Winter was cold and seed long.
However, no matter how long, it would eventually co to an end.
In the days when spring was warm and flowers blood, as the sun shone high, all things revived.
The spring rain this year ca exceptionally early.
The fine rainwater irrigated the earth, making the weeds in the fields extrely lush.
Even the originally shallow gullies were filled to the brim before sumr arrived.
When the hot sumr arrived, Chu Xun's thirty acres of wasteland reclamation also ca to an end.
Thirty acres of land, one piece next to another, with clear boundaries.
Li Shoutian went to the county office with boundless joy to report it. Pinecone Village's wasteland reclamation was successfully completed, just waiting for the land surveying clerk to co and inspect it in a few days.
In addition, the road construction initiated by Lin Xianzong also started smoothly.
Taking advantage of the ti left before harvesting the rice and sowing again, Li Shoutian mobilized the young and old of the entire village.
Those with strength contributed strength; the elderly and children without strength helped cook, deliver food, and deliver water.
Other young and strong n and won all had to go to the front lines to dig earth and lay the foundation.
The first road, no matter what, could not be handled carelessly.
However, the work was not done in vain; everyone was provided with three als a day.
When the road was built, each person could get five taels of silver.
Although it wasn't much, just being provided with food, plus it being their own village's road, the villagers didn't have too many complaints.
It was just that there was too much rain this year, making digging difficult. It was estimated that at the fastest, it would take until next year to finish building.
With one day left before the land surveying clerk ca to inspect, Zhang Anxiu bought two taels of pork from the town, paired it with cabbage and glass noodles, and made a large basin of food.
Pulling Chu Xun to sit down and serving him a large bowl full of rice, Zhang Anxiu said happily, "After passing tomorrow's inspection, you'll have another thirty acres of land. When the ti cos, you'll be one of the top major landlords in our village!"
Chu Xun smiled and said, "About fifty acres of land, what kind of major landlord is that? You're exaggerating too much."
Zhang Anxiu snorted, "Other places don't count, but in our village it does! Who in the village can have more land than you?"
These words were not false. Previously, the one with the most farmland in Pinecone Village was the Li family, but whether it was Li Tianjian or Li Shoutian, they only had about twenty acres in their hands.
Even adding the few acres newly reclaid this ti, they couldn't compare to Chu Xun.
As Zhang Anxiu spoke, she suddenly rembered the villagers' teasing words.
"You haven't even married yet, and you already know how to protect your own man. If you give birth to a big fat baby boy in the future, how incredible would that be?"
Zhang Anxiu, who had turned eighteen this year, was already considered an older woman in the village.
Girls from other families at her age would already be opening their clothes to nurse children.
Zhang Anxiu secretly peeked at Chu Xun, only feeling the tips of her ears getting slightly hot.
"Is Brother Xun going to marry or not?"
She wanted to ask, but was too embarrassed to ask.
At this ti, a clattering sound ca from outside the house, and the door was pushed open.
Seeing Zhang Sanchun walk in completely drenched, Zhang Anxiu couldn't care less about thinking of her own matters and hurriedly got up to greet him.
"Brother, why did you co back at this ti? Hurry and dry off."
Taking the linen cloth handed by his sister, Zhang Sanchun wiped his face haphazardly and smiled honestly, "I knew Ah Xun was going to be inspected by the land surveying clerk tomorrow, so I ca back to see if there's anything else that needs to be done."
Outside, the rain was pouring down. The villagers were all hiding at ho with doors and windows closed. There were also unlucky ones who had to brave the rain to repair their roofs, otherwise their hos would be flooded.
Chu Xun said, "The inspection should go smoothly. It wouldn't matter if Big Brother didn't co back."
Zhang Sanchun embarrassedly scratched his head, hesitating to speak.
Although Chu Xun saw it, since the other party didn't speak, it wasn't good for him to ask too much.
Any question that is hard to bring up is definitely one that easily causes embarrassnt.
Coming to the table and sitting down, Zhang Anxiu served another bowl of rice.
Knowing that her older brother had a big appetite, she specifically pressed it down again and again until it was as solid as a rock.
"The pork stewed with glass noodles I learned from Brother Xun today, hurry and taste if it's good!" Zhang Anxiu urged.
Not lacking much silver in hand, Chu Xun also had certain requirents for his quality of life.
He secretly took out a small portion of those delicious foods from his mory.
This ho-style pork stewed with glass noodles was one of them.
In the past, Zhang Sanchun would definitely have held the big bowl and imdiately started gorging himself.
But today, he only gave a muffled "hmm", picked up his chopsticks, picked up a piece of cabbage, put it in his mouth, and then started eating plain rice.
Even Zhang Anxiu could see that his mood was wrong and asked, "Brother, what's wrong with you? You're not sick, are you?"
Saying that, she went to touch Zhang Sanchun's forehead, and then compared it with her own.
Except for being a bit cold from the rain, he didn't have a fever either.
Chu Xun said, "Eat first."
Zhang Anxiu let out an "oh" and obediently sat down to eat.
As Zhang Sanchun ate, he looked up at Chu Xun from ti to ti. The words in his mouth always reached his lips and were swallowed back, swallowed and then he wanted to say them out.
Holding it in like this for a long ti, finally holding it in until his face turned red, he hemd and hawed, asking indistinctly, "Ah Xun, is there anything you want?"
Chu Xun had long expected that he wouldn't be able to resist asking, but didn't answer imdiately.
Instead, he thought carefully before saying, "Earn a lot of silver, live a very, very long ti, and it would be best to be invincible in the world."
Zhang Anxiu laughed out loud upon hearing this: "Brother Xun, you want too much, right? You can definitely earn a lot of silver, and living a long ti is not a problem, you'll live a long life of a hundred years. But this invincible in the world, you're not a martial artist."
Chu Xun smiled. He was indeed not a martial artist, but a proper Qi Condensation cultivator.
Although I don't practice martial arts, I cultivate immortality!
The Minor Cloud Rain Spell has already upgraded to the Major Cloud Rain Spell, and this is only the effort of a dozen years.
If I can live for eighteen thousand years, by then, summoning wind and rain, and toppling mountains and overturning seas shouldn't be a problem, right?
Previously, he was still anxious to raise the Spirit Pearl Grass, but now Chu Xun was no longer anxious.
Being young has the advantages of being young. At least life is getting better, and he finds flavor in everything.
When he gets older, even if he lacks nothing, he will feel it is dull and tasteless.
Just like climbing a mountain, reaching the summit has the glory of reaching the summit, and halfway has the scenery of halfway.
Chu Xun wanted to reach the top of the mountain, but he also wanted to see more of the scenery in the mountains.
Zhang Sanchun pondered for a mont; none of these were what he wanted.
Earning silver was too hard, and how long one lived depended on fate.
Invincible in the world?
Even the water buffalo Chu Xun bought was stronger than him!
He shoveled another mouthful of rice, chewing it tastelessly.
Zhang Anxiu asked while eating her food, "Brother, what do you want?"
"?" Zhang Sanchun's mouth chewing the rice grains paused. After a long while, he held his bowl with a depressed face.
He wanted the Eldest Miss not to marry, but he also felt this was wrong.
When the Eldest Miss reached the age, she should marry.
Besides, why didn't he want her to marry?
He couldn't articulate it either.
Zhang Anxiu blinked her eyes and looked at Chu Xun with a face full of confusion: "What's wrong with my brother?"
Chu Xun smiled and said, "Nothing's wrong, he just wants to find you a sister-in-law."
"Ah? Really!" Zhang Anxiu was so happy she was about to jump up. She turned her head and asked, "Brother, when are you going to find a sister-in-law?"
Zhang Sanchun's honest face, dark and red, looked at Chu Xun with extre embarrassnt.
I didn't say I wanted to find a sister-in-law for my sister...
(End of Chapter)
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