I'M THE FARMGIRL YOU CAN'T MESS WITH

Chapter 229: Building a House

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In the end, neither managed to convince the other and they went back to their rooms angrily.

Qi Haoran felt that this would be a rare opportunity in the next few years. They could use Hanzhong as a stronghold and recover all the other lost land. In that case, they could not delay the matter of the cavalrymen anymore. If not for the fact that he did not have the money to buy adult horses, he would not have wanted to buy foals and slowly raise them.

On the other hand, Fan Zijin was worried that there wasn’t enough money. A foal cost about 20 taels of silver, and in each division there needed to be about 500 cavalrymen. It was a standard configuration for each person to have a horse each, plus another one for backup. Alright, even if the backup was 0.5 horse per person, they would still need 750 horses. According to the lowest price, it would cost 15,000 taels of silver, not to mention the subsequent fodder…

Fan Zijin sat in the study and calculated the money he could take out. In the end, he still felt that he was too poor.

Perhaps he shouldn’t place all his hopes on Butler Chen…

While Mu Yangling repaired the iron plow in the courtyard, Great-aunt guided her to stuff a piece of shaved wood into it. Then, she used her hand to try and break it. Feeling that it should be stable, she said, “Alright, this will work. You have to learn how to repair these things. Otherwise, if they break, you’ll have to enter the city to find someone to repair them. That’s too expensive.”

“I’ve learned it now. Great-aunt, are we going to plow the fields tomorrow?”

Great-aunt tucked her hands into her sleeves. The weather was already a little cold. Looking up at the sky, she said, “Are you really planning to plant winter wheat?”

Mu Yangling nodded. “Let’s take advantage of the fact that we don’t have any work to do now. Otherwise, we definitely won’t be able to handle it at the beginning of spring next year. Look at this spring. In a month, which one of us hasn’t lost weight? It’s fine if it’s just once or twice, but as time passes, our bodies won’t be able to take it.”

“That’s true, but we’d be farming the fields back to back. I’m afraid the land will be ruined.” This was what Madam Ma-Liu was most worried about. In the past, they would plant the land for half a year and let the land rest for half a year. This way, they could preserve the fertility of the land.

However, this year, wheat and rice was first planted on those high-grade lands. After harvesting the wheat and rice, they planted corn. Now, they were going to plant winter wheat. Under such intense farming, the fertility of the land could not keep up, and high-grade land could easily turn into medium-grade land or even low-grade land.

“I know what you mean. Don’t worry. Don’t we have four to five piles of rabbit feces on our land? I’ll go to the city to buy some night soil later and dig up some river mud to mix and dry in the sun. I’ll spread a thick layer on the ground and plow it twice. I don’t believe that the land can’t stay fertile this way.”

Madam Ma-Liu widened her eyes in shock. She had never seen such a way to preserve the fertility of the land after living for so long.

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