028    Go home

Not far after reaching the top of the mountain, Yuan Xiaoyu accidentally saw a waterfall coming down from a cliff. The water was not too big, but it was very spectacular and beautiful in winter.

"Waterfall" Yuan Xiaoyu shouted happily.

"The fish like this? It's beautiful in summer. Our Gouxiongling is counting on this waterfall. The branches it goes down the mountain raise the animals and plants of the mountains, and even raise the lives of hundreds of families, such as Fengshugou, Heishanhu and Qifengtun, and hundreds of families." Yuan Shan said with some emotion.

The old man looked at his eldest grandson and nodded in admiration, not forgetting the fundamentals.

"Grandpa, the small river gathered in our village is also the water from this waterfall, right?" Yuan Xiaoyu asked suddenly and excitedly.

She has always thought that next year, it is not that rice cannot be grown in the mountains, but that water cannot be stored on the slopes.

For thousands of years, when the weather was getting warmer, the rice seeds were thrown directly into the soaked paddy fields, and then covered with a layer of dry soil. When the rice seeds sprout and the rice seedlings grew out of the ground, they were then irrigated.

The farming method passed down by the older generation has not changed. People here do not know how to grow rice, and rice can definitely make more food. Even if the mountains are cold, as long as the seedlings are raised in time, you can definitely get the rice before frost in autumn.

Yuan Xiaoyu decided to go to the space to find agricultural techniques in this area when she got home, and she also knew that there were terraces in her previous life, that is, fields with wavy cross-sections.

She knew that rice can definitely be planted by effectively conserving water sources with dams.

While thinking about farming plans, Yuan Xiaoyu kept crossing the big and small forests, and finally walked up a gentle slope. When he arrived on the slope, he could see the village below the slope.

The valley was very large, and Yuan Xiaoyu could see that the surrounding terrain was very good and he could definitely build a lot of terraces, so he was suddenly very excited.

When Mr. Yuan and his friends suddenly became excited when they saw Yuan Xiaoyu, they thought she was happy only when they saw the house.

But I didn’t know that Yuan Xiaoyu was thinking about everything that wanted to transform the most favorable gentle slope valley into terraces!

So, no matter how many other villages are, at least the families in Qifeng Village don’t have to worry about being hungry in the future.

It is difficult to go up the mountain, and the blackstone is affected. The opposite is true for going down the gentle slope. Heizi also needs to go backwards and let the sled go first. If it is too steep, you have to pull some, otherwise the speed of going down is too fast and it is easy to overturn.

However, the rapid decline of the sled made Yuan Xiaoyu scream excitedly, as if he had found something fun, which made the old man feel a little sad.

My little granddaughter has been ill since she was two years old and she was almost not allowed to go out to play in winter.

Fortunately, this girl is also a patient person. She stays at home and does not cause trouble for adults. She is so excited when she sees her sitting down the sledge, and suddenly she feels a little guilty of her happy childhood.

"Yu'er has sex this time, and she has never been out for fun in winter." Yuan Qing looked at his brother Yuan Xing and said.

"Yes, I can take my sister to play with a small sled at the door of my house in the future. This is really fun."

“Yes…”

The mother and daughter are born with telepathy. Bai Shi, who is cooking in the kitchen, suddenly had a meal and said, "Why do I feel that my fish are back?"

Fang smiled, "My brother and sister miss their daughter"

"Yes, why don't you think I've never left me for so long. I've been leaving for several days. Why don't you think about it?" Bai Shi was about to cry as she said that.

"Mom, grandpa and sister are back." Yuan Yu suddenly broke into the kitchen and shouted and ran out.

"Grandpa, grandpa~~~Dad~~Brother~~Sister~~~~~~~"

There were immediately shocking roars from several boys from Qifengtun. Yuan Yu and Yuan Zhong ran out first, followed by Yuan Guang.

"Ah~~~~Hahaha" Yuan Xiaoyu was raised high by his elder brother Yuan Guang, which scared him to hold his brother's head, but couldn't help laughing.

The people living in the village are empty and not compact. With the echoes of the valley, the village heard the happy laughter of the Yuan family’s children. If they were curious, they pushed open the gate and took a look.

If you have any familiarity, come and take a look.

"Big Brother" village chief Yuan Houtu was the first to hear the news. The two were close relatives.

"Uncle San"

"Uncle San..." Yuan Yongan and the three brothers also quickly greeted Yuan Houtu.

"Oh, I'm back, it's good to be back, so go home quickly." Yuan Houtu was not polite. In Qifengtun, his close relatives and Mr. Yuan were still alive.

The other cousins ​​either died of illness or died under the mouths of wild animals in the mountains. They could not bear the poverty in the mountains and moved to the mountains as son-in-law.

The reason why most people in the mountains do not go down the mountain is because the taxes in the mountains are lower, and the outside grain tax is 40%, while the mountain is 30%.

Don’t look at this percentage of grain tax, many people just point to this percentage of grain tax to survive.

In addition, the land on the mountain can be reclaimed, and the imperial court encouraged land reclamation. Any land that was reclaimed by itself was exempted from two years of grain tax, and the land tax was only 2 taels of silver per acre.

The fields at the foot of the mountain are 12 taels of fat, generally 10 taels of land, even dry land is 7 taels, and sandy land that cannot grow crops is 5 taels.

By doing this, even if there is little food on the mountain, the land is still cheap and affordable. If you are diligent and open up more land, it will be a good place to keep it for a few years. After paying the grain tax, there will be some food that will survive.

In fact, Yuan Xiaoyu felt that it was because he was too poor. His ancestors were poor for generations and had no place to escape, so he could only stay in the mountains for generations.

After all, it is not a simple thing for farmers. It requires manpower to clear the land. Because the roads are difficult to travel, there are even fewer animals in the mountains, so it is done by digging a hoe and a shovel!

During the period of land reclamation, they have to live, so they cannot delay their original crops. The whole family can sometimes not take care of everything and don’t have that much effort!

This leads to the fact that farmers in the mountains and under the mountains are a very hard way to survive by relying on farming.

Although living in the mountains is a bit dangerous, there is also a chance of getting rich overnight!

It’s really a blind cat who meets a dead mouse and beats a big guy, or finds that good things are sold, enough to buy a piece of land to build a house at the foot of the mountain, and those who have some ability but don’t fall in love with their hometown will choose to move down the mountain.

Therefore, the population of several villages in the mountains is gradually decreasing, and many of them rely on their daughter's marriage to go down the mountain to make a living.

But this part is definitely a minority. The mountain people point to the delicacies to survive, but few of them make a fortune by relying on the things in the mountains. There are wild animals everywhere. Only by moving in a safe area within the siege, it is not easy to find good things to improve the family situation, so every household lives a very hard life.

"Old Man" Old Mrs. Yuan felt sad when she saw the old man and she was about to cry.

"Why are you crying? I'm not dead yet. Don't worry about it, it's all right." Mr. Yuan also missed his wife, but men wanted to be shamed, and they would not coax people when they saw a woman crying.

Mr. Yuan is a typical big man, but he is not a machismo. If he still discusses with the old lady, the old couple has never been blushing all their lives, and their relationship is very good.

The old lady wiped her tears and saw that Yuan Houtu and his son were coming, so she quickly gave in.

The group squeezed into the old man's house. The old man and Yuan Houtu got on the kang and sat on the kang table. Bai and Fang had already brought in hot water. Because there were guests there, they even put a little brown sugar in.
Chapter completed!