Once the location was selected, they first measured eight acres of wasteland at the foot of the mountain. Since the regulations required each person to cultivate two acres each year, Xu Shuanghong and her two daughters were not among the exiles. With their current household registration, there were exactly eight people. As for the additional eight acres of wasteland, they would have to move toward the mountain for unified measurement later.
"Are we really going to settle here?" Liu Yun stood on the future foundation, her feet on rubble. To really build a house on this would be a major project.
Clearing out these stones and laying adobe bricks would take them a year of hard work, and even then, they might not finish the house.
"How can we live here?" Xu Yulan couldn't comprehend, as even sleeping on the ground like before, the stones would still be uncomfortable.
