Don't panic in a famine, I live in the mountains with my golden finger

Chapter 39: Land reclamation in progress (1)

After a busy day, Xuyuan finally fenced off the yard and made a simple gate.

Seeing this, it looked quite decent, and I felt safe all of a sudden. The house was close to the mountain, and there was a piece of wasteland behind the mountain. They planned to plant a vegetable garden there, so they made a small door for entry and exit. Xu Yuan also exchanged some vines with some small thorns from Xiao Jiu. From a distance, it looked no different from what they usually saw when they went up the mountain.

The three siblings of Xu Zhi were drying lychees on the side, picking out some of the less good ones. The sun was strong these days, and the shells of these lychees were almost slightly shriveled.

Xu Yuan had picked up the hoe and started digging the ground. After a while, he was sweating profusely. He walked to a shady tree, squatted on the hoe stick and rested for a while.

After only doing it for a short while, several bites had already formed on the exposed hands and feet.

Damn it, when will mosquitoes disappear from this world?

Xu Yuan quickly stood up and stomped his feet. He found that the soles of his shoes were wet and covered with mud.

Thinking of something, Xu Yuan started digging. A mud pit of neither big nor deep appeared. He stopped there and waited for a while. Water began to gush out of the mud pit.

My God, what good luck! The god of luck has descended on me.

Now there is a source of water for watering the vegetables and there is no need to fetch water from the waterfall.

Water? Speaking of water, Xu Yuan also planned to lay a water pipe extending to the large water tank in the courtyard. He punched a hole in the water tank and used bamboo as a faucet, which would be blocked with a cloth strip when not in use.

It’s a good idea, but I’ll have to see if I have time. After all, I still have to cut bamboo, and I have to plant something in the vegetable garden, otherwise what will I eat.

As for rice, it is almost time to start planting it now, but the problem is that the ground has not yet been cultivated.

The fields chosen for making a wish are some distance away from the river, so the introduction of water is also a problem. Besides, everyone needs water for farming. So we have to dig a ditch to connect the fields of the entire village, and the ditch at the source is connected to the river.

Wow, how come there are so many things to do all of a sudden? My head hurts.

The sun is about to set, and the evening sunset is bright red. This is the first time I have seen such a beautiful sunset since I made a wish and came here for so long.

"Sister, Brother Gu came over, brought some fruit, put it down and left."

Xu Zhi pushed open the back door and brought in a bunch of yellow fruits.

Xu Yuan put down the hoe, wiped his face, looked at the fruit in Xu Zhi's hand, and his eyes lit up.

Loquat!

"Ding, found loquat, reward 50 points."

Then came Xiaojiu's voice.

Not bad, I’ve decided what to plant in the yard.

Break open the skin of the fruit, and put the yellow flesh into your mouth in one bite. The plump and juicy loquat is sweet and sour and delicious.

"Sister, when did a small pond appear here?"

Xu Zhi was pleasantly surprised to see a small pond on the wasteland that his sister had reclaimed. Now he didn't have to worry about carrying water from far away to water the vegetables.

The two sisters were sitting on the hoe sticks, eating loquats, making wishes and keeping a few fruit cores.

"Sister, do we have any vegetable seeds at home? What are we going to plant on these plots of land? Sister, do we want to save these leftover fruit cores for planting?"

"Yes, plant them in the yard, and then you'll have more loquats than you can eat."

Xu Yuan pointed to a small piece of land in front of him and said, "Let's plant the wild onions we picked last time in the mountains here. They are a good choice for seasoning."

"Here, we can plant some small cabbages or small branches. Or we can find some time to take those dried lychees to the county town to sell them, and see if there are any vegetable seeds and buy them back."

"Sister, sister, I want to go with you too." The two little kids pushed open the back door and came in. They heard that their eldest sister was planning to go and choose a county town, and they hurriedly clamored to go with her.

Xu Yuan looked at those two shining eyes and couldn't bear to say the words of rejection.

"Xiaoduo, Guozi, we are going out early tomorrow morning and walking. We need to get up early. Can you two do it?"

"Yes, yes, yes." The two little kids nodded frantically in unison.

"Sister, please let us go. I haven't even seen what a county town looks like." Xuanyu came up and pulled Xuyuan's sleeve and said coquettishly.

"Okay, okay, I'll take you there. You have to listen to me. You two can continue making mud bricks."

"Great! Big sister is so nice!" The two little kids jumped out of the door and ran back laughing and playing.

Xu Yuan and Xu Zhi looked at each other and smiled helplessly.

After resting for a while, Xu Yuan continued to open the land, and Xu Zhi also brought a hoe to help.

As the sun set in the west, the two sisters finally cultivated the vegetable garden. Looking at the wasteland that they had reclaimed with so much effort, their wishes seemed to have been fulfilled, and they were looking forward to seeing the vegetables growing in the future.

"Let's go back."

"Ding, congratulations to the master for activating the wasteland reclamation mission. For each piece of wasteland reclaimed, one hundred points will be awarded. Currently, twenty pieces of wasteland have been opened."

"Twenty wastelands?"

"Ding, congratulations to the master for activating the home building task. The construction has been successfully completed and 10,000 points are awarded."

Before the doubts about making a wish were answered, I was overwhelmed by the sudden arrival of a large amount of points reward.

Oh my God, what is going on? Did I get some get-rich-quick script?

Xuyuan saw a small icon on the panel for issuing new land reclamation tasks, which looked like a map. He focused his mind on it and clicked on it. The map above directly showed the environment around the location of Hsinchu Village in detail.

The reclaimed wasteland is marked with green flags, making it easy to see at a glance. The same goes for the locations where houses are built. Everyone's name is also thoughtfully marked, including which family has cows and which has donkeys.

"Ah, so high-tech? It's like a home-building game, all of them are NPCs, and you only make a wish for one player."

Xu Yuan was terrified when he thought about it, so he pinched his thigh and felt a "hiss" of pain, which came in waves.

"dong dong dong"

Xu Yuan wanted to ask clearly, but was suddenly awakened by knocking on the gate, so he gave up. After all, it was not normal for him to have Xiaojiu's golden finger, and it was not normal for him to come here and be resurrected by borrowing someone else's body. Why bother asking so clearly? It is better for people to live in confusion.

I opened the door and saw Aunt Li outside.

"Xiaoyuan, I bought some extra vegetable seeds here, so I'll give some to you." Aunt Li handed the extra vegetable seeds to Xuyuan's arms and did not allow Xuyuan to refuse.

"Thank you, Aunt Li. Please come in and sit for a while and have a meal before leaving." Xu Yuan took it and was about to pull Aunt Li in.

"No, I'm cooking at home, so I won't come in. But your yard is really nice." After giving the vegetable seeds to Xuyuan, Aunt Li turned around and left.

Xu Yuan looked at the vegetable seeds in his hand and silently watched Aunt Li leave.

“How is it possible that there are more of every vegetable variety?”