The land with only two cents was quickly completed. It was not too late at this time, so Old Dad Ye simply called Qi Gui and Qi Anhe to go up the mountain together.

Since Qi Anhe had done a lot of homework in advance, Dad Ye didn't work hard, so he let Qi Anhe take a look at the places he thought were suitable for cultivation.

After seeing it, Mr. Ye was quite satisfied with the places that Qi Anhe confirmed. As for whether these places are really suitable for planting, it depends on the results of the cultivation.

Although Dad Ye wished he could arrange the matter today and then rush home, the sky was getting darker at this moment, so he could only rest in the village for a night before making specific arrangements tomorrow.

The next day, Dad Ye got up early and found that Qi An and Qi Gui got up earlier than him. They were ready for the various tools they needed to go up the mountain to reclaim today.

The three of them were not the kind of people who liked to talk too much. After smiling at each other, they picked up the food made by the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of Qi Gui's family and started eating.

After dinner, they each brought their tools to the hill. Only then did Qi Gui report the results of contacting the tenant last night to Mr. Ye: "I went to each family to ask questions last night. Each family was happy to help. Today, there were eight strong men. I asked them to concentrate at the foot of the mountain at the beginning of the year."

Now is the slack time after the autumn harvest. Although there are more or less work in each family's fields, those are just relatively light work that can be done by the elderly and women at home, and it does not have to be labor-intensive.

When he came down from the mountains yesterday, Mr. Ye asked Qi Gui to contact the tenants and ask those men who could withdraw their talents to help reclaim the land.

The growth of grapes requires sunshine. Old Man Ye planned to reclaim the south hillside first. I roughly saw it yesterday and there were about five and six areas on the south hillside.

However, before letting everyone cultivate, you need to confirm the approximate scope of cultivation.

After Dad Ye and Qi Anhe determined the scope of reclamation, Qi Gui also divided the work for everyone. Two people were in a group, some were responsible for cleaning small shrubs, some were responsible for excavation, and some were responsible for cleaning stones. In short, it was necessary to ensure that the reclamation site was busy and not messy and efficiency was achieved.

Mr. Ye was still very satisfied with the work that Qi Gui assigned to everyone, so he asked General Qi Gui to take charge of the reclamation matters, and he went to another place with Qi Anhe himself.

After dinner last night, Qi Anhe specially found Dad Ye and told him about this place.

It is said that there are a few strange trees here, with furry green fruits hanging on them, and some of them have exploded. You can see several small brown fruits inside. There is a relatively hard shell on the outside of this small fruit. The shell is peeled and the white flesh inside is there.

Because I had never seen such a fruit, Qi Anhe didn't dare to taste it, but he picked up a few of them back.

Seeing the brown fruit in Qi An and the palm of his hand clearly, Old Man Ye was overjoyed. Isn’t this fruit just a chestnut?

Chestnuts are good things. They are not only nutritious but also have certain medicinal value. They can be eaten raw, fried, and peeled and cooked. Chestnut roast chicken is a famous dish in Shu.

In the past, when they were in Shu, every autumn, their family would go to the mountains to pick up chestnuts. The picked-up chestnuts were sold at the market or kept for themselves. They could usually be eaten until the spring of the next year.

It was the first time he saw Lizi since he came to Qingzhou Prefecture, but he didn't expect to be in his own village!

What surprised Mr. Ye even more was that the people here didn’t seem to know Lizi, and this Lizi grew up in the mountains and no one knew about it!

It is the season when chestnuts are ripe. Looking at the chestnuts hanging on the trees and falling on the ground, Dad Ye didn't know what to say.

While picking up the chestnuts that fell on the ground with Qi Anhe, Dad Ye told Qi Anhe what this is, how to eat it and how to eat it best.

"Uncle, since this is a good thing, don't let someone come here for now, so as not to ruin such a good thing." Qi Anhe carefully tasted the chestnut meat that was peeled from his shell and stuffed into his mouth. Perhaps because the chestnuts were ripe, it was far less delicious than hawthorn fruit in his mouth. However, since Ye said that this was a good thing, he naturally had to protect these things.

But Dad Ye shook his head. Since the tree has grown so big here, no one has come to pick up the fruits all over the ground, so there is no need to pay special effort.

Even if everyone knows that it is something that can be eaten, it is not a big deal.

These chestnut trees were unexpected harvests, so he was not so stingy that he would not let a few wild chestnut trees go.

With these two baskets of chestnuts brought back to Hongfeng Village, not only letting the family taste this long-lost delicacy, but it was enough to eat it for a while.

Although Dad Ye shook his head and made such a big fuss, Qi Anhe still made up his mind to not only protect these chestnuts, but also find ways to pick up the fruits and dry them on the skin.

He picked up the chestnut fruit on the ground, and both of them had half-large backpacks. In order not to let people ask questions, Qi Anhe also specially grabbed two handfuls of green grass to cover it.

Seeing this, Dad Ye shook his head, but he didn't stop him.

When the two returned to the reclamation site, Dad Ye planned to give Qi Gui another advice, so he took Lizi back to Hongfeng Village.

But when he returned to the reclamation site, he couldn't help but sigh, it seemed that he couldn't hurry home.

Although Qi Gui divided the work, everyone seemed to work very hard, but unfortunately the efficiency of the cultivation is really not satisfactory.

Dad Ye had to go on a personal journey to demonstrate to everyone how to cultivate mountains.

He has experience in reclaiming barren slopes. The barren slope in Hongfeng Village has a lot in common with this hill, so it is not difficult to demonstrate.

After Mr. Ye’s demonstration and explanation, everyone soon found some tricks and gradually began to be able to do it.

Mr. Ye simply took this opportunity to announce the wages for reclaiming this job to everyone. Even if these people were tenants from his own farm, he never thought of using these labor in vain.

He knew that the hard work and labor of reclaiming mountains was not much easier than the labor work he had to carry on a day, so he paid for everyone, with thirty cents per day, and specifically stated that the wages were paid daily, which means that the tenant farmers who came here to reclaim them could bring thirty cents to their homes every day when they finished their work.

As soon as this decision was announced, it naturally aroused the men's enthusiasm for working, and they did it very happily.

These men would also go to Fucheng to find odd jobs to supplement their household expenses during the slack season, and they all knew the market of odd jobs in Fucheng.

They are all tough and uneducated men. They go to the city to find work and do the hardest physical work, but it is already quite worthwhile to earn twenty cents a day.

I originally thought that working here was a waste of work, but I didn’t expect that Dad Ye would give everyone a salary of 30 cents a day for everyone. It would be strange if the men were not motivated!

Dad Ye squatted down and grabbed a handful of ground, picked up a hoe and dug it a few times. The soil quality and amount here surprised him a little. He looked at the energetic men and the land they had cultivated little by little, and finally a satisfied smile appeared on his face.

Now he can return to Hongfeng Village with confidence!

Dad Ye put down his hoe, patted the soil on his hand, and called Qi Gui to his side to explain it a few more words. However, Qi Anhe, who was beside him, suddenly said, "Isn't that my mother? Why did she come?"
Chapter completed!