Chapter 890: Chapter 32: Swing the Hoe Well, and the Wall’s Base Will Collapse on Its Own

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Amidst the unpredictable and volatile changes in Upper Capital City.

Inside the Anbei Guard.

With the migration of the population, the current Anbei Guard is no longer as sparsely populated as before. Although the population is still small, it has already given birth to a considerable number of natural villages due to population gathering.

The life of the ordinary people at the bottom is very simple; the Struggle of the Imperial Sons and the games of those in power are actually very distant from them and do not affect their lives at all. For them, daily meals are the most practical, and they work hard and live hard, just hoping to live a slightly better life than now.

Little Lu Village.

This is a small village formed less than half a year ago, one of the many natural villages formed due to population migration, a very ordinary one.

When settling down, because there was a stone that looked like a little deer at the entrance of the village, the village chief casually named it. Over time, everyone gradually got used to calling it that.

Old Li’s family lives in the village’s row houses.

Their family has been tenant farmers of the Southern Desert Sun Family, a Seventh-Grade Noble Family, for generations. This time, for the Anbei Guard reclamation, the Southern Desert Sun Family allocated a direct vein over here, and their family followed suit.

Of course, the main reason is that, there are now more people and less land in Southern Desert County. As tenant farmers, their family has not had land to cultivate for a long time. Hearing that coming here would get them land, they decided to try their luck.

As for these row houses, they were all built by a business association called "Wang’s Third Construction." They used something called "foreign cement," along with stones and steel bars, and managed to build several row houses in just half a month. These houses are spacious and robust, much better than the houses they built themselves.

The people from "Wang’s Third Construction" know they can’t afford a house, so they promised them that as long as they pay a relatively small amount of money each month, they can live in this house, and reportedly, after twenty years, these houses will completely belong to them.

Of course, the price is that for these twenty years, the lands they receive can only be used to plant seeds provided by the "Wang’s Grain Seed Company," and when the harvest comes, they must prioritize selling to Wang’s Grain Seed Company.

But what does it matter? As long as there’s land to cultivate, they can earn money to support themselves and their family; what they plant is the same to them.

Early this morning, Old Li took his son and left the row houses, carrying hoes to the land at the eastern end of the village to start loosening the soil and fertilizing.

There were already quite a few people in the surrounding fields, everyone busy with their heads down.

However, unlike the trepidation and unease when they first arrived, now they are calm and composed, even the action of swinging their hoes exudes a sense of leisure.

It’s quite normal actually, because after a few months, they’ve realized the differences between Anbei Guard and other places. Not to mention anything else, the things that Wang’s Grain Seed Company provide them to plant are not simple.

These tenant farmers have spent their lives digging for food in the fields, and while they may not know how to research seed improvement, they’re more sensitive to the quality of seeds than ordinary people.

The seeds provided by Wang’s Grain Seed Company not only sprout quickly and have a high survival rate, but their life force is exceptionally strong, growing well even in such a dry place as the Anbei Guard.

The earlier pearl rice and ziran were like this, and now so is the alfalfa.

The alfalfa seeds that they brought themselves couldn’t compare; most didn’t even sprout, and even if they did, they grew weakly, far less healthy than Wang’s Grain Seed Company’s alfalfa.

In comparison, the quality difference is evident.

The mindset of tenant farmers is very simple. To them, high-quality breeds mean a good harvest, and a good harvest means being able to earn more money.

Therefore, upon discovering that the seed varieties in Wang’s Grain Seed Company are excellent, their hearts became settled, and they gained hope for the future of Anbei Guard.

"Da-da-da~"

The crisp sound of horse hooves echoed as a black half-grown colt, along with two smaller colts, ran along the central foreign cement road of the village.

"Hey~ Da Hei, bringing your mares for a stroll again~" Old Li’s son, Little Li, seeing this scene, leaned on his hoe and teased with a comment.

Whether Da Hei understood or not is unknown, but he called out to him as if greeting, then wandered into the field with the other two colts to indulge in a feast.

The alfalfa in the field originally included a portion for them; Little Li did not stop them, but instead walked over to stroke its neck.

Da Hei seemed quite familiar with him, not rejecting at all, even rubbing against him in response.

"Dad, Da Hei is growing so fast, his muscles are firm; he’s sure to grow up tall." Little Li showed a satisfied smile, "The horses we raised before never grew this well. Dad, do you think it’s because of this alfalfa?"

"Isn’t it obvious?" Old Li gave him a look, "Didn’t you see that besides the alfalfa, they haven’t even touched other grasses?"

In fact, they didn’t even glance at it. It seemed, in their eyes, Wang’s alfalfa is a delicious delicacy, while ordinary alfalfa is just spoiled leftovers.

Actually, there are many miraculous things about Anbei Guard.

Besides the tall buildings made of foreign cement and excessively good quality seeds, there is also the wide, straight gray-white road created in an extremely short time, as well as the deeply buried "unified irrigation system" composed of countless pipelines underground, and the huge "large agricultural machinery" made entirely of refined metal seen during the harvest...