The Female Officer Became a Farmer After Getting Reborn

Zhou Jia came back the next day with the finished farm tools and the cattle he bought for Li Mei's family. He also hired a dozen long-term workers to help open up wasteland.

The long-term workers plowed the land and picked out the stones and dead tree stumps in the wasteland. They then raked the land with a rake and picked out the small stones hidden in the soil before plowing deeply.

Li Yu and Zhou Jia took Li Qing, Ji Xiang and Ruyi to find a bush and dug up the withered grass on the ground. They dug up the mulch under the withered grass and spread it in the trench made by the plow. When the ground was about to be cleared, Li Yu led people to sift out the wheat, leaving the wheat seeds with full grains, which were exposed to the sun several times to prepare for planting.

Twenty people have been busy for more than ten days before clearing out the 40 acres of land owned by Li Yu's family and the 60 acres owned by Zhou Jia's family, and sowing winter wheat seeds.

Li Mei invited the ten long-term workers to help sow wheat seeds on the 80 acres of land allocated to her family after several days of drought.

After the wheat seeds were sown, Li Yu took Jixiang and the others to dig a four-foot-wide and six-foot-deep retting pond in the corner of the field every few acres. They dug a total of more than a dozen composting ponds, and then dug them from the forest. Dig out the mulch and dead grass and fill the compost pond.

Everyone in the village followed Li Yu's example and went to the woods to find mulch and dig it back. They followed Li Yu's example and spread the mulch in the ground to dig fertilization pools for retting.

After the wasteland was cleared, Zhou Jia went to take care of the shop with Zhaocai.

Xu Chun and Carpenter Chen came to the shack to look for Li Yu. Xu Chun said to Li Yu: Miss Li, the house has been basically completed. There is one more thing. It is much colder in Tongzhou than in Qingzhou. Every year there are one or two It’s snowing heavily, so I think it would be better for you to set up a few kang beds in the ground floor room.”

After hearing this, Li Yu thought it was right, Then let's make a bed with a Kang bed! The master who built the Kang bed and built the stove should have better skills, and the color on the stove should be fresher.

Okay Miss Li, I will talk to the master. Xu Chun agreed with a smile. Li Yu gave Xu Chun the drawings of the stove, and Xu Chun took the drawings and left.

Carpenter Lin also came to ask Li Yu, Miss Li, after applying tung oil and varnish for the last time, the carpentry work is finished. Do you need to do anything else?

Li Yu felt that Carpenter Lin's craftsmanship was pretty good and asked him with a smile: Master Lin, I want to make a few more furniture designs and draw them for you. Can you see if you can make them?

Miss Li, please draw it and let me see what it looks like. Lin Carpenter said happily when he saw that there was still work to do and he could see the new look.

Li Yu nodded and took out the pamphlet and used a charcoal pen to draw a set of mahogany sofas, coffee tables, wardrobes, cupboards and several other relatively simple furniture styles. Carpenter Lin's eyes lit up when he saw Li Yu's drawings. Miss Li, this is the painting method that Mr. Zhou taught you! The things you paint look like they are standing right in front of your eyes.

Li Yu smiled and said, Mr. Zhou said this is called an elevation. I just drew it for you to see. You still need to figure out the specific dimensions yourself.

Carpenter Lin looked at the furniture styles drawn by Li Yu and thought to himself: With such exquisite furniture styles, if I had these patterns, the business in the shop would definitely be booming.

Miss Li, I have a carpentry shop in Tongzhou City. The business has always been tepid. After I make the furniture for you, if I can use your designs to make furniture and sell it, I will give you a share. Lin Carpenter discussed with Li Yu.

After hearing this, Li Yu smiled and said: Master Lin, please help me make the furniture and place it to see the effect. Then we will talk about cooperation.

Carpenter Lin was a little disappointed after hearing this, but he still smiled and nodded and said: Okay, don't worry, I will definitely make these furniture, and I will discuss cooperation with you then. I also have some rosewood and camphor wood in my house, which is fragrant. Wardrobes and cupboards made of camphor wood can prevent insects, but the rest should be made of rosewood. Do you think it’s okay?”

Li Yu nodded, I know about camphor wood insect control, but I'm a layman and you're the master, so just do as you say!

Then I'll go to work. Carpenter Lin was very happy to see that Li Yu trusted him. He smiled and left with the drawings. Li Yu packed up his things and went to the new house.

The Zhou family is the house on the edge of the house, which is more than ten feet away from Li Yu's. Next door to Li Yu is Li Mei's family. Li Mei used to be Xiao An's family. There are about twenty families built in a row, and each house is more than ten feet apart. distance.

There is a dirt road in front of the house that can accommodate two carts passing through at the same time. There is also a two-acre vegetable field on the roadside. Li Yu feels that it is a bit like the layout of new rural areas in some modern places.

Li Yu walked under the courtyard wall. The courtyard wall was all made of stones and was more than six feet high. The double-door courtyard door was made of fine rosewood. The color of the rosewood was deep red, and the wood grain was somewhat like the shape of a feather. It looks gorgeous and noble.

Li Yu secretly said: At that time, Zhou Jia said that he would not be short of this little money and asked the craftsmen to use rosewood for all the doors and windows. The quality was indeed different. No wonder modern rosewood is so expensive, and money is the only thing that distinguishes goods.

Li Yu pushed the door open and entered the courtyard. He saw that the stone slabs in the courtyard were very smooth and smooth. The water well was drilled in the corner of the courtyard wall on the left. The flower beds left around the courtyard wall were also separated by stone strips. Flower fertilizer has been piled up in the flower bed.

Li Yu stood in the yard and saw that the hanging part of the wooden building happened to be the eaves corridor on the ground floor. The eaves corridor was supported by a total of eight columns. The eaves on the top of the wooden building on the top floor were tilted upward, and there were also columns and eaves corridors. Some cloud patterns and auspicious patterns were carved.

The door of the main room was a little narrower than the courtyard door. Li Yu opened the door of the main room and walked into the room. The room was about thirty square meters. The windows were in the shape of a double-layer diamond pattern. After the inner layer was opened, there was a window lattice outside. Used to paste window screens.

Li Yu saw carpenters painting tung oil upstairs downstairs, and turned around to walk out of the courtyard. Ruyi and Li Qing happened to walk to the entrance of the courtyard carrying some chrysanthemums, honeysuckle, gardenias, roses, jasmine, and orchids. When Li Qing saw Li Yu, he happily pointed at the flowers in the bamboo basket, Sister, you see, Brother Ruyi and I went to look for them in the forest behind. We found so many after searching for a long time.

There are already a lot, Li Yu smiled and helped Li Qing put down the bamboo pole, Can you two know how to plant it?

Ruyi scratched her head and said, Uncle Zhou will take care of this. He will be here soon.

Okay, then help Uncle Zhou plant them.

Li Qing nodded sensibly, Sister, it's getting harder and harder to find mulch now. I'll dig more fertilizer and put it back when I have time.

Li Yu smiled and said: You don't have to search everywhere. Just pour the animal dung and plant ashes into the dung tank. Then cut some grass and leaves and pour them into the dung tank to cover with some grass. After a while, it will become fertilizer.

Li Qing nodded in praise, Your method is better. I know, go ahead and do your work!

Li Yu came out of the house and looked at the fields in front of him, and decided to take a walk around the mountain to see how much land there was.

Li Yu walked down the stream. After walking for an hour or two, he saw more than a dozen ponds of different sizes. The ponds were covered with cattails. The leaves of the cattails had begun to wither and turn yellow, and the cattails on the paving sticks had also fallen off. , the shop sticks became bare.

Li Yu looked at these cattails happily. This is a good thing. Cattails can be used as medicine and can also smoke mosquitoes. Cattails are delicious and nutritious. Cattails can be used to weave fans, straw mats, and hats. The old people in the village are all good at knitting. Opening a workshop can also allow them to earn some pocket money, buy some lotus root seeds and mix them in the pond, and raise some fish. Li Yu feels that the money will be promising.

Li Yu walked around and then walked back, deciding to go to the town and ask Zhou Jia to go to Tongzhou City and buy all these ponds.