Flowers in full bloom

Chapter 636 Fair and Reasonable

If the soil on the barren mountain where they live is particularly poor and the area is particularly small, the villagers would hope that the imperial court could compensate them with another barren mountain.

After all, with the examples of the ten villages under Mobei, especially the two villages with bamboos, the villages are now making a lot of money after Hualei made his move.

Even if there are no bamboos, if the soil is good and the area of ​​the barren hills is larger, you can still reclaim the land and plant black beans, alfalfa and the like.

If there are no barren hills near the village to compensate, we can compensate with more barren land. If crops cannot be grown, we can just plant reeds.

Beihe Village originally had nothing but some inconspicuous wild reeds, but because of the emergence of the paper mill, the reeds suddenly became a hot commodity.

It is no longer called Beihe Village. No one would know it even if it was called that. It is just called Luwei Village. It is famous far and wide and everyone, adults and children, knows it.

Therefore, several villages began to secretly target the barren mountains and wastelands they liked, and secretly planned what to plant after taking them back, and whether they should go find the legendary Lady Hua and ask her to help think of a way to get the money back.

They knew Hua Lei, whom they had seen almost every day recently, and knew that he was a senior official in the Ministry of Revenue, but they did not know his name. They only heard that several village heads also directly addressed each other as "sir".

Hua Lei certainly understood the little tricks of each village. When she bought the barren mountain in Shangjing City, she also spent a long time secretly looking at the topography.

Not to mention, the barren mountains here were given by the court for free, so they would definitely choose the closest, largest and best ones. However, Hualei has now changed her position, and she should do her job. So she still has to do things from the perspective of the court.

So it was decided to follow the court's usual method, with proximity as the primary guide, and then calculate the difference based on the population ratio of the village and distribute it to the barren mountains.

As for the fairest method of drawing lots, let's abandon it. This place is not suitable for drawing lots.

After carefully looking at the map and spending a few days with Gao Tiedan, Xiao Yuanzi and others to check out the site, Hua Lei decided on the plan.

The barren hills near each village are directly allocated to the village and are considered the village’s public barren hills. If the barren hills are large enough, then the village will have no other chances for compensation.

Beiyi Village, although it is backed by a huge mountain, has a steep terrain and not much usable space. However, there are many people in the village, so in addition to the barren mountain behind the village, the small hill next to it is also allocated to Beiyi Village.

Beier Village was the smallest village, with only a barren mountain to rely on. According to the population ratio of the village, another 80 mu of barren land was allocated to Beier Village. The 85 mu of barren land on the east side of the mountain foot was just right for Beier Village.

For the other two villages, Hua Lei also made arrangements that he thought were reasonable based on the actual conditions of each village.

At the same time, in order to avoid confusion among the villages, Hua Lei also asked Xiao Yuanzi to drive wooden stakes into the boundaries of each village and roughly draw a line.

After the plan was finalized, Hua Lei reported it to Minister Zhang. After obtaining his consent, he simply waved his pen and ordered the village chief to come and handle the mountain deed, thus implementing the policy that he felt was very fair and reasonable.

After working hard for more than half a month, everyone finally got everything done on the barren mountain. Looking at the peaceful and happy smiles of the villagers, Hua Lei felt that what she had done was quite fair and reasonable.

Before we knew it, it was already August. Jinnian, who was already more than ten months old, could sit and crawl. When he was five or six months old, Hualei made rice noodles for him as a complementary food.

Now, Jinnian can eat some soft foods such as noodles and rice porridge, and can also eat a small amount of fruit puree, meat puree, etc.

The rice noodles of Jinnian were made in a more sophisticated way than the rice noodles that Hualei had given to Lord Bai. Moreover, in order to provide the child with additional nutrition.

Hualei also dried spinach, which is rich in iron, ground it into powder and mixed it with rice noodles to make rice noodles with spinach flavor. Of course, he also tried making some carrots, cucumbers, etc.

When Jinnian was ready to eat meat paste, Hualei blanched the good stuff, pig liver, and chopped it into liver paste. When Jinnian was eating rice noodles, Hualei took a little and mixed it into the rice noodles and fed it to Jinnian.

Of course, because of their close relationship, Hualei often feeds Pearl's son. Therefore, the two cousins, who are not even one year old, are both white and plump.

Mrs. Chen, who lived behind, sometimes came to visit with her children in her arms. She was very envious when she saw the various kinds of rice noodles the two children were eating, but she didn't have the courage to ask Hua Lei for some.

However, Hualei was very generous. Although for the sake of being cautious about the child's food, Hualei did not directly give the finished product to the other party.

However, she wrote down the recipe for making complementary food on a list and handed it directly to Mrs. Chen Shao, asking her to go home and make it for her child herself.

He also told Mrs. Chen that the food for the children should be freshly prepared every day, otherwise it would spoil easily. After all, there is no good way to preserve food now. Mrs. Chen was very happy and her relationship with Hua Lei became closer.

Jinnian is about to turn one, and Hualei is thinking that it is time to wean Jinnian off milk. However, Hualei feels that it is not possible to stop drinking milk, and he still needs to drink some dairy products.

However, it is July and August now, and there is no refrigerator here, so fresh cow's milk and goat's milk are not easy to preserve. If you are not careful, the milk will go bad, and children will easily have diarrhea after eating it.

So, Hualei recently thought about making some milk powder to supplement Jinnian's nutrition. Fortunately, Hualei also saw some methods of making milk powder due to the bombardment of various short videos of ancient methods in her previous life.

It is said that milk powder was first produced in China and spread abroad. At that time, the generals of the Yuan Dynasty made milk into powdered milk and preserved it.

As military supplies, it was distributed to soldiers to carry. When eating, take an appropriate amount of milk powder, pour in warm water, dissolve it into a paste, and use it to replenish the soldiers' physical strength faster and make them stronger.

Hualei thought that she could also borrow the wisdom of the ancients and give it a try. If she could make it, it might be a way to make money.

There is not much else in Mobei, but there is a lot of milk and goat milk. Especially in Modong County, there are many wealthy people, and every household raises a lot of sheep.

Take fresh milk, pour it into a pot, add dried cow and sheep dung, boil the milk over low heat, and stir it with a wooden spoon while boiling.

The reason why we use dry cow and sheep dung to cook it is that when we burn wheat straw and rice straw, grass ash will fly up and fall into the milk pot.