Chapter 1 : Land Reclamation – LEGEND OF THE CULTIVATION GOD – Light Novel

Chapter 1: Land Reclamation

One day in an unnamed continent. Within the clear skies, there were no clouds and no wind. From the sky was an endless cycle of scorching rays of light.

Suddenly, from somewhere in the sky, a faint brilliance flashed extremely abruptly, and along with the brilliance, a strange ring appeared.

Unaware of where this ring came from. It just appeared suddenly, as if it just passed through the void, passing through time and space. With an extreme speed, it shot towards the mountain below, producing a strange “woohoo” sound.

Usually, anything that flies from outside the sky comes with a thick smoke trail, whistling and making a loud noise that seems to cause the whole world to become aware of it.

And yet this thing merely had a brief moment of sound. Soon after a long “puchi” sounded deep into the rock of the mountain, disappearing without a trace.

This moment was extremely short, it didn’t cause any reaction. Even the nearby mountain birds didn’t have time to fly away.

Soon after, those birds that were startled, only circled in the sky a few times in the air before flying back down. Minding their own lives, they didn’t understand that in this huge continent was an additional mysterious item.

After many years have passed. The sea receded turning into the land. Some things have remained the same, but people have changed. That mountain peak has receded unexpectedly into a hillside. A lot of other places have also become plains with signs of people, and some people even live around this hillside. What wonderful stories can this mysterious ring bring? Nobody knows! Only on this day, a small and thin person stood near the hillside

Zhang Xiaohua was very happy, with a happy expression on his face, standing on the hillside.

His eyes were staring at the wasteland in front of him as if the land was a piece of fragrant pork belly.

In fact, it is not so much a wasteland as it is a mountain, because this piece of land is in the middle of a hillside. Although this slope was relatively gentle, it was only possible to reclaim about a quarter of the land. But even this piece of land was the result of Zhang Xiaohua’s father who worked so hard to coax the clan elders for nearly two months. Moreover, Zhang Xiaohua also knows that there are many barren hills in the village, but there is very little land that can grow crops, so everyone wants to find a place that can produce food rations outside the original land.

Most of the other people in the village looked for wasteland near the river, but their family had no money to bribe the clan elders, so they looked farther for land that others didn’t want. They looked east, they looked west, before they finally found this plot of land.

The village where Zhang Xiaohua lives is called Guozhuang. The radius is about four miles, and it is surrounded by mountains on both sides. This mountain is not high, so it is more appropriate to call it a hill. A large river flows through the village, and a small bridge on the river connects the small roads of the neighboring villages.

More than 40 families are living in Guozhuang, half of whom are surnamed Guo, a small clan. People with the surname Guo live in the middle of the village, and other people naturally live scattered around the village. People in the countryside are very simple, but they are also philistines. Most affairs in Guozhuang are presided over by the patriarch of the Guo family. Although they live in a village, they have different surnames.

The good residential location in the village and the good crops outside the village are mostly in the hands of the villagers surnamed Guo. However, after all, they belong to the villagers in the village. Although trivial matters continue, big disputes have never appeared in this small Guozhuang. People in Guozhuang feel that they are living a peaceful life in a peach blossom garden.

Zhang Xiaohua’s mother, Guo Sufei, is from Guozhuang and is considered from a branch family of the Guo family. Their previous ‘glorious’ days have passed by the time of her mother’s generation. Except for Guo Sufei, there is no male in the family, and Zhang Xiaohua’s grandfather Guo Shan had a daughter when he was already old. By the time he raised his daughter until she was able to get married, they were an old couple in their twilight years. Thus, to support the elderly, Zhang Xiaohua’s father, Zhang Cai married into the Guo family.

In fact, it is said to be a marriage, but Guo Shan has a different view on Zhang Cai, and even Zhang Cai’s children have followed the surname of Zhang, and have never been with Zhang Cai. Only after bargaining, Zhang Cai was even more sincere to the Guo family.

It is said that the wealth of rural families are mostly related to the labor of the family. Since Guo Shan had no son, when they were still raising Guo Sufei, they wanted to adopt a boy. However, due to various problems they weren’t able to do so. The family was supported by Guo Shan alone, which shows the poverty of the family. And so, Zhang Cai was very hard working. After arriving at Guo’s house, he was good at farming and far surpasses his father-in-law Guo Shan in increasing the family labor force. One year after the wedding, Guo Sufei became pregnant and gave birth to a child, adding a grandson to Guo Shan. Named Zhang Xiaolong.

Guo Shan and his wife were very pleased to see the birth of their grandson. While the whole family was looking forward to a bright future, Guo Shan has become ill from overwork. Sickness in regards to an impoverished family is undoubted a disaster. To treat his father-in-law, Zhang Cai sold all his valuables, but he still could not save Guo Shan’s life like a wind blowing out a candle. When Zhang Xiaolong was more than two years old, he died suddenly. Before Guo Shan could close his eyes one final time, his second grandson or granddaughter was about to come into this world. so Guo Shan named the child before he died. So on his deathbed he decided that if the baby is a boy then they will be called Zhang Xiaohu and if they were a girl then they will be called Zhang Xiaohua. After Guo Shan passed away, Zhang Cai’s mother-in-law’s health was also deteriorating. Fortunately, the birth of Zhang Xiaohu lightened the sorrow of the elderly, and preserving the family’s ordinary days.

The life of the peasant family does not care about working in the fields and going home for dinner. His life depends on the land. In the past, the old Guo family was not prosperous, and the land could keep up with the use. As Zhang Xiaolong and Zhang Xiaohu grew up, Zhang Cai was always worried about cultivating the land. Holding Zhang Xiaolong, he took Zhang Xiaohu to the patriarch’s house to kowtow and greet him. Xu Shi looked at Guo Shan’s face and gave a small piece of farmland by the river, which was a solution to Zhang Shan’s “urgent need.”

Zhang Xiaohua was born when his eldest brother was seven years old. There were already two and a half workers in the family, and the poverty of the family was slightly alleviated. When it came to the birth of Zhang Xiaohua, it was quite magical. The weather had been dry for more than two months. On the night of Xiaohua’s birth, it suddenly rained heavily. The rainfall in the mountains increased sharply. Bridge, the scene is very scary. The brook outside the village drowned the little bridge. That scene was very frightening.

And when Guo Sufei was giving birth to Zhang Xiaohua, she unexpectedly a sky full of flowers. Therefore, Zhang Cai regarded Xiaohua with expectations, it could even be said very high expectations. Even when choosing a name, he asked the teacher from the neighboring village for reference, and there were many names such as Zhang Zhen, Zhang Yu, and Zhang Xueyou. However, as he mulled over the names, he couldn’t decide which was good. In the end, thinking of the rain of flowers in the sky, thinking of his deceased father, Guo Sufei decisively gave Zhang Xiaohua such a feminine name despite all the opinions, although Zhang Xiaohua is a boy.

At this time, Xiaohua was already twelve years old. The children of the farm family always mature early. As early as a few years ago, Xiaohua had followed his father and two older brothers with matters of the field. It’s not that Zhang Cai never thought about letting the children go to school to read and write and grow up to be cultured people and to seek scholarly honor.

However, Guocun is a small village, and there are no scholars in the clan, so they cannot support a small school. The school in the neighboring village belongs to another large clan. The family charges high fees for children in Guocun. Xiaolong and Xiaohu couldn’t even think of it. At that time, the family was poor, and Zhang Cai was also helpless. Little Xiaohua had been sent for a few days when he was young, but according to the teacher, Xiaohua’s aptitude was average in the school. He would need to dedicate his life to being a scholar, not to mention striving for further honor.

Zhang Cai weighed his pockets and looked at Xiao Hua’s thick eyebrows and big eyes. Eventually, he gave up his expectations and took the child back to Guozhuang to farm. On the other hand, Xiaohua’s mother seems to remember the auspicious sign of Xiaohua’s birth. From time to time, she invites literate young people in the village to teach Xiaohua something. Although Xiaohua likes to follow his brother to manage the farm work, his mother’s persistence allowed him to learn a lot of characters. With him being able to read, he could be considered the scholar of the family. So whenever characters are involved, they refer them to Zhang Xiaohua.

Today is Zhang Xiaohua’s first day cultivating the field by himself. His father told him yesterday that this land is for him and belongs to him and considered as his rice bowl. Although it is a piece of land, that does not indicate that it is cultivated. But, Xiaohua remembers what a scholar in the village said, once you have a goal then you can begin and once you start then you’re half way there! With success, it is not far from your hopes, and Xiaohua hopes to eat a piece of pork belly with satisfaction

As November came along, it brings with it the beginning of winter. The sun cast a dim bleak light with little warmth over head. The mountain wind was blowing from the slopes. From the treetops were humming sounds. All signs have shown an incoming frigid cold.

However, Zhang Xiaohua didn’t have the time to pay attention to these things. Holding a hoe, he just blindly worked hard to reclaim this quarter of the land. According to Zhang Xiaohua’s plan, first, dig around the quadrilateral border of the land in the middle of the hillside. Then remove the rocks in the land, clean up the small stones, and then deal with the weeds. Once it gradually forms up, then he will intensively cultivate it and till the entire field carefully to lay a good foundation for planting seeds.

Farm work is always time-consuming. By the time Xiaohua finished clearing up the surrounding area and was about to remove the big stones from the field it was already noon. Xiaohua stopped farming to wipe the sweat from his forehead. He walked to the edge of field and took a jar of water prepared by his mother. He drank half a jar of water. After deeply stretching his waist, he thumped his hunched back as he felt a moment of comfort.

Although, he used to work with his father and brothers, but because he was the youngest, everyone didn’t let him do more than necessary. He, himself didn’t also feel too tired. Now that he’s shouldering the responsibilities, he now know its hardships. However, thinking about his grandmother, his mother, his home, and his future, he feels that it is worthwhile.

Zhang Xiaohua followed the young scholars to read. Although he was not serious, he often heard them talk about the future, life, love, etc. The Yangchun language of Yangchun also has some impressions. I work on weekdays, and when I have nothing to do, I occasionally think about my own life, but it will soon be destroyed by reality, and I will bow my head to face the land. Thinking of these at this moment, it is estimated that it is also a daydream, and I am taking a break from my busy schedule.

Just as Zhang Xiaohua was thinking about it, her stomach kept rumbling, it seemed it was time to eat. In the past, I used to eat with my mother at home. Now it is an independent portal, and I have started farming. When I came out in the morning, my mother said that it would be delivered to the field at noon. Check the time, it is time to come.

Sure enough, a voice came from down the slope “Little flower~ Come and help my mother.”, there is a steeper slope up and down the slope, which is very slippery. When I visited the ground last time, Zhang Cai fell. Zhang Xiaohua quickly replied, “Mother, wait a moment, I will immediately Go down, don’t come up yourself. “When Zhang Xiaohua was walking down the hillside, she saw her mother, holding a bamboo basket, standing by the roadside waiting for him.

Zhang Xiaohua took the bamboo basket and carefully helped her up the hillside, letting her mother Sitting on the stone on the ground, she lifted the cloth on the basket. Inside was a bowl of pork belly and a few pieces of buns with rough noodles. Xiaohua sensible asked her mother if she had eaten it, but she didn’t answer. Unexpectedly, he had already eaten it. Seeing Xiaohua gobbling down, Guo Sufei felt a little distressed and said to Xiaohua: “Eat slowly, don’t choke, and drink some water quickly.”

“Mother, why did you suddenly make pork belly?” “” Xiaohua asked.

“Today is your work the day before. Your father explained it yesterday to make pork belly for you.” Xiao Hua Niang looked at herself lovingly. The youngest son said, “It’s too hard for you, Xiaohua, you are only twelve years old this year. Seeing that a child as old as you in the neighboring village is still studying in the school, you are working in the fields alone.”

“Mom, look at what you said, didn’t my eldest brother work separately from his father when he was ten years old, what am I? Besides, this land belongs to me, and my second brother still shares the same land with my eldest brother. I can’t be happy. “Xiaohua saw her mother start to nag, and hurriedly asked, “Where’s grandma, has she eaten pork belly?””

“Your grandmother is in her 80s, how can you eat this, the millet porridge I cooked for her.” “Xiaohua’s mother said, “I didn’t think of your grandmother until I ate it. It’s because of your grandmother that she still thinks about you all morning.” She scratched her head, and seemed to have really thought about it.

Speaking of Xiaohua’s grandmother, Guo Sufei was worried again. The child grows up and gradually improves, but Xiaohua’s grandmother’s health is getting worse and worse. Although it is said that the eighty-year-old is already rare longevity for rural people, who do not want their own longevity The elders should stay with me for a while. Recently, Xiaohua’s grandmother has lost her eyesight. Guo Sufei discussed with Zhang Cai to let the doctor see it. It’s normal, I don’t want to spend any more money on it. The couple couldn’t stand the old man’s house, so they agreed. Now the old man works hard at home every day, feeding chickens and pigs in the dark.

Watching Xiaohua finish her meal and drink water, Guo Sufei said, “Xiaohua, do less work in the afternoon, go home early, grandma misses you. I also I’m going to deliver food to your father and brother.” Xiaohua was stunned. “Mother, I’ve eaten up that pork belly. What do father and brother eat?”

“It doesn’t matter, there are other dishes. Remember to cook less in the afternoon, don’t catch a cold!” Guo Sufei lovingly stroked Xiaohua’s head, looking at the anxious blushing little son, as if he was still on his knees The former coquettish little one.

When Zhang Xiaohua helped her mother down the slope and looked at her back, she felt very guilty, alas, how can I put pork belly It’s all eaten up.

“” (Chapter 1: Wasteland Reclamation)

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