder sister could catch loaches, and he was a big man.

Why can't the guy catch it?

Liu Wanliu saw Liu Xin entering the water wearing straw sandals, but it was too late to stop him. Straw sandals break easily when the water dries, and the family does not have extra money to buy him shoes.

"Why aren't there any?" Liu Xin was very interested. He rummaged through all the rocks but didn't see the loach again.

"I don't know how many times this stone has been turned over. We are lucky to have caught such a big one." Liu Wanliu said angrily.

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