Chapter 224: Chapter 149: Take a Gamble
This further boosted everyone’s motivation. They focused on getting through it one day at a ti.
Finally, when everyone learned they would receive half of the grain from the harvest, their sense of being forced into labor instantly transford into proactive enthusiasm!
They worked with incredible diligence and initiative!
On the fifth day, those who had found farming implents were sent to Xu Family Village.
And so, at the site of Xu Family Village, several hundred veteran farrs assembled by Zhao the Seventh organized everyone into teams. They began by inspecting the village’s land, then proceeded to clear it, reclaim it, and till the soil.
Thanks to the recent heavy rains, the soil was soft.
As the number of workers grew, the sites where houses had been burned to the ground in the fire were completely cleared away.
With over ten thousand people working diligently, the ruins of the small, three-hundred-plus-mu village were transford into field after field of arable land in just half a day.
After all, the fire had mixed imnse amounts of wood and plant ash into the soil, making it incredibly fertile.
Seeing such efficiency, Zhao the Seventh decided not to let the day’s food rations go to waste. He had his people continue reclaiming land to the south, razing the remaining charred houses in Ping’an Village and Beidang Village further on, turning them into new farmland as well.
Under the guidance of so veteran farrs, they damd the river and dug irrigation channels to ensure a steady water supply.
anwhile, the spring planting was also getting underway in Cheng Family Village!
They had been preparing for this day for over half a year!
Although it had rained heavily for three days, their prior preparations had kept the fields from flooding. Of course, transplanting the rice seedlings would have been possible even with standing water.
The entire village mobilized. Zhou Fengshun had already learned the key planting techniques from his grandson. Thus, under his direction, the villagers planted 2,500 seedlings in every mu.
All the planning had been done long ago; they just had to plant the rice seedlings in the designated spots!
With this year’s food supply on the line, everyone was exceptionally motivated!
「On the seventh day.」
As Cheng Zongyang made his way back along the country road near Lin Family Village, he could see from a distance that the lands of Beidang Village, Ping’an Village, and Xu Family Village, once obscured, were now a vast, unobstructed expanse of farmland.
Countless people were still out shaping the field ridges and digging reservoirs to store water.
"I can already picture the magnificent sight in four months: hundreds, even thousands, of mu of brilliant golden rice," Cheng Zongyang murmured.
He then turned back and, once he was in the territory of Dongtou Village, took out all the dicinal herb seedlings. His second uncle had tasked the villagers with helping to cultivate these from cuttings.
These included the primary dicinal Materials required for the Foundation Establishnt dicine Bath, Martial Arts dicine Bath, Body Tempering Powder, Qi and Blood Powder, Qi Essence Pill, Antitoxic Powder, and Growth Liquid.
He had purchased the formulas for Qi and Blood Powder, Qi Essence Pill, and Antitoxic Powder recently when they appeared in his item bar.
The first of these, Qi and Blood Powder, aids the Martial Arts cultivation of those in the Lower Three Grades. The second, Qi Essence Pill, can assist cultivators of the Middle Third Grades and even Upper Three Grades Martial Artists. The last one, Antitoxic Powder, can cure hundreds of poisons. The Qi Essence Pill formula was worth one thousand Points, while the other two cost five hundred Points each.
Next, Cheng Zongyang took out basket after basket of rice seedlings. They had been cultivated for five days and were only about as tall as his palm.
The roots of each seedling were protected by a ball of soil moistened with Growth Liquid, which both preserved their vitality and kept them ready for imdiate planting.
However, ti had been too short for Ma San and his team to prepare all the seedlings. There was currently only enough for ten mu of land, so Cheng Zongyang had to "transport" them in batches.
There were a great number of dicinal herb seedlings—more than fifty baskets in total. Once they were grown, the clan wouldn’t have to worry about its supply of dicinal Materials for so ti. Besides, the village was already cultivating so of its own.
Finally, he brought out five thousand jin of dried fish. He had only sold a portion of his stock last ti; this delivery would be enough for everyone to have dried fish soup for quite so ti.
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