Through the troubled times and famine, I just want to farm peacefully

Chapter 186 Strength determines everything

The old woman immediately quit, jumped up and yelled, "Did I say anything wrong? Look at the short-lived creature in your arms. It's been hard to raise since birth. If it dies early, it can save food for the family."

The child buried his head in Yu Niang's arms, his thin body trembling with fear.

The man next to him was in a dilemma. On one side was his mother who gave birth to him and raised him, and on the other side was his wife.

Who doesn't want a healthy son? He saw how hard his wife worked and had advised her to give up many times, but Yu Niang was too persistent. She had injured her body due to premature birth and could no longer get pregnant. Adopting a healthy child from his eldest brother's family was the best option.

Lin Yinan and the Yun brothers were dumbfounded. It was the first time she saw someone scolding their own children and grandchildren like this.

Liang Wen was really fed up with this family. They started making trouble when they came up the mountain, and several years went by until they finally came down the mountain.

"Mrs. Liu, please stop making trouble here. Cui Gensheng, since your mother is not happy with Yu Niang and the child, and you can't protect them, then you should get a divorce. This way, everyone can live a peaceful life."

The old woman's cloudy triangular eyes flashed with a gleam of light, and she urged her son, "Gensheng, divorce! Divorce this woman who can't even lay eggs. I will find you a good wife who can give birth to a big fat boy."

Cui Gensheng's eyes lit up and he looked up at Yu Niang. Yu Niang held the child and turned her head away from him. After a moment, he nodded with difficulty.

Lin Yiheng quickly drafted two copies of the divorce agreement, and the man and woman put their fingerprints on them. He then stamped the Longtan County seal on it.

The marriage between the two was called off, and the man and the woman had nothing to do with each other from then on.

The man put a bundle in front of Yu Niang, with reluctance in his eyes, "Yu Niang, this is your stuff."

"This is something from the Cui family."

The old woman tried to grab it, but Yu Niang snatched it away and held it tightly, glaring at her fiercely.

"It's done, let's send them away." Lin Yinan didn't want to see this vicious old woman for a moment.

Yun Mo waved to the secret guards and drove Liu and her family out of Longtan County.

After the Cui family left, Yu Niang signed the contract readily.

After leaving the city, the Cui family was indignant, and Old Lady Liu even spat viciously at the city gate.

The secret guard on the watchtower shouted, "What are you doing? Leave now, or we will be rude to you!"

He waved his hand, and several archers on the city wall drew their bows and aimed at them.

The Cui family members were so frightened that they trembled all over and helped Old Lady Liu crawl away.

"Mom, where are we going? To the mountains again?" The eldest daughter-in-law, Mrs. Liu, held a sturdy child in each hand.

Old Lady Liu had a gloomy face and her triangular eyes glanced back at Longtan County. "It's impossible to go up the mountain. We finally came down. Now the Japanese pirates haven't come. We can go along this road to Yongqing City and get some food."

As for the residence of Liang Wen and others, after his last visit, Lin Yiheng had already had people clean up a few habitable rooms. Like the villagers, they all lived in a large bunk bed for the time being.

As for their work arrangements, Lin Yinan asked them to help with mowing grass, chopping firewood, turning the soil and building houses.

Right now Longtan County needs to reclaim land everywhere, and it doesn't involve any confidential work, so their team of hundreds of people can be broken up into various teams to play a role of mutual supervision.

The old people who had some opinions about Lin Yinan's management when they met shut up and stopped expressing their opinions when they saw the neat and spacious rows of courtyards behind the county government office.

Lin Yinan saw it all. Rules have always been snobbish. The stronger you are, the more friendly everyone will be to you.

If you are weak, everyone will come out to point fingers at you, and anyone can step on you.

To put it simply, your ability determines how others treat you.

Time flies, and it is already late April.

Lin Yinan came to the edge of the field while being nearly eight months pregnant.

All the abandoned fields have been plowed and leveled.

In the rice fields, the tender green seedlings sway gently in the breeze.

According to the records in the book, when the seedlings grow to about three inches high, they can be pulled out and transplanted.

Ding Gui, Chen San and his son, Old Lintou, and many other good farmers in the village, rolled up their trouser legs and stood in the rice seedling field.

Several people looked at each other, and no one dared to pull up the seedlings for fear of breaking them.

"You have to pull out the seedlings with your backhand, not too many at a time, just two or three, and remember to use skillful force, so as to avoid breaking them short."

Lin Yinan stood on the ridge of the field and gave patient instructions. When she was in junior high school in her previous life, her parents were working in another place. Every winter and summer vacation, her mother would send her back to her uncle's house in the town.

Her aunt brought a small stool and asked her to sit in the rice seedling field to help pull out the seedlings.

At that time, pulling out seedlings was her favorite job.

Pulling out the seedlings one by one made her feel very healed.

What she hated most was going to the fields to plant rice, because there were always blood-sucking leeches and earthworms as thick as fingers in the paddy fields.

After Lin Yinan explained the method of pulling out the seedlings, everyone tried several times and then stopped. Some clever villagers even found some sharpened wooden sticks.

"Anan, let's use this to dig!"

"No, digging like this will make it easier to break their roots." Lin Yinan refused decisively.

She bent down to roll up her trouser legs, and Yun Mo quickly squatted down to help her, "Let me do it."

"Hold me for a while." Lin Yinan said.

Lin Yinan walked down to the rice seedling field barefoot. There was not much water in the field, so it was enough to just keep the soil moist.

She glanced at the people in the rice seedling field and saw Lin Shuo, Lin Yizhang and Lin Yisong were there, so she smiled and said, "Second Uncle, Cousin, Asong and Chen Shi, come and see how I pull them out."

As she spoke, she slowed down her movements, exerted gentle force with her hands, and pulled out three seedlings connected together. When she had enough to form a small bundle, Lin Yinan pulled some weeds from the ground and tied up the seedlings.

"See, it's that simple, you try it. Tie the pulled seedlings into small bunches for easy management and transplanting."

Lin Yinan displayed the pulled out seedlings in front of them.

So, a few people plucked up their courage and carefully placed their hands at the roots of the seedlings.

Lin Yinan had good eyesight. Seeing that Lin Shuo's hands were trembling slightly, he encouraged him, "That's right, Second Uncle, that's how you pull it out. Use a little more force."

"Dad, I pulled it out, the roots are not broken!" said Lin Yizhang next to him, holding up the intact seedling in his hand.

Lin Shuo turned his head and glanced at it. He made up his mind and pulled out the seedlings with force. His hands were shaking violently. He took a look and found that the roots were not broken.

Lin Yinan said with relief, "Very good, just pull it out like this, don't be anxious, take your time."

Next, several people started to pull it out, and slowly they became more proficient in the movements.

The people watching on the side also went down to the fields one after another to receive guidance from the already experienced Lin Shuo and others.

Soon, several bundles of pulled seedlings were placed on the ridges of the field.

Lin Yinan asked everyone to stop, and everyone looked at her in confusion.

Lin Yinan picked up two bundles of seedlings and walked to the small canal beside the ridge. "These pulled seedlings need to be placed in water to clean the soil brought out by their roots."

As she spoke, she roughly picked up two bundles of seedlings and placed them in the water, shaking them back and forth to clean them.

Everyone gasped when they saw this, and the clan leader was so frightened that his legs went limp and he leaned on the villagers.

"Oh my God! Can you really live like this?"