Reborn in 1977

Dragging the feed back to the educated youth center and unloading it near the pigsty, Chen Fan dragged the cart back again, and then ran back, already out of breath.

After dinner, he didn't go to wash up and rest, but asked Jiang Lili, "I remember there's a wood axe here, right?"

Jiang Lili immediately got up, "Yes, I'll get it for you."

Soon she brought the wood axe and handed it to Chen Fan, asking curiously, "It's almost dark, what are you going to do?"

Chen Fan took the wood axe and weighed it a couple of times, feeling it was okay, then looked at her and smiled, "We've used so much straw, I'm afraid there won't be enough firewood. I'm going to chop some firewood behind the center, and find a suitable place to build a kiln and fire some things."

"Ah?"

Jiang Lili's eyes widened instantly, staring at him without blinking, "Fire a kiln?"

Chopping firewood was understandable, but firing a kiln? Could he do that?

Chen Fan didn't explain much, waved the wood axe twice and walked out.

Jiang Lili watched his back, her eyes full of curiosity. She really wanted to know, what else was there that this man couldn't do?

It wasn't until Chen Fan, wearing wooden clogs, with a shovel in one hand and a wood axe in the other, left the courtyard, that she came back to her senses and busied herself preparing food for the furry children.

The little horses and sheep only needed some fodder, the chicks could eat grain husks directly, the puppy would eat some leftovers, only the piglets were the most troublesome, needing to have their pig feed cooked.

However, Jiang Lili wasn't worried at all, but was looking forward to what the two piglets would look like when they grew into big pigs.

… …

Chen Fan walked to the back, and immediately everything was dark.

The terrain, which was originally somewhat familiar, was now completely covered by ice and snow, with only scattered trees rooted in the ice and snow, stretching out their dry branches, making it even more desolate.

He used the shovel as a walking stick, walking forward along the ridge, and stopped when he reached a relatively high place.

Looking around, frankly speaking, this area was really not small.

From the educated youth center to the north, about a hundred meters away was the small earthen slope where soil was taken. Reaching there meant the end of this wasteland.

As for the width, the edge of the wasteland was a ditch, and about 50 meters east of that was the river embankment, so the boundary line was this ditch. Starting from this ditch, about 5 or 60 meters to the west was the rice field.

So the area of this wasteland was almost 5 or 6,000 square meters, far exceeding the two mu of land approved by the team.

Two mu of land is 1333 square meters. If the educated youth center is about 25 meters wide, then the depth would be 53 to 54 meters.

Of course, this was only the area of the courtyard. The land for construction still had to follow the rules and could not exceed two and a half fen of land, which is 166.6 square meters.

In addition, there was still room for maneuver outside the two mu of land.

For example, leaving a 10-meter distance between one's own courtyard and the educated youth center as a passage, wouldn't that be an extra 5 or 600 square meters?!

Then, near the rice fields to the west, plant a small forest… This is wasteland, and if I clear the wasteland and transform it into useful timber forest, the team should give me an award, how could they blame me?!

Also, plant trees behind and east of the courtyard…

That's right, Chen Fan had now made up his mind to occupy this area of more than 5,000 square meters.

The front is a passage, the left, right, and back are all forests, and the middle is his own courtyard.

When the educated youth center is abolished, rent this unwanted educated youth center, and then open a back door at the pigsty to connect to his own courtyard through the passage.

People live in the back, and the front yard raises some small animals.

Separation of activity and rest, free and easy.

Thinking of the beautiful scene at that time, Chen Fan was a little excited.

Even if he settles in the city in the future, it won't affect having a villa here for vacation!

After fantasizing about the beautiful life of the future, Chen Fan finally began to face reality, waving the wood axe and working hard.

First of all, the patch of weeds behind the educated youth courtyard must be cleaned up. He started here, first cutting down some small trees. As for the roots, he would deal with them after the snow melted.

The wood axe was about a foot long, with a flat-headed single blade, an extremely thick back, and a handle also about a foot long, set inside the iron ring of the blade and fixed with rivets.

Chen Fan held the wood axe and began to practice the Five Elements Saber Technique.

The Xingyi Five Elements Saber, based on the five elements boxing techniques of splitting, collapsing, drilling, cannoning, and crossing, combined with the routines of the Continuous Ring Saber, is a saber technique created with a rigorous structure, smooth strength, vigorous force, and majestic momentum.

And the Five Elements Saber that Xiao Liewen taught him was even more combined with the ways of the Guanzhong saber masters, deeply gaining the essence of "fast, accurate, and ruthless", coupled with the fierce strength of Xingyi Quan. Now in Chen Fan's hands, a wood axe flew, cutting down one weed tree after another.

At the beginning, he was still a little unskilled, after all, practicing the saber and chopping wood were two different feelings.

But as these weed trees fell, and the experience value of the skill panel increased, it automatically corrected the wrong places where he exerted force, making him understand the changes in the strength of the Five Elements Saber more and more deeply, and he was more and more handy at chopping trees.

He didn't know how long it had been until the sound of crunching snow came from a distance, and he realized it. Looking at the ground again, more than forty weed trees had already fallen.

Although these weed trees didn't grow big, the thickest ones were only the size of a bowl, and more were small trees with a diameter of about the size of a fist, but he could chop so many by himself, which was simply stronger than a professional lumberjack.

When Jiang Lili turned out from the courtyard wall and saw the broken trees all over the ground, she was stunned. After a while, she looked at Chen Fan with a surprised face, "Did you chop all of these?"

Chen Fan coughed dryly and said seriously, "It's cold, the tree trunks are frozen brittle, and they can break with just a tap."

As he said that, he stepped on a tree trunk lying on the ground, and it snapped into two pieces with a crack.

Jiang Lili curiously looked at the tree under his feet, then looked at a thinner broken tree not far away, walked over and kicked it.

Then she hugged her leg and shivered, "Ouch, it hurts."

Chen Fan wiped his face, holding back his laughter, "You don't have enough strength, you definitely can't kick it."

Jiang Lili was a little unconvinced, "You were not as good as me at carrying water a few days ago."

Chen Fan said with confidence, "I was just recovering from a serious illness, try it now, I can even carry you away."

Jiang Lili didn't know what she thought of, and her face turned red, lowering her head and muttering, "It's a bit late now, you should go back and rest first."

Chen Fan raised his head and looked at the sky. It was indeed dark, but the thick white snow on the ground could borrow a little light, barely making the surrounding environment visible.

He turned his head and said to Jiang Lili, "You go back and rest first, I'll dig a pit and come over, otherwise it will be even more difficult if the snow is thicker tomorrow."

Jiang Lili nodded, "Then be careful."

Seeing Chen Fan nod in agreement, she turned and went back.

After Jiang Lili left, Chen Fan dragged the fallen tree trunks to a windy place. He placed a few large ones underneath, and the other trees were stacked on top of each other so that the bleak north wind could dry the branches as soon as possible.

Then he found a low-lying place and tested the hardness of the ice and snow below.

Fortunately, the ice in the south was not as solid as in the north. After a few shovels to dig away the surface ice and hard soil, the soil below was much easier to dig.

The place he chose was just a depression. He piled the dug-out soil on the ground to make a wall, so that digging down one point, and raising it up one point, he soon dug a pit one meter deep, two meters wide, and more than 3 meters long.

Then he cut down a few small trees to cover the pit, to prevent it from being submerged by heavy snow at night.

After finishing these, he stretched his muscles and bones a few times, and went back with the wood axe and shovel.

At this time, there were no lights in the educated youth center. Chen Fan went to the jar in the kitchen to fetch a basin of hot water, washed up, and went straight to sleep.

He didn't notice that Jiang Lili didn't fall into a deep sleep until his movements stopped.